Isil SOL VIL x Marina BARSY JANER Islas Cicatrices 35’ 8 november 2019 | FIAP Martinique | Photo by Performance is Alive
Interview with Isil Sol Vil and Marina Barsy Janer
November 12, 2019 Fort de France, Martinique International Performance Art Festival (FIAP) By Quinn Dukes Isil Sol Vil (Catalonia) and Marina Barsy Janer (Puerto Rico) presented a ritual based performance within Martinique’s Grand Marché during FIAP 2019 curated by Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut. The Grand Marché serves as a central hub for the local community. Unfortunately, the market experienced an electrical fire the week prior to the festival thus requiring the performers to adjust their original vision. Isil and Marina’s thoughtful work, Islas Cicatrices, opened portals and called out to spiritual energies to reassert magic and reject the assertion of humans as only producers. On the final day of the FIAP festival, I interviewed Isil and Marina about their performance, Islas Cicatrices. We opened our discussion with an analysis of the performance objects (see list below) activated throughout the piece and the importance of their geographic origin. You can experience the interview on our podcast channel or via redacted transcription below.
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CONTRIBUTORSIan Deleón  Archives
July 2023
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