Selected artists
KAORI ISHIHARA (Japan – Minorca)
Multidisciplinary artist interested in living creative processes with a strong anchorage in the space and time where they develop. Her practice, ritualized, moves between visual arts, performance and sounds with ancestral and natural instruments, through which she explores the concept of border; the limits between intimate and common, visible and hidden, life and death or light and darkness, among others.
Her training and experience in painting, ancestral sounds and body awareness are the basis of her artistic expression and are the pillar of her career, of which highlights the realization of live performances for the program Nits de Lluna Plena in Líthica. Pedreres de s’Hostal (2023, Ciutadella de Menorca), Territori. International Performance Art Festival (2023, Ibiza) or the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro Independiente de Menorca (2024, Es Mercadal).
She has also created specific performances to dialogue with the work of other visual artists, as is the case of the action “Entrelazo”, with the work of Nuria Román (2022), “Meditaciones con Tàpies”, within the framework of the exhibition “Antoni Tàpies, a l’ombra” at the Ca n’Oliver Museum (2024, Maó) or the opening action of the Fábrica40 (Maó), where he dialogues with the photographic exhibition of José María de Orbe (2024).
Photo credits: Anita de Austria
MARINA BARSY JANER x ISIL SOL VIL (Puerto Rico and Catalunya)
Their artistic practice is a transgressive act where their psyches, bodies, sensorialities and extreme affectivities intermingle. They understand mimesis as a link towards the deconstruction of the modern notion of the neoliberal individual, eliminating the dual conception of the self and the suppression of the ego. Through their projects they explore alternate sensibilities that challenge imposed historical chronologies and destroy the male-female dichotomy, decolonizing the body and mind as a subversive act.
As artists and researchers, they begin their work together in 2015, rooted in the philosophy and poetry of subversive love and extreme care. They have presented work in Europe, Asia and the Americas at festivals, museums and galleries such as Tempting Failure (UK), Live Art Ireland (Ireland), CCCB (Spain), Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico), F.I.A.P. (Martinique) and Viva! ArtAction (Canada), among others. Their work is part of the archives of the Live Art Development Agency (UK), the Art Exchange Project (UK) and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Netherlands), among others.
As pedagogues of performance, they have taken courses within the Independent Studies Program of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, the Massana Permanent program of La Massana Centre d’Art i Disseny de Barcelona and in the departments of Fine Arts of the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Barcelona.
They are also directors of the space of creation and radical pedagogy MATERIC.ORG. Curators of MAR DE ISLAS Caribbean Performance Encounter and EMPREMTA International Performance Festival.
Photo credits: Albert Martínez