CUERPXS DE MEMORIA performance art workshop with Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil //

The performance, a co-creation between “public” and “performers”, is the transfer of knowledge housed in the bodies. Those embodied knowledges, which beat in the bodies, are links of memory.

Each body has a cartography of its lived, personal-collective and ancestral memories.
What memory/story is alive in my knees, in my hair, in my eyes, in my sex, in my feet?
What memories have I inherited as sensitivities, intuitions, dreams or wounds that are the essence of my corporality?

The social body — collective body inhabits my skin. History/memory runs in my blood.

The meeting of bodies is the meeting of their memories: their ancestors and descendants.

What is the lived memory and what will be the memory of the future?

Workshop for the students of the module Estudis de Performance of the Degree of Fine Arts.

Universidad de Barcelona UB, Barcelona.

Universidad de Barcelona UB, Barcelona.

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ARTISTS

Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil

www.marinaxisil.art

(Puerto Rico x Catalonia)

are visual and performance artists, curators, researchers and pedagogues. Directors of the space for artistic investigation and radical pedagogy MATERIC.ORG and curators of EMPREMTA international performance festival and Mar de Islas performance encounter of the Caribbean. They begin their joint work in 2015 following a philosophy of Subversive Love and eXtreme Care. They have presented work in Europe and the Americas in festivals, museums and galleries such as Viva! ArtAction (Montreal), Tempting Failure (London), Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (Barcelona), Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona), Casa Viva (Mexico City), Organ of Critical Arts-OKK (Berlin), FNAF (Prague) and FIAP (Martinique), among others. Their work is part of the archive of the Live Art Development Agency (London) and the collection of the Museu de l’Empordà (Figueres). They have held performance courses and workshops at the University of Puerto Rico, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, Escola Massana Centre d’Art i Disseny, the University of Barcelona and MATERIC.ORG.

Their artistic practice takes the corporeal mimesis to the eXtreme, in a specific space and in a given environment. They explore alternative sensitivities that challenge the imposed historical chronologies while suppressing the male/ female dichotomy. Their pieces are framed by the need to establish a single connection and body rhythm of pure listening. They are not two bodies, they are not two artists; they are the body in a space, in a time and in a presence. Their point of union, as vanishing point, is a constant pulsation where the plural presence of the body, the border destruction and the decolonisation of the mind-body is an act of rebellion and subversion.