Biography and CV
Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer
visual and performance artists (Catalonia x Puerto Rico)
Isil Sol Vil Higher Diploma in Visual Arts and Design for Industrial Modelling (Escola Massana art and design center of Barcelona, Spain)
Marina Barsy Janer BA Art History (University of Puerto Rico), MA Curatorial Studies and PhD Art History and Theory (University of Essex, UK)
are artists, curators, researchers and pedagogues of performance art. Directors of the centre for creation and radical pedagogy MATERIC.ORG and curators of EMPREMTA international festival of performance and MAR DE ISLAS performance encounter of the Caribbean. They begin their joint work in 2015 following a poetic philosophy of subversive love and extreme care. They have presented their work in galleries, museums, universities, symposia, festivals and urban spaces in Catalonia, Spain, Cyprus, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Greece, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Latvia, Canary Islands, Iran, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador.
PERFORMANCE
don’t stop talking about… Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2024. Starptelpa Riga Performance Festival. Rīgas Cirks. Riga (Latvia)
curator: Laine Kristberga
1492 |censored work|. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2023. Arts Santa Mònica. Barcelona (Spain)
curators: Lis Costa and Josep M. Jordana
TRES VIDES TRES RECORDS TRES ARRELS. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2023. FINA -finestra internacional d’acció. Sabadell (Spain)
curators: club9
GRIETA. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2023. Territori international performance art festival. Ibiza (Spain)
curator: Isa Sanz
EIKPYRNIR. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2023. Convergence festival. Live Art Ireland. Borrisokane (Ireland)
curators: Deej Fabyc, Francis Fay and Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
ENTRAMADOS. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2023. POESIA i + festival de poesia del Maresme. Teià (Spain)
curator: Eduard Escoffet
ENCONTRES. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2023. Encontres en l’Espai Temps, Gràcia Territori Sonor. Barcelona (Spain)
curator: Sara Materia Distorsiva
CICATRICES DEL DESTIERRO. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2023. Nombrarse Volcán festival de poesía y performance. El Paso (Canary Islands)
curator: Patricia Figuero
PERPETUAL OMENS OF POETRY. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2023. Sofia Underground international performance art festival. Sofia (Bulgaria)
curator: Ivo Ivanov
LATIRSINCRÓNICO multiplicidades. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2023. dinamo DIY espai. Barcelona (Spain)
LATIRSINCRÓNICO sonoplastía. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2022. Recorreguts Sonors. CC Convent Agustí. Barcelona (Spain)
LATIRSINCRÓNICO sinfonía corporal. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2022. El Lobi. San Juan (Puerto Rico)
curator: Vanessa Hernández Gracia
geometría pagana. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2021. Parlem Contemporani?_04. Convent D’Alcover (Spain)
curator: Aleix Antillach
A. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2020. L’Acció Contra la Poesia i Viceversa. Fundació Joan Brossa. Barcelona (Spain)
curator: Joan Casellas
interNOS. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2019. festival INFLUX [vídeo a escena]. Antic Teatre. Barcelona (Spain)
curators: Lis Costa and Josep M. Jordana
ISLAS CICATRICES. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2019. F.I.A.P. Festival International d’Art Performance. Fort de France (Martinique)
curators: Annabel Guérédrat & Henry Tauliaut
TRÉMULA PALPITACIÓN. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2019. F.I.A.P. Festival International d’Art Performance. Savane des Pétrifications (Martinique)
curators: Annabel Guérédrat & Henry Tauliaut
PORTALES OTROS. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2019. Irreductibles performances feministes. CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Barcelona (Spain)
curator: Assumpta Bassas Vila
SIMBIOSIS CANÍBAL. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2019. Kronos Art Bcn. Arts Santa Mónica. Barcelona (Spain)
curator: Damián Pissarra
ÉTER. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2019. FNAF Festival of Naked Forms. Kasárna Karlín. Prague (Czech Republic)
curator: Lenka Klodová
ALTERIDAD FLEXIBLE. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2018. Body and Freedom Festival. Zurich (Switzerland)
curator: Thomas Zollinger
NIU. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2018. LAPEK nit d’acció i performance. La Pedrera Espai Creatiu. Subirats (Spain)
SEMILLERO. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2017. Residency in Casa Cruz de la Luna. San Germán (Puerto Rico)
organised by: Aravind Adyanthaya
ESPEJISMOS HISTÓRICOS. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2017. International Performance Festival kilómetroCERØ. Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
curated by: El Arañazo, plataforma cultural
MEMORIAS DE RESISTENCIA. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2017. Performance encounter Bursas Cuerpos en Expansión. Puebla (Mexico)
curator: Jenny Zayas Franzoni
DE-FRAGMENTOS. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2017. CASA VIVA. Mexico City (Mexico)
curator: Alejandro Chêllet
LÁGRIMAS DE SAL. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer in collaboration with Mr. Vampire. 2017. Jeudi 27. Morelia (Mexico)
ARCHEOLOGIE MUTANTE. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2017. Viva Art Action! Montreal (Canada)
curated by: DARE-DARE
ALQUIMIA DE LO ONÍRICO. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2017. 13th international encounter of action poetry and performance La Muga Caula. Les Escaules (Spain)
curators: Joan Casellas & Teresa Ramírez Rofastes
CORPUS INTERSTITIUM. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2016. OKK Organ Kritischer Kunst. Berlin (Germany)
| | Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2016. Corpología 25. Subirats (Spain)
curator: Denys Blacker
DESCARNAR FRONTERAS. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2016. Tempting Failure. London (United Kingdom)
curator: Thomas John Bacon
SINFONÍA MACABRA en tres movimientos. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2016. 4th CIPAF Cyprus International Performance Art Festival. Mitsero (Cyprus)
curator: Christina Georgiou
ODA A LA SANGRE AFRODITA. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2016. 4th CIPAF Cyprus International Performance Art Festival. Mitsero (Cyprus)
curator: Christina Georgiou
VIDEO PERFORMANCE
SUSTANCIA ALKIMIYA. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2021. Costa Daurada (Mediterranean Sea)
DESGRANAR. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2020. MATERIC.ORG (Catalonia)
LATIR. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2017. El Garraf (Catalonia)
60.5 Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2016. Artistic residency in Fundació l’Olivar. Ventallo (Catalonia), curator: Pilar Parcerisas
PROCESSUS CORPORIS. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2016. Ventallo (Catalonia)
PULSIÓN LIMINAL. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2016. MATERIC.ORG (Catalonia)
UNTITLED. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2015. Artistic residency in Olot (Catalonia)
UNTITLED. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2015. Artistic residency in Olot (Catalonia)
PHOTO PERFORMANCE
La Petra. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2022. Photo in collaboration with Mickey Negrón. Residencia artística at La Casa Protegida de Ponkas y Jamonas, Aibonito (Puerto Rico).
descendencia MUTANTE. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2022. Photo in collaboration with Mickey Negrón. Residencia artística at La Casa Protegida de Ponkas y Jamonas, Aibonito (Puerto Rico).
REFRACCIONES. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2022. Photo in collaboration with Mickey Negrón. Residencia artística at La Casa Protegida de Ponkas y Jamonas, Aibonito (Puerto Rico).
ENJAMBRE. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer. 2022. Photo in collaboration with Mickey Negrón. Residencia artística at La Casa Protegida de Ponkas y Jamonas, Aibonito (Puerto Rico).
heliconiaceae. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2022. Photo in collaboration with Mickey Negrón. Residencia artística at La Casa Protegida de Ponkas y Jamonas, Aibonito (Puerto Rico).
MAR DE ISLAS encuentro de performance del Caribe. Poster for the festival by Helen Ceballos, Marina Barsy Janer, Isil Sol Vil. 2020. Photo in collaboration with Ali Petru Gerena. (Puerto Rico)
NATURALEZA VIVA. Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil. 2017. Photo in collaboration with Aravind Adyanthaya. Artistic residency at Casa Cruz de la Luna. Mangrove, Cabo Rojo (Puerto Rico)
NATURALEZA MUERTA. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer . 2017. Photo in collaboration with Aravind Adyanthaya. Artistic residency at Casa Cruz de la Luna. Salinas, Cabo Rojo (Puerto Rico)
CONFINS ARDENTS. Poster for the festival La Muga Caula. Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer in collaboration with Joan Casellas. 2017. Artistic residency, Les Escaules (Catalonia)
Art Exchange Project Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil in collaboration with Manuel Vason. 2016. Epping Forest (United Kingdom)
EXHIBITIONS
BIDEODROMO international experimental film and video festival. BilbaoArte Art House Zinema. Bilbao (Spain). 14-31 October 2022.
curators: Jessica Llorente, Pilar Baizán and Txema Agiriano
Primera Trienal de Performance DEFORMES. Espacio Ailanto. Santiago (Chile). 1-9 November, 2021.
curator: Gonzalo Rabanal
Lenguaje Callejero. Ex Teresa Arte Actual. Mexico City (Mexico). 13 October, 2021.
curator: Alex Chellet
the gender body in performance / politics through the performativity of gender. International Forum of Performance Art. Agia Varvara Park. Drama (Greece). 9-14 September, 2021.
curators: Yannis Mitrou and Vicky Konstantinidou
SerformanceP 5ª Mostra Internacional de Performance Art em São Paulo. centro cultural Casa do Povo. São Paulo (Brasil). 3-5 September, 2021.
curators: Ismael Trabuco and Isaac Trabuco
SPILL YER TEA #5 Online Sharing: Experimental Live Performance Art. Performance N’ Tha. Liverpool (England). 19 August, 2021.
curator: Pierce Starre
Ciclo de vídeo performance: del Cuerpo a la Acción. CUERPAS festival internacional de performance. Quito (Ecuador). 24 June 2021.
curator: Alex Trujillo
R-A-W (Recorded Action Web – Exhibition). Bbeyond. Belfast (Ireland). 15 January-3 February 2021.
organised by: Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
curators: Alastair MacLennan, Brian Patterson, Eleni Kolliopoulou, Sandra Corrigan Breathnach and Sinéad Breathnach Cashell
We Are Not Prepared. Zabih Performance Festival. Lviv (Ukraine). 1-31 December 2020.
curators: Zabih Performance Festival
Homar Performance Art Festival. Arta Contemporary Art Institute. Abad Education Center. Khorramabad (Iran). 26-30 October 2020.
curators: Tara Goudarzi and Razieh Goudarzi
en_registro_vídeo_sanación_memoria. El Lobi. San Juan (Puerto Rico). 15-30 October 2020.
curators: Alexia Tala and Vanessa Hernández Gracia
L’Acció Contra la Poesia i Viceversa. Fundació Joan Brossa. Barcelona (Spain). 3 December 2019- 19 January 2020.
curator: Joan Casellas
FLUX 2019 festival de vídeo de autor. Arts Santa Mónica. Barcelona (Spain). 10 Dicember 2019- 5 January 2020.
curators: Lis Costa and Josep M. Jordana
F.I.A.P. Festival International d’Art Performance. Atelier 49. Fort de France (Martinique). 6-11 November 2019
curators: Annabel Guérédrat & Henry Tauliaut
Kronos Art Bcn. Arts Santa Mónica. Barcelona (Spain). 19-29 September 2019
curators: Macu Moran, Justin Case, Perro Manso & Damián Pissarra
Zona de Riesgo encuentro de arte acción vol.4. Casa Bagre (Peru). 31 May 2019
curators: Liliana Albornoz and Fausto Luna.
Aesthetics of Movement. Online Performance Exhibition (http://istanbulperformanceart.com). 2019
curator: David Esteban Lopez Restrepo.
Noves adquisicions 2015-2018. Museu de l’Empordà (Catalunya). 25 January-31 March 2019.
LATITUDES, International Performance Art Festival of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional (Bolivia). 15-19 January 2019
curator: Hector Canonge.
Homografía / Homography international encounter of video performance. Art Space, MACAZ Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Alfredo Zalce, Colectivo 41, Centro de Arte Bernardo Quintana, Museo de Arte de Tlaxcala (Mexico). November-December 2018
curators: Edgar Ramírez and Chris Miller.
Paisatge d’acció. Rambla de Figueres (Catalunya). September-November 2018
curated by La Muga Caula, Joan Casellas.
ExperimentoBIO 2018. Bilbao La Vieja (Euskal Herria). October 2018.
Body Landscapes. VerdensKulturCentret. Copenhagen (Denmark). September-October 2018
curated by Performance Køkkenet, David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo.
El paisatge documental 2017. Museu de l’Empordà. Figueres (Catalunya). September 2018
curated by La Muga Caula, Joan Casellas.
Proceso de error- International Festival of Experimental Video form Valparaiso. Teatro Condell. Valparaiso (Chile). April 2018
organised by INVE, Experimental Platform of the Arts
FLUX CLUB 2018. Antic Teatre. Barcelona (Catalunya). April 2018.
curated by: Lis Costa and Josep M. Jordana
Metrópolis Maleable. Performance and visual arts exhibition. CASA VIVA. Mexico City (Mexico). October 2017
curator: Alejandro Chêllet
L’Acció de la Font Caula. La Muga Caula exhibition. Galeria Lola Ventós. Figueres (Catalonia). June-July 2017
curators: Joan Casellas & Teresa Ramírez Rofastes
Larga Vida a la Nueva Carne. La Paternal Espacio Proyecto. Buenos Aires (Argentina). October 2016
curators: Agustín Rincón Méndez and Daniela Ruiz Moreno
III Festival de Artes PA KE NO TOKE LO PEOR. Bogota (Colombia). October 2016
curator: Tzitzi Barrantes
VIDEADA.08 VÍDEOS INESTABLES. El Galpón Espacio. Lima (Peru). October 2016
curators: Gabriela Urco, Tatiana Fuentes, Jorge Baldeón and Diana Collazos
8o AVD acción en vivo y diferido. Anolaima (Colombia). September 2016
curator: Tzitzi Barrantes
10th Audiovisual Arts Festival taboo-transgression-transcendence. Corfu (Greece), organised by: Ionian University department of audio and visual arts and Department of Music Studies. May 2016. An invitation by Laura Corcuera
PEDAGOGY
THE WORLD OF PERFORMANCE: Action Art in Theory and Practice. 2023-24. Escola Massana Art and Design Center. Barcelona (Spain)
POETICS OF THE SUBSOIL. 2023. Territori international performance art festival. Ibiza (Spain)
GEOGRAPHIES OF THE SELF. 2023. Santa Mònica arts center. Barcelona (Spain)
THE WORLD OF PERFORMANCE: Action Art in Theory and Practice. 2022-23. Escola Massana Art and Design Center. Barcelona (Spain)
CUERPAS EN LA URBE performative interventions in the “public” space. 2021. Can Felipa, Barcelona (Spain)
BEYOND THE SCREEN. 2021. MATERIC.ORG (online)
CUERPX RITUAL CUERPX POLÍTICO. 2020. MATERIC.ORG. Barcelona (Spain)
VIRTUALISMO REBELDE. 2020. MATERIC.ORG (online)
contACTO subversivo. 2020. Independent Studies Program in Contemporary Art, Research and Community. Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
THE WORLD OF PERFORMANCE: A Theoretical and Practical Introduction to Action Art. 2019-2020. Escola Massana Art and Design Center. Barcelona (Spain)
CARTOGRAFÍAS DEL RECUERDO. 2018. MATERIC.ORG. L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Spain).
CUERPOS DE MEMORIA. 2018. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona. Barcelona (Spain).
CUERPO COMO ESPACIO. 2018. Escola Massana. Barcelona (Spain).
AGRIETAR LO REAL. 2018. Contemporary Art Museum of Puerto Rico. Santurce (Puerto Rico).
TEJIENDO AFECTOS. 2017. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Puerto Rico. Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico).
AWARDS / RESIDENCES /GRANTS
OlivART Award 2016. Olivar foundation; i-Portunus Award 2019. Creative Europe; PRAI (Puerto Rican Arts Initiative) Award 2022. Mellon Foundation, Northwestern University and University of Texas en Austin; Culture Moves Europe Grant. Creative Europe 2022-23; Nikos Kouroussis Foundation Art Residency 2016 (Cyprus). Curator: Christina Georgiou; 22cubic art residency 2016 (Spain); Olivart residency 2016 (Spain). Curator: Pilar Parcerisas; La Muga Caula 2017 (Spain). Curator: Joan Casellas; Casa Viva live art 2017 (Mexico). Curator: Alejandro Chellet; Casa Cruz de la Luna 2017 (Puerto Rico). Curator: Aravind Adyanthaya; Convent Agustí art residency 2022 (Spain). El Lobi art residency 2022 (Puerto Rico). Curator: Vanessa Hernández Gracia; Live Art Ireland Residency 2023 (Ireland). Curator: Deej Fabyc; Konvent Residencia 2024 (Spain).
COLLECTIONS
Live Art Development Agency (UK), Museu de l’Empordà (Spain), Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Netherlands), Art Exchange (UK), Arxiu Aire (Spain), GresolArt (Spain), El Cultural San Martín (Argentina).