La isla bonita
Island of the Shadows' Dialogue
An artistic co-creation by the Schoolbag Gallery, Marc Sausset, Richard Porteau, Benjamin Sebbagh, Etienne Tortosa, together with the preparatory class students of the Municipal School of Fine Arts of Châteauroux. September 2018
An Immersive Performance-Environment
La Isla Bonita Takes the form of an island hosting fictitious dialogues between artists and figures, living or deceased, famous or unknown. Elvis Presley, Mary Magdalene, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Madonna, Albrecht Dürer, and Martin Luther are gathered within this multimedia installation, endlessly replaying gestures from their artistic or intellectual manifestos. An audiovisual cabinet, evoking the remnants of a brutalist video installation from the 20th century, projects a selection of videos by the collective, retracing twenty-five years of video art production through films, vignettes, screen tests, prototypes, film mock-ups, and filmed performances.
La Galerie du Cartable, 2018. Panoramic view of the environment, just before the housing performance of the island.
Filmic Details and Atmospheres of the Island of Shadow’s Dialogue
Film Set and Performance-Environment La Isla BonitaApparitions of artists and figures, living or dead, famous or unknown — among them, the painter Alain Doret, filmmakers Alain Cavalier and Joseph Morder, along with the doubles of Elvis Presley, Mary Magdalene, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Madonna, Albrecht Dürer, and Martin Luther — endlessly replaying the gestures of their artistic or intellectual manifestos, like living animated gifs.
Documents
The complete set La Isla Bonita: the invitation card and posters: photomontage by Rainier Lericolais, 2018