ISLA is a project composed of 3 works created by Natalia Barua & moving image artist Owa Barua. ISLA (I) is a 3-channel video installation, ISLA (II) an expanded cinema performance and ISLA (III) a single-screen video dance.

ISLA is a personal account about place, presence and longing based on the artists’ personal experiences in Southeast Asia. The project represents a cinematic and physical abstraction of memory, exploring memory and movement as interlacing subjects, celebrating small moments of beauty and rhythms captured accidentally. 

Both ISLA (I) & ISLA (II) are site-responsive works, designed to encounter the most immersive and meditative experience for audiences. Integral to this is the collaboration with Les Cartes Postales Sonores, a field recording project by artist Julien Harion, penetrating the work with a soundscape of insects, voices, music and day-to-day life in Southeast Asia.

Credits
Created by Natalia & Owa Barua
Camera & Edit: Natalia & Owa Barua
Live Performance: Natalia Barua
Sound: Les Cartes Postales Sonores
Sound Mix: Owa Barua

Presentations
work-in-progress performance at Hidden Door Festival, State Cinema, Edinburgh (May 2018).