We are celebrating International Women's Day in Cluny 2 with a show that when we read about it, we just had to host it.

South West born, London based Volume One Tongue is a queer mystic, poet, musician, performance artist and human animal.

Volume One Tongue’s debut Album ‘Landscapes of Trust’ was released last year and has since been shared across the UK in an immersive boundary pushing performance of the same name. The show is a hybrid of performance art and music and includes seismic recordings made audible, as well as Jeff Buckley/Vashti Bunyan style songs, extended live polyrhythmic and trip hop style drums, and fiddle. The work is inspired by and drawn from her homeland in the Forest of Dean, the wilds of Dartmoor and the West Coast of Scotland, and the man made Wilderness that is London. Isla created this body of work as a meditation on Silvia Federici’s ‘Caliban and the Witch’, seeking to explore the intersecting themes of Land Rights, seed scarcity, Women’s mental health and Belonging. 

This is a work for a generation engaged with the ongoing and unfolding poly crisis, and aims to inspire collective action and liberation. Isla’s singular vision continues to open up worlds of experimentation and expression, defying genres and expectation for the possibilities of transformational performance in 2026. 

No woman turned away due to lack of funds. If you would like to attend but are unable to pay email [email protected]