Rui Costa | Portugal

Rui Costa began his public activity as a sound artist in 1997. In 1998 he started a close collaboration with the Spanish musician Iñaki Ríos inside the project ja_dijiste, which covers several areas of common interests as sound art, free improvisation and video creation, using software-based (max/msp, etc.) composition & improvisation techniques and developing several conceptual projects such as the intermedia work “Nodar”, presented in 2002 at the Music Ex Machina festival in Bilbao, Spain.

http://www.myspace.com/ruigcosta

Manuela Barile | Italy

Manuela Barile is an italian born vocal artist and an interdisciplinary performer who lives in Portugal. She explores the voice in all its possible musical and spoken expressions, employing Western and Oriental vocal techniques, as well as those of her invention, without recourse to any electronic manipulations. Her artistic works consists on the combination of her sounds with different medias (art installation, concert-performances, photography, video, drawing, writing). Through simple actions of everyday life, she creates situations where the artist is just a mirror where people can project their experiences, memories, fears, limits and contradictions.

http://www.manuelabarile.com

Project: La Scatola
Category: Sound Art, Performance, Installation
Period: October 2007
Event: Art Residency

‘La Scatola’ is a transdisciplinary project that explores the notion of confinement using multiple approaches and works on the border zone between the ‘I’ and the outside world in situations of incarceration. We may define this zone in purely spatial terms (“forbidden zone”, “abyss”,  “barrier”) but also in terms of bidirectional “energy fluxes” created by the sensorial and emotional projection of the incarcerated individuality into the outside world (pain, desire, resistance, impotence, etc.) and by the representation (idealized, distorted, diffuse) of the outside world in the mind and body of the incarcerated individual.

The project ‘La Scatola’ (‘the box’ in English) will be materialized in several ways, according to the spatial context where it will be presented and the collaboration with artists of several areas. Given the background of the authors of this project, the focus in terms of materials will be on body and vocal performance and on sound and video installation.

In the particular case of the artistic residency in Nodar, its specific characteristics in terms of natural and public space were identified, as well as types of social interaction that configure situations of incarceration. From these elements, a Nodar version of ‘La Scatola’ (in the case, an installation / performance) was built.

Project's blog: http://www.binauralmedia.org/lascatola