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Nodar Pushing the Medium #2 International Intermedia Arts Symposium
What is the Pushing the Medium? Pushing the Medium is an international meeting of sound, video and media artists brought together for a 10 days symposium in Nodar, Portugal. Pushing the Medium #2 was hosted by Binaural, a non-profit artist-run cultural organization dedicated to local and international cooperation in the fields of arts, social and environmental research in Nodar, and is routed in a partnership between similar but distant organizations – namely Moks in Estonia - that by their geography, to start with, remain outside the “central cultural Europe”, and to keep the focus on cross discipline artistic and social interventions in a context-specific location, The first event took place in 2004 in Mooste, Estonia. During Pushing the Medium we sought to challenge artists, sound, video and media artists, social researchers and other participants in thinking about the ‘place’ – landscape, the villages, mountains and valleys around Nodar - as the primary material to invite incoming artists to explore and create through creative interventions and artistic collaborations. The symposium featured discussions, project work, workshops, and presentations from a wide variety of international performers and artists. Pushing the Medium encouraged both the exchange of ideas and the realization of short term artistic projects within a 10 day event. The present edition, as the previous one, had no theme. The theme is the place itself, the extreme and isolated topography and habitat as metaphor for a Europe that, erased and forgotten, is still not inscribed in the paradigmatic and dominant discourses. PTM#2 attempts to instigate collaborative activities within artists from all around the globe and between artists and local community and encourage an expanded involvement with the human “habitat”, the identity and memory of Nodar. We sought artistic practices in which sound, new technologies and context/location intersect, to reflect and articulate their social and cultural meanings and how this shape the way in which we think about and experience. There are many ways for artists to explore the relationship between art and location. What is important for PTM, though, is that the artistic practices imply a reflection about the aesthetic, cultural and social dimensions of such environment, by challenging artists to question their own role and to work dependent of a context-based location or environment.
Participating Artists (in Residence): Klaus Filip
(Austria)
18.09.2006 18H - Nodar
21.09.2006 22H - Guarda Municipal Theatre
22.09.2006 14H - Viseu Institute of Techonology 22H - Portuguese Youth Institute of Viseu Auditorium
23.09.2006 17H - Nodar, S. Pedro do Sul (photos from the artists and the organization)
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