Binaural/Nodar presents: Ignaz Schick (DE) Portuguese Tour Associação Arte à Parte, Coimbra 14 October 2010, 10pm Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisboa Sala Eduardo Prado Coelho 16 October 2010, 11pm Ignaz Schick is a sound artist, turntablist, performer and composer. He was born in the German region of Bavaria and, since 1995, lives and works in [...]

‘Scraping the Surface’: A Binaural/Nodar Collective Exhibition
Asymmetrick Arts Gallery, Rockland, Maine (US)
September 29th – October 3rd, 2010
This exhibition comprises works made by members of the Binaural/Nodar artist collective and others created at the Artist Residency Center of Nodar. The works reflect upon specific aspects of a geographical and social context (the city, in the case of ‘Sightseeing for the Blind’ and the rural village in the case of the remaining works) and use strategies that begin with various methods of documentation and then extend through artistic process to introduce a distance from the original fragments of reality and to access deeper layers from it. This exhibition will be integrated in Panoptic: An Exploration, a section of the Camden International Film Festival dedicated to new media installation and experimental documentary shorts.

Manuela Barile, Italian vocal performer and multidisciplinary artist living in Portugal and co-artistic director of Binaural/Nodar, will present her video work “Oikos” at Óptica 10 – International Festival of Video Art, to take place at La Casa Encendida, Madrid between the 24th and 26th of September 2010. The video will be screened in the “Independent [...]

Notarium – Cabinet of Small Differences
An exhibition by Sérgio Bonilha and Luciana Ohira
Estúdio Performas, Aveiro (PT)
15 to 18 September 2010
The Brazilian visual and media artists Luciana Ohira and Sérgio Bonilha were invited last year to develop an artist residency in the village of Nodar. At it, they created a series of pieces that responded to the geographical and human environment of the area. Starting from sketches, ideas and some pieces created in the said residency, the artists have expanded, reformulated and speculated them to come up a new set of creations, which will be exhibited in Portugal for the first time.

Binaural / Nodar will have a significant participation in Mercado Atlántico de Creación Contemporánea, which will take place in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) between 10 and 12 September 2010. This event is a multidisciplinary professional meeting with the aim of spreading out and exchanging ideas between creators, artists, producers, cultural managers, enterprises and institutions. [...]

Paivascapes #1 has obtained the recognition of the Council of Europe by the award of the CECEL label of European cultural merit. This label is given annually to a restricted number of European cultural events (only 3 in 2010, including Paivascapes #1) that, besides their exceptional and innovative cultural and artistic value, convey strong messages [...]

Binaural / Nodar and Teatro Municipal da Guarda (PT) present: Phill Niblock (US) and Katherine Liberovskaya (CA) Thursday, July 15th 2010 – 9.30 p.m. Teatro Municipal da Guarda (PT) Pequeno Auditório (Small Auditorium), Entrance: 5,00€ Rua Batalha Reis Nº 12 6300-668 GUARDA PORTUGAL http://www.tmg.com.pt Set one: Live Video by Katherine Liberovskaya, with Live mixing of [...]

PAIVASCAPES #1 – STRUCTURE, PROCESS AND PERCEPTION OF A RIVER AUDIOVISUAL LIVE SETS & SCREENINGS BY ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE CRAIG DONGOSKI (US) CHARLES STANKIEVECH (CA) KATHERINE LIBEROVSKAYA (CA) PHILL NIBLOCK (US) NODAR (PT) 40º 55’ 3.21’’ N, 8º 3’ 35.42’’ W Saturday, July 10th, 2010 – 9.00 p.m. CRAIG DONGOSKI (US) “Durations: River Paiva” Work [...]

VENUS RISING – Film, Music, Performance Saturday, 03 July 2010 Time: 17:00 – 21:00 Location: 128 Farringdon Rd EC1R 3AP London. FREE. Manuela Barile will present a video piece from her site-specific vocal performance “Oikos” in “Venus Rising”, a film and performance event celebrating female energy through participation and creative collaborations. The house is a [...]

Fouth Cycle of Artist Residencies of  Paivascapes #1 Castro Daire, São Pedro do Sul and Arouca Municipalities 1 – 14 July 2010 Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya (US/CA) Charles Stankievech (CA) Craig Dongoski (US) The Nodar Artist Residency Program for 2010 has a single unifying theme: the river Paiva. Throughout the year, from winter to [...]

Manuela Barile live in concert/intermedia performance Vigo Transforma Festival (Vigo, ES) “Communicating Vessels” Programming 6 July 2010, 21h30 Porta do Sol (Sireno), Vigo Manuela Barile, Italian vocal performer and multidisciplinary artist living in Portugal and co-artistic director of Binaural/Nodar, presents at Vigo Transforma Festival the performance “Oikos”, integrated in her artistic project “Locus in Quo”. [...]

“Aldeias Sonoras” A documentary by Luís Costa (22 minutes / DV) 22 June 2010, 15h30 Cycle “dOHcs” – Ciclo de Documentários de Autor Casa da Cultura César de Oliveira, Oliveira do Hospital As part of dOHcs – Ciclo de Documentários de Autor, organized by the Oliveira do Hospital Municipal Council, the documentary that Luís Costa [...]

Binaural and Lugar do Capitão present:

Jam session with Eddie135 (electroacoustic improvisation) + Manuela Barile (vocal performance)
Wednesday, 22 April 09 at 10.00 p.m.

Lugar do Capitão, Viseu (PT)
Rua do Gonçalinho, 84-86

http://www.myspace.com/lugardocapitao

Eddie135 is a French electroacoustic duo that was invited by Binaural to come to Viseu in the context of their Portuguese tour. Their music is based on improvisation from any sound source (-diy or not- synthesizers, microphones, cracklebox, guitar,…) then going through a variety of effects.

http://www.myspace.com/therealeddie135

Manuela Barile is an italian vocal researcher and interdisciplinary performer who currently is co-artistic director of Binaural. Her artistic research is based on a project-oriented work that combines vocal sounds with different media (field recording, video, photography, installations, performance, improvisation, concert-performance, writing). As a vocal performer she has colaborated with many artists from the European and North-American improvisation scene such as Mario Volpe, Gianni Lenoci, Marcello Magliocchi, Amy Denio, Phil Minton, Tristan Honsinger, Antonio Mainenti, Rinus Van Alebeek, Rui Costa, Paulo Raposo, Antez, Ernesto Rodrigues, Nilo Gallego, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, Madame Cell, Maile Colbert, Pali Meursault, Cédric Anglaret, etc.

http://www.myspace.com/manuelabarile

The poster of Eddie135′s Portuguese tour:

Binaural and Associação Cultural de Nodar present:

4 Artists by the Paiva river
16 August 08 | 6.00 p.m.
Nodar Artist Residency Center
Nodar, S. Pedro do Sul (Portugal)

A multidisciplinary event in a rural context, organized within the scope of the Nodar Artist Residency Program. Four projects will be presented in several locations on the village and on its surroundings, forming both a spatial and an artistic itinerary through several contemporary expressions, namely sound art, performance, land art, video art and multimedia installation.

Art Projects to be presented:

Viv Corringham (UK)
“Shadow Walks”
Sound Art, Vocal Performance

A sound project with the participation of local inhabitants. The artist asked for volunteers to take her on their “special” walk, a walk that has been repeated many times and has distinct meaning or significance for that person. An initial walk with the person along their selected route, in which their conversations were recorded, was followed by the artist’s solo walk in which she attempted to sense her previous companion’s traces on the walk and to make these audible through her own improvised singing in the location.

Lezli Rubin-Kunda (Israel)
“Marking Stones”
Performance, Visual Arts

The artist wanders through the village, where the local slate stone is used to build walls, houses, pave roads, mark boundaries. She responds to the rocks at different sites by marking incising, drawing onto them, as well as making rubbings from them. A video and a set of photos will document her spontaneous interactions at each site. And for the open house, a live performance will take place along the stone roadway.

Jurate Jarulyte Weiss (Lithuania)
“Dream Objects”
Land Art

Behind every real object there is a dream object” (J. Baudrillard, “The System of Object”). Do we try to adjust our imagination to the real object or a situation? Then, how do our “dream objects” interact with new “real objects” or situations? The project intends to look for a natural and harmonious interaction with a local place and to create some extraordinary “dream like” situation.

Francisco Janes (Portugal)
“Interior”
Mixed-Media Installation

The project was structured around a hike along the river Paiva, from Nodar to the source in Carapito, Moimenta da Beira. Sounds, photos and video were recorded in Nodar and during the walk and will be presented as a mixed-media installation. The elements captured by the artist reflect a subjective vision of the relationship between a body and a landscape as well as the contingency and memory of a trip made against the flow, to the “interior” of a river.

Binaural launches a donation campaign to help supporting a set of new community-based projects in the Nodar region, a rural mountain area located in the Centre of Portugal.

These projects include the development of laboratories in audiovisual capturing and editing for the local communities’ youths, the launching of an itinerant exhibition programme of documentary films in the most isolated villages, and the setting in Nodar of an audiovisual documentation centre dedicated to the historical, social, cultural and environmental local heritages.

The donations obtained will help Binaural to buy audiovisual equipments and software, to pay the exhibition copyrights of movies and the edition of educational and promotion materials for the aforementioned projects.

Binaural is the co-producer, along with Associação Cultural de Nodar, of an international residencies’ programme on media and site-specific arts, that has been financially supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture with the logistic help of the São Pedro do Sul municipality.

To donate (through PayPal), go to the “Donations” box on the right sidebar of this blog.

It is now concluded the selection of artistic projects for the 2007 NOGS residency program. The schedule of residencies with the corresponding artists is the following:

First residency module: 10 to 28 April 2007:

- Dennis Báthory Kitsz and Stevie Balch (USA)
- Aaron Ximm (USA)

Second residency module: 1 to 21 July 2007:

- Xesús Valle (Spain)
- Suzanne Caines (Canada)
- Martin Clarke (UK) + Alicja Rogalska (Poland)

Third residency module: 14 October to 3 November 2007:

- Nilo Gallego + Noemi Fidalgo (Spain) + Luís Costa (Portugal)
- o.blaat (Japan)
- Manuela Barile (Italy) + Rui Costa (Portugal)
- Maile Colbert (USA)