SOUND AND RURAL ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 9 a 28 April 2012 Gralheira Mountain Range, São Pedro do Sul (PT) Artistic creation residencies >  Experimental architecture residencies > media and sound installations in architectural structures >  Field meetings with artists, architects and anthropologists > Screening of  videos on sound and architecture> Educational activities > Conferences Participants: Artists [...]

Binaural / Nodar announces: Open call for subscriptions: Nodar Summer School 2012: Documenting and reinventing the memory of a territory A theoretical and practical residency training program 16 – 22 July 2012 / 7 days / 60 hours Locations: Rural villages of Gralheira Mountain Range, São Pedro do Sul 1. Orientation Luis Costa (filmmaker / [...]

Nodar @ Aveiro University of Aveiro Bookstore Auditorium February 17, 2012, 2:30 p.m. Binaural/Nodar travels on February 17, 2012 to University of Aveiro (PT) for a multimedia presentation on its media arts cultural project developed in the rural area of the Gralheira Mountain Range, São Pedro do Sul, for a presentation of the newly published [...]

Sound Villages2012 Intergenerational Sound Dialogues Canelas Primary School, Arouca (PT) 1 -11 February, 2012 The educational project Sound Villages consists in the recording, editing and mapping of the acoustic heritage of rural villages in parallel with its geographical, historical and socio-cultural survey, promoting a sense of identity, diversity and pride in living in rural areas. In 2012 this project will be devoted to intergenerational dialogue within the European Year of Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity. The cycle of Sound Villages for 2012 entitled [...]

“Ascese” A project by Sérgio Bonilha and Sergio Ohira Artist residency in Nodar and Macedo de Cavaleiros (Portugal) 27 January – 5 February 2012 Exhibition at Ptarmigan Gallery (Helsinki, Finland) 8 February 2012 “Ascese” is part of a new series named “transimmanence” as a way of responding to the largely announced idea of a possible [...]

“Moroloja,” an audio / visual research about the symbolic experience on the ritual of mourning, directed by Manuela Barile, artistic director of Binaural / Nodar was selected for the CologneOFF selections of the Perpetuum Mobile Film Festival Minsk (Belarus), to take place between January 16th and 18th, 2012, and of the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (Thailand), taking place on February 1st, 2012.

Sunday, December 18, 2pm
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow St.
New York, NY
Admission: Free
Passageira em Casa is a multimedia performance inspired by concepts of home and migration. The narrative is a partially fictionalized and personalized account of the maritime history of Portugal, enacted by a dancer, a vocal performer, live video performer, live electronic composer, and other artists. The project is inspired by various texts related to maritime journeys and Portuguese history and culture.
In her presentation at EMF, Colbert will discuss her use of site-specific field recordings of tectonic plates, earthquakes, and tidal movements in the piece. She will also address how flora, fauna, constelations and maritime navigation techniques have influenced the work.

“Moroloja,” an audio / visual research about the symbolic experience on the ritual of mourning, directed by Manuela Barile, artistic director of Binaural / Nodar was selected for the Óptica III – Festival Audiovisual de Buenos Aires, to take place between December 15th and 17th, 2011, and to CologneOFF 2011 Morocco, taking place between December 13th and 15th 2011.

Cycle of Debates of ARTE LISBOA 2011
Friday, November 25th | 7.00pm
Debate “I want to be an artist. And now what? Will I have to emigrate?”
FIL, Parque das Nações, Lisbon
Luís Costa, coordinator of Binaural/Nodar will be present at the Cycle of Debates of the Arte Lisboa 2011 – Contemporary Art Fair. He will address the role of artist residencies in the support to the artistic creation, the lack of these kind of platforms in Portugal and in what way they can be essential to the young artists.

The Chestnut and Honey Feast takes place in Macieira, civil parish of Sul (municipality of S. Pedro do Sul, Portugal), on 12th and 13th November 2011 (Saturday and Sunday). The initiative, having the primary objective of promoting the local autumn products, especially chestnuts and honey, will also be a presentation of the rich natural and [...]