[Nodar003] Three Years In Nodar Context-Specific Art Practices in Rural Portugal 315 pages full color catalogue Accompanying double CD with 20 sound compositions made in Nodar Price: 25 Euros + postage For orders, please contact info@binauralmedia.org The catalog includes essays, critical texts, field diaries, photographs and drawings of more than 40 artists who developed art [...]

PAIVASCAPES #1 – PAIVA RIVER SOUND FESTIVAL
Vila Nova de Paiva, Castro Daire, São Pedro do Sul, Arouca, Castelo de Paiva (PT)
March 4th – 8th, 2011

Retrospective exhibition, multimedia concerts, site-specific sound installations, conferences, video works screenings, sound perception activities and environmental walks.

“An innovative and itinerant festival where the sound and multimedia arts will interact with riverside landscapes and communities along the Paiva River, from its source to its mouth.

“Paivascapes #1 will include exhibitions and sound and multimedia concerts related to the Paiva River, by over twenty renowned artists from Europe, America and Asia.”

‘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.

Binaural announces a retrospective exhibition of 8 video works created under the Nodar Artist Residency Program. The exhibition, co-organized with Cine Clube de Viseu, happens between July, 11th and August, 31st at the Grão Vasco Museum, located in Viseu (40 km away from Nodar).

The videos will be presented in two modules, that reflect two possible aesthetic approaches to the place: “Nodar: Visions of Sound” presents 4 works that use audio field recordings from Nodar as a means of composing soundscapes; “Nodar: Visions of Space and People” presents 4 works that establish an expressive interaction with the local landscape or communities.

The Grão Vasco museum is a Portuguese state monument and is named after one of the most important Portuguese painters of the Renaissance, Vasco Fernandes (also known as the Grão Vasco), who lived and worked in Viseu. The museum, founded in 1916, occupies the building of the old Seminary, was built in the late 16th century in Mannerist style, and had its interior recently rebuilt by the famous Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.

Exhibition program:

Nodar: Visions of Sound
2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Videos by John Grzinich (USA/Estonia), Xesús Valle (Spain), Pali Meursault (France), and Martin Clarke / Alicja Rogalska (UK/Poland)

Nodar: Visions of Space and People
4.00 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Videos by Maile Colbert (USA), Suzanne Caines (Canada), Christine Niehoff (Germany) and Evelyn Müürsepp (Estonia)

To read the exhibition flyer (in Portuguese), click here.

NOGS – Art Residencies Center of Nodar
July 2007 events

Saturday, July 14 2007
Location: Nodar, S. Pedro do Sul (Portugal)

4.30 p.m. – Nature walk on the banks of River Paiva *
9.00 p.m. – Documentary film “Borders” by Pedro Sena Nunes *
9.30 p.m. – Xesús Valle (Galicia, Spain). Sound art and video. Presentation of the art project developed in Nodar “Diálogos Táctiles”
10.15 p.m. – Documentary film “The Death of Cinema” by Pedro Sena Nunes *

* A co-organization with “Projecto Criar Raízes” from S. Pedro do Sul, Portugal. The registration in the nature walk (which costs 10 euros per person, dinner included) should be made by calling +351 232 728 330.

Saturday, July 21, 2007
Location: Parada de Ester, Castro Daire (fair’s square)

9.30 p.m. – Martin Clarke (England) and Alicja Rogalska (Poland). Audiovisual performance. Presentation of the art project developed in Nodar “Nodar Audio-Visual Plateaus”.
10.30 p.m. – Suzanne Caines (Canada) Video Performance. Presentation of the art project developed in Nodar “Conversations”.