“Passageira em Casa/Passenger at Home“, a project by Maile Colbert will have an artist residency between 22 and 27 Aug. at Estúdio PerFormas in Aveiro, where the audience will have the opportunity to witness the creative process of an intermedia work in which several disciplines and media interact with each other to form a coherent [...]

Paivascapes #1 – Paiva River Sound Festival will be the subject of Patrick McGinley’s Framework radio show to be first broadcasted on the London-based Resonance 104.4 FM station, on April 10th at 10:00pm local time and following on several European and US radio stations.

The radio piece to be broadcasted was composed by Rui Costa and is entitled “Around the River Bend”. It features a variety of locations, times of day, seasons, and contexts including recordings of the Paivascapes #1 festival performances, source material collected by the artists for their sound and audiovisual installations, sound clips included in Binaural/Nodar’s Paiva River Sound Mapping project, spontaneous recordings of social gatherings during the festival, and improvisations made by children inspired by the river soundscapes or by the names of the places where the festival happened, etc..

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.”

Resident Densities Exhibition by artists who participated at Binaural- MoKS exchange programme in 2008- 2010 Y- gallery, Tartu, Estonia 4th-  21st of August, 2010 You are cordially invited to exhibition opening at August 3rd, 5pm On the edges of Europe, two artist-in-residence centers Binaural/Nodar and MoKS have set themselves up, one in the Portuguese village [...]

Masayo Kajimura & Yasuno Miyauchi (JP / DE) Anna Hints (EE) Paivascapes # 1 – Second Cycle of Artist Residencies Municipality of Vila Nova de Paiva April 6th – 20th, 2010 The Nodar Artist Residency Program for 2010 has a single unifying theme: the river Paiva. Throughout the year, from winter to autumn several multidisciplinary [...]

LOCUS IN QUO Three audio/video installations by Manuela Barile Cultural Forum of Cerveira (Vila Nova de Cerveira, PT) 18 December 09 – 16 January 10 Opening on 18 December at 9.00 p.m. (with a live performance by the author) Locus in Quo – which means “the place where something happens” – is the general title [...]

Paivascapes #1 Nodar Artist Residency Center for 2010 Finally our jury has chosen the artists who will take part on the several residency modules dedicated to the interaction with the Paiva River, to happen between February and October 2010, from the river’s spring to its mouth: Manuela Barile (IT) Marc Behrens (DE) Rui Costa (PT) [...]

Mosses and Lichens
Collective Exhibition of 6 Estonian Artists
Santa Clara Gallery, Coimbra (PT)
March, 28th – May, 28th 2009

The Santa Clara Gallery hosts between March 28th and May 28th 2009 a collective exhibition of 6 contemporary artists born or living in Estonia: John Grzinich, Evelyn Müürsepp, Toomas Thetloff, Anna Hints, Svetlana Bogomolova and Peeter Laurits.

This exhibition, which seeks to give visibility to the creative vitality of an artistic community located on the other side of Europe, is organized within the context of the cooperation agreement in place between two art centers: Nodar Artist Residency Center, a media arts residency in rural context managed by the Portuguese collective Binaural, and MoKS, Center for Art and Social Practice, located in the village of Mooste, Estonia.

Three of the mentioned artists (John Grzinich, Evelyn Müürsepp, Toomas Thetloff) were resident artists in Nodar during 2008, and the works they will present in the exhibition were conceived in interaction with the region’s rural context. The other three artists (Anna Hints, Svetlana Bogomolova e Peeter Laurits) will be resident artists in Nodar throughout 2009 and will present some emblematic previous works.

The exhibition includes three photographic series (“Charons Crossing” by Peeter Laurits, “Early Childhood Lessons” by Anna Hints and “Aliens and Gummy Bears” by Svetlana Bogomolova.) and three video creations (“Nodar Flowlines” by John Grzinich, “Kudum” by Evelyn Müürsepp and “A Film” by Toomas Thetloff).

The exhibition is curated by Olga Maia Seco, owner of Santa Clara Gallery, by Luís Costa, coordinator of Nodar Artist Residency Center and by Peeter Laurits, one of the most prominent Estonian visual artists.

Exhibition opening:

Saturday, March 28th at 7.00 p.m.
Galeria Santa Clara,
Rua António Augusto Gonçalves, 67
3040 241 Coimbra
Portugal
Tel. 239 441 657

Web:

http://www.galeriasantaclara.com
http://www.binauralmedia.org
http://www.moks.ee

The Nodar Media Arts Residency Programme for 2009 is defined and will occur throughout the year in five modules, (between March, 15th and October, 31st), with the presence of 19 artists from different geographical origins and artistic backgrounds, who will develop their art projects in the rural village of Nodar and adjacent territories.

These are the key points for this year’s selected projects:

1. Three Estonian visual artists (Peeter Laurits, Anna Hints and Svetlana Bogomolova) were invited to work in Nodar under a cooperation agreement in place with MoKs, a cultural organization and artist residency located in the village of Mooste.  Concurrently, Binaural invited four Portuguese artists to develop an art project in Mooste: Dinis Santos, Andrea Brandão, Ana Carvalho and Bruno Humberto.

2. For the first time since the inception of Nodar Artist Residency Center there will be an important presence of Portuguese artists in Nodar (Rui Silveira, Joana Nascimento, Sérgio Cruz e Marta Bernardes), which reveals, firstly, a growing interest by the Portuguese artist community in an exploratory and context-specific art practice and secondly, an increase of quality of the art projects proposed by an emergent group of Portuguese multidisciplinary artists.

3. A selection of sound art projects based on Nodar’s acoustic context that propose innovative modes of sonic capturing, composition, perception and/or projection. In this respect can be mentioned the project proposed by the Brazilians Luciana Ohira and Sérgio Bonilha, who will build a series of solar-powered lo-fi sound devices that will be scattered in the landscape, therefore mixed with the landscape’s own sounds, the Berlin based Japanese artist Satoshi Morita who will create in Nodar a series of multi-track recordings that will be later reproduced through a series of own-built sonic helmets to induce the listener in a both audible and tactile sonic perception, or the US sound artist Ben Owen who will use seismographers and geophones to capture underground vibrations and transform them into audible elements. Other internationally known sound artists to be present this year in Nodar are Jason Kahn, Melanie Velarde, Duncan Whitley and Jez riley French.

4. Projects that reflect on certain aspects of Nodar’s local reality, such as traditional architecture (Rui Silveira, Jez riley French), the animal world (Marta Bernardes / Ignacio Martínez and Sérgio Cruz), abandoned rural villages (Manuela Barile) or the passion for amateur football (Duncan Whitley).

5. Projects that involve the human voice and its sensitive connection to human and natural landscape (Marta Bernardes / Ignacio Martínez, Manuela Barile, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang / Nigel Brown and Anna Hints).

Last but not the least, it is worth mentioning that on each residency module, several parallel activities will be developed in connection with students (in cooperation with local schools and universities) and a public presentation of the art projects will be organized.

Artist residencies calendar for 2009:

15 March | 4 April 2009
Joana Nascimento (Portugal)
Peeter Laurits (Estonia)
Rui Silveira (Portugal)
Svetlana Bogomolova (Estonia)

3 May | 23 May 2009
Jason Kahn (USA)
Melanie Velarde (Australia)
Satoshi Morita (Japan)

27 June | 18 July 2009
Ben Owen (USA)
Marta Bernardes & Ignacio Martínez (Portugal / Spain)
Sérgio Bonilha & Luciana Ohira (Brazil)
Sérgio Cruz (Portugal)

1 September | 21 September 2009
Manuela Barile (Italy)
Duncan Whitley (UK)

10 October | 31 October 2009
Anna Hints (Estonia)
Jez Riley French (UK)
Nigel Brown & Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (Australia / Taiwan)

Note: Please click here to download a digital brochure with the art projects’ description and their authors’ biographies: