The artistic director of Binaural / Nodar Manuela Barile and the video artist Sergio Cruz will be at Nodar Artist Residency Center between 26 September and 7 October 2011 for field work and filming of their artistic project “La Sposa” (“The Bride”). The project is based on anthropological realities related to the rites of passage [...]

‘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.

The American composer Phil Niblock accompanied by the video artist Katherine Liberovskaya gave on July 15, 2010 an unforgettable multimedia concert at Teatro Municipal da Guarda, co-organized by Binaural / Nodar.. Here are some photos from the concert: Here are the sounds of the first set of this concert, a live audiovisual mix based on [...]

Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya Live @ TMG Play Now

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On December 5th, 09 @ 7.00 p.m, Manuela Barile presents her video “Pesa #1″ in the context of “Off Minute – IV International Festival of Video Art and Digital Cultures” that happens at Primo Piano Living Gallery in Lecce, Italy. Pesa #1 is part of a video installation conceived in the context of Manuela Barile’s [...]

Binaural and Viriato Theatre present:

La Scatola

An Intermedia Show by Manuela Barile and Rui Costa

Friday, 19 June 09 – 9.30 p.m.

Viriato Theatre, Viseu (PT)

Tickets between 5 and 10 Euros

The closing show of “La Scatola” by Manuela Barile and Rui Costa following an itinerancy that brought the project to 14 locations, such as exploratory music festivals, concert halls, galleries and museums throughout Portugal, Spain, Italy and France

An innovative intermedia show where voice, performance, mutichannel sound and video (both pre-recorded and in real time) create an immersive world to narrate situations that are common to everyone: distant memories, the childhood between dream and nightmare, places and people from each one’s past, etc.

“La Scatola” explores the notion of confinement using multiple approaches. Working on the border zone between the ‘I’ and the outside world, ‘La Scatola’ (“The Box”, in English) can be thought as a narrative device, that represents a diffuse space between the “inside” and the outside”, between the “I” and the “other”, in which multiple and sometimes opposite strength lines are present: sensitive manifestations of the incarcerated and/or protected body, distorted visions of the external world, anxiety, wishes and memories. We may define this zone in purely spatial terms (“forbidden zone”, “abyss”,  “barrier”) but also in terms of bidirectional “energy fluxes” created by the sensorial and emotional projection of the incarcerated individuality into the outside world (pain, desire, resistance, impotence, etc.) and by the representation (idealized, distorted, diffuse) of the outside world in the mind and body of the incarcerated individual.

The several narrative devices are organized in order to create enigmatic situations, between the familiar and the weird (or distant). The images or objects to be used, in its simplicity and depuration, can be transformed in a mirror capable of facing the audience with their own memories and individual experiences.

The project was developed in multiple metamorphosis and presented in several interchangeable contexts: installations, performances, concerts (solos / duos), site-specific presentations and workshops.

Artistic Direction: Manuela Barile (Italy) and Rui Costa (Portugal)

Dramaturgic Collaboration: Bojana Bauer (Serbia)

Video Post-Production: João Rodrigues (Portugal)

Production Direction: Luís Costa

Artist Residencies: Nodar Guest Studio (Portugal) | MoKS (Estonia)

Funding: General Office of the Arts | Ministry of Culture, Portugal

Acknowledgments: Associação Cultural de Nodar (Portugal) | S. Pedro do Sul Municipality (Portugal) | Zoom – Associação Cultural (Portugal) | Amigos do Museu de Olaria de Barcelos (Portugal) | ZDB Gallery (Portugal) | MoKS (Estonia) | Vel-Net (Italy) | Villa Franchin (Italy) | Madcap Collective (Itália) | Città di Venezia (Italy) | MARCO – Contemporary Art Museum of Vigo (Spain) | Sinsal Collective (Spain) | MUSAC – Contemporary Art Museum of León (Spain) | Junta de Castilla y León – Consejeria de Cultura y Turismo (Spain) | Almazen. Serial Artist (Spain) | La Casa Encendida de Obra Social Caja Madrid (Spain) | Asociación Musicalibre (Spain) | Centro Huarte – Contemporary Art Centre of Navarra (Spain) | Presence Capitale (France) | Erratum (France) | Viriato Theatre, Viseu (Portugal)

Between March, 19th and 21st 2009, Viriato Theatre (Viseu, PT) hosted a Binaural workshop on video art. During this workshop directed by Maile Colbert circa 20 people learned concepts, techniques and tools for producing video art movies using archive movies and created 12 very interesting video pieces. This workshop is part of Binaural’s education program on experimental sound and video.

Here are some photos from this workshop: