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Participants:

Artists in residence:

Z’EV (U.S.)
James Wyness (UK)
Antonio Della Marina (IT)
Alessandra Zucchi (IT)
Luís Costa (PT)
Lisa Premke (DE)
Perri Lynch (U.S.)
Johanna Hällsten (SE/UK)
Manuela Barile (IT/EN)

Architects in residence:

Maria Carlos Valverde (PT)
Ana Costa (PT)
Zoraima de Figueiredo (PT)
Nuno Costa (PT)
Marcia Nascimento (PT)
Silvia Jorge (PT)

Anthropologist in residence:

Ana Saraiva (PT)

Credits:

Production: Binaural / Nodar
Funded by the Government of Portugal | Secretary of State for Culture | Director General of the Arts

General Coordination: Luís Costa
Artistic Director: Manuela Barile
Architecture Coordinator:  Maria Carlos Valverde
Production Support: Carina Martins

Partners (tentative list):

Associação Aldeias de Magaio
São Pedro do Sul Municipality
University of Aveiro – Master of Contemporary Artistic Creation

Sound and space form an important pair in our everyday environment: no sound exists outside of space and no space is really silent. Sound and space mutually reinforce one another in our perception, the qualities of a space affect how we perceive the sound and a sound affects how we perceive space. In short, space and sound are inseparable in our experience of what is to exist in the world.

Similarly, there is clear evidence of the importance of sound in ancient sacred sites, which have been documented by anthropologists. The sounds were probably an important part of rituals, by the way they affected the human body and brain function. Many of the ancient holy sites were built in stone, which, by means of their geological qualities or disposition in space, generated particular acoustic effects of reverberation or echo. These types of phenomena are studied in the field of acoustic archeology.

It is fair to say that the specific case of rural areas highlights the profound connection between landscape, architecture and sound. On the one hand, the countryside is largely an anthropological and architectural landscape, transformed by a myriad of utilitarian constructions, many of them centuries-old: grain mills, olive oil mills, irrigation canals, houses, threshing floor, wells, community laundry places, granaries, mines, stone walls, chapels, churches, bandstands, streets, alleys, squares, farmlands, roads, etc.. Moreover, many of the rural buildings have an acoustic specificity, so it is possible to recognize the architectural typology by listening to these places.

SOUND AND RURAL ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL will explore possible interactions between landscape, architecture and sound in the rural context of the Gralheira Mountain Range, municipality of São Pedro do Sul (Portugal). The festival will host artistic projects that will acoustically “activate”  different types of rural buildings, through the creation of installations and sound sculptures in specific context, in parallel with experimental architecture projects and anthropological field work, that will all together help to understand aspects of specificity and identity associated with the built environment, and will speculate on potential uses for the local rural architecture, much of it in a state of abandonment.

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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 / sound educator and president of Binaural/Nodar)
in collaboration with:
Manuela Barile (vocal performer / video artist and artistic director of Binaural/Nodar),
Gianfranco Spitilli (anthropologist / filmmaker and president of Bambun)
Rui Costa (sound artist and editorial director of Binaural/Nodar)

2. Keywords and recipients

Territory, landscape, community, cultural tradition, documentation, intangible heritage, sound and visual anthropology, sound ethnography, sound art, multi-media installation, land art

Recipients: Students / professionals / interest in social sciences, rural studies, earth sciences, contemporary art, sound and image. Regional or local technicians in the field of culture or heritage

3. Applications:
Applications accepted until April 30, 2012 by sending a CV / biography and letter of motivation to info@binauralmedia.org

Communication of the selected entrants: May 15, 2012
Maximum number of entrants: 12

4. Fees

Registration Fee: 300 Euros, including teaching materials, transportation for field trips, accommodation and food. Payment of 50% until 30 May 2012 and payment of the other 50% until the date before the beginning of the course.

5. Objectives and program

This is a time for the rediscovery of territories, its landscapes and heritage resources, both tangible and intangible. It is also a time of production and dissemination, sometimes massive and chaotic, of audiovisual material related to territories. However, there are many misconceptions on the loose about the what could really mean documenting the real using audiovisual media. We therefore need to reflect, with both depth and patience, upon a series of crucial aspects: what areas of knowledge are useful for documenting territories? which sensory aspects may be related to an enhanced experience of a place? What can and should be given back to the documented communities? How to escape immediate impressions and to capture in innovative ways the deep and subtle meanings of the cultural magma of a territory: its archaisms, changes, contaminations, contradictions, endogenous and exogenous social representations?

This 7-day intensive course offers a critical sharing of some of the methodologies and work practices developed since 2006 by Binaural/Nodar in the Gralheira mountain range (Center Portugal), based on a direct and continuous contact with rural communities and in an exploratory approach in terms of concepts, meanings and used media. The following are some of the issues to be addressed:

• The sense of place: philosophy and aesthetics of landscape. Discussion of authors and works.
• History, ethnography, anthropology and art as tools for multidisciplinary work. Discussion of authors and works.
• The ethics of images and sounds: a critical analysis of visual and sound works.
• The authenticity of communities: how to understand and deal with such representations, mythifications and simplifications.
• The multi-sensory approach to a territory as a way of enriching the experience
• Techniques and practicallities of field work. Planning field work, the role of time, mediation and involvement of local partners. Practice of field work in several villages.
• sound techniques applied to the knowledge of territories: practical exercises of sound recording in landscapes, work envirnoments, oral tradition and music, etc..
• Text, photographic and videographic documentation, digital mapping of information and the forms of integration between different media.
• Design of final multi-media multi-sensory installation.
• Talk with the inhabitants of what has been documented and created and its potential usefulness for the community.
• Organization of final documentation and discussion of future dissemination possibilities.

6. Language Course
The course will be taught in English with translation to Portuguese, Spanish and/or Italian when necessary.

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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 book “Three Years in Nodar – Context-specific art practices in rural Portugal” and for an invitation to the students of the Master in Contemporary Artistic Creation to participate in an artist residency on the subject of rural architecture, to be held between March 29 and April 1, 2012 and that will be part of Sound and Rural Architecture Festival.

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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 shift on Earth in a near future. In fact these artworks don’t have a very strict relation with this issue… but our intuition says it is necessary to think a little on this question, believing or not on this possible shift.

The series name is a subtile idea that mixes the relative opposite concepts of “transcendence” and “immanence” in a strategic way: the artwork title indicates some transcendent promise/possibility but the experience proposed by this same work is much more immanent. In the specific case of “ascese”, we are going to record a video using a camera with 3D lenses attached to a weather balloon which will be released at the ‘Maciço de Moraes’ in Northen Portugal; the video will be shown upside-down in a custom stereoscopic video viewer capable of creating some visual immersion in a somebody’s point of view flying for few moments and crossing the clouds (which give some reference of rising) until the ground arrives from the upper part of the scene giving the impression of landing in a different planet.

The chosen place has a special meaning to this project because it is one of the few places in our planet which has huge vestiges of ancestor continents and also because it was situated between many of the actual continents, almost at the middle of Pangaea. This area where we are going to record is almost inhabited and has an appearance of a forgotten place which can creates a lack of time references.

The Continental Drift theory was first suggested by Abraham Ortelius in 16th Century and fully developed by Alfred Wegener in the 1910’s but the supercontinent name Pangaea was coined in the 1920’s during a symposium discussing Wegener’s ideas who was also the first one to use weather balloons to track air masses.

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Festival programs, here.

About Moroloja:

Moroloja is a reflection about the experience of pain. The experience of pain is experience of loss, of mourning. It is anticipation of the death. Those affected by pain enter into a process of estrangement, moving away from the world because one can never communicate to the others own suffering until the end. Pain is intimate recollection, suffering binds us, holds us in the limit, it exposes our existence to its frailty. Solitude and suffering pervade each other. However, the pain of the individual cannot be separated from the pain of all, the pain of the world. Pain and existence is the only thing. The individual pain, expressed in this video by a mother, a “Demeter-prefica”, therefore refers to a cosmology of pain, to a sense of universal suffering.

HD, 8m05s (2008)
Directed by Manuel Barile
Camera: Luis Costa
Produced by Binaural/Nodar

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.

For more information:

- on the presentation, click here
- on the project, click here
- on the artist, click here

Óptica III Buenos Aires program, here.

CologneOFF 2011 Morocco program, here.

About Moroloja:

Moroloja is a reflection about the experience of pain. The experience of pain is experience of loss, of mourning. It is anticipation of the death. Those affected by pain enter into a process of estrangement, moving away from the world because one can never communicate to the others own suffering until the end. Pain is intimate recollection, suffering binds us, holds us in the limit, it exposes our existence to its frailty. Solitude and suffering pervade each other. However, the pain of the individual cannot be separated from the pain of all, the pain of the world. Pain and existence is the only thing. The individual pain, expressed in this video by a mother, a “Demeter-prefica”, therefore refers to a cosmology of pain, to a sense of universal suffering.

HD, 8m05s (2008)
Directed by Manuel Barile
Camera: Luis Costa
Produced by Binaural/Nodar

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

With the participation of:

Luís Costa | Binaural / Nodar
Rui Mourão | Artist
Filipa Valladares | Stet – Livros e Fotografias
Manuel Botelho | Artist. Professor at Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of 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.

Encounters and ‘misencounters’ of ideas, confluence and divergence of opinions, incentive and proactive attitudes, positive participation of the Portuguese artistic community in the analysis of the current creative situation are the themes that the Cycle of Debates of ARTE LISBOA 2011, promoted by AIP and organized by AntiFrame – Independent Curating Project, will address starting form an inner look on the Portuguese condition, very often unconscious about its own capacities.

For more information, click here

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 cultural heritage of the region, which will be presented in different forms, combining innovation with tradition: crafts exhibition, gastronomy workshops and exhibition, sound walks, documentary films made in the region, concertinas, traditional dances and songs, etc.

The festival is co-organized by Magaio Villages Network  (and within this, Binaural / Nodar as the entity that coordinates part of the program), Municipality of S. São Pedro do Sul, Macieira Recreational Organization, Civil Parish of Sul and CLDS – “S. Pedro do Sul, the Future is Here”, in partnership with the Parish Councils of São Martinho das Moitas and Covas do Rio.

Binaural / Nodar hosts three activities within the event:

a) A sound walk in the ancient chestnut grove of Macieira, where sounds of falling urchins and leaves will be recorded after a careful listening. This action will be coordinated by Luís Costa and will take place on November 12th from 10.00.

b) Premiere of the documentary “I’m going at your table in Gralheira” by Rogério Nuno Costa, made from and artist residency hosted by Binaural / Nodar in September 2011 and that brings together the documentation for a wide variety of gastronomic interactions carried out in the parishes of Manhouce and Candal (municipality of São Pedro do Sul).

c) Documentary “Voices of Magaio # 1″ by Luis Costa, coordinator of Binaural, that brings together video excerpts from the women songbook collections o the Magaio Villages (Gralheira mountain range, São Pedro do Sul), made between 2009 and 2011 in the villages de Sequeiros, Nodar, Rompecilha, Candal and Manhouce. This documentary is the first of a series of documentaries directed by Luis Costa from aspects of local oral tradition.

Those interested in participating in Chestnut and Honey Festival with an exhibitor to promote and market their products should register until November 4th (Friday), at the office of the Associação Aldeias de Magaio Rua de Camões, N 6 – 1, Dto. Frente (São Pedro do Sul) or via email: ana@binauralmedia.org.

For more information please phone +351 232 723 160 (Magaio Villages Association).

COMPLETE PROGRAM
XIII Chestnut and Honey Festival
Macieira, Sul – São Pedro do Sul (PT)
12 e 13 November 2011

November 12 (Saturday)

Traditional Singing and Dancing Group “Os Pienses”
Time: 14:00

Workshop “Chestnut in the culinary arts”
(Free admission / Coordination: Sara Pinto)
Time: 14:30

Promotion of the Magaio Villages’ exhibitors. Local gastronomy: Candal (Corn flour and vegetable soup) + Covas do Monte (Honey Doughnuts)
Time: 15:30

Traditional Singing and Dancing Group “Os Pienses”
Time: 16:00

Welcoming ceremony by local dignitaries and tour to the exhibitors
Time: 16:30

Documentary “I’m going to your table in Gralheira”
(With the presence of the director Rogério Nuno Costa)
Time: 16:45

Bring your Concertina and Traditional Magusto (communal chestnut roasting)
Time: 17:30

Traditional Dinner
(Registration: 926809612)
Time: 20:00

Popular Dance Party with Live Music
Time: 21:00

November 13 (Sunday)

Hiking Tour + Chestnut Trees’ Planting + Chestnut grove Sound Walk
(Registration: 919257865)
Time: 10:00

Traditional Lunch
(Registration: 926809612)
Time: 12:30

Workshop “The Honey Cycle”
(Free / Coordination: José Gomes and Engª Rachel)
Time: 14:00

Documentary “Voices of Magaio”
(With the presence of director Luis Costa)
Time: 14:30

Lourosa da Trapa Folklore Group
Time: 15:15

Promotion of the Magaio Villages’ exhibitors. Demonstration of the linen cycle (Rompecilha) + Crafts Show (Manhouce)
Time: 16:00

Civil Parish of Sul Folklore Group
Time: 16:45

Bring your Concertina and Traditional Magusto (communal chestnut roasting)
Time: 17:30

Closing
Time: 19:00

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“Manuela Barile and Sense of Place” is a retrospective exhibition of multimedia works by Manuela Barile, curated by Binaural / Nodar, which reconstructs the creative trajectory of this Italian artist since she came to Portugal, in 2006, until 2011.

The artistic work of Manuela Barile has been based on projects developed in the specific context, taking into account aspects of the territory, tradition, memory, symbols, rituals and spiritual paths deposited on the ground as indelible marks.

The art of Manuela Barile is an ongoing research about reality, about the personal experience of being in the world. Using as a starting point her own existence and that of ordinary people, the work of the artist is able to transform the individual experience in a place of collective projection.

Since 2006, the artist lives and works in the rural area of Gralheira mountain range (S. Pedro do Sul, Portugal) where she develops projects in close contact with local communities that combine sound and visual anthropology, performance art, vocal performance, video art , touching on issues such as death, happiness, poverty and emigration.

As a vocal performer Manuela Barile embarked in 2001 on a personal journey in the area of ??vocal experimentation applied to free improvisation. The artist uses “extended vocal techniques” focused on the relationship between voice, body sounds and acoustic properties of the places, through their sounds to give voice to distant echoes difficult to express in words.

Manuela Barile is currently artistic director of Binaural / Nodar, a Portuguese cultural organization dedicated to promoting sound intermedia arts and in rural context.

Works to exhibit:

“Cá” (anthropological narrative video, 2009)
“Pesa # ??1, # 2, # 3″ (three-channel video installation, 2009)
“Birdsoundcage” (sound installation and video performance, 2009)
“Moroloja” (anthropological narrative video, 2008)
“Oikos” (video performance, 2010)
“Rheîa Zóontes” (anthropological narrative video, 2011)
“Eudaimonia” (video performance, 2011)
“Panta Rhei the potamos” (sound installation, 2011)
“The Bride” (photography, 2011)
“Forza Bari! Alè! Alè! “and other vocal and sound actions 2006 – 2011

Additional Information: http://www.manuelabarile.com

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Luís Costa, presidente da Binaural/Nodar e da Associação Aldeias de Magaio será orador no Congresso Internacional de Geoturismo Arouca 2011 a decorrer entre 9 e 13 de Novembro e organizado pelo Geoparque de Arouca, no âmbito do qual apresentará um artigo científico escrito conjuntamente com a Arqª Maria Carlos Valverde, intitulado “Landscape, Heritage and Local Participation as Building Blocks for a Rural Park Framework” (“Paisagem, Património e Participação Local como Blocos Constitutivos do Conceito de Parque Rural”).

Com este artigo, os autores pretendem enquadrar as várias motivações e equívocos associados ao turismo em espaço rural, defendendo o incremento de apostas em políticas de nichos especializados, nas áreas culturais, patrimoniais e naturais. É precisamente esta filosofia que tem vindo a ser desenvolvida desde 2006 pela Binaural/Nodar, com o acolhimento de dezenas de artistas internacionais e apresentações públicas correspondentes e, mais recentemente, com a Associação Aldeias de Magaio, a qual documenta, valoriza e promove os vários aspectos do património local, com um foco muito particular na necessidade de maior conhecimento das realidades antropológicas das aldeias da região.

Mais informações sobre o congresso, aqui.

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Venue: LabCulture MediaLab
1 Kings Square
Bridport
Dorset
DT6 3QE
England

“G.D. Parada”, a work by Duncan Whitley and produced by Binaural/Nodar is part of Countertext, a collection of transmedia installations and events to complement the Bridport Open Book Festival including sculpture, video, sound and performance, curated by David Rogers and Nigel Slight.

“G.D. Parada” draws on the subject of an amateur football team, ‘Grupo Desportivo de Parada’, in rural Portugal. With delicately-crafted sound recordings and transcribed interviews as the driving, rhythmic body of the work, the artist places sound into new relationships with text and video images. Whitley here explores spillages between the contemporary fields of art and ethnography: with a particular focus on the rich, sensory world of sound.

An audio track taken from the “G.D. Parada” project is included in the double CD “Location-Specific Sound 2007-2009” published by Edições Nodar as part of the “Three Years in Nodar” retrospective catalogue.

More information on Duncan Whitley, here.

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Festival Program, here.

About Moroloja:

Moroloja is a reflection about the experience of pain. The experience of pain is experience of loss, of mourning. It is anticipation of the death. Those affected by pain enter into a process of estrangement, moving away from the world because one can never communicate to the others own suffering until the end. Pain is intimate recollection, suffering binds us, holds us in the limit, it exposes our existence to its frailty. Solitude and suffering pervade each other. However, the pain of the individual cannot be separated from the pain of all, the pain of the world. Pain and existence is the only thing. The individual pain, expressed in this video by a mother, a “Demeter-prefica”, therefore refers to a cosmology of pain, to a sense of universal suffering.

HD, 8m05s (2008)
Directed by Manuel Barile
Camera: Luis Costa
Produced by Binaural/Nodar

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Binaural / Nodar and Aldeias de Magaio Association present Vozes de Magaio Festival – Sheltering and Transhumating the Oral Tradition, which will take place between October 1st and 3rd in the Civil Parishes of Candal and Manhouce (municipality of São Pedro do Sul, Viseu district)

1. Introduction

The voice is the main instrument of human communication. The voice draws and transmits content, creates links between subjects and involves listening and participation. The voice (ours and others) takes us out, frees us from the unbearable weight of repetition, which otherwise we would be confined to. Voice is sound, is a symbol of interiority otherwise inexpressible. The voice prepares the sense of place where the word will be said.
In the rural region of the Portuguese mountain range of Gralheira (S. Pedro do Sul Municipality), inhabited by communities that had subsistence agriculture and herding as dominant activities, and in which electricity and, consequently, TV, arrived only about 30 years ago, all knowledge and communication had the human voice as their medium. This fact was enough to give a dense richness to the whole oral discourse… the idiosyncrasy, the puzzling, the subliminal, the accents… issues that increasingly are being more standardized. These rural villages of the São Pedro do Sul Municipality, recently integrated in the Aldeias de Magaio network of villages, still maintain traces of this orality that manifest itself in all the aspects of everyday practical, mental and spiritual life.
The Vozes de Magaio Festival proposes to create a dialogue between all forms of rural oral heritage and contemporary art forms centered in the human voice and that work with issues as origin, meaning, the relationship with the sacred (reconnected to its meaning and ancestral symbolism of mystery and symbol), the voice as a pivotal element of rituals, customs and superstitions, able to enchant the listener and bring deep changes to the reality, in the communities and territory, the voice as the protagonist of memories, myths, archetypes, folk wisdom handed down through the centuries, or even the voice of everyday, tool for work and life.
The festival takes place in three different periods throughout 2011 (May, July and October) and includes the presence of tens of local and international artist and offers a vast program aimed at different audiences: performances, sound installations, environmental activities, conferences, discovery of the local oral and musical heritage, traditional balls, gastronomy, etc.

2. Presentations of Magaio Voicescapes Art Creations

The main nucleus of the festival program consists of live presentation of five sound/vocal art projects developed throughout the month of September at a collective artist residency organized by Binaural/Nodar and hosted by Pés na Terra, at Retiro da Fraguinha, which includes the presence of seven artists from Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Belgium, Holland, Israel and England.
This artist residency puts in direct and deep contact internationally known artists with isolated landscapes and communities such as Candal, Póvoa das Leiras, Coelheira (Candal Civil Parish) and Manhouce, Gestosinho, Gamoal, Vilarinho, Muro, Malfeitoso, Salgueiro and Sequeiro (Civil Parish of Manhouce).
Following is a description of the art projects and biographies of the artists-in-residency:

Patrícia Azevedo (Brazil) & Clare Charnley (UK)
Projecto Gestosinho

The artists’ proposal is to create interactions with people in the area of Manhouce, its social and geographical space, identity and memory, to achieve a sound poem, using red sound chips, such as those found in talking toys. Questioning the power of oral culture and that of the rural world that still maintains a special relationship with the landscape and its uses, the artists will weave a poetic fabric of overlapped material and immaterial realities. The recording process is to walk and to record in sound chips a series of sound figures found in landscapes and everyday life scenes, and then to invite people to listen to them and to create a free translation of sound to the voice, an onomatopoeia or figure of speech, using their own voice, to be recorded on another audio chip.

Clare Charnley (UK) and Patricia Azevedo (BR) work in partnership since 2007. They use different media – photography, audio, video, performances – to develop projects that equate observations on language, territory and power relations. They locate their own work not only on the artifacts | images they conceive but also on the established relationships between people and the communicative act itself. By working together they received awards from Visiting Arts and British Council and were finalists in the Northern Art Prize 2009. They were also, in 2010, commissioned to develop projects at Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Besfast Exposed, Belfast; PSL Gallery, Leeds; Crunchtime, York. In addition, Patricia Azevedo is a professor of Visual Arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and Clare Charnley is a Professor of Fine Arts from Leeds Metropolitan University.

Rogério Nuno Costa (Portugal)
Vou à tua Mesa

The project “Vou à tua Mesa” (“I’m going to your table”) comes in the context of the trilogy “Eu Vou a tua Casa” (“I’m going to your house”) (2003/2006), a theatrical performance that happened at the homes of viewers, in public spaces to the viewers choice and at the artist’s own home. During the third phase of the project “Eu Vou a tua Casa” (generally sub-titled “Side C”, 2006) the project “Vou à tua Mesa” began to take its first steps. The performance was the creation of a relational and conferencial context that happened at the table for a meal prepared by the artist, while host, speaker, chef, master of ceremonies and moderator of a fictionalized working meeting. The food is in this context not only a powerful metaphor denouncing the concepts of intimacy and closeness (dear to the entire trilogy), but also the pluperfect pretext for the realization of an idea of theatrical performance as a “meeting” using the specific element of food as a device for a sensitive/sensorial revelation and as macro-concept, at the same time performative, ritualistic, visual and relational.

Lives and works in Lisbon, as an artist, researcher and teacher. He graduated in Social Communication and attends the Master in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies. He worked with the Teatro Praga, Sónia Baptista, Lúcia Sigalho, Alain Béhar, Rosa Coutinho Cabral, Nelson Guerreiro, Teresa Prima, among others. Also collaborated with several companies and structures, such as: Alkantara, CCB, Centro em Movimento, Chão de Oliva, Sonda Festival, Quarta Parede, Transforma AC, APAP, [msdm], Buda Arts Centre, Dance Kiosk and Tanz Fabrik. As creator, highlights the work: “I’m going to your house – Trilogy” (2003/2006), “Miss the Time When Text was Said” (2003), “Actor” (2004), “Documentation Project” (2006 / 2007) and “The Opportunity of the Spectator” (2007/2008). Currently, dedicated to the career of a chef with the project “Vou à tua mesa.”

http://www.rogerionunocosta.com

Josef Sprinzak (Israel)
Bedtime Stories & Lullabies

A series of intimate performances in homes of families in the villages of the Gralheira region in front of children and parents. As a sound and vocal artist performer, Josef Sprinzak will come to private sleeping places taking the role that combines between the musician-poet-storyteller and the “stranger” who performs vocal pieces and ritualistic actions that are based on foreign languages – mainly Hebrew, Gibberish and perhaps a bit of English. The bedtime performance is a format that explores the voice in a context lying between the functional and the artistic, the recognized and the estranged. The sessions will have an interactive nature that will exceed standard theatrical relations of performer/audience and become “events” in the sense of the visual performance art tradition. The bedtime events will be rendered through use of objects, portable sound sources, vocal acts and role switching between the participants and the performer.

Josef Sprinzak is a sound and performance artist living and working in Tel Aviv. His professional training includes computer science, visual theater and voice work. He is among the first text sound/sound poetry artists in Israel and his work consists of accurate scores of speech, recorded speech, vocalizations, body gestures, movements and spatial relations dealing with private and collective identity, relations between language and consciousness, history and memory.

http://www.myspace.com/josefsprinzak

Carmina Escobar (Mexico)

Carmina Escobar proposes the development and realization of a concert- performance in which she will look for the integration of diverse elements, sonic objects and experiences that the space proposes to her own aesthetic speech, coined mainly into the involvement of a personal narrative and corporal and sonorous language within the creation of a scenic space in which the ritual of performance itself is driven and linked by the voice in its naked form or electronically processed. The concert – performance will be developed as well as a sonic installation, which will have as a main task the tying of the community as an active part of the creative processes that would take place within this residency.

Carmina Escobar is a singer and multimedia artist from Mexico City that has collaborated in many dif¬ferent projects, which explore a diversity of sonorous languages such as medieval music, opera, contemporary music, folk music, electronic music and experimental trends involving interdisciplinary collaborations and multimedia. As a soloist she has performed concerts of contemporary repertoire for solo voice, the premieres of works by young composers and performances of her own compositions. She is beholder of a master degree in Voice Performance by the California Institute of the Arts, master focused on extended vocal techniques, improvisation and interdisciplinary and multimedia performance.

http://www.carminaescobar.com

Toine Horvers (The Netherlands) & Myriam Van Imschot (Belgium)
Walking, singing, talking the landscape

Both artists share an invested interest in language, sound and voice at the intersection point where people and places meet. For the Nodar Artist Residency program they would like to engage in an experimental mapping of the network of “Aldeias de Magaio”, focusing on the interconnectedness of the villages in the region and their surroundings. Rural villages are often thought of as being isolated, yet, they function in a complex web of movements, passages, traffic of desires and knowledge, involving both humans, animals, fauna and flora.

Toine and Myriam will experience the movement and connections of the roads and alternate smaller routes, embracing the accidental encounters on their way. This will lead to a sound-based and verbal work, which may involve drawing and sound recordings, dealing with the elasticity of distance and time, the alternation of arrivals, departures, transitions, destination and getting lost, etc. in a landscape in perpetual motion as we cross it.

Toine Horvers, a visual artist works with language and text, in both visual and audial/performative ways. He wants to give language a ritual form, to create a temporary sculpture out of language, a gesture in space and time. He presents the descriptions of his observations of situations and processes from the his surrounding world, in different media: performance (solo or group) handwritten books, sound installations or electronic text displays. The voice plays an essential role in his performances, solo it is the instrument that determinates his place in space. In more expanded projects and performances the voice is the medium by which people and places can be connected, sometimes in one space, sometimes over long distances.

http://www.toinehorvers.nl/

Myriam Van Imschoot (1969) started her performance and art practice with performance lectures. Originally a writer, she has been influenced by artists like Vito Acconci, who as a poet traded the page for other media. In that vein she looks for the slippery passages where she can slide into other fields of expression, often unknown to her. The artistic work that she developed over the past years in the series ‘Expanded Publications’ engages different media and their sensorial potential, such as video, performance and sound installation. Myriam Van Imschoot has been the artistic leader of Sarma (with Jeroen Peeters) since 2003. Amongst other things in 2010-2011 she is developing with vzw Constant internet software specific to publication of audio-documentation and sound poetry.

http://www.sarma.be/nieuw/critics/imschoot.htm

3. Cycle of Conferences “New and Ancient Forms of Inhabiting the Rural Space: A Celebration of the World Day of Architecture”, on October 3rd, 2011

Retiro da Fraguinha (Candal, São Pedro do Sul)
Geographic Coordinates: 40° 51′ 15.60″ N, 8° 10′ 44.37″ W
October 3rd, 2011 | 9.00am – 6.00pm

The cycle of conferences “New and Ancient Forms of Inhabiting the Rural Space”, will take place during the Vozes de Magaio Festival, on October 3rd, 2011 at Retiro da Fraguinha (Candal Civil Parish). With this cycle of conferences, we intend to celebrate the World Day of Architecture through a multidisciplinary reflection on the ancestral uses and forms of the architectural typologies associated with agrarian life and of the possible ways for its reuse, taking into account the new “post-agricultural” paradigm that is present in most of the Portuguese rural spaces. This cycle of conferences will include the presence of local inhabitants who know the traditional techniques of construction and of the ancient modes of inhabiting the built spaces, as well as specialists in different disciplines (architecture, anthropology, rural development, etc.), representing a wide range of organizations: municipalities, cultural associations, universities, rural development agencies, etc.
The cycle of conferences is coordinated by Luís Gomes da Costa (president of Binaural/Nodar and Associação Aldeias de Magaio, a network of villages of the Gralheira mountain range) and Maria Carlos Valverde (Graduate Student in Rehabilitation of Architectural and Urban Spaces at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon), with support from the Nucleus of Architects of the Viseu Region. The contents of the conferences will be published on e-book format by Edições Nodar, the publishing project of Binaural/Nodar.

The participation in this cycle of conferences is free, subject to prior sign-up (limited by the capacity of the room) by sending an e-mail to info@binauralmedia.org until September 29th. The lunch has the price of 6 Euros and also requires prior sign-up.

List of Speakers:

Isabel Raposo (Architect | Faculty of Architecture – Technical University of Lisbon)
Fernando Maio Pinto (Architect | Director of the Douro Museum)
Francisco Keil do Amaral (Architect | Viseu Region Nucleus of the Order of Architects)
Elisabete Figueiredo (Sociologist | University of Aveiro)
Fernando Gonçalves (Architect | Architecture Course at Catholic University of Viseu)
Adriano Azevedo (Professor | Vice-President of Tourist Region of Center and Member of São Pedro do Sul City Council)
António Carlos Duarte (Economist | President of Geoparque de Arouca Association)
Isabel Silvestre (Traditional Singer and Writer on Local Traditions | Village of Manhouce)
Arlindo Cunha (Farmer | Village of Rompecilha)
Luís Costa (Economist | President of Binaural/Nodar and Aldeias de Magaio Associations)
Maria Carlos Valverde (Architect | Graduate Student at Faculty of Architecture – Technical University of Lisbon)
Gianfranco Spitilli (Anthropologist | Bambun Association – Region of Abruzzo, Italy)

4. The Complete Program of the Festival

Saturday, October 1st

3.30pm
Presentation of Magaio Voicescapes Art Creations
Patrícia Azevedo and Clare Charnley | Carmina Escobar
Meeting Point: Market Square (Manhouce)

5.30pm
The Voice of Weaving
Live Demonstration of Handicraft and Sackcloth Weaving by Ditoso Saber – Cultural Association
Meeting Point: Market Square (Manhouce)

7.00pm
The Voice of Ingredients
Degustation of Gastronomic Products of Manhouce
Proposed by Ditoso Saber – Cultural Association
Meeting Point: Market Square (Manhouce)

Price per Person: 5 Euros
Sign-up Contacts: *+351 232 723 160 or +351 919 257 865 | info@binauralmedia.org

9.00pm
The Voice of Harvest
Traditional Cornhusking Animated by Members of the Manhouce Singing Group
Proposed by: Ditoso Saber – Cultural Association
Meeting Point: Market Square (Manhouce)

Sunday, October 2nd

10.00am
The Voice of Flour
Corn Bread Making Workshop in Candal
Meeting Point: Terças Square (Candal)

12.30pm
The Voice of Ingredients
Traditional Lunch in Candal

Price of Workshop + Lunch: 10 Euros (6 Euros for children under 12 y.o.)
Sign-up Contacts: +351 232 723 160 or +351 919 257 865 | info@binauralmedia.org

2.30pm
Voices on the Land
Singing Group of Candal
Meeting Point: Terças Square (Candal)

4.00pm
Presentation of Magaio Voicescapes Art Creations
Josef Sprinzak | Rogério Nuno Costa | Toine Horvers and Myriam Van Imschoot
Retiro da Fraguinha (Candal)

7.00pm
Voices at Dusk
Live Concert with “Bailenda” Group (www.www.myspace.com/bailenda )
Retiro da Fraguinha (Candal)

Monday, October 3rd

10.00am – 6.00pm
Cycle of Conferences
World Day of Architecture
New and Ancient Forms of Inhabiting the Rural Space
Retiro da Fraguinha (Candal)

Free Admission | Lunch Subject to Sign-up (6 Euros)

Sign-up Contacts: +351 232 723 160 or +351 919 257 865 | info@binauralmedia.org

5. Credits

Organization:
Binaural/Nodar (http://www.binauralmedia.org)
Aldeias de Magaio Association (http://www.aldeiasdemagaio.org)

Hosting:
Pés na Terra (http://www.pesnaterra.com)

Funding:
Secretariat of State of Culture | Directorate-General of the Arts, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Partners:

São Pedro do Sul City Coucil, CLDS S. Pedro do Sul – O Futuro é Aqui, Ditoso Saber – Cultural Association, Manhouce Singing Group, Vozes de Manhouce, Population of the Civil Parishes of Manhouce and Candal

Contacts:

Binaural/Nodar
Rua de Camões, Nº 6 – 1º Dto. Frente
3660-482 São Pedro do Sul
Portugal

Tel. +351 232 723 160
Email. info@binauralmedia.org

http://www.binauralmedia.org

http://www.aldeias-sonoras.org

http://www.aldeiasdemagaio.org

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