Nodar Pushing the Medium #2
International Intermedia Arts Symposium
15 – 24 September 2006
Nodar, S. Pedro do Sul, Portugal
Pushing the Medium #2 is an international meeting of sound, video and media artists brought together for a 10 days symposium in Nodar, Portugal.
Pushing the Medium #2 was hosted by Binaural, a non-profit artist-run cultural organization dedicated to local and international cooperation in the fields of arts, social and environmental research in Nodar, and is routed in a partnership between similar but distant organizations – namely Moks in Estonia – that by their geography, to start with, remain outside the “central cultural Europe”, and to keep the focus on cross discipline artistic and social interventions in a context-specific location, The first event took place in 2004 in Mooste, Estonia.
During Pushing the Medium we sought to challenge artists, sound, video and media artists, social researchers and other participants in thinking about the ‘place’ – landscape, the villages, mountains and valleys around Nodar – as the primary material to invite incoming artists to explore and create through creative interventions and artistic collaborations.
The symposium featured discussions, project work, workshops, and presentations from a wide variety of international performers and artists.
Pushing the Medium encouraged both the exchange of ideas and the realization of short term artistic projects within a 10 day event.
The present edition, as the previous one, had no theme. The theme is the place itself, the extreme and isolated topography and habitat as metaphor for a Europe that, erased and forgotten, is still not inscribed in the paradigmatic and dominant discourses. PTM#2 attempts to instigate collaborative activities within artists from all around the globe and between artists and local community and encourage an expanded involvement with the human “habitat”, the identity and memory of Nodar.
We sought artistic practices in which sound, new technologies and context/location intersect, to reflect and articulate their social and cultural meanings and how this shape the way in which we think about and experience.
There are many ways for artists to explore the relationship between art and location. What is important for PTM, though, is that the artistic practices imply a reflection about the aesthetic, cultural and social dimensions of such environment, by challenging artists to question their own role and to work dependent of a context-based location or environment.
Participating Artists:
Klaus Filip (Austria)
John Grzinich (USA / Estonia)
Antonio Della Marina (Italy)
Maksims Shentelevs (Latvia)
Pablo Rega (Spain)
Oscar de Paz (Spain)
Ingrid Quiroga (Spain)
Cristina Tascón (Spain)
Silvia Zayas (Spain)
Roi Fernández (Spain)
Iñaki Ríos (Spain)
Natividad Plasencia (Spain)
Paulo Raposo (Portugal)
Rui Costa (Portugal)
André Gonçalves (Portugal)
Full Program:
15-21.09.2006
Projects’ development in the context of an artist residency
21.09.2006
10.00 p.m. – Guarda Municipal Theatre
Performances:
– John Grzinich, Antonio Della Marina and Maksim Shentelev
– Rui Costa, Iñaki Ríos and Natividad Plasencia
– Pablo Rega
– Silvia Zayas
22.09.2006
2.00 p.m. – Viseu Institute of Techonology
Artist Talks, Workshops:
– John Grzinich
– Rui Costa
– Xesús Valle and Roi Fernández
– Antonio Della Marina
– Klaus Filip
10.00 p.m. – Portuguese Youth Institute of Viseu Auditorium
Performances:
– John Grzinich, Antonio Della Marina and Maksim Shentelev
– Paulo Raposo and André Gonçalves
– Klaus Filip
– -C: Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela
23.09.2006
5.00 p.m. – Nodar, S. Pedro do Sul
Installations, Performances
Credits:
Funding:
Support:
General Coordination and Production Direction: Luis Costa
Artistic Direction: Paulo Raposo
Technical Direction: Rui Costa
Thanks to:
Norberto Costa
Ilda Costa
António Almeida
Restaurante Bem Estar (Parada de Ester)
Video Footage:
Adán Santiago
Video Editing:
Manuela Barile
Luís Costa
Production Support:
Manuela Barile
Carla Pinto
Adán Santiago
Marta Fonseca
Kurt Korthals
Graphic Design:
João Cruz
Cover Photos:
Liliana Mendes
John Grzinich
Printing:
Tondelgráfica, Tondela