WATER CULTURES IN THE CIVIL PARISH OF CALDE
Multimedia Exhibition
Linen Museum of Várzea de Calde (Viseu)
March 22nd – September 30th, 2022
Opening: March 22nd at 3:00 pm

We are pleased to announce that Binaural Nodar, the Civil Parish of Calde and the Várzea de Calde Linen Museum will celebrate World Water Day 2022 with the opening of the exhibition “Water Cultures in the Civil Parish of Calde”.

The contemporary discourse on water is often focused on dimensions linked to environmental sustainability or tourism activity. Though these dimensions are extremely important for the current development of rural territories, there is another way of thinking about water, one that relates it more directly to the meaning of places where water manifests itself. We can say that the same substance “water” presents itself and is used in different ways in each territory, through a unique and unrepeatable combination of geomorphological, environmental and cultural factors.

The multimedia exhibition “Cultures of Water in the Civil Parish of Calde”, produced in collaboration between Binaural Nodar, the Linen Museum of Várzea de Calde and the Civil Parish of Calde, constitutes an audiovisual essay on how six “places of water” of the referred civil parish, which include springs, fountains, mills, washing facilities and foals, are told by inhabitants of the villages of Várzea de Calde, Almargem, Póvoa de Calde, Calde, Vilar do Monte and Paraduça, highlighting the specific aspects that contribute, like many others, to the fabric of a local history of water.

The multimedia exhibition “Water Cultures in the Civil Parish of Calde” represents another step in the ethnographic and artistic research program that, since 2015, Binaural Nodar carries out in conjunction with the Linen Museum Várzea de Calde and the Civil Parish of Calde, one that has already addressed multiple themes, such as the linen cycle, beekeeping, plant uses, calendar rituals, popular religiosity, among others.

CREDITS:
Field research and exhibition design: Luis Costa and Liliana Silva
Video and sound editing: Luís Costa
Graphic design and illustrations: Liliana Silva