MADEIRA ISLAND IN VOUZELA: MEMORIES FROM BEYOND THE SEA
A project by Dolores Spínola and Liliana Silva
Artist residency
November 6 to 22, 2023
Lafões Cult Lab (Vouzela)
A production by Binaural Nodar in partnership with the Municipality of Vouzela.
Vouzela was the point of arrival for two Madeiran artists who settled there and got to know each other, Liliana Silva in the field of video creation and Dolores Spínola in the field of music, one from the south of the island of Madeira and the other from the north.
In this joint musical and audiovisual project, the image takes us on a journey that explores the various senses, through deep-rooted memories, as well as drawing a parallel of chromatic similarities and differences, of textures and flavors, between the place of departure and the place of arrival.
The guitar is present along with some traditional instruments from the island of Madeira, in a very different way than expected, as they are instruments usually associated with “bailinho” (folk music), and in this project they convey the different moments in life that can arise when we decide to leave our “cradle” for the unknown, leading to an adaptation to a new reality that never forgets its roots.
Dolores Spínola was born in 1981 in Santana (Madeira). In 1992 she began learning classical guitar at the Conservatório-Escola Profissional das Artes da Madeira and later, in 1999, she began teaching at the same conservatory. In 1995 she began learning alto saxophone at the Banda Municipal de Santana, where she became a performer, conductor and conductor (she was the first woman conductor in Madeira).
In 2004 she moved to the mainland, Lisbon, where over the years she was a music education teacher, guitar teacher and played saxophone in the Banda Musical e Artística da Charneca. In 2019 she moved to Vouzela, having collaborated occasionally with the Verdi Cambrense Band. She currently teaches Music Education, guitar and is part of the Sax On The Road and A cor d’art projects.
Liliana Silva is from Santo António, Funchal. In 2014 she finished her degree in Fine Arts, Multimedia at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. That same year she took a Master’s Degree in Multimedia Communication, Interactive Multimedia Branch at the University of Aveiro, which she completed in 2016. Since August 2017, she has been responsible for the communication and multimedia areas at Binaural Nodar, having developed an intense activity in the areas of graphic design, editorial graphics, video recording and editing, exhibition design and assembly, etc. She made the documentaries “À eira: o centeio que resiste em Campia” (2020) and “Templo erguido: a história da igreja nova de São Miguel do Mato” (2022).
Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Government – Culture | Directorate-General for the Arts.