HOW DOES A VILLAGE FEED ITSELF?
Research and creative residency

With Ana Rodríguez (Uruguay)
Várzea de Calde (Calde, Viseu)
July 18th to August 18th, 2026

An activity produced by Binaural Nodar, part of the Tramontana Network project, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe program, with the support of the Calde Civil Parish Council and the Municipality of Viseu.

To close the research and creative residency with the anthropologist and sound artist Ana Rodríguez, dedicated to the ways of eating of the past and of today in the village of Várzea de Calde, a community dinner was held outside the premises of the Várzea de Calde Association, at which the people who collaborated with the project shared examples of their family cuisine.

“How does a village feed itself?” was conceived following other earlier Binaural Nodar projects that dealt, even if tangentially, with the theme of food: “Plantas Faladas” (2019), in “Ecos da Ida do Retorno” (2022) and, more recently, in “A Carqueja no Quotidiano de Várzea de Calde” (2025).

This time it was different: eating, cooking, and setting the table were the center of attention, and it was from there that we tried to understand how Várzea de Calde remembers itself and gathers around food.

“How Does a Village Feed Itself?” has the local partnerships of the Municipality of Viseu, the Calde Civil Parish Council, and the Association of Ukrainians in Viseu, and is part of the international project Tramontana Network, funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe Program — a framework that gives this work, carried out in Várzea de Calde and with the Ukrainian community of Viseu, a dimension that goes well beyond the local scale, connecting it to a European network of cultural cooperation.

Photographs by Ana Margarida Ferreira for Binaural Nodar.

ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL CREDITS:

Guest artist: Ana Rodríguez
Residency documentation: Ana Margarida Ferreira, Nely Ferreira, Andreia Mota, and Luís Costa
Local partnerships: Municipality of Viseu, Calde Civil Parish Council, and Association of Ukrainians in Viseu
Co-funding: Portuguese Republic – Directorate-General for the Arts and European Union, within the Creative Europe project Tramontana Network.

Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth, and Sports | Directorate-General for the Arts.