TRAMONTANA IN MONTEMURO
International Artist Residency
August 15th to September 12th, 2026
Parada de Ester (Castro Daire)
Frances Crow and David Prior (UK)
Frances Crow and David Prior (UK), of the duo Liminal, returned to the Viseu Dão Lafões region, where they held a Binaural Nodar artist residency in 2013, to revisit places from their previous research and write a text for the book celebrating the 20 years of Binaural Nodar’s artist residency programme, to be launched later this year.
A co-production of Binaural Nodar and the Municipality of Castro Daire, through the Municipal Library, with the support of the Union of Civil Parishes of Parada de Ester and Ester, within the Tramontana Network project, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme.
Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sports | Directorate-General for the Arts.
Liminal is a partnership between architect Frances Crow and sound artist and composer David Prior, who began working together in 2003. Their work focuses on exploring the relationship between sound, listening and the environment. It encompasses site-specific interventions and sound walks, gallery installations, performances, research and consultancy, as well as sound and music environments for exhibitions. In 2010 Liminal won the PRS for Music Foundation’s New Music Award for their piece Organ of Corti, an acoustic instrument which mediates the sound of the environment. Organ of Corti subsequently won the John Connell Innovation Award 2011 and received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2012 in the Digital Musics and Sound Art category.