{"id":13114,"date":"2013-12-21T02:07:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T02:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/arquivo\/13114"},"modified":"2023-06-13T09:29:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:29:21","slug":"luis-costas-the-beggars-walking-stick-celebrates-one-year-of-interaction-with-religious-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/arquivo\/13114","title":{"rendered":"Luis Costa’s “The Beggar’s Walking Stick” celebrates one year of interaction with religious themes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lu\u00eds Costa<\/strong>
\n“The Beggar’s Walking Stick”<\/strong>
\nHD Video, 15m:38s<\/p>\n

“The Beggar’s Walking Stick” is an experimental audiovisual piece by Binaural\/Nodar’s coordinator Luis Costa. The piece was part of Divina Souns Ruris, a sound and media art program dedicated to interactions between sound and religion that took place throughout 2013, and is a reflection based on the ancestral presence of beggars during religious processions in the Gralheira Mountain Range (S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul, Portugal).<\/p>\n

“The Beggar’s Walking Stick” celebrates one full year that Binaural\/Nodar dedicated to the creative interaction with religious subjects and entities, aimed at the promotion of a sincere dialogue with the local catholic church hierarchy and at the recognition of the importance of religion in the lifes of rural communities where Binaural\/Nodar develops its activities.<\/p>\n

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The beggar\u2019s walking stick<\/strong><\/p>\n

My father told me
\nthat by the 40s of the last century
\nbeggars would roam
\nto all religious gatherings happening
\nin the Gralheira Mountains,
\nsuch as the pilgrimage to Mount St. Macarius
\non the last weekend of July.<\/p>\n

From the middle of the week already,
\nbeggars were heading to the pilgrimage site.<\/p>\n

They were going begging from village to village
\nand, on Saturday night or on Sunday morning at the latest,
\nthe whole legion of beggars would form an endless queue
\nOutside the chapels at the top of the mountain.<\/p>\n

with their walking sticks,
\ntattered clothes
\nand shabby sandals.
\ntaking advantage of the faith involvement
\nwhich breathed on the occasion.<\/p>\n

Beggars.
\nThese old beggars
\nPoor but gentle<\/p>\n

Sometimes I wish we could be more beggars and less masters
\nReturning to everyday necessity
\nTo the absolute freedom of choosing the path to walk.<\/p>\n

Humility, poverty and truth,
\nas foundations of a revolution that will never happen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t