{"id":13421,"date":"2019-11-12T16:52:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/arquivo\/13421"},"modified":"2021-09-27T11:31:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T11:31:22","slug":"spoken-plants-a-vegetable-memory-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/arquivo\/13421","title":{"rendered":"Spoken Plants: A Vegetable Memory Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPOKEN PLANTS: VEGETABLE MEMORY ARCHIVE
\nA mixed-media exhibition by Binaural Nodar<\/p>\n

Linen Museum of V\u00e1rzea de Calde
\nV\u00e1rzea de Calde, Viseu (Portugal)
\n29 November 2019 til 31 March 2020
\nOpening: 29 November 2019 at 17:00<\/p>\n

Since their birth, the inhabitants of Portuguese rural villages have been introduced to a series of relationships through which they obtain food, clothing and shelter; they symbolize the strongest transitions in their vital journey, they transform their own surroundings with works and tools, they take care of and graft domesticated and wild plants, they sow chosen seeds, in vegetable gardens and in plowed lands; they shroud altars and homes; they ask for protection against storms, they energize and purify with vapors, fumes and baths; they play with fibers, wood, fruits and flowers, building themselves and their place in the world.<\/p>\n

Throughout 2019, a series of interviews were conducted in the villages of V\u00e1rzea de Calde and Cabrum with men and women who were born between the 1930s and the 1990s, with the aim of talking about the various existing links with the plant world, which have developed over time. Starting from this objective, a series of sound excerpts were published and are now available to the public. These are part of a plot that we call an archive, in which, through digital technology, individual, family and collective memories rooted in the same territory are related.<\/p>\n

The mixed-media exhibition SPOKEN PLANTS: VEGETABLE MEMORY ARCHIVE, which opens on November 29th 2019 at the Linen Museum of V\u00e1rzea de Calde, started precisely from the concept of archive, reflecting on the possible combination of a catalog of archived documents and the evocative presence of material elements: plants, images and sounds linked to plants and their local uses.<\/p>\n

This exhibition is dedicated to those who slept on rye straw mattresses, to those who wore and wear some linen clothes, to those who think about what they eat, to those who choose what they eat or eat what they can, to all those who have sweated and avoid sleeping to produce food for their family and animals, those who keep a tool or a piece of furniture made by a relative, those who were cold, who wear clogs, who built their own toys, those who were moved by contemplating a landscape they inhabit, who stole a flower or do not forget an aroma.<\/p>\n

Special thanks go to Ant\u00f3nio Santos, Em\u00edlia Bernardino, Herculano Gon\u00e7alves, Isabel Filipe, Joaquim Gaspar, Laura Filipe, Leonel Oliveira, Lorena Vicente, L\u00facia Ferreira, Manuela Correia, Maria Cid\u00e1lia Santos, Mariana Campos, Mariyam Ali, Miquelina Campos, Virg\u00ednia Maur\u00edcio and all the support provided by the team of the Linen Museum of V\u00e1rzea de Calde, as well as the magnificent welcome from the community of Cabrum.<\/p>\n

Simultaneously with the opening of the exhibition SPOKEN PLANTS: VEGETABLE MEMORY ARCHIVE, the V\u00e1rzea de Calde Linen Museum will open its V\u00c1RZEA DE CALDE MEMORY ARCHIVE, a searchable repository of more than one hundred sound and audiovisual documents from the village of V\u00e1rzea de Calde, addressing various topics such as the linen cycle, beekeeping, the relationship with plants, the celebration of Queima do Toco, the traditional local songbook etc. and consisting of interviews with inhabitants, records of agricultural and forestry activities, calendar celebrations, traditional singing and soundscapes.<\/p>\n

The exhibition SPOKEN PLANTS: VEGETABLE MEMORY ARCHIVE and the V\u00c1RZEA DE CALDE MEMORY ARCHIVE are part of the Viseu Rural 2.0 project, co-financed by the Viseu Cultura Program of the Municipality of Viseu.<\/p>\n

Credits:<\/p>\n

Fieldwork conducted by Ana Rodr\u00edguez (interviews and sound records) and Liliana Silva (photographic records)
\nGraphic design by Liliana Silva
\nTexts by Ana Rodr\u00edguez
\nText translation by Lu\u00eds Costa<\/p>\n<\/div>

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