“Paths of Grass & Rock”, forms of mobile pastoralism in Europe

PATHS OF GRASS & ROCK
Forms of mobile pastoralism in Europe

Multimedia exhibition
Curated by Luís Costa and Gianfranco Spitilli

Castro Daire Municipal Museum
Castro Daire (Viseu Dão Lafões, Portugal)

Campus Transhumance
Schnals / Senales (South Tyrol, Italy)

June – November 2025

A international exhibition on transhumance co-produced by Bambun APS, PanSpeech and Binaural Nodar is open in Schnals / Senales (South Tyrol, Italy) and Castro Daire (Viseu Dão Lafões, Portugal), in partnership with both municipalities.

The exhibition “Paths of grass and rock. Forms of mobile pastoralism in Europe,” co-curated by Luís Costa and Gianfranco Spitilli, addresses the vast theme of mobile pastoralism, of which transhumance is a notable example.

The exhibition is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, through the Municipality of Senales’ PNRR project for the regeneration of small cultural sites, cultural, religious and rural heritage, funded by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU program and it has the collaboration of the Tramontana project, co-financed by Creative Europe, the Caldas da Rainha Higher School of Art and Design (Portugal) and its LiDA research center, the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and its ID+ research center the University of Molise and its research center Biocult, and the PRIN Wildebate project – Coexistence, bio-cultural friction and pastoralism in protected areas, the University of Teramo, the Central Institute of Cataloguing and Documentation of Rome, the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania (Romania) and the Digital Itineraries project, The project is also co-financed by the Directorate-General for the Arts (Portugal) together with the Municipality of Castro Daire (Portugal).

The exhibition offers a contemporary exploration of transhumance, a reality common to the entire European continent, through visual and audio research materials from eight different countries (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Romania, and Albania), provided by the Tramontana network partners: Binaural Nodar, Audiolab, Numériculture Gascogne, Eth Ostau Comengés, Bambun APS, La Leggera APS, LEM-Italia, ORMA, GO2 Albania and Akademia Profil.

Transhumance has been since 2019, included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and is thus linked to a vast European socio-environmental fabric, in accordance with the auspices of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, encouraging a broad dialogue in the name of respect for cultural diversity and mutual understanding between peoples and regions.

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