TRAMONTANA IN MONTEMURO
International Artist Residency
August 15th to September 12th, 2026
Parada de Ester (Castro Daire).
With Frances Crow (UK), David Prior (UK), Francesca Migliorin (IT), Heather Kapplow (US), Jurgen Walschot (BE), and Nicolò Minisi (IT)
From August 15th to September 12th, the village of Parada de Ester (Castro Daire) is hosting six artists and researchers, as part of the Tramontana Network project, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe program.
Four artistic research projects are settling in the territory of the Montemuro mountains: Nomos, by Francesca Migliorin (IT), travels the transhumance routes with a handmade pinhole camera; The Mountain Remembers Water, by Jurgen Walschot (BE), draws and paints with water from the mountain’s springs and streams; Ready Thought, by Nicolò Minisi (IT), transforms Binaural Nodar’s ethnographic sound archive into an artist’s book and a public sculpture dug into the earth; and Heather Kapplow (US) turns her own heartbeat into an instrument, in a project on mental health and self-esteem built with young people from the community.
The residency also welcomes Frances Crow and David Prior (UK), of the duo Liminal, who return to the Viseu Dão Lafões region to revisit places from their previous research and write a text for the book celebrating the 20 years of Binaural Nodar’s artist residency program, 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.
Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth, and Sports | Directorate-General for the Arts.