Binaural Nodar and the Linen Museum of Várzea de Calde announce the opening of the virtual exhibition SPOKEN PLANTS: VEGETABLE MEMORY ARCHIVE, next Monday, June 1 at 3 pm on the website of the Várzea de Calde Memory Archive.
This exhibition forms a complement to the exhibition that can be seen at the Linen Museum of Várzea de Calde until the end of December, being an interesting way to promote the access to its contents and to arouse interest in an upcoming direct contact with the community of Várzea de Calde.
Throughout 2019, a series of interviews were conducted in the villages of Várzea 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.
The exhibition SPOKEN PLANTS: VEGETABLE MEMORY ARCHIVE started 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.
The exhibition SPOKEN PLANTS: VEGETABLE MEMORY ARCHIVE is part of the Viseu Rural 2.0 project, co-financed by the Viseu Cultura Program of the Municipality of Viseu.
Credits:
Fieldwork conducted by Ana Rodríguez (interviews and sound records) and Liliana Silva (photographic records)
Graphic design by Liliana Silva
Texts by Ana Rodríguez
Text translation by Luís Costa