ECHOES OF GIFT
Creative Residency
20 August to 10 September 2022
Várzea de Calde (Civil Parish of Calde, Municipality of Viseu)
Co-production: Binaural Nodar, Linen Museum of Várzea de Calde and Civil Parish of Calde
The Uruguayan anthropologist Ana Rodríguez will develop between August 20th and September 10th, 2022 a creative residence in the rural territory of Várzea de Calde (Municipality of Viseu), hosted by Binaural Nodar and the Linen Museum of Várzea de Calde. Ana Rodríguez has been working with memory, sound and orality in rural contexts, namely through her project Sound Map of Uruguay, and on this occasion her intervention will address traditional practices linked to individual and communitarian care and health, which were transformed over time, yet still subsisting in rural areas of countries such as Portugal and Uruguay.
During the residency, an inquiry will be made about these permanences and how they are currently signified by the beneficiaries of the aforementioned practices. In these processes, which can help to restore health, some plants can be involved, as well as stories that are transmitted orally over generations of people who lived or still live in rural contexts.
The current project resumes a first creative residency held in October 2020, as well as the project “Speaking Plants: Vegetable Memory Archive”, which retrospective exhibition was presented at the Linen Museum of Várzea de Calde between the end of 2019 and June 2020, and its final result will consist in the publication of a bilingual book “Echoes of Gift”, which will include texts by Ana Rodríguez and a vast set of photographs by María Puppo (Uruguay) and Liliana Silva (Portugal) that illustrate the sensory landscape related to with the aforementioned practices.
This creative residency is co-financed by the Municipality of Viseu and the General-Directorate for the Arts, having the co-production of the Linen Museum of Várzea de Calde and the Civil Parish of Calde.