VIRTUAL RURAL
Virtual artist residencies at Binaural Nodar Digital Archive
With Martín Baus, Hanna Kaszewska and Gardika Gigih Pradipta
Curated by Maile Colbert and Luís Costa

We are pleased to publish the end results of Binaural Nodar’s first virtual artist residencies, that hosted three artists from three different continents: Martín Baus from Chile, Hanna Kaszewska from Poland and Gardika Gigih Pradipta from Indonesia.

Our global pandemic experience has shown us the great substance and value that accessible and discoverable online archives can be for artists and researchers, as well as for anyone with curiosity and a desire to virtually explore the world, both geographically and temporally. Can an archive be a Place? Somewhere between the virtual and the actual, a place we can visit, interpret, shape with our perception and art.

Somewhere we can find connection, and be connected, be changed by an experience, and leave something in return.
Can a context-specific artist residency in the rural mountains of the Viseu Dão Lafões region in Portugal, make an experimental and experiential shift from the Actual Place to the Virtual Place for a special residency within its Digital Archives; to make this virtual place sensible to the actual? Throughout the year 2022, the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive (https://www.archive.binauralmedia.org) was that destination, that place outside to access and discover virtually, while remaining in one’s home.

Binaural Nodar is a professional cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture / Direção-Geral das Artes.