Artist residency in a rural archive
www.archive.binauralmedia.org
November 15th, 2023 – April 15th, 2024
With Daniele Leonardo and Griselda Sánchez
Curated by Maile Colbert and Luís Costa
Binaural Nodar announces the second cycle of online artist residencies, Virtual Rural, developed from the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, a repository of sound and visual documents related to multiple themes that are relevant to understand the memory and present of a specific territory, that of Viseu Dão Lafões and adjacent regions.
This program of virtual artist residency questions whether an archive can be a place. Somewhere between the virtual and the real, a place that we can visit, interpret, shape with our perception and art. A place where we can perhaps find sensitive connections and stay connected, be changed by an experience and leave something in return.
The residency will include artists Daniele Leonardo (Italy) and Giselda Sánchez (Mexico) and will be curated and accompanied by Maile Colbert (USA/Portugal) and Luís Costa (Portugal). Throughout the creative process, the artists are invited to immerse themselves in the 2,000 documents in the archive, exploring, discovering, reflecting and creating from the themes, sounds, visual elements, texts and additional research into the real places represented virtually in the archive. At the end of the residency, there will be several moments of public dissemination of the works created which will be announced in due course.
Biography:
Daniele Leonardo has a degree in visual arts with a master’s dissertation in criticism. He lives on the north-east coast of Italy, a stone’s throw from the Adriatic Sea and is involved in introspective and questioning processes, intertwining nature with ideas from human philosophy to delve into the identity of all things.” Vedutismo (vedutismo.com) is a relatively new publishing reality that recently debuted as part of the VITAA – The City artist residency. Through walks and collections, ethnography and commentary, photographs and prose, almost as if it wanted reality to be a lake of philosophical quality, Vedutism is (a) vision derived from reflection, to be projected onto the horizon ahead, for anyone to glean. It is based on – and *learns* from – historicity and all environments, their phenomena and artifacts, aiming for a restoration of the gnoseological clarity of the experience of life on earth, among all beings, in a sense that is not eschatological, but leaning towards a spiritual realm.
Griselda Sánchez is a Mexican soundscape artist, journalist and independent radio producer. Her roots are in Ñuu Savi. She has a degree in Communication Sciences from UNAM and a Master’s in Rural Development from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco. She is currently studying for a PhD in Rural Development with the research project “Canto a la Lluvia; construcción de territorios sonoros”. Curator and director of the radio program for the 1st and 2nd editions of the Mesoamerican Community Film and Radio Festival, organized by Ojo de Agua Comunicaciones in Oaxaca de Juárez. She was the soundscape editor for Mare’s album Advertencia Lírica; Sempre Viva, 2016 and many other sound works that have won various awards. She is also the author of the books: “La Línea; Relatos de la resistencia en Atenco”. Editorial Ce-Acatl, 2010 and “Y de Aire, no te vendas: La lucha por el territorio desde las ondas”, 2016.
Maile Costa Colbert is an intermedia artist, researcher and educator with a focus on sound and time-based media. She was awarded a doctoral research scholarship in Artistic Studies with a concentration in sound studies, cinematographic sound design and its relationship to soundscape ecology and archives at the New University of Lisbon, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, through the Foundation for Science and Technology. Her practice and research project entitled Wayback Sound Machine: Sound through time, space, and place ( http://www.mailecolbert.com/proj-wayback.html ), asks what we can deduce by making the past sound. She is a visiting assistant professor of Multimedia at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, a junior researcher at CineLab, IFILNOVA’s research laboratory for cinema and philosophy ( https://ifilnova.pt/en/people/maile-colbert/ ) , and a collaborator with the artistic organization Binaural Nodar, where she is co-curator of its digital archive ( https://www.archive.binauralmedia.org/ ). She is also an editor and author for the publication Sonic Field ( http://sonicfield.org/author/mailecolbert/ ) and has exhibited, screened and presented her work in multiple parts of the world.www.mailecolbert.com.
Luís Costa is a curator of contemporary artistic practices, researcher, sound/media artist, cultural animator in rural contexts and author of ethnographic and artistic publications, all developed in the context of Binaural Nodar, of which he is a founding member and president. Coordinator of the Lafões Cult Lab, an artistic research and social investigation concept developed in the Viseu Dão Lafões territory, which has already welcomed more than 150 contemporary artists and social and environmental researchers. He is the founder of the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, a research, cataloging and sound and audiovisual mapping project of the collective memory of Binaural Nodar’s rural intervention territories. In 2011, he co-edited the catalog and double CD “Three Years in Nodar: Context-specific artistic practices in rural Portugal”, in 2017 he co-edited the international sound art catalog “Tales of sonic displacement: A sound-based artist residency network” and in 2019, he co-edited the international publication of sound and visual ethnoanthropology: “Memoria Tramontana: Les changements dans l’Europe rurale vus par ses habitants”. He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on art and rural-based intangible heritage, and has presented his sound and media artwork at universities, museums, community spaces and site-specific venues in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Uruguay. He is currently a PhD student in Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro / ESMAD / ESAD.
Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Government – Culture | Directorate-General for the Arts.