The Binaural Nodar team carried out a set of sound interviews and photographic recordings with former and current emigrants from various villages in the civil parish of Côta, with a particular attention to aspects related to “migrant sensibility”, that is, how the condition of shared belonging (between the place of origin and migration) is reflected in the senses (landscape, sounds, smells, music, gastronomy, objects with symbolic value, etc.). With the recordings, a video was born, produced in different locations, presented at the end of the artist residency in the form of a short sound and photographic documentary.

Ana Margarida Ferreira is a young contemporary artist with family roots in the rural parish of Côta, municipality of Viseu. With a bachelor degree in Plastic Arts, Painting Branch by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, nowadays, she is attending the second year of the Master’s Degree in Contemporary Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro, within which, from February 2023, she’s been carring out an academic internship with Binaural Nodar. Lastly se has presented her polysemic work (visual arts, writing, media, sound, etc.) in the context of group and individual exhibitions developed in and outside of an academic environment.

Liliana Silva is from Santo António, Funchal. In 2014, she finished her degree in Plastic Arts, Multimedia Branch at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. That same year, she joined the Master in Multimedia Communication, Interactive Multimedia Branch at the University of Aveiro, which she concluded in 2016. Since August 2017, she has been responsible for the areas of communication and multimedia at Binaural Nodar, having developed intense activity in the areas of graphic design, editorial graphics, video recording and editing, exhibition design, etc.

Luís Costa is a curator of contemporary art practices, sound researcher, author, educator and cultural promoter in rural contexts. Author of numerous pieces and sound/audiovisual installations, editor and author of ethnographic and artistic books, speaker at conferences on art, sound and territory. Chairman of the Board of Binaural Nodar since 2004. Coordinator of Lafões Cult Lab, a multimedia artistic research concept in the territory of Viseu Dão Lafões which has already hosted more than 150 sound/media artists and social and environmental researchers from more than 20 countries. Coordinator of the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, a project of research, cataloging and sound/audiovisual mapping of the collective memory from Portuguese rural territories.