Ana Rodríguez, Liliana SIlva & Luís Costa

Sentidos da emigração na Freguesia de Calde (Senses of emigration in the civil parish of Calde)

Synopsis:

In September 2022, the Binaural Nodar team carried out a set of sound interviews and photographic records with former and current emigrants from the parish of Calde, with particular attention to aspects related to the “migrant sensoriality ”, that is, how the condition of shared belonging (between the place of origin and migration) is reflected in the senses (the visual and sound landscape, smells, music, gastronomy, objects with symbolic value, etc.) . The result of the interviews simultaneously generated a digital archive and the audiovisual piece “Sentidos da emigração na freguesia de Calde”, which was presented to the community on September 24, 2022, at an event that took place at Largo do Cruzeiro de Várzea de Calde.

Biographies:

Ana Rodríguez (b. 1975) was born in Montevideo, has lived and researched in rural contexts since 2001, the year she settled in Tacuarembó, in northern Uruguay. Anthropologist graduated from the University of the Republic of Uruguay. She studied a master’s degree in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. From 2016 to 2018, she was part of the teaching team at the Núcleo de Estudos Rurais (Tacuarembó Headquarters of the University of the Republic of Uruguay). with soundscapes (Los cuentos de Mamá Carolina, 2013), created the Sound Map of Uruguay (2016), and since 2013 has been an artist and researcher with Binaural Nodar.

Liliana Silva (b.1991) was born in Santo António, Funchal. In 2014, she finished her degree in Visual Arts, Multimedia Branch at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. That same year, he joined the Master in Multimedia Communication, Interactive Multimedia Branch at the University of Aveiro, which he would conclude in 2016. Since August 2017, he has been responsible for the areas of communication and multimedia at Binaural Nodar, having developed intense activity in area of graphic design, editorial graphics, video recording and editing, exhibition design and assembly, etc.

Luís Costa (b. 1968). Curator of contemporary artistic practices, sound researcher, author, educator and cultural animator in a rural context. Chairman of the Board of Binaural Nodar. Coordinator of Lafões Cult Lab, a multimedia artistic research concept in the territory of Viseu Dão Lafões which has already welcomed more than 150 sound/media artists and social and environmental researchers from more than 20 countries. Coordinator of the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, a research, cataloging and sound and audiovisual mapping project of the collective memory of rural territories in the region of Viseu, integrated in the Tramontana European network of memory archives from mountain areas.