A sound and visual inquiry into the subjectivity of the territory. Almost forty years ago he imagined what the place where the Paiva River originates would be like. The same river that passes through my village of Nodar, located 60 km from the source. Carrying with me images of the landscape I know, I finally went in search of the voices from the source. The most comforting thing was realizing that, what was supposed to be an unquestionable fact – the river originates in this exact place – resulted in a tangle of information, as dense as the threads of water that feed the river at its source.
Luís Costa (1968). President of Binaural/Nodar (São Pedro do Sul, Portugal). Curator, programmer, organizer and sound and video documentary filmmaker. Since 2006 he has been developing sound and video documentation and education projects in the mountains of the Gralheira, Arada and Montemuro massifs. Coordinator of the Nodar Rural Art Lab, a multimedia artistic research space in the rural village of Nodar, which has already welcomed more than a hundred artists and researchers. Coordinator of the Dão-Lafões e Paiva Memory Archive, a research, cataloging and audiovisual mapping project of the collective memory of territories in the districts of Viseu and Aveiro. He made the experimental sound documentary/video “Where is my Paiva born?”, premiered in 2011 during the Paivascapes Festival #1. As a sound artist, he published in 2011 at Edições Nodar, with the English sound artist Jez Riley French, the CD “Sonata for Clarinet and Nodar”. In 2011, he co-edited the catalog and double CD “Three Years in Nodar – Artistic Practices in a Specific Context in Rural Portugal”, published in 2012 the book of essays and interviews “Viver um Mundo Antigo: Textos de Arte e Território (2012-2008) ) and co-edited in 2014 the book+DVD “Il Senso del Dolore: Due Opere di Manuela Barile”, published jointly by Edições Nodar and the Italian publisher La Parete della Caverna.