Book with 78 color pages
Author: Paulo Bernardino and Luís Costa
Catalog Number: Edições Nodar, nodar.021
ISBN: 978-972-789-740-7

It was the spring of 2011 when the MCAC/UA faculty and students went to the rural area of Lafões (São Pedro do Sul, Vouzela, Oliveira de Frades) for the first time, in co-production with the Binaural Nodar association, to foster a context of site-specific artistic development and articulation with local communities. Since then, every year and for four days, the concept of hosting master’s students in a rural context has been deepened, fostering a sense of empathy with rural places, artistic practices in communion with the landscape and its memories and the discovery of sound as a crucial element of reality and as a plastic layer that can be used in multiple ways in the context of contemporary art today.

The retrospective exhibition “Between times and places: 10th years of MCAC/UA and Binaural Nodar artist residencies” and the accompanying catalog establish a sensitive journey between “times”, the years from 2011 to 2021, and places, the multiple localities of the municipalities of Lafões, and this journey is enriched by a set of interactive works inspired by the memories of the artist residencies, which were created this academic year in the context of the MCAC/UA Art Installation Projects module. The design and assembly of the exhibition was carried out by the MCAC/UA and Binaural Nodar teams with the contribution of the students enrolled in the Master’s module on Exhibition Design and Organization.

Artistic and technical file:

Exhibition coordination: Paulo Bernardino and Luís Gomes da Costa
Original photographs: Luís Gomes da Costa, Manuela Barile, Liliana Silva, Nely Ferreira, Rute Sousa, Alba Boscà, Paulo Bernardino, Graça Magalhães, Kátia Sá, Raquel Balsa, Susana Vasconcelos, Tiago Restrivo
Texts by Paulo Bernardino, Luís Gomes da Costa, Graça Magalhães, Pedro Bessa, Sérgio Eliseu, Kátia Sá, Liliana Silva and Manuela Barile.
Catalog design: Liliana Silva