GYROVAGUS is a research project incorporating artistic creation while crossing the mediums of music, anthropology, psychogeography and cinema. Here, we challenged Rodrigo Malar, a sound designer-performance, and Gonçalo Mota, anthropologist-videomaker, to participate in two bike expeditions between Viana do Castelo and Coimbra with the objective of a face to face meeting with the territory. The project still counts with the support of the actor and musician Henrique Apolinário, in the areas of sound design. The sound and image recollections of said meetings have resulted in “TOUR”, a concert-performance with video projection. GYROVAGUS activates an informal network of partners, by articulating (in their majority) territories which are periphery with the urban centers of Viana do Castelo, Porto and Coimbra, through the use of electric bicycles as a means of transport with a reduced footprint, a view to minimizing the impact on ecosystems and creating informal networks of collaboration, circulation and communication. In this exhibition, the two itinerants will have moments of research, reflection and articulation, combining their observations, artistic and inartistic, with the ones of the natural sphere. These moments take benefit of the handful of partners that includes Binaural Nodar, Linha de Fuga, Associação Cultural e Recreativa DesnorteArte, among others. GYROVAGUS returned to its starting point, Aguda, with a presentation of the show “TOUR”, presented by Associação Cultural e Recreativa Desnorte, on the 28th of July.

Rodrigo Malvar, is an actor, stage director and sound artist. With a degree in Interpretation by the Superior School of Music, Arts and Entertainment – (ESMAE), where presently remains as a teacher. He graduated from the Master in Contemporary Artistic Creation, from the University of Aveiro. In 2005 he co-founded Teatro do Frio, where he has been developing theatrical research and numerous projects as an artistic director and sound designer. Under the name ar_search, he signs sound design pieces to theater and dance companies like: Teatro do Frio, Company Nux, Erva Daninha, Radar 360º, Balleteatro and has conceived the sound dramas like “Ignorâncias” for the festival Matanças, ans “Concerto para Estrelas aka Space Sound Shelter”, not forgetting “Composição para 128 fos”.

Gonçalo Mota – that together with Rodrigo Malvar, went on the bicycle expedition – creates several works for different areas of Cinema, Anthropology and Performative Arts. Has collaborated in investigation projects at the Centro de Estudos Africanos and CRIA ( Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia) of ISCTE-IUL. Throughout his journey, he has touched on themes of the territory, landscape and interpretation.

Henrique Apolinário worked with Rodrigo Malvar, as a sound designer of GYROVAGUS. He’s an actor and musician, whose work is guided by a sense of practical experimentation, a ​​reciprocal relationship between the body, the senses and the voice, the imaginary and the surreal latent in the human system. He has worked in several projects with Teatro do Frio, Oficina Arara, Favela Discos and Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos. He’s also a founding member of the collectives Fenda and Indri, operating in Porto since 2015 in the creation of cultural actions, focused on artistic exploration, celebration and transdisciplinary dialogues.