Since the beginning of its activities, Binaural Nodar has followed a path that includes research as a complementary and necessary tool to better understand its positioning in relation to the artistic practices it programs and hosts and also in relation to a series of other themes that are relevant to the its intervention, such as rural anthropology, landscape philosophy, rural architecture, natural sciences, the role of digital archives in the construction of meanings and new narratives, community education through art and many others.

In recent years, the area of ​​artistic research has seen an extraordinary development, and the reflection on the relationship between artistic practices and ideas, methods and objects from other scientific areas is particularly useful for us. In many of the artistic projects that we have hosted since 2004, the limits between the various research typologies used follow a principle of border and mediation (poetic, sensorial, etc.), which in the most recent bibliography on this subject is often refered as “boundary objects”, a concept introduced by Susan Leigh Star and James R. Griesemer in a 1989 publication (1):

“Boundary objects are objects which are both plastic enough to adapt to local needs and constraints of the several parties employing them, yet robust enough to maintain a common identity across sites”.

In this area of ​​the Binaural Nodar website, curated articles will be published within the scope of the thematic curatorial projects that have been and will be programmed, always with the express agreement of the respective authors for their publication. As the number of articles increases, thematic tabs will be created to facilitate research and to establish conceptual relationships between the various articles.

(1) Star, Susan; Griesemer, James (1989). “Institutional Ecology, ‘Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39”. Social Studies of Science. 19 (3): 387–420.