João Farelo

Shepherd dog

The objective in mind, of this iconographic experience, is to register a trip in the are of Macicços de Montemuro, Arada e Gralheira, through image and sound of an expedition conducted in a specific context of the Sheperal Mobility- “Os Caminhos da Trasumância”. The goal is to gather an artistic memory mush-up archive built by a combination of photography, sound, cartography, geography, ecology and biology. All the information will be crossed with reference works pre-existing in libraries and other archives. The treatment and reinterpretation of data shall be presented in an audiovisual installation. The journey willobey to routines of phonographic, photographic and graphic (vectorial drawing) documentation with the intention of creating catalogs – a box indicating the transported equipment, as well as the register of the collected materials throughout the pathway. I believe that the approach on this creation finds in Binaural Nodar an excellent support structure.

The platform of experimentation that is Nodar Rural Art Lab, seems indispensable to me to the valuation of the action I propose. The disciplinary areas chosen to explore image and sound production were photography and phonography, which later crossed with cartography, geography, biology and design. I propose that the support chosen and the said intercalation with the referred diverse areas, shall be a good solution to offer new readings of the studied place, no matter how random the choice may be. In the series presented, the spectator is directed to the idea of a generational archive. It is in this intersection (archive/art/memory) that the reasoning is built, as well as the methodology of the project: building as a perpetually incomplete gesture.

João Farelo is a sound and video artist born in 1981 in Lisbon, who holds a Master in Intermedia Visual Arts (2012), by the Department of Visual Arts and Design of the University of Évora.

Farelo started is artistic professional career in 2007, with a collaboration with Carlos Zíngaro, Pedro Lopes and Bernardo Chantill on through the project Storia Intramuri 2- an audiovisual performance, presented at Urbano Pedras d’agua 07 Festival, atelier Fragateiro, Lisbon.Through the years, he has exposed his worked in places like Capela de Santo António gallery, (Portel); Palácio Galveias gallery, (Lisbon); Institut Français du Portugal, (Lisbon); Malaposta Cultural Center, (Lisbon); Faculty of Letter of the University of Lisbon, (Lisbon); Convent of Remedies (Évora); Atelier-Moura-George, (Lisbon); Science Museum of the University of Lisbon, (Lisbon); Portuguese Cinematheque-Museum of Cinema, (Lisbon); Camões Municipal Library, (Lisbon); Center for Experimentation and Artistic Creation of Loulé, (Loulé); Adamastor Studios, (Lisbon).