De Nodar em Nodar

Synopsis:

Two places, the same toponym. Nodar. They are four hundred kilometers apart, having a border carved in the middle. Both are lands of cliffs, windrows, butternuts and corn. What wind has blown for this coincidence? When, how and who acted? Is the Nodar in Lugo (Galicia) a mirror of the Nodar in São Pedro do Sul (Portugal)? What if a divine accident has repeated genetic, social and cultural forces, perhaps with a slight deviation? And if people will recognize us from a distance, when we arrive on a rainy and foggy day? And what if the opposite happens? This is an experience that can only be an intimate one. It is an old and familiar question that must be assumed once and for all, talking about these two mirror-places, with whom might appear, on both sides of this common Galician-Portuguese cultural river.

Biography:

Luís Costa (1968). Curator of contemporary artistic practices, researcher and sound artist, educator and cultural animator in a rural areas, in the context of Binaural Nodar. Coordinator of Lafões Cult Lab, a multimedia artistic research concept in the territory of Viseu Dão Lafões which has already hosted more than 150 sound/media artists, social and environmental researchers from more than 20 countries. Coordinator of the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, a research, cataloging and sound and audiovisual mapping project of the collective memory of the rural territories where Binaural Nodar works. In 2011, he co-edited the catalog and double CD “Three Years in Nodar: Context-specific artistic practices in rural Portugal”, edited in 2017 the book + documentary “Várzea de Calde: a village woven in linen” and in 2023 the book “Dancing with the root: Documenting the memory of folklore groups from Castro Daire”. Luís Costa is also the author of two books + CD created as a result of sound education projects: “Sound Memory of Cork” with the participation of children from primary schools in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira, together with companies and workers from the cork sector and “São Pedro do Sul: New Rural Listenings” based on recordings made by youths in rural villages from the municipality of São Pedro do Sul.