THE SINGING OF THE SPRINGS
Artist Residency
From September 2nd to 14th, 2024
Várzea de Calde (municipality of Viseu)
With Ana Carucci (Argentina/Spain) and Julian Weaver (England)

Co-organized by Binaural Nodar, the Municipality of Viseu and the Civil Parish of Calde.
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Binaural Nodar is celebrating 18 years of artist residencies in sound and media arts in rural contexts and 10 years of working in partnership with the Linen Museum of Várzea de Calde and the Municipality of Viseu, by organising an artist residency between the 2nd and the 14th of September, featuring two sound artists who will express themes related to the interaction between water and culture in the rural context of Várzea de Calde.

Ana Carucci

Ana Carucci’s project for Binaural Nodal aims to create a soundscape that explores the percussive possibilities of water, approaching it as an object: How can such a fluid element be transformed into a percussive instrument? In order to expand the range of sounds water can produce, the artist’s research will concentrate on employing her own body and exploring both found and constructed devices. She perceives objects as a bridge between the cultural and the natural. How can she play with these boundaries through sound? Adopting a technological mindset with poetic intentions, Ana Carucci aims to challenge the traditional human-nature relationship, which often perceives nature as a commodity.

Ana Carucci is an artist from Argentina currently based in Spain. She engage with painting, drawing and sound by creating installation art, music and soundscapes. Her artworks arise from exploring the in-betweens of abstraction and literality, playing with language and the memory of the senses. Nature and its relationship with culture is an ongoing theme of her artistic practice. In 2022 Ana Carucci was part of the AADK Spain residency program and the Countdown Grabowsee residency in Berlin, Germany. her work Notebook 1 was selected by the Visual Arts Fund from Argentina for its national prize in 2017.

Julian Weaver

Julian Weaver proposes to set up a “Water Bar”in Várzea de Calde, in which people do the things they would do in any bar, but which are specifically oriented towards water; it’s essential, pervasive and absolute centrality to, and in, our bodies, lives, our culture and politics. Across the residency, the artist will also introduce some elements of watery thought and practice: From undermining notions in everyday language that the watered down is less strong, less forceful, less persuasive to the consideration that the operation of a watery thinking can be more adaptable, flexible, open-ended, etc. to the easily comprehensible developments of theories, poetries, and other creative work on water.

Julian Weaver is an artist who works primarily with sound. His work focuses on matter, substance and sensing in scientific and historical imaginaries and fictions. Water is a regular component of his practice which ranges from bubble acoustics and seaweed’s extractive economies to the charting of hydrogen isotopes in nuclear fusion, from remaking the cold water cures of Hydropathy to exploring the English Channel as a site of nausea. He was interactive art director and commissioning curator of artworks for Fusion, Power to the People: EUROfusion’s pan-European touring exhibition 2021-25 on the state of the art in Fusion Energy, His recent work includes Nearly Present (Full of Noises, Acoustic Commons, 2022), commissioning curator (fine art) for EUROfusion, Rocantin for Colonel Gouraud (Colour Out Of Space, 2019), Outwork (Fort Process, 2018) and Wet Sensing (Whitstable Biennale, 2018).

Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture | Directorate-General for the Arts.