WEAVING SOUND
Interdisciplinary Art in an Evolving Landscape
An artist residency and research project with Maya McCollum
January 20th to February 22nd, 2025
Várzea de Calde (Viseu)
The artist residency with Maya McCollum, held from January 20th to February 22nd, 2025 in Várzea de Calde, has come to an end. The artist, hosted by Binaural Nodar with a Thomas J. Watson grant, worked with sound, textile crafts and contemporary technologies, aiming to reimagine sustainable local production, taking into account environmental issues and climate change. Maya’s focus was on understanding how artists can engage with communities in a mutually beneficial way, enriching both the community and the creative process.
Maya McCollum is a sound artist and researcher from the USA, currently studying the intersection between traditional textile crafts and contemporary listening and/or sound technologies. In the context of textile arts modalities and field recording, collecting, both sound and material, has the ability to help us form different understandings of places through multi-sensory approaches, observation and intimacy. Maya’s practice often uses a combination of animation, video-mapping, performance and sculptural techniques, exploring how our technological and material practices have been imprinted on the landscapes around us, recording the rooted collective histories and forming a memory of the artistic presence itself.
Artistic and technical file:
A residency organized by Binaural Nodar with the support of the Municipality of Viseu (Viseu Cultura) and the Calde Civil Parish Council and co-financed by a Thomas J. Watson scholarship.
Hosted artist and researcher: Maya McCollum
Production, community mediation and photographic and audiovisual documentation: Luís Costa and Ana Margarida Ferreira
Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture | Directorate-General for the Arts.