pt Nodar Artist Residency: A Rural Portuguese Multimedia Project

Between July 11th and 18th, Portuguese Non-Profit organisation Binaural will present an exhibition collecting video and sound work created in the Nodar Artist Residency Center. In an effort of combining and extending visual and sonic arts, the aim of the Nodar Artists Residency is to further interdiscplinary work on the one hand and to integrate state-of-the-art technology into an essentially traditional environment. The exhibition will be held at the Grão Vasco Museum in Viseu and include work by musicians and composers John Grzinich (USA/Estonia), Xesús Valle (Spain), Pali Meursault (France), and Martin Clarke / Alicja Rogalska (UK/Poland), as well as videos courtesy of Maile Colbert (USA), Suzanne Caines (Canada), Christine Niehoff (Germany) and Evelyn Müürsepp (Estonia). The cross-over character of these pieces is underlined and fortified by the fact that some of the artists on the roster are actually consistently working with both sound and images in their oeuvre.

The Nodar Artist Residency places a select group of artists in a “rural mountain community of northern Portugal”, allowing them to establish contact with both their surroundings and the local population. Effectively, this means that music and videos created with the equipment at the disposal of participants and situated in a typical rural house, will act as a reflection of both the 21st century and its roots. Or, as Binaural put it: The results of the residency establish “an expressive interaction with the local landscapes and/or communities”.

Before the event at the Grão Vasco Museum in Viseu (a work of art in its own right), the videos were therefore presented on location first, allowing the inhabitants of Nodar to engage in a dialogue with the artists and find out about their respective reflections.

For those who will not be able to attend the presentation of the Nodar Residency: Artists like Christine Niehoff have already promised to upload some of the material to their site after the videos have been shown to the public.

Homepage: Binaural
Homepage: Christine Niehoff
Homepage: Maile Colbert
Homepage: John Grzinich
By Tobias Fischer, published 2008-07-08

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