DE VOLTA AO RIO PAIVA (“BACK TO THE PAIVA RIVER”)
Photo and media exhibition
October 9th – 31st, 2024
Opening: October 9th, 2.00 p.m.
Municipal Library of Castro Daire (PT)

With:

Alicja Rogalska
Ana Rodríguez
Anna Hints
Katherine Liberovskaya
Luís Costa
Maile Colbert
Manuela Barile
Marc Behrens
Marja-Liisa Plats
Martin Clarke
Masayo Kajimura
Norberto Gomes da Costa
Patrick McGinley
Phill Niblock
Rui Costa
Tiago Carvalho
William Lamson
Vered Dror
Vittoria Assembri
Yasuno Miyauchi

Co-organized by Binaural Nodar and the Municipality of Castro Daire, through its Municipal Library, as part of the celebrations for Mental Health Week, which will take place between October 8th and 15th, 2024.

Generations of rural communities have experienced the Paiva River as a landscape of daily interaction, but also as a place of sensorial experience and well-being, a determining factor in the balance between body and mind. On the other hand, the Paiva River is a geographical context that fosters artistic creation, a reality explored since 2006 by Binaural Nodar, through the presence of dozens of artists who have created contemporary works developed in villages near that river.

The exhibition “Back to the Paiva River” consists of two photographic series, the first of photos from the 1970s, by Norberto Gomes da Costa, taken in riverside communities along the river, and the second, of photographs taken between 2006 and 2023 with dozens of national and international artists that Binaural Nodar hosted as part of its annual program of rural artist residencies in sound and media arts.

In parallel, the exhibition includes a sound installation and four audiovisual screens that include artistic and sensory expressions conceived by some of the artists who have worked by the Paiva River over the years.

The exhibition “Back to the Paiva River” is part of Binaural Nodar’s 20th anniversary celebrations and is also part of the Creative Europe Tramontana project, a European network of cultural organizations working in the mountains of Europe in the fields of ethnoanthropology, ethnolinguistics and contemporary art, namely in sound and audiovisual creation.

Finally, this exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Phill Niblock, a US-born seminal composer, filmmaker, and videographer, who sadly passed away in January 8th, 2024 and who in 2009 was hosted in the village of Nodar, together with Canadian-born artist Katherine Liberovskaya.