​Sound and Rural Architecture Festival, Gralheira, Portugal, 2012

Listen to The Hearth

This residency and exhibition, organised by Binaural/Nodar, saw artists, architects and an anthropologist in residence for three weeks prior to a series of presentations in various rural locations around the Gralheira Mountain Range, São Pedro do Sul, Portugal.
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As a working concept I chose to consider the hearth and the altar as two of architecture’s fundamental sites in terms of human history and anthropology. Following a period of research at various indoor and outdoor sites I made a series of recordings to be used as source material. The work was presented as a multichannel work (in a thunderstorm) at an open air community football stadium, chosen for its unusual acoustic properties. 

Artists
James Wyness (UK)
Antonio Della Marina (IT)
Alessandra Zucchi (IT)
Luís Costa (PT)
Lisa Premke (DE)
Perri Lynch (US)
Johanna Hällsten (SE/UK)
Manuela Barile (IT/PT)
Coletivo UVBA (PT)


Architects
Maria Carlos Valverde (PT)
Ana Costa (PT)
Zoraima de Figueiredo (PT)
Pedro Silva (PT)
Sílvia Jorge (PT)


Anthropologist
Ana Saraiva (PT)


Binaural/Nodar Management Team
Luís Costa
Manuela Barile
Maria Carlos Valverde
Carina Martins
Gisela Almeida