Campaign to create a digital archive of intangible heritage of the region of Viseu Dão Lafões (Portugal), which will have 5,000 sound, video and photographic documents, to be available and completely free of charge on the Internet Archive platform.
For 12 years, Binaural / Nodar has been developing a patient work of sound and video documentation of multiple aspects of the intagible heritage of Viseu Dão Lafões region (predominantly in the municipalities of São Pedro do Sul, Vouzela, Oliveira de Frades, Viseu and Castro Daire, but gradually extending to the 14 municipalities that currently constitute the Viseu Dão Lafões Intermunicipal Community).
Over the years, we have recorded and collected thousands of hours of audiovisual material (interviews with elderly people - many already deceased, collecting legends, traditional songs, agricultural activities, social events, soundscapes, etc.), which we have been gradually organizing and cataloging.
At the moment, we need an initial impetus that will allows us to have much of this material (5,000 documents) online and available for download through the Internet Archive platform (http://www.archive.org), since we believe that open access to intangible heritage
is a way of knowning and sharing the memory of territories, from where we came, which is particularly important in rural isolated areas, which are affected by depopulation (which unfortunately was one of the causes of recent dramatic fires in the municipalities of Vouzela and Oliveira de Frades, two of the municipalities where we have been doinf extensive ethnographic documentation).
The fundraising will allow you to hire a technician in digital archives so that we can pursue our plan. It is important to mention that this type of projects is not included in the financing that Binaural / Nodar currently obtains, which is related to artistic creations, so we need alternative sources of fundraising for this crucial project.
About the author
Binaural/Nodar is a contemporary cultural project working in the region of Viseu Dão Lafões (Portugal) in the areas of sound art and multimedia creation, intangible heritage documentation, sound education, radio creation and publications (online, books, CD, DVD) . Binaural / Nodar has hosted more than 150 artists and researchers, produced more than 30 sound and media works of its own and spread its work in many countries in Europe, America and Asia. Binaural / Nodar is an active member of three European networks dedicated to creativity and territorial development: Tramontana - European Network of Rural Archives; SOCCOS - European Network of artist residencies in sound art; SUSPLACE - European Network of multidisciplinary research in social sustainability processes of local territories. The organization is also part of the Viseu Dão Lafões Cultural Network, together with Teatro Viriato, ACERT, Cine-Clube de Viseu and Teatro do Montemuro.
Project's coordenador:
Luís Costa (1968). Economist, curator of contemporary artistic practices, sound researcher, educator and cultural animator in rural context. President of Binaural/Nodar (São Pedro do Sul, Portugal). After a decade-long career in various business groups, in 2006 he decided to return to the territory of his roots in the region of Lafões to develop contemporary documentation, reflection and expression projects with an emphasis on sound and media arts, artistic creation and territorial research. Coordinator of the Lafões Cult Lab, a concept of multimedia artistic research in the territory of Lafões (municipalities of São Pedro do Sul, Vouzela and Oliveira de Frades), which has hosted over 150 artists and social and environmental researchers from more than 20 countries. Coordinator of the Binaural/Nodar Digital Archive, a research, cataloging and audiovisual mapping project of the collective memory of its rural territories, part of Tramontana - European Network of Rural Archives.
Budget and due dates
Total Budget: 4,569.50 € Euros
Specialized personnel in digital archives: 4,000 Euros
Communication and promotion costs:
169,50 Euros (ads in social networks)
400,00 Euros (advertising in public places of the territory)
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