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La Scatola
An intermedia project by Manuela Barile and Rui Costa

Upcoming Presentations:

28 January 08, 8.30 p.m.
Manuela Barile
Concert for voice and sound objects
Festival Hurta Cordel 2008 ­ International Festival of Musical Improvisation
La Casa Encendida, Madrid (Spain)
http://www.lacasaencendida.es


5 and 6 February 08, 8.00 p.m.
Manuela Barile and Rui Costa
Intermedia installation-performance (5 Feb.) and intermedia concert for
voice, electronics, sound objects and video (6 Feb.)
Almazen, Barcelona (Spain)
http://www.almazen.net


19 to 22 February 08, from 5.00 p.m. until 9.00 p.m.
Manuela Barile and Rui Costa
Workshop ³La Scatola: The Amplified Expression of the Body²

A theoretical-practical workshop with the purpose of creating a
multidisciplinary performance through collaborative processes and
intersecting body, voice, physical-acoustic space and sensors as a way of
amplifying their expressive possibilities.

A workshop for musicians, sound artists, performers, actors, either
professionals or self-teaching, with interest in experimental and
multidisciplinary artistic creation.
MUSAC ­ Contemporary Art Museum of León (Spain)
Applications to be received until 19 February 08
http://www.musac.es


29 February 08, 9.00 p.m.
Manuela Barile and Rui Costa
Intermedia concert for voice, electronics, sound objects and video
Villa Franchin, Mestre - Venice (Italy)
http://www.veneziagiovane.net


4 and 5 April 08, 8.00 p.m.
Manuela Barile and Rui Costa
Intermedia concert for voice, electronics, sound objects and video
Centro Huarte ­ Contemporary Arte Centre of Navarra (Spain)
http://www.centrohuarte.es


³La Scatola² explores the notion of confinement using multiple approaches.
Working on the border zone between the ŒI¹ and the outside world, ŒLa
Scatola¹ (³The Box², in English) can be thought as a narrative device, that
represents a diffuse space between the ³inside² and the outside², between
the ³I² and the ³other², in which multiple and sometimes opposite strength
lines are present: sensitive manifestations of the incarcerated and/or
protected body, distorted visions of the external world, anxiety, wishes and
memories. We may define this zone in purely spatial terms (³forbidden zone²,
³abyss²,  ³barrier²) but also in terms of bidirectional ³energy fluxes²
created by the sensorial and emotional projection of the incarcerated
individuality into the outside world (pain, desire, resistance, impotence,
etc.) and by the representation (idealized, distorted, diffuse) of the
outside world in the mind and body of the incarcerated individual.
 
The several narrative devices are organized in order to create enigmatic
situations, between the familiar and the weird (or distant). The images or
objects to be used, in its simplicity and depuration, can be transformed in
a mirror capable of facing the audience with their own memories and
individual experiences.

The project is developed in multiple metamorphosis and presented in several
interchangeable contexts: installations, performances, concerts (solos /
duos), site-specific presentations and workshops.


Artistic Direction: Manuela Barile (Italy) and Rui Costa (Portugal)
Video Collaboration: Maile Colbert (USA)
Sound Collaboration: Mario Volpe (Italy)
Dramaturgic Collaboration: Bojana Bauer (Serbia)
Production Direction: Luís Costa
Artist Residencies: Nodar Guest Studio (Portugal) | MoKS (Estonia)

Funding: General Office of the Arts | Ministry of Culture, Portugal

Acknowledgments: Associação Cultural de Nodar (Portugal) | S. Pedro do Sul
Municipality (Portugal) | Zoom ­ Associação Cultural (Portugal) | Amigos do
Museu de Olaria de Barcelos (Portugal) | ZDB Gallery (Portugal) | MoKS
(Estonia) | Vel-Net (Italy) | Villa Franchin (Italy) | Madcap Collective
(Itália) | Città di Venezia (Italy) | MARCO ­ Contemporary Art Museum of
Vigo (Spain) | Sinsal Collective (Spain) | MUSAC ­ Contemporary Art Museum
of León (Spain) | Junta de Castilla y León ­ Consejeria de Cultura y Turismo
(Spain) | Almazen. Serial Artist (Spain) | La Casa Encendida de Obra Social
Caja Madrid (Spain) | Asociación Musicalibre (Spain) | Centro Huarte ­
Contemporary Art Centre of Navarra (Spain) | Presence Capitale (France) |
Erratum (France)


Artistic Biographies:

Manuela Barile is an Italian vocal researcher and an interdisciplinary
performer presently living in Portugal. Her artistic research is based on a
project-oriented work that combines vocal sounds with different media
(video, photography, installations, performance, concert-performance,
drawing, writing). Her sound vocabulary was enriched through a series of
studies and researches, around oriental and occidental vocal traditions,
either made by herself or with teachers such as Amelia Cuni (Druphad) and
Tran Quang Hai (Harmonic chant). Her CD, ³Creature Sonore² was released in
2007 on Alg-a netlabel.

Rui Costa is a Portuguese sound artist from Lisbon, Portugal. He has been
performing for more than 10 years. Rui¹s artistic expression favours the
creation of intricate sonic textures through computer-based sound
manipulation techniques and using as a source field recordings and live
sampling of acoustical instruments. He developed several conceptual
projects, presented in art galleries and concert spaces across Portugal,
Spain and USA. As an example, it is worth mentioning the intermedia work
"Nodar", developed with Iñaki Ríos and premiered at the Musica Ex Machina
festival, in Bilbao, Spain. His work has been published in several sound art
compilations (Sirr, Crónica, No Type, Universe International, Mandorla).


+info:

http://www.binauralmedia.org
http://www.manuelabarile.com
http://www.myspace.com/ruigcosta




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Portugal
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