Palcos: Portomouro
Residency: Matilde Meireles
Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
6-22 May 2024
What does it sound like on a festival site where its vernacular music stage no longer fulfils its original function? This artistic research residency explored the sonic dimensions of abandoned festival lanscapes within the context of Galicia, Spain. The case study was Portomouro (picture below), where I explored various listening possibilities at different scales to reflect on how the passage of time is embedded in the material remnants of its festival grounds.
This residency was part of the Incipit Residencies programme for artistic research, which is promoted by the Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (INCIPIT, CSIC) in collaboration with the Fundación Cidade da Cultura de Galicia. The outcome of this residency will be an output of the research project PALCOS.