Six artists and researchers in residence in the Montemuro mountains

TRAMONTANA IN MONTEMURO
International Artist Residency

15 August to 12 September 2026
Parada de Ester (Castro Daire, Portugal)

With Frances Crow (UK), David Prior (UK), Francesca Migliorin (IT), Heather Kapplow (US), Jurgen Walschot (BE) and Nicolò Minisi (IT).

From 15 August to 12 September, the village of Parada de Ester (Castro Daire) hosted six artists and researchers as part of the Tramontana Network project, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme.

Four artistic research projects took root in the Montemuro mountain range: ‘Nomos’, by Francesca Migliorin (IT), traced the routes of transhumance using a hand-built pinhole camera; ‘The Mountain Remembers Water’, by Jurgen Walschot (BE), drew and painted using water from mountain springs and streams; Ready Thought, by Nicolò Minisi (IT), transformed the Binaural Nodar ethnographic sound archive into an artist’s book and a public sculpture carved into the earth; and Heather Kapplow (US) turned her own heartbeat into an instrument, in a project on mental health and self-esteem developed with young people from the community.

The residency also hosted Frances Crow and David Prior (UK), of the duo Liminal, who returned to the Viseu Dão Lafões region to revisit sites from their previous research and write a text for the book celebrating the 20th anniversary of Binaural Nodar’s artist residency programme, due to be launched later this year.

A co-production by Binaural Nodar and the Municipality of Castro Daire, through the Municipal Library, with the support of the Union of Civil Parishes of Parada de Ester and Ester.