‘A Common Territory’ brings together projects developed as part of the artistic research residencies of the Master’s Degree in Sound and Image Arts at ESAD.CR, carried out in collaboration with OSSO Cultural Association, in the in the territory of the village of São Gregório, Caldas da Rainha.

These residencies are intended as a space for experimentation and collective thinking, where students are challenged to create short-term projects in a laboratory context, with the guidance of guest artists and the support of course teachers.
The book documents this experience, giving shape to an archive in progress: not so much a compilation of results, but above all a visual and discursive reflection on emerging creative practices at the intersection of research, pedagogy and territory.
By bringing together images, texts and fragments of the process, this publication attempts a possible translation of the creative space opened up by the residencies — extending and reinventing it in another medium.

Luís Costa

Economist and PhD candidate in Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro, Polytechnic Institute of Porto and ESAD. Since 2004, he has been working as a curator and programmer of contemporary artistic practices, sound and media artist, and educator and cultural animator in rural contexts. He is president of Binaural Nodar, an association dedicated to sound and media art and social research in the rural area of Viseu Dão Lafões, which has already welcomed more than 175 sound/media artists and social and environmental researchers. Coordinator of the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, a project for the research, cataloguing and sound and audiovisual mapping of the collective memory of the rural areas where the association operates, which has more than 2,000 sound and audiovisual documents and is part of the European Tramontana network of memory archives of mountain areas, which in 2020 won the Prix Europa Nostra: European Cultural Heritage Award in the research category. He is the author/editor of twelve books dedicated to artistic creation, especially sound and media, in rural contexts, rural ethnography and ethnomusicology, notably the catalogue “Three Years in Nodar: Artistic Practices in a Specific Context in Rural Portugal‘, which he co-edited in 2011, the book ’Tales of Sonic Displacement: SoCCoS, a sound-based artist residency network‘, which he co-edited in 2016, and the book ’Memoria Tramontana: Changes in rural Europe as seen by its inhabitants”, which he co-edited in 2019.

Ricardo Jacinto

Musician, visual artist and architect with artistic and academic research focused on the relationship between sound and territory in transdisciplinary practices. He is a founding member and artistic director of OSSO and holds a PhD from the Sonic Arts Research Center, Queens University Belfast. Since 1998 he has presented his work in individual and collective exhibitions, concerts and performances in Portugal and Europe, and has collaborated extensively with other artists, musicians, architects and performers. His music was edited by Clean Feed, Shhpuma Records, OSSO and Creative Sources. His installations are present in several national collections: Fundação de Serralves, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Fundação Leal Rios or Fundação António Cachola. He co-represented (w/ Pancho Guedes) Portugal at the 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture 2006 and his work was presented in different places such as Culturgest (Lisbon and Porto), Serralves Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Palais de Tokyo, MUDAM, Teatro Maria Matos, Museo Vostell, Casa da Música, CCB, Manifesta 08_European Bienal of Contemporary Art, Frac Loraine_Metz or OK CENTRE_Linz, among others.