The first artistic residency of the SHORES project took place in Aveiro in June 2026, bringing together composers, performers and sound artists for a week of fieldwork, collaboration and artistic experimentation along the shores of the Aveiro lagoon.
The residency began in the landscape itself: the artists visited the Marinha de Santiago da Fonte, where the salt pans offered a first encounter with the sonic and material textures of evaporation and sedimentation. The following days took them to the Palheiro do Pereira, one of the few inhabited islands of the lagoon, and then to Ecomare, the University of Aveiro’s marine wildlife rehabilitation and research centre. These visits fed a growing archive of field recordings and observations, which the artists then carried into studio-based artistic research work at the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro.
The week culminated at the Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro with the presentation ShoreScapes: Edges Where Sound Lingers, an interactive audiovisual installation by Jônatas Manzolli, developed during his residency at the University of Aveiro. The work reimagines system-based composition as a living, virtual ecosystem, drawing on the sonic, spatial and ecological traces of the Aveiro Lagoon, the Wadden Sea and the coasts of Trondheim. In doing so, it proposes an ecology of relations between bodies and environments, and between physical landscapes and their virtual resonances — a space in which the boundary between observer and participant dissolves into a shared, emergent experience. Live presentations took place over a weekend, with Jônatas Manzolli, Henrique Portovedo, Øyvind Brandtsegg and Helena Marinho contributing with musical materials and performance.
Alongside Manzolli, the residency brought together Jasmine Karimova, a Tajik-Australian composer and performer based in the Netherlands, whose work follows the appearance and disappearance of water across coastal environments, and Carlos A. Correia, a Portuguese artist based in Norway, whose project Ulva lactuca travels with a living sea-lettuce specimen across the three residency locations, observing how the organism responds to each environment and to human contact.
The journey continued northwards: a second residency in the Netherlands, followed in due course by Trondheim.
Comments are closed