Cláudia Martinho (Porto, 1977) is an artist, architect and researcher. PhD in Music – Sonic Arts (Goldsmiths, University of London), with a Master of Science and Technology degree in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics (Sorbonne Université/UPMC/IRCAM), and a degree in Architecture (FAUP, University of Porto).
Since 2000, researching and practicing with the transformational power of the Arts of Vibration and Resonance, through sonic and spatial co-creation. Her practice pays attention to local specificities, dynamics and rhythms between beings (human and non human) and places, from which she develops creative acts based in being present and collaborating actively with the environment and ecosystems, as an integrated part of it.
She has received several commissions of sound art installations, performances, workshops, and presented her work widely including: Porto Digital Gallery, Sonar +D (Lisbon), maat – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon), Lisboa Soa (Lisbon), Invisible Places (Azores), Archaeoacoustics III International Conference (Tomar), Architectones (Arc-Et-Sénans), Tuned City (Berlin).
She also promotes artistic, educational and ecological activities in the Gerês UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, where she is based, with collective projects, from which emerge workshops, communitarian actions, cultural events, publications, audiovisual story telling, records, writings,…These include Vizinhos da Branda – creation of a living edge for fire-prevention, Ser Montanha, Reflorestar Portugal, RurALL – rural active citizenship labs.
She was an integrated researcher of the project Audire – Audio Repository: saving sonic-based memories at University of Minho. She is co-editor of the anthology Site of Sound: of Architecture and the Ear – Vol. 2 (Errant Bodies Press 2011, with Brandon LaBelle), co-author of the book Architecture3000, Geometry and Consciousness for Learning Places, (Pedagooogia 3000, with Noemi Paymal).
Past collaborations include: Reveil / Dawn Chorus Day, Moving Cause, Raíz Minhota, Cooperativa Integral (co-founder), Soajo Identidade e Património – Associação de Desenvolvimento Local, Rural Vivo! associação cultural (co-founder) – Encontro de Artes, Ecologia e Ruralidades 2019-2020 (artistic direction), evento 2009 Intime Collectif, Bienal de Arte no Espaço Público, Bordeaux (co-curator). Cantadeiras de São João do Campo, Garranas – Cantadeiras da Serra, Maria João Ferreira, Raquel Castro, Gustavo Costa, Daniel Jonas, Listening With collective, Luís Alberto Bittencourt, Noemi Paymal, Pedagogia3000 / Education3000, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Filipe Silva, SOOPA Associação Cultural, Oficina ARARA, Srosh Ensemble, Drone Ensemble, Brandon LaBelle, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, VLF~UHF, PIF, Nicolas Hugoo, mésarchitectures / Didier Faustino, Mathieu Herbelin, Emmanuel Hubaut, Vito Acconci Studio, Storefront for Art and Architecture, among other.
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