From December 11 to 21, 2021, Julie Faubert, researcher and sound artist from Laval University (Quebec, Canada) came to Provence as part of the Olive4all project. Julie Faubert creates numerous installations and interventions in which sound is an anchor point for the articulation of the body-space relationship. Her research work focuses more specifically on urban sound worlds and their aesthetic, ethical and political stakes, by questioning the presence of the body in public space.
Julie Faubert focused her stay on the collection of sound materials for the future conception of a sound device that will restore the entire chain of operation of the olive oil factory.
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Tourism as a crucial factor for the valorisation of the olive heritage in Portugal
Safeguarding and enhancement of endogenous resources of a place, particularly its cultural heritage, is an important factor for sustainable development and the emancipation of local communities. Moreover, cultural heritage is a structuring element of collective memory, the image of places and territorial identity (Carvalho, 2003). Therefore, it’s worthy to inquire about the role of heritage as a producer of these places of memory (Nora, 1993; Knez, 2014). As Andrade (2008: 570) refers, places of memory are “true cultural heritages, symbolically projected and [that] can be tied to a living past that still marks presence and reinforces the identity traits of the place”, since “memory is rooted in the concrete, in the space, in the gesture, in the image, in the object” (Nora, 1993: 9).
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