miguel soares

29.7 × 42.0 cm
c-print

poster made for Mark Hosler lecture in portuguese universities:
Universidade do Algarve, Faro
Faculdade de Belas Artes, Lisbon

Bang Festival de Artes Digitais
curated by Margarida Mendes

April 4 > 24, 2008
Cisterna, Faculdade de Belas Artes
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited work: Place in Time

related links: BangFestival.net

Wallmate
curated by Alexandre Estrela & Miguel Soares

June 14 > July 14, 1995
Cisterna da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

130×200x70 cm
lamps, plexyglas, psychadelic sensors, speakers, wheels, etc.
made for Wallmate, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, 1995

During my years in the school of fine arts in Lisbon, the teaching methods were not in total contact with the contemporary reality happening outside. So it was as if we had to live double lives, me and my friends – Pedro Cabral Santo and Alexandre Estrela, among many others – working at school during the day, and planning exhibitions and discussing art the rest of the time, sometimes through the night.
Night Art School is a yellow Formica Box with 24 white lights, my age at the time. Psychadelic sensors make the lights react – through a red plexyglas – in 3 basic patterns to the ambient noise made by people inside the cistern of the school. This was alternated with 30 second spots of electronic music (mainly Kraftwerk and Negativland) to simulate the circadian cycle. The formica box/school building is shown as a maquete on top of two sculpture tripods – used for clay sculpting inside the school- over green grass.
The set reminds me of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory. As if this was a scale model for a new experimental art school.
Wallmate was an exhibition I organized with Alexandre Estrela in the 5th and final year in the fine art school as a reaction to the academicist concepts prevailing inside the school.

image for the Wallmate catalogue.

Artstrike magazine exhibition
curated by Paulo Mendes, Rui serra, Pedro Pousada

June 1991
Galeria da Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: untitled (two-shed jackson)

Faltam Nove, para 2000
curated by Pedro Cabral Santo

January 23 > February, 1991
Galeria da ESBAL
Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: Portugueses

“1990″
Miguel Mendonça
João Fonte Santa
Pedro Cabral Santo
Rui Silvares
Miguel Soares

Cisterna da Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: untitled (cambio style cabaret)

untitled (cambio style cabaret), 1990
40×180cm