miguel soares

Timetable
2006
3′00”
dvd video loop on monitor

July 22 > September 11, 2006
Projecto Teleferico
Cais de Embarque, Teleférico de Guimarães
Guimarães, Portugal

this was a site specific group show that took place in a cable car in Guimaraes, north Portugal.
This cable car connects people from the city center to the sanctuary of Penha on the top of a hill.
The Timetable piece was put on the bottom station near the ticket office.
It shows the arrivals and departures to many cities and diferent countries, as if all cable cars
(and funiculars) of the world were connected in a big net.
Every 3 minutes an advertisement shows the various destinations you can go for €1.70. ”

image comissioned by Bica do Sapato restaurant.
September 2005
aprox. 10mt wide
(image from Sparky series, 2002)

photos:Susana Pomba

photos: Luísa Ferreira.

1998
90×90x26cm
satelite dishes, motion detector, walkman, tape, speakers, lamps, 4 channel sequencer, Manfrotto Autopole, steel cable.
made for Observatorio, Canal Isabel II, Madrid. February 1998

Beep is a flying saucer made out of two satelite dishes.
With its red lights it scans the area around, a 15 meter diameter ball of steel, a former water reservoir in Madrid.
The sound of static (a bit like vinil scrath), is interrupted every minute by an echoeing beep.

Projection on the gallery window.
Gingko Biloba, plexyglas aquarium, agar-agar gel, JB Systems Techno projector, black screen.
made with João Vaz Ribeiro.