Miguel Tavares

Agoraphobic walks

“Agoraphobic walks” wouldn’t exist without going through the covid-19 pandemic, which has once again activated the mental and muscular memory of being forced to be confined at home.The artist used the artist residency period to do a certain number of predefined walks in order to reflect between a supposedly idyllic rural environment where anxiety does not seem to existand the city as a possible inducer of agoraphobic impulses. Miguel Tavares was hosted in 2021 in the context of the Mental Rural artist residency cycle,fully dedicated to artist interventions around mental aspects that can be presented in rural contexts.

Miguel Tavares holds a degree in Cinema and Moving Image from Ar.Co, having also completed an advanced course in fine arts at the same institution. He is a professor in the cinema and moving image department at Ar.Co, a musician under the name of Calypso and co-founder of the cinematographic collective Simulacro. He presented his video works and audiovisual installations in various contexts such as the Fuso–Lisbon International Video ArtFestival, Indie Lisboa, New Filmmakers NEXXT Festival, Meconio–Muestra de Nuevos Cineastas de Madrid and the SOMA festival. Miguel Tavares has also developed camera work, editing and post-productions in films by directors such as Pedro Costa (“Cavalo Dinheiro”) and Edgar Pêra (“Lisbon Revisited”).