https://miguelteodoro.com Miguel Teodoro Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:17:27 +0000 https://miguelteodoro.com en https://miguelteodoro.com/HOMEEE Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:17:27 +0000 Miguel Teodoro https://miguelteodoro.com/HOMEEE Website under construction...miguelteodoro3[at]gmail.com@miguel___teodoro https://miguelteodoro.com/Chemical-Affinities Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:53:38 +0000 Miguel Teodoro https://miguelteodoro.com/Chemical-Affinities <img width="5596" height="3731" width_o="5596" height_o="3731" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f63009ad55e895b4c1d2ad08b0521144cdbda932ed558fd49d4cffad37a59ea3/Chemical-Affinities_-Miguel-Teodoro.jpg" data-mid="191461018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f63009ad55e895b4c1d2ad08b0521144cdbda932ed558fd49d4cffad37a59ea3/Chemical-Affinities_-Miguel-Teodoro.jpg" /> Nominee for Gijs Bakker AwardPremiered at Graduation Show 2023 during Dutch Design Week; October 2023 Chemical Affinities traces the impacts of ammonia fertilisers in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, examining material and territorial manifestations such as cultivation patterns, artefacts and infrastructure. The history of Alentejo is a paradoxical one, characterised by both abandonment and extraction, with livelihoods and nature facing increasing strain as a result of climate challenges. Aiming to problematise the role of chemicals in accelerating and managing growth, the project investigates the complex relationships between the entangled histories of soil fertility, energy, chemical industries and image-making technologies. The objective operational gaze of the camera is challenged through the juxtaposition of different materialities: high-resolution images of Alentejo’s landscape are contrasted with visceral granular Super 8 field recordings developed and toned using ammonia-based chemical processes.Through the use of moving images, the project explores a possible chemical ethnography of material and visual culture through the lens of fertilisers 8' 51'' 4K, sound, colour Written and directed by: Miguel Teodoro Sound Design: Coldest Winter Voice and Fieldrecordings: Miguel Teodoro Graphic elements: Irene Peixoto GRADUATION PROJECT MA GEO-DESIGN – DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN <img width="2360" height="1573" width_o="2360" height_o="1573" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df2e2baf7b86bb3c068372a5852050cfbed3ffe70cf27fb9d41b55ec6e72c6d0/Chemical-Affinities-05.jpg" data-mid="200569550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df2e2baf7b86bb3c068372a5852050cfbed3ffe70cf27fb9d41b55ec6e72c6d0/Chemical-Affinities-05.jpg" /> <img width="2360" height="1573" width_o="2360" height_o="1573" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad81c763d5c2119588ab18e0a6125fe23b5a17be5e9c70a4c3a9d661a66d717f/Chemical-Affinities-04.jpg" data-mid="200569552" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad81c763d5c2119588ab18e0a6125fe23b5a17be5e9c70a4c3a9d661a66d717f/Chemical-Affinities-04.jpg" /> <img width="2360" height="1573" width_o="2360" height_o="1573" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c83bcd79c0a89f8192f2146d468b42f06e9a44d1cff76b03f05fc1b335104480/Chemical-Affinities-06.jpg" data-mid="200569549" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c83bcd79c0a89f8192f2146d468b42f06e9a44d1cff76b03f05fc1b335104480/Chemical-Affinities-06.jpg" /> https://miguelteodoro.com/Hiperlocal Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:53:38 +0000 Miguel Teodoro https://miguelteodoro.com/Hiperlocal <img width="5934" height="3956" width_o="5934" height_o="3956" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ec1e694824b6cca6819a00db574687b7093921de0c7c1ec394521d5d0d68bd0/Exposicao-POST_INDEX-13.jpg" data-mid="191461251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ec1e694824b6cca6819a00db574687b7093921de0c7c1ec394521d5d0d68bd0/Exposicao-POST_INDEX-13.jpg" /> Exhibition view, POST_INDEX installation by Daniel Duarte Pereiraphoto @miguel teodoro Hiperlocal/Hyperlocal – Artistic Residencies is a cultural programme will focus on the interdisciplinary intersection of research, ecology, territory, and contemporary artistic production. Using the Mnemonic Pavilion’s structure as a foundational platform, the project is curated as a continuous cultural program in dialogue with the Urban Ecological Park of Viana do Castelo. The objective is to provide space and support to emerging artists, designers, and architects from the region, who will develop situated artistic proposals based on the context of the territory and local ecosystems. The project methodology emphasizes the exploration of artistic research and collaborative fieldwork processes to challenge the disciplinary separations between theory and practice. <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fda440709b5dbea7844bf8f0afe1ba1fd404588de5b818fa9768bb0b9a523291/_MZ_5985.jpg" data-mid="194366731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fda440709b5dbea7844bf8f0afe1ba1fd404588de5b818fa9768bb0b9a523291/_MZ_5985.jpg" />Soil Microbiology walk with Landra, Photo by João Azevedo Curation, artistic direction and production of the cultural programme at Mnemonic Pavilion 2023 This project is developed with the support of Viana do Castelo Municipality and funded by the “Viana Jovens com Talento Award” The project team includes Samuel Rego and Irene Peixoto More information about the projet at hiperlocal.pt Instagram @hiperlocal.hyperlocal https://miguelteodoro.com/Overgrown Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:53:39 +0000 Miguel Teodoro https://miguelteodoro.com/Overgrown <img width="5850" height="3894" width_o="5850" height_o="3894" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73f39d38465e3deaa4fd050a4d485d00e8124b3d0b1b4c68522a50905fb9cb7c/OVERGROWN_2.jpg" data-mid="191462145" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73f39d38465e3deaa4fd050a4d485d00e8124b3d0b1b4c68522a50905fb9cb7c/OVERGROWN_2.jpg" /> <img width="5850" height="3894" width_o="5850" height_o="3894" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23ec3220800c19437ef10e24a03c0de5c569f31b85f6adf14ed1c6f4e61787fb/OVERGROWN_1.jpg" data-mid="191462157" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23ec3220800c19437ef10e24a03c0de5c569f31b85f6adf14ed1c6f4e61787fb/OVERGROWN_1.jpg" /> <img width="5850" height="3894" width_o="5850" height_o="3894" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/996bbfcc3ead4af5d928ccdd8ef120c9de8436f768675cdbb9ca63534967adaa/OVERGROWN_3.jpg" data-mid="191462156" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/996bbfcc3ead4af5d928ccdd8ef120c9de8436f768675cdbb9ca63534967adaa/OVERGROWN_3.jpg" /> "Overgrown" is an endeavour to look at the city as a body, establishing metaphors between urban metabolisms and the contemporary ecological realities of Braga. The result is a series of fieldwork audiovisual recordings that trace visual correspondences and sonic fictions with the iconographies depicted in the medieval encyclopedia "Hortus Sanitatis" dated 1497, archived in Braga’s Public Library. LINK for interview&nbsp;Reason is a flower: Thoughts On Art and Science by Canal 180 LINK for interview Laboratórios de Verão: Overgrown by Gnration This project was developed during the art residency “Laboratórios de Verão 2022” at Gnration, Braga, Portugal. August 2022“Laboratórios de Verão 2022”is a collaboration between @gnration and @ciajgguimaraes <img width="5829" height="3885" width_o="5829" height_o="3885" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c073b1875999aa7aff53731cc273877fecf6c3df440d0fdb88fc9a669933a25/overgrown-WIP-2.jpg" data-mid="202120751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c073b1875999aa7aff53731cc273877fecf6c3df440d0fdb88fc9a669933a25/overgrown-WIP-2.jpg" /> <img width="5871" height="3914" width_o="5871" height_o="3914" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce9052994801a777c0e16161a58a07df152650cc7d8978df9380e29014761e63/overgrown-WIP-3.jpg" data-mid="202120752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce9052994801a777c0e16161a58a07df152650cc7d8978df9380e29014761e63/overgrown-WIP-3.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/299f8003c57eb53e9b140868cb559bf5e8d27f07ebda3d712fd0751c911285ed/220902_noite_branca-202.jpg" data-mid="191468789" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/299f8003c57eb53e9b140868cb559bf5e8d27f07ebda3d712fd0751c911285ed/220902_noite_branca-202.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c94e309537c3dbc3cbe7c7d93f683dd9c3e4e0aafa64fc2ab9e3aab107fc6fb/overgrown-8420.jpg" data-mid="191468782" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c94e309537c3dbc3cbe7c7d93f683dd9c3e4e0aafa64fc2ab9e3aab107fc6fb/overgrown-8420.jpg" /> https://miguelteodoro.com/Dissolving-Bodies Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:53:39 +0000 Miguel Teodoro https://miguelteodoro.com/Dissolving-Bodies <img width="1268" height="975" width_o="1268" height_o="975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/927cbdc29ffff65530f39edeb4e757b94122d96258a58f4e762cedb5a0e15287/Ferrante-Imperato--Dell-Historia-Naturale-1599--the-earliest-illustration-of-a-natural-history-cabinet.jpg" data-mid="191462442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/927cbdc29ffff65530f39edeb4e757b94122d96258a58f4e762cedb5a0e15287/Ferrante-Imperato--Dell-Historia-Naturale-1599--the-earliest-illustration-of-a-natural-history-cabinet.jpg" /> Ferrante Imperato, Dell'Historia Naturale (1599), the earliest illustration of a natural history cabinet Collaborative project together with Soph Boobyer, Siliang Li &amp; Miguel Teodoro Ontologies for sea agents have, in many languages, generated terms from a land orientated perspective. Examples including seagrass, seaweed, and seasnail infer namesake sea-version of a terrestrial agent. In a less literal manner, species such as barnacles have also derived their name from the land - one of its oldest etymological routes comes from the Celtic baranikos, meaning a hill or rocky barren place. How do we then generate more sea-orientated-knowledge? DISSOLVING BODIES acts as both physical installation and online platform to present the material and symbiotic interdependencies of calcium carbonate encountered at the intertidal zone, one of the most abundant substances found in this ecology in manifold morphologies. Information for both repositories are gathered through sensing methodologies; akin to fieldwork these are alternative modes to traditional visual-based knowledge and classification, instead using sonic registrations and other more bodily and viscercal sensing. The physical installation of DISSOLVING BODIES critiques traditional archives such as the Cabinet of Curiosity. How can digital recordings manifest the intertidal zone in an exhibition space, or if choosing to displace elements from the intertidal zone, how can interactions with them be encouraged towards more sensory and active understanding? <img width="2713" height="4819" width_o="2713" height_o="4819" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0cb8d12f2f5a15d9de9af4cde54cf4328605833207857bf96d705a7f674bf35/DSC05322.jpg" data-mid="194362864" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0cb8d12f2f5a15d9de9af4cde54cf4328605833207857bf96d705a7f674bf35/DSC05322.jpg" /> Project integrated in the course “Pedagogies of the Sea”, tutored by Angela Rui and Meredith Root-Bernstein. The research was situated in the ecological and geopolitical conditions of the Venice Lagoon. This project was develop in collaboration between Zoop/het Nieuw institut, TBA21-Academy and Ocean Space https://miguelteodoro.com/Argaco Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:53:39 +0000 Miguel Teodoro https://miguelteodoro.com/Argaco More info soon Ortha Feamainn/Seaweed Charm, set of Risographs with Climavore and An Lanntair featuring projects from 5 Contemporary artists working with seaweed as a theme https://miguelteodoro.com/Developing-Landscape Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:53:40 +0000 Miguel Teodoro https://miguelteodoro.com/Developing-Landscape <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35cf0593314f21e95e17493e55d23b875602652bae80fa71787b591abf95eb70/developing-landscape7.png" data-mid="191463239" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35cf0593314f21e95e17493e55d23b875602652bae80fa71787b591abf95eb70/developing-landscape7.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1616" width_o="2880" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e540f849477eaed0f5f378b8da13c43179a03e98b1af826753c69fde7780f64/developing-landscape2.png" data-mid="191463237" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e540f849477eaed0f5f378b8da13c43179a03e98b1af826753c69fde7780f64/developing-landscape2.png" /> How can rewilding as a human-centered practice entail and reinforce a binary spectrum of modes of conviviality between human and more than human ecologies/realities? Developing Landscape evokes the notion of a fabricated landscape by looking into ecological corridors and management of the landscape in the Netherlands. &nbsp;Although the imagery refers back to traditional nature documentaries, the focus is shifted to the figure of a forest guard that becomes a predatory and observing figure in this landscape. <img width="2880" height="1618" width_o="2880" height_o="1618" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a49a39376b66cb7b1e1a82c236ca9849edc83bbd91080533dd0ad672581bb198/developing-landscape4.png" data-mid="191463242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a49a39376b66cb7b1e1a82c236ca9849edc83bbd91080533dd0ad672581bb198/developing-landscape4.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ae9eb7540e5250f305fedbc76811f807d3c095a5fa8bd6debf4c558fdcd9a4d/developing-landscape8.png" data-mid="191463238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ae9eb7540e5250f305fedbc76811f807d3c095a5fa8bd6debf4c558fdcd9a4d/developing-landscape8.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29ba81e5b9600f6407a1b477b5f10b5bf6d1ad94e8f9fec50fe94ffa25fefe2f/developing-landscape3.png" data-mid="191463243" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29ba81e5b9600f6407a1b477b5f10b5bf6d1ad94e8f9fec50fe94ffa25fefe2f/developing-landscape3.png" /> VIDEO, colour, sound, 9'00''Collaborative project together with Pablo Bolumar,&nbsp;Sigrid Schmeisser&nbsp;and&nbsp;Yannis Mantzaris https://miguelteodoro.com/Infrastructures-of-Care Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:53:40 +0000 Miguel Teodoro https://miguelteodoro.com/Infrastructures-of-Care <img width="2977" height="3969" width_o="2977" height_o="3969" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1c2a4f3b4911bbe9a074fcfc64433db68e77737bd9cc7a61711715f65826586/Infrastructures-of-care--Miguel-Teodoro_-photos-by-Jeroen-van-de-Gruiter1.jpg" data-mid="191464268" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1c2a4f3b4911bbe9a074fcfc64433db68e77737bd9cc7a61711715f65826586/Infrastructures-of-care--Miguel-Teodoro_-photos-by-Jeroen-van-de-Gruiter1.jpg" /> photo by Jeroen van der Gruiter Shown at Ghent Design Fest 2022 Water School &nbsp;curated by Studio Makkink &amp; Bey Infrastructures of care is a greywater filtration system that operates through gravity and biology. Reflecting upon the idea of “care” and its manifold dimensions, the installation revolves around the notion of soap as a diluting, fluid, and untraceable object. By relating domesticity with the city’s metabolism, the background research mapped a series of dynamics and conflicts by juxtaposing vernacular technologies, biological elements, and industrialized everyday objects. The city is approached as a complex body within which different metabolic systems occur on different scales and through different agents. Thus, by acknowledging the contemporary condition of the landscape, filtration becomes a metaphor for breaking down complexity. <img width="2977" height="2233" width_o="2977" height_o="2233" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a65c88497548c0e16519089eb98a198c7d96ca0994733b8f5f5e64fccee19a2d/GeoDesign---1stYF---202112---71.jpg" data-mid="191464287" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a65c88497548c0e16519089eb98a198c7d96ca0994733b8f5f5e64fccee19a2d/GeoDesign---1stYF---202112---71.jpg" /><img width="5931" height="3954" width_o="5931" height_o="3954" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c82eef5814e2ff3dcc3e5828f6556044eea17a34cc5009e1880703e1c9458be4/Infrastructures-of-care--Miguel-Teodoro.jpg" data-mid="191464298" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c82eef5814e2ff3dcc3e5828f6556044eea17a34cc5009e1880703e1c9458be4/Infrastructures-of-care--Miguel-Teodoro.jpg" /> WATER, DUCKWEED, CHARCOAL, CERAMICS, PLASTIC CRATES, PLASTIC TUBING, SOAP, METAL STRUCTURE, WATERPUMP, 280x60x75cm <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c09f06709b13317917c2bf6d63ce9a06adea13dd38d9f265114cb5fd0646f0d9/Design-Fest-Gent--Photo-Kevin-Faingnaert.jpg" data-mid="191470910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c09f06709b13317917c2bf6d63ce9a06adea13dd38d9f265114cb5fd0646f0d9/Design-Fest-Gent--Photo-Kevin-Faingnaert.jpg" /> &nbsp;Exhibition View at Ghent Design Fest https://miguelteodoro.com/Intertidal Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:53:40 +0000 Miguel Teodoro https://miguelteodoro.com/Intertidal <img width="5754" height="3836" width_o="5754" height_o="3836" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d7e67a17fcc41b9371bb8b952343412603656f13b915246f7cfcb231fd2aedc/Mnemonic-Pavilion6.jpg" data-mid="191464918" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d7e67a17fcc41b9371bb8b952343412603656f13b915246f7cfcb231fd2aedc/Mnemonic-Pavilion6.jpg" /> “Intertidal” is the opening exhibition of the Mnemonic Pavilion. The artist Miguel Teodoro, through his exhibition project, invites the visitors to look at the complex relationships between the coastal landscape and ecosystems and the ecological knowledge intrinsic to the traditional practices and maritime economies of Minho. Aiming to enlarge the spectrum of approach and significance to these themes, Intertidal confronts us with the conflicts and correspondences between time scales, places and gestures. Intertidal is the starting point of the first moment of the project precisely because it is connected with the idea of understanding the common ground between terrestrial and oceanic human/nonhuman realities. In Miguel Teodoro’s pieces exhibited in this first iteration of the project, one can grasp the multiple dimensions of the research. The piece “Timefullness” is a sculpture that reflects on the tensions between the overlapping timescales one can understand by looking at the territory. A carved marble pallet, refers by its form to the contemporary update of the archetype of many traditional instruments connected to the extraction of natural resources, such as seaweed and marble. Although through its materiality, it bridges it to the fact that the geological origin of marble starts at the seabed, through sedimentation of living creatures and sediment through the course of hundreds of millions of years . On top of the cargo palete it is placed a found geological sample of a basalt icnofossil of sea urchins (the traces of the biological activity of organisms). Discussed with a local geologist it became evident that this sample is also a indicator of the evolution of the shore line, enabling to understand the sea level rise at the course of history. This overlapping geological times become an analogy for the interconnectivity between places and temporalities. The materiality of the space invites the visitor to enter this oceanic imaginaries while walking thorugh the two rooms of the exhibition. “Holdfast” is a video and soundscape piece that questions how marine technology can able us to shift to a more sustainable way of relate to sea resources. “Ler/Ser Paisagem” is a sculptural measuring device carved in marble that looks into the history of ocean studies by reenacting and performing data collection methodologies with a poetic and speculative gaze. Hanged in the center of one of the rooms there is a cyanotype print entitled “Floating inscriptions” describing transoceanic narratives through the inprint of debris found in the low tide that had drifted throughout the ocean. The exhibition is a first expansion of the research and therefore entails many layers and raises many questions that provoke the visitor to question their own relationship with the ocean by looking and hearing the entanglements and correspondences the project is been exploring. <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85bbd6448203c6d5dfd3e859435e3c25165f87cffbd0314108e9f585708d8292/SCREEN.jpg" data-mid="191464919" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85bbd6448203c6d5dfd3e859435e3c25165f87cffbd0314108e9f585708d8292/SCREEN.jpg" /> <img width="5845" height="3896" width_o="5845" height_o="3896" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d549841491424ee382b6e4b78474998cbea09b453df8dfd6341b5eec437e2c29/TABLE.jpg" data-mid="202121908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d549841491424ee382b6e4b78474998cbea09b453df8dfd6341b5eec437e2c29/TABLE.jpg" /> MNEMONIC PAVILION, 2021