WdKA is delighted to welcome Miguel Peres dos Santos, who joins our team of tutors in the academic year 2020-2021.
Miguel Peres dos Santos (°1976, Lisbon, Portugal) is an artistic researcher who works in a variety of media. By emphasising aesthetics, Peres dos Santos reflects on the closely related subjects of archive and memory. This often results in an examination of both the human need for ‘conclusive’ stories and the question of whether anecdotes ‘fictionalise’ history. His works are an investigation of concepts such as authenticity and objectivity by using an encyclopaedic approach and quasi-scientific precision and by referencing documentaries, ‘fact-fiction’ and popular scientific equivalents.
What is your branch of knowledge and subject?
Artistic Research
What is your source of inspiration?
I do not believe in the myth of inspiration, I believe in hard work.
What defines you as a tutor? Your strongest points?
Dedication, honesty, fragility, critical mind. Above all, I am committed to helping every single student to make the most of themselves.
What is your dream/goal as a tutor?
That my students enjoy my classes as much as I enjoy giving them.
Name one item from your bucket list?
I do not have a bucket list... I'm too busy living.
Whom would you call true innovator?
Anton de Kom, Franz Fanon and James Baldwin. There are many more...
