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The Portuguese partners in the Walking Arts and Local communities project are from the University of Minho in Guimaraes directly working with two educators in particular, Natacha Antão Moutinho and Miguel Jorge Alves Miranda Bandeira Duarte.  Since 2018 they’ve been working with Geert Vermeire from Belgium on a week long residency called The Walking Body in which international walking artists join graduate students.

Andrew Stuck has been lucky enough to have met Natacha and Miguel at different events over the last few years. It is hard to separate them, and many have made a similar mistake to that of Andrew, in thinking that they are man and wife or artistic collaborators. However, they each have partners and families of their own, and it’s only as educators that they work together. Each is an enthusiastic and passionate walking artist in their own right.

Somehow, Andrew managed to find a window in their busy schedule during The Walking Body 5 to walk out with them in the vicinity of the university’s newly opened campus. It stands beside now redundant leather and textile washing tanks, with channels and tunnels with rushing water still flowing through a once busy industrial site. 22’57” 10.8MB

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