School of Reparar Ed#3-2022

'Amparo' and Enchantment: Re-membrance and Discontinuation of the Irreparable

We are tired and confused. A pact with helplessness, as involuntary as it is inescapable, has drained our abilities to co-feel - to fully inhabit inter- and intra-connectivity as an inexhaustible network of reciprocal care and sustenance.

We are dazed and sad. Navigating the frequency band of disenchantment, we chant the lack in a bottomless-hole-chest. We keep going, too stunned to recognize and honor what we already have and what we keep receiving. Too stunned, too, to dream of retribution, vital overcomings and revitalizing inventions.

In this third edition of the Escola do Reparar, the proposal is to research, in the flesh and with the forces that circulate within it, ways to re-access the sensitivity of support and charm - two modulations of the sensitive experience of inseparability that, we bet, vibrate the power of other life cures, in tune with a more-than-human, infinitesimal and cosmic common.

The support vibrates while resting: it is and happens where we return to where we already are, we land. And, because we access the state of landing, we also rest, we rest. It is that frequency range in which we experience sustenance and gift - the support of the Common Fund of Life, in which we co-participate as a particle made and maker of other particles. We are, at the same time, part and whole. We feel life as an unavoidable and unlimited crossing, in its abundance of infra and transpersonal manifestations, extending beyond and below us.

Support is, therefore, learning to receive.

The enchantment, in turn, vibrates as I re-fly. It shines where we take off from the mechanisms of identification and understanding, and, therefore, we also take off. We stop getting confused, we experience, even if only briefly, re-merging: re-tuning to the frequency band in which we know ourselves to be an amalgam, we know ourselves to be accomplices in the mystery and can sustain it without rushing or wishing for unveiling or pacification . The frequency range in which we fully appropriate the consequences of being part-whole: of being viscerally involved, in everything that exists and in everything that occurs.

Enchantment is, therefore, learning to give back.

Continuing the research into re-membrance as a gesture of breaking with the Irreparable, the School of Repair 2022 invites you to an experiential and experimental journey through the different felt modulations of the Irreparable - whether as damage and structural looting, which must be radically unaccepted and discontinued; whether as a non-graspable, unknown and unknowable dimension, which appears alongside each event, and which carries airs and molecules from other possible worlds. Holds antidotes.

In order to research ways to rediscover the embodied and felt experiences of support and enchantment, we propose to go through three phases of the re-membering process at length: manifestation, access and re-knowledge. And learn its three repair tactics: involution, (dis)integration and renunciation.

Following this path, we operate re-membrance, both as remembrance - a re-aggregation in the present of ancestral and future space-times - and as remembrance - a return to uniting what the (post)modern split insists on separating, fragmenting and disconnecting - and thus also alienate and anesthetize.

We propose a continuous program, which will take place throughout the year so that, together, we can (un)fold these issues, believing that attuning to the inseparability at the level of Soma and Earth is essential to provide support for a consistent political position of discontinuation of the logics of debt and doubt that, consecutively, have been corrupting our relationship with the gift and reiterating the usurpatory logics of a hegemonic and structural Irreparable.

Fernanda Eugenio

Lisbon, marçh 2022

About the School

The School of Reparar is an annual ongoing program of expanded research-creation and artistic-political training, which houses four meeting interfaces and takes place on the Portugal-Brazil axis.

Based on Fernanda Eugenio's creation always in process with Modus Operandi AND, in collaboration with the multi-localized network of artists from AND Collective and with different artists invited each time, the School of Reparar takes a question-theme per year, from the practical-theoretical constellation of MO_AND, as a motto for the creation of new performative devices of encounter, experiential propositions, games and tools of collective composition-creation, adopting the durational structure of the journey to invite to dwelling and persistence in the intimate-political work of trans-form-action.

Its four lines of activities are designed to provide participants with a gradual and supported journey of navigation in the issue-theme of the year.

We always start with hANDling, workshops for sharing the MO_AND and related practices (March to June; September to November, in Lisbon and different cities in Brazil each year), dedicated to offering the foundations for sustaining the annual journey, through the introduction and unfolding of the concept-tools and central principles of the MO_AND, combined with body practices of the AND Collective.

Next, we enter the Unruly Studies, a group of practiced and experimental studies (May - Portugal and October - Brazil), dedicated to sharing the inhabited philosophy around the concepts in focus each year.

Then we come to LANDscape, an immersive retreat-course (July - Portugal and January - Brazil), built as a trans-formation-action ritual-journey, in which the Modus Operandi AND multiplies itself in a set of more complex incarnated political-affective propositions, that summon different modulations of the AND constellation game side by side with ritual-pieces specially created, each time, to provide the sensitive and alive experience of the issue-theme. This activity is, at the same time, end and beginning: a culmination of each year's journey, every July, which, when repeated in January, also operates the prepreparation for the following year, and for a new issue-theme about to emerge.

The whole journey is assisted and nurtured by [under]stANDing, a program of continued research and artifact creation by Fernanda Eugenio in collaboration with the AND Collective. stANDing program is the school being gestated as it happens and runs throughout the year in two seasons (February-July and September-January), composed of face-to-face work in the Atelier AND Lab in Lisbon, online meetings and the LAND Creation Residencies, opening up to the outside world through sharing sessions and informal process shows a few times a year.

It is also worth mentioning that, although hANDling, Unruly Studies and LANDscape are constituted as interlinked activities, they are articulated in a way that also allows the entrance of new participants at any moment of the trip, who may access the experience in a sporadic and occasional way.

The School of Reparar proposes to inhabit the 'in-between' as an interval of strength, establishing itself in the heart of the art-life intersections and structuring itself in a spread out and multi localized way, in the transit between Portugal and Brazil, between the urban and the rural and between the present and the virtual, in a commitment to combine a consistent subjective and sensitive displacement with geographical decentering and digital propagation. It claims itself, thus, as a field of support for enchantment, as a safe field for risk: firmed on care and focused on (re)activating the attentive relationship with the Earth-Soma and, at the same time, on infiltrating and sustaining a communitarian mode in the urban and digital everyday life.

The School of Reparar annually offers a minimum of 25% of places in the form of full scholarships with an intersectional profile, for people made vulnerable by intercessions of class, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, dissident corporealities, migration and/or ethnic origin.

The activities of the School of Reparar in Portugal are bilingual (Portuguese and English) whenever necessary.

The activities of the School of Reparar in Portugal are translated into Portuguese Sign Language whenever necessary.

The facilities of the Atelier AND Lab in Lisbon are accessible for people in wheelchairs or with crutches.