School of Reparar 2025 [Ed#6]: Callings and Glimmers: the restitution of the gift

SCHOOL OF REPARAR 2025 [Edition#6]

Callings and Glimmers: the restitution of the gift

Continued Axis | Participation in the full programme | Modalities: 'Modus Operandi AND Formation' or ‘Resident Artist’ 

PROGRAMME MODULES

• hANDling | Introduction & Unfolding of the Modus Operandi AND Intensive workshop Introduction to Modus Operandi AND with Fernanda Eugenio May 10 and 11, Sat/Sun, 2pm-8pm

  AND Lab Space, Lisbon
  

  Extensive workshop on Unfolding the Modus Operandi AND

  with Fernanda Eugenio and Mariana Pimentel

  May 15 to July 17, Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

  AND Lab Space, Lisbon

• LANDscape | Rituals of Restitution: Calling and Glimmers, retreat course on Deepening the Modus Operandi AND with Fernanda Eugenio, Mariana Pimentel and Manoela Rangel

  July 25 to August 2, immersive experience

  Trust Collective, Barril de Alva

• (under)stANDing | resident artists in creation with Fernanda Eugenio

  May 16 to September 21, Espaço AND Lab, Lisbon

  • May 16, June 13 and 27, July 11, August 8 and September 5, Fridays, 10am to 5pm: individual assisted creation meetings;

  • May 17 and 31, June 14 and 28, July 12, August 9 to 31 (summer residency), September 6: studio for independent work (free time, shared between resident artists);

  • September 18 to 21: rehearsals and final presentation

  Espaço AND Lab, Lisbon

GENERAL INFO

• Programme Vacancies and Duration:

  7 vacancies available for full participation in the School Program (3 months - MAY-JUL)

  3 vacancies for participation as an artist in residence (5 months - MAY-SEP)

• Workload:

  10 introductory hours, 27 hours of practical development and 1 week of immersive experience.

  In the Resident Artist participation modality: 36 hours of assisted creation, 30 days of independent work in the studio and final presentation at AND Lab in Festa.

• Language:

  The intensive and extensive hANDling modules will be taught in Portuguese, with the possibility of specific individual clarifications in English or Spanish.

  The LANDscape module will be taught in Portuguese, with simultaneous translation into English.

  The (under)stANDing module can be taught alternately in Portuguese, English or Spanish, depending on the specific needs of each artist in residence.

• Prerequisites:

  No previous experience in the arts or with the Modus Operandi AND is required. You must be available to complete the entire program and be interested in engaging in a creative process that is in line with the ongoing research on the Modus Operandi AND (i.e., the School of 2025's theme question).

• Certificate:

  A certificate will be issued upon request at the end of the process for participants with a minimum attendance of 80% in the hANDling and (under)stANDing modules and 100% in the LANDscape module.

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HOW REGISTRATION FOR THE FULL PROGRAMME WORKS

In 2025, School of Reparar is launching a condensed calendar model, which allows you to register for its full programme, in the Modus Operandi AND Formation (3 months) or Resident Artist (5 months) modalities.

Registration Steps:

1. Consult the descriptions and prices below to choose your participation modality;

   
   

2. Select the registration ‘ticket’ corresponding to your modality and the desired payment conditions and click on the button to fill out the registration form; Note: in the case of unavailable places for the desired modality, you can choose the ‘Waiting List’ option
   

3. Complete the payment (except in the case of a scholarship application or waiting list), online via card/PayPal or offline via MBWay/transfer.
   

   You will be sent an email confirming your registration, with general explanations, an invitation to access our digital content collection and details for payments made outside of the website (via MBWay/transfer) and/or in monthly installments. Important: the first installment, that of the chosen registration ticket, corresponds to a registration/place reservation fee and cannot be refunded.

Contacts after registration:

• If you have chosen to pay in monthly instalments, you will soon receive an invoice for the payment of the instalment following the registration and the authorisation of the remaining one(s). A card or a PayPal account will be required for this option;

• Once the group is closed, we will contact you to discuss some important preparations:

  • Opening of the school's Virtual Room on the AND network;

  • Information about the LANDscape retreat (what to bring, how to get there, carpooling schedule, check-in and check-out times). Until then, you can find out more about the space on the Trust Collective website (see links at the end of the text);

  • Detailed final schedule of activities and times.

• If you have joined the waiting list, we will notify you by email if a place becomes available due to withdrawal before the start of the program.

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MODALITIES: VALUES AND PAYMENT METHODS

MODUS OPERANDI AND FORMATION MODALITY:

• Total Value: €630 (until 25/04) or €750

• Overall discount of 33% or 20%, respectively, on the full value of €940 for individual modules

• Payment: can be paid in 3 monthly installments of €210 or €250 (available only via cards/PayPal)

  The first installment is due upon registration and the rest in June and July.

Discount distribution details (20% or 33%):

• intensive hANDling >> €60 (full value) becomes €40 (20% scholarship) or €20 (33% scholarship)

• extensive hANDling >> €180 (full value) becomes €160 (20% scholarship) or €110 (33% scholarship) 33%)

• LANDscape (course) >> €500 (full price) becomes €350 (20% scholarship) or €300 (33% scholarship)

• LANDscape (accommodation + meals) >> €200 (fixed cost, no discounts)

• Total >> €940 (full price) becomes €750 (20% scholarship) or €630 (33% scholarship)

RESIDENT ARTIST MODALITY:

• Total Value: €1,200

• Overall discount of 33% on the full value of €1,740 for individual modules

• Payment: can be paid in 5 monthly installments of €240 (available only via cards/PayPal)

  The first installment is due upon registration and the rest is due from June to September.

Details of the 33% Discount Breakdown:

• intensive hANDling >> €60 (full value) becomes €0

• extensive hANDling >> €180 (full value) becomes €100

• LANDscape (course) >> €500 (full value) becomes €300

• LANDscape (accommodation+meals) >> €200 (fixed cost, no discounts)

• (under)stANDing supervision with Fernanda Eugenio >> €600 (fixed cost, no discounts) discounts apply)

• (under)stANDing independent studio time (30 days shared by 3 artists) >> €250 (full price) becomes €0

• Total >> €1740 (full price) becomes €1200

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN BOTH MODALITIES:

• Access to our AND Doc digital content collection, during the course period, with extensive video summaries, video conversations, texts, podcasts, the Web series Survival Manual for Irreparable Times, the Documentary AND Lab: Re-membering 10 Years, among others;

• Exclusive virtual room on the AND Lab network for exchanging materials and collaborating among participants during the course period;

• Totebag from the School of Reparar;

• Ten Positions Before the Irreparable poster;

• 10% discount on the purchase of the hANDbook during the course;

• LANDscape Retreat: accommodation in a double or triple room; 3 vegetarian meals per day; and transfer between the Rede Expressos bus stop in Catraia do Mouronho and the village of Barril de Alva, on arrival and departure (travel to/from Catraia do Mouronho at the expense of each participant).

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MODALITIES: DESCRIPTIONS AND DISTINCTIONS

MODUS OPERANDI AND FORMATION MODALITY:

Modules: hANDling (Introduction + Unfolding) & LANDscape (Deepening)

The continued axis of the School of Reparar invites you to attend the full training course, made up of intensive and extensive hANDling modules, introducing and unfolding the MO_AND, and the LANDscape module, for immersive experience in the ritual dimension of the practice and in body-territory games. 

Full participation in the (trans)formative modules of the School's continued axis offers complete training in the constellation of conceptual-tools and practices (games and rituals) of the Mods Operadi AND, taking place over 3 months of sustained practice, fostering the cultivation of autonomy and the singularity of each practitioner.

The starting point is the hANDling intensive workshop, May 10 and 11. This module will present the main conceptual tools that make up the ethical guidelines of the practice and the basic principles of the AND board game, led by Fernanda Eugenio, creator of MO_AND and director of AND Lab. 

This will be followed by the extensive hANDling lab, consisting of 9 weekly meetings, on Thursdays between May 15 and July 17, led by Fernanda Eugenio and/or Mariana Pimentel, assistant director of AND Lab, coordinator of the AND Lab Brasil Network and member of the AND Collective. In this module, we will go through the MO_AND Games constellation distributed in the Interference Zone (focusing on the relational dynamics of society, community and intimacy), the Transference Zone (focusing on the formulation and embodiment of affection) and the Care-Curating Zone (focus on the body-soma as a territory of repair).

The training process culminates in the LANDscape retreat, a week-long immersive block, from July 25 to August 2, combining studio and outdoor practices to address the theme-issue, chosen each year for new (un)foldings of the methodology.

In the interlinking of the different modules, the new continuous axis allows us to build a consistent relationship of intimacy with the Modus Operandi AND, offering a complete training process that covers its entire constellation of games and tools, as well as the ritual and somatic-political dimension of the practice.

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While the hANDling modules invoke the semantic stain of the verb 'to handle' to signal a double commitment - to the ethics of handling, as opposed to manipulation, and to the giving/offering of our tools - the purpose of LANDscape is to enable the incorporation of AND ethics through a process of self-repair mediated by the more complex somatic and political-affective embodied propositions of MO_AND.

RESIDENT ARTIST MODALITY:

Modules: hANDling (Introduction + Unfolding), LANDscape (Deepening) & stANDing (Residents in Creation)

The continued axis of the School of Reparar welcomes up to 3 people interested in participating in the School of Reparar's (under)stANDing research-creation plan, in parallel to attending the full training course, consisting of the intensive and extensive hANDling modules, introducing and unfolding MO_AND, and the LANDscape module, for immersive experience in the ritual dimension of the practice and in body-territory games. 

Full participation in all the modules of the School's continued axis offers, on the one hand, complete training in the constellation of conceptual-tools and practices (games and rituals) of the Modus Operandi AND and, on the other hand, for the year's small group of resident artists, it includes the possibility of creating with MO_AND while it (re)creates itself, incorporating themselves for 5 months into the ever-in-process research-creation framework in which Fernanda Eugenio works, from a different issue-theme each year, on new (un)foldings of the AND methodology.

In this modality, each resident artist is involved in a process of individual creation in position-with the theme-issue of the year, accompanied by Fernanda Eugenio, based on an auto-ethnographic work, which invites each one to map in their affections the ways in which the theme-issue of the year manifests itself and to construct, in dialogue with the AND tools, an individual artifact that can take on any interface (performative, installation, visual, audio, audiovisual, etc.), depending on the areas of interest and work of each person. The process consists of 6 assisted creation sessions with Fernanda Eugenio, on Fridays from 10am to 5pm, distributed throughout the process; space for autonomous work in the studio (7 Saturdays throughout the process and 23 days of summer residency in August, at free times to be arranged between the group of resident artists) and a final presentation as part of AND Lab em Festa.

Participation as a resident artist at the School thus runs from May to September. The starting point is the hANDling intensive workshop, on May 10 and 11. This is followed by the extensive hANDling laboratory (9 weekly meetings, on Thursdays between May 15 and July 17) and the (under)stANDing, from May 16 to September 21, interspersing moments of assisted creation and individual experimentation. The training process culminates in the LANDscape retreat, from July 25 to August 2, with studio and outdoors activities, while the resident artists' creative process continues in August, in free summer residency mode, and in September (final accompaniments, assembly and final presentation).

While the hANDling modules invoke the semantic stain of the verb 'to handle' to signal a double commitment - to the ethics of handling, as opposed to manipulation, and to the giving/offering of our tools - the purpose of LANDscape is to enable the incorporation of AND ethics through a process of self-repair mediated by the more complex somatic and political-affective embodied propositions of MO_AND. In turn, the (under)stANDing line-interface forms a continuous plan of research and creation with the Modus Operandi AND, in which the methodology folds in on itself, thus maintaining itself as a living organism in constant (re)formulation. The name (under)stANDing points to a way of investigating-creating that deviates from interpretation and representation, committing itself to direct experience, to sustaining non-knowledge and to tuning in to embodied wisdoms, beyond the human illusion of the point of view.

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ABOUT THE MODUS OPERANDI AND & THE SCHOOL OF REPARAR

The Modus Operandi AND

The School of Reparar

Page and Theme Question of the Edition#6-2025

Trust Collective website

(AND Lab partner and host site for the LANDscape retreat)

BIOS

Fernanda Eugenio

Mariana Pimentel

Manoela Rangel

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POLICIES

• Scholarships: in all activities of the Escola do Reparar, we offer scholarships for at least 25% of the vacancies, for racialized people; PWDs and/or other dissident bodies; LGBTQIA+ people; people affected by gender and/or social class inequalities; unemployed people; migrants; refugees; In the full-time student and full-time artist-in-residence modalities, all vacancies already include a scholarship, in the form of discounts on the full price of each individual module, adding up to an overall reduction in the complete package of modules, between -20 and -33% discount;

• Image capture: registration presupposes agreement to the collection of images during the process for the purposes of recording, documenting and disseminating the research;

• Withdrawal: if communicated up to 30 days before the start of the first module (April 10), a 20% administrative fee will be deducted and the remaining amount will be credited for future registration in another AND Lab activity. If after the deadline or halfway through the program, amounts already paid will not be refunded and will not be converted into credit for other activities.