hANDling | Introduction Workshop to Modus Operandi AND

School of Reparar 2024

hANDling: Introduction workshop to Modus Operandi AND

Performing the Common: Collaborative Co-positioning Games

with Fernanda Eugenio

August 21-22, 5 to 10 pm

Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge

Partnership: Onsite Festival

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DETAILS

Total workload: 10 hours (2 sessions, 5h each)

Maximum number of participants: 28

Prerequisites: none.

Language: the workshop will be led in English

FEES

Fee: 40 euros (€) — see ticket options below

10% discount for And Lab Friends Network members [ see how to join ]

7 grants (-50%) available

GRANTS

In all activities of the School of Reparar we offer grants in 25% of the places, for racialized people; PCDs and/or other dissident corporalities; LGBTQIAPN+ people; people affected by gender and/or social class inequalities; unemployed people; migrants; refugees.

Up to 7 -50% grants will be offered at this workshop. To apply for a scholarship, fill out the application form, tell us your profile and motivation for the application, and wait for our contact. One grant will be awarded for every 4 paid registrations.

ABOUT the School of Reparar's  hANDling Module

Each year, the School of Reparar's hANDling module offers a circuit of laboratories and workshops to introduce the Modus Operandi AND constellation of games with Fernanda Eugenio, providing a plan for sharing and learning the basic tools and principles of the practice.

ABOUT MODUS OPERANDI AND

MO_AND is a methodology for investigating relationships and reciprocity, based on the radical commitment to “repair the Irreparable”. It is practiced with no prerequisites, shared in workshops, schools and laboratories open to anyone interested in studying the (micro)politics and mechanisms involved in the operation and sustainability of living together, as well as practicing 'creativity' in other terms: dislocated from the self-centered register and expanded into divergent inventiveness and ethically committed to justness.

The ethics of MO_AND can be summarized in a threefold procedure: Re-parar,Reparagem and Reparação (three dimensions that are embedded in the Portuguese word Reparar: stopping-again, noticing, repairing/taking care of). Through practical exercises that place thinking and doing on the same plane, MO_AND proposes concrete tools to enhance processes of collaboration, co-learning and negotiation of coexistence. It allows one to understand behavioral patterns and relational tendencies, contributing to the development of emotional self-regulation capabilities, self-management of attention (selection, focusing and coordination of stimuli), and consequent decision-making and respective performance.

MO_AND was created by anthropologist and artist Fernanda Eugenio.

HOW IT WORKS?

MO_AND is shared through the interface of a 'board game' defining a collective zone of attention, and the simultaneous handling of a collection of objects, identified as garbage, junk or waste, normally found abandoned, in disuse, broken, discarded or obsolete. These are the remains and traces of the hegemonic consumer culture and of the destruction that human societies-natures are cumulatively leaving in the world, devouring the vitality of the collective

body-soma. In each of these small traces is the whole of society and its dynamics, so the junk carries many teachings about the modulations of irreparability, in a raw and direct way, and about possible ways of repairing it.

The game unfolds in different and more complex exercises, in different scales, in the studio or outside, depending on the group and the duration of the meeting. There are no pre-established rules, but rather immanent rules that emerge from the game itself, in other words, from the co-positioning and co-responsibility of those taking part.

Through folding and unfolding and direct handling of the materiality of events, it is possible to 'think with your hands', embodying the issues of coexistence, sustainability, creativity, empathy, openness to difference and reciprocity.

ABOUT AND Lab

AND Lab is a platform for artistic research dedicated to investigating and devising other possible ecologies for conviviality, based on the recognition of the irreparable and inseparable foundations of the world as we know it, functioning as a common place for the convergence among the arts, critical thinking, embodied political-affective practices, radical pedagogies, modes of existence-inhabiting and modes of creation and (un)learning.

Founded in 2011 in Lisbon by Fernanda Eugenio, it has since then maintained a consistent and regular program, nourished by the permeability between research, transmission and creation of immersive-participatory relational performative devices based on the Modus Operandi AND (MO_AND).

www.and-lab.org