hANDling | Laboratory of Introduction to Modus Operandi AND (Extensive)

 SCHOOL OF REPARAR 2024 | Ed#5

'hANDling' Module | Workshops, Practices & Concept-Tools

Laboratory of Introduction to Modus Operandi AND

with Fernanda Eugenio

March 7-28th, 6:30 pm - 9 pm

Espaço AND Lab | Lisboa (Edifício Expresso - next to metro Cabo Ruivo)

[+ about School of Reparar]

INFORMATION:

• Workload: 10h
• Total vacancies: 18
• Prerequisites: none. We recommend that those who are not familiar with the AND Operative Mode first watch the webseries that will be offered as a bonus in this registration, as detailed below.

AMOUNT & PAYMENT:

• Amount: 60 €
• Secure online payment via PayPal/cards or offline via bank transfer (data sent in the order confirmation email)
• 10€ Discount to members of the AND Friends Network [see here how to join]
• Bonus offer on all registrations: 30-day access to the web series "Survival Manual for Irreparable Times" [+about the web series]

SCHOLARSHIPS:

In all activities at Escola do Reparar, we offer scholarships for 25% of vacancies, for racialized people; disabled people and/or other dissident corporealities; LGBTQIA+ people; affected by gender and/or social class inequalities; unemployment; migrants; refugees.

• In this module, up to 3 full scholarships and 3 partial scholarships (-50%) will be offered. One scholarship will be awarded for every 4 paid registrations;
• To apply for a scholarship: choose the ticket option "Scholarship Request" and send the form, with your profile and the reason for the request. We will return shortly about the possibility of granting the scholarship and the completion of the registration;
• A partial scholarship may be offered as an alternative to a full scholarship request, depending on the possibility.

ACTIVITY SYNOPSIS:

About the hANDling Program

The hANDling Program at School of Reparar offers an annual circuit of workshops for the continued attendance of the Modus Operandi AND with Fernanda Eugenio and other embodied tools of the AND Collective, proposing a meeting plan for the sharing and regular practice of our grassroots tools.

In the second half of 2023, the program will take place entirely at AND Lab Space and will feature an introduction workshop to MO_AND with Fernanda Eugenio and a series of 3 workshops (one per month) on the Ancorar practice, with Flora Mariah, part of AND Collective.

+ABOUT MO_AND:

The Modus Operandi AND (MO_AND) is a methodology for the ethical-aesthetic, somatic-political and experiential investigation of relationship and reciprocity, based on the radical commitment to repair the Irreparable, created by anthropologist and artist Fernanda Eugenio.

Mobilizing a constellation of concept-tools and game-propositions, MO_AND propitiates the direct and experiential investigation of the mechanisms of living-together, that is, of the composition practiced as ethics of positioning-with, through the exercise of the Reparar: to stop again (re-parar), to make the inventory-invention of the possible each time (reparagem), and to effect repair through the durational care-curation of relationships (reparação). By practicing an embodied consciousness and modes of doing based on the circumscription of the common and the performativity of affect, which place thinking, feeling, and doing on the same plane, MO_AND paves the way for the emergence of collaborative landscapes and territories of sufficiency, based on the co(m)passionate exercise of presence and the reconnection with the sensitive experience of inseparability.

MO_AND offers concrete tools to enhance processes of collaboration, co-learning, and negotiation of coexistence. In particular, it allows the perception of behavioral patterns and relational tendencies, contributing to the development of emotional self-regulation skills, self-management of attention (selection, focusing and coordination of stimuli), and consequent decision making and respective embodiment.

In the scope of the workshops, the 'board game' interface is the one that serves as the basis for sharing, then unfolded into different more complex exercises, with different scales, in the studio or in outdoor space, depending on the group and the duration of the meeting.

In this game there are no pre-established rules, but immanent rules, which emerge from the game itself, that is, from the co-positioning and co-responsibility of those who participate. Through a work of folding and unfolding and direct handling of the materiality of events, it is possible to embody the issues of coexistence, sustainability, creativity, empathy/sympathy, availability to difference, and reciprocity.

The exercises allow participants with the most diverse interests and profiles - coming from any area, having or not previous contact with each other or with the MO_AND - to share the same plane of disquiet, experiencing in an intimate and collective way the ethical-political and affective issues involved in the co-responsive construction of the common.