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

hANDling: Introduction to Modus Operandi AND (Intensive)

with Fernanda Eugenio

November 26-27, weekend workshop, 3 to 8 pm

AND Lab Space Lisbon

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Fee: €60 | 10% discount for AND Net members
• Online Content Access: students from School of Reparar are invited to access the AND Lab Online Content Space for 60 days, with a centralised collection of digital artefacts such as the AND web series and documentary, among videos and published articles.
• Prerequisites: none. If you have not had previous contact with the Modus Operandi AND, it is recommended to watch the Survival Guide for Irreparable Times series, in the aforementioned Content Space.
• Total workload: 10h (2 meetings of 5h each)
• Maximum number of participants: 18
• Bonus: poster Dez Posições Ante o Irreparável 

SCHOLARSHIPS

• In all activities of the School of Reparar we offer scholarships in 25% of the places, for racialized people; PCDs and/or other dissident corporalities; LGBTQIA+ people; people affected by gender and/or social class inequalities; unemployed people; migrants; refugees.
• Up to 3 full scholarships and 3 -50% scholarships 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. Two scholarships will be awarded for every 4 full paid registrations.

ABOUT THE 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.

Following on from the extensive and online courses offered in the first half of the year, the second half of the School of Reparar 2024 opens with this intensive weekend hANDling workshop.

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 fine-tuning of emotional self-regulation and the cultivation of a distributed and sustained attention and an embodied and consequent position-taking.

HOW IT WORKS

In the scope of the laboratories and 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.

POLICIES

• Withdrawal: up to 20 days before the start of the activity, full refund. From 20 days before the start of the activity, there is no refund. The amount may be credited for future enrollment in another AND Lab activity..
• Image capture: registration presupposes agreement to the taking of images during the event for the purposes of recording, documenting and disseminating the research.