(under)stANDing | Referring, Interfering, Transferring: Positions in Face of the Wound

SCHOOL OF REPARAR 2024

(under)stANDing Programme

Referring, interfering, transferring: positions in face of the wound

with Iacã Macerata, Mariana Pelizer, Pat Bergantin and Ruan Rocha

online theoretical-reflexive workshop

Online via zoom | November 4, 11, 18 and 25 | PT time: 11pm - 1pm | BR time: 8am - 10am

• Fee: contribution: 10 euros / 60 reais;
• Prerequisites: none;
• Total Hours: 8 hours (4 meetings of 2 hours each);
• Language: the workshop will be conducted in Portuguese.

On Mondays in November, Iacã Macerata, Mariana Pelizer, Pat Bergantin and Ruan Rocha, researchers from the AND Care Research Line, dedicated to researching the effects of care and of repositioning of subjectivity resulting from the practice of the Modus Operandi AND, open their studies around the theme of Relation. The proposal is to approach it as positions in face of the wound: referring, interfering and transferring. The wound, as an effect of the encounter, interpellates ways of being together, ways of co-producing the ‘in-between’ that emerges when something affects us. Where am I placed? What do I do with it? What effect will it have? These are our research questions.

The meetings are aimed at people involved in clinical listening and interested in the practice of care as an ethics of the common.

PROPOSERS

Iacã Macerata is a psychologist and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. He has been collaborating in the AND Care research Line since 2013.

Mariana Pelizer is a schizobody, body in becoming, ecofeminist, PhD in clinical psychology, artist of care practices, curator of desires. She has been collaborating in the AND Care Research Line since 2023.

Pat Bergantin is a body artist, schizoanalyst and educator. Since 2019 she has worked at AND Lab in the Artistic-Pedagogical team and is currently part of the AND Care Research Line and supports the AND Lab in the area of Communication.

Ruan Rocha is a researcher, clinical and health psychologist. He works with subjectivities at the intersections with art, gender and sexuality, and migration. He has been collaborating in the AND Care Research Line since 2017.

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 6 full 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. One scholarship will be awarded for every 5 paid registrations.

ABOUT THE (under)stANDing PROGRAMME

Each year, the long-term journey of the School of Reparar is assisted and nourished by (under)stANDing, a programme of ongoing research and the creation of artefacts by Fernanda Eugenio in collaboration with the AND Collective and the different lines of collective research and/or individual research supported by its members.

We use the term (under)standing as opposed to understanding - proposing a way of researching that deviates from interpretation, declining representation in favour of presentation. To commit to ‘suspending the under of understanding’ is to commit to direct experience; to investigate-create from a state of presence that sustains unknowing and seeks to attune itself to the embodied wisdoms that we carry beyond the illusion of the point of view.

This activity is made up of face-to-face work at the AND Lab Space in Lisbon, online meetings and the LAND Creation Residencies, opening up to the outside world through sharing sessions in theoretical and/or practical workshop mode, as well as process exhibitions a few times a year.

+ABOUT MODUS OPERANDI 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 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.