THEME-QUESTION

'Amparo' and Enchantment: Re-membrance and Discontinuation of the Irreparable

We are tired and confused. A pact with helplessness, as involuntary as it is inescapable, has drained our abilities to co-feel - to fully inhabit inter- and intra-connectivity as an inexhaustible network of reciprocal care and sustenance.

We are dazed and sad. Navigating the frequency band of disenchantment, we chant the lack in a bottomless-hole-chest. We keep going, too stunned to recognize and honor what we already have and what we keep receiving. Too stunned, too, to dream of retribution, vital overcomings and revitalizing inventions.

In this third edition of the Escola do Reparar, the proposal is to research, in the flesh and with the forces that circulate within it, ways to re-access the sensitivity of support and charm - two modulations of the sensitive experience of inseparability that, we bet, vibrate the power of other life cures, in tune with a more-than-human, infinitesimal and cosmic common.

The support vibrates while resting: it is and happens where we return to where we already are, we land. And, because we access the state of landing, we also rest, we rest. It is that frequency range in which we experience sustenance and gift - the support of the Common Fund of Life, in which we co-participate as a particle made and maker of other particles. We are, at the same time, part and whole. We feel life as an unavoidable and unlimited crossing, in its abundance of infra and transpersonal manifestations, extending beyond and below us.

Support is, therefore, learning to receive.

The enchantment, in turn, vibrates as I re-fly. It shines where we take off from the mechanisms of identification and understanding, and, therefore, we also take off. We stop getting confused, we experience, even if only briefly, re-merging: re-tuning to the frequency band in which we know ourselves to be an amalgam, we know ourselves to be accomplices in the mystery and can sustain it without rushing or wishing for unveiling or pacification . The frequency range in which we fully appropriate the consequences of being part-whole: of being viscerally involved, in everything that exists and in everything that occurs.

Enchantment is, therefore, learning to give back.

Continuing the research into re-membrance as a gesture of breaking with the Irreparable, the School of Repair 2022 invites you to an experiential and experimental journey through the different felt modulations of the Irreparable - whether as damage and structural looting, which must be radically unaccepted and discontinued; whether as a non-graspable, unknown and unknowable dimension, which appears alongside each event, and which carries airs and molecules from other possible worlds. Holds antidotes.

In order to research ways to rediscover the embodied and felt experiences of support and enchantment, we propose to go through three phases of the re-membering process at length: manifestation, access and re-knowledge. And learn its three repair tactics: involution, (dis)integration and renunciation.

Following this path, we operate re-membrance, both as remembrance - a re-aggregation in the present of ancestral and future space-times - and as remembrance - a return to uniting what the (post)modern split insists on separating, fragmenting and disconnecting - and thus also alienate and anesthetize.

We propose a continuous program, which will take place throughout the year so that, together, we can (un)fold these issues, believing that attuning to the inseparability at the level of Soma and Earth is essential to provide support for a consistent political position of discontinuation of the logics of debt and doubt that, consecutively, have been corrupting our relationship with the gift and reiterating the usurpatory logics of a hegemonic and structural Irreparable.

Fernanda Eugenio

Lisbon, marçh 2022