edition-06-2025

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PRESENTATION

School of Reparar Ed#6-2025

May to July 2025 (Extended to September for Resident Artists)

The continued axis of the School of Reparar 2025 proposes a condensed program with a total duration of three or five months. It consists of two training modules, a research-creation module at the AND Lab Space in Lisbon, and a retreat module at the Trust Collective Space in the village of Barril de Alva, Arganil, Beira Interior.

The program was redesigned to allow different types of participation, either in the entire program (as a resident artist or as a full participant) or just in some modules (partial or single participation).

In linking the different modules, the new continuum allows for an intimate relationship to be built with the Modus Operandi AND, offering a complete training process that covers its entire constellation of games and tools, combined with an in-depth experience of the ritual dimension of the practice. It also incorporates, for the first time, the possibility of participating as a resident artist in the School's research-creation plan, in a process of individual creation in position-with the theme-issue of the year, with accompaniment by Fernanda Eugenio and final presentation at AND Lab em Festa.

The 6th edition of the School of Repair thus inaugurates a general redistribution of the programme which is now articulated along two axes, continued and nomad, and along 3 lines-interfaces of relationship with the Modus Operandi AND: hANDling (modules focusing on transmission-sharing and game-practices), (under)stANDing (modules focusing on research-creation and the game-ritual intersection), LANDscape (modules focusing on self/repairing and ritual experiences).

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School of Reparar 2025 [Ed#6]: Callings and Glimmers: the restitution of the gift

[under]stANDing

Research-Creation with MO_AND

Creative Residency Module

The [under]stANDing interface line forms a continuous plan of research and creation with the Modus Operandi AND, in which the methodology folds in on itself, based on a theme-question each year, thus remaining as a living organism in constant (re)formulation. The name [under]stANDing points to a way of investigating-creating that deviates from interpretation and representation, committing itself to direct experience, the sustaining of not-knowing, and attunement to embodied wisdom, beyond the human illusion of perspective.

hANDling

MO_AND Training

Introduction & Unfolding Module

The hANDling interface line focuses on the (trans)formative and sharing dimension of MO_AND as a tool for mediation and composition. It offers intensive and extensive workshops on the transmission and practice of the constellation of games and concept tools of the Modus Operandi AND. The name hANDling evokes the semantics of the verb 'to handle' to signal a double commitment: on the one hand, to the ethics of handling, as opposed to manipulation, which guides the Modus Operandi AND; on the other, with the delivery/offering of our tools, creating situations of transmission-sharing that favour their incorporation through frequent use, practice and the cultivation of the autonomy and uniqueness of each practitioner.

LANDscape

Ritual Journey with MO_AND

Deepening/Immersive Experience Module

The LANDscape interface line focuses on the dimension of individual and collective (self)repair through the creation of ritual experiences in retreat mode. A landscape programme constructed in the form of a ritual journey of trans-formation, in which Modus Operandi AND multiplies into a set of more complex somatic and political-affective propositions, LANDscape summons different modulations of the AND constellation game, alongside ritual pieces specially created each time to facilitate the sensitive and experiential experience of the theme-question.

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THEME-QUESTION

Callings and Glimmers: the restitution of the gift

About the new concept tools Restitution, Callings and Glimmers

The School of Reparar 2025, the 6th edition of the program, invites you on another journey of experiential, collective and embodied research around the intimate-collective processes of repairing. This time, the proposal is to enter the research through the prism of the new tool-concept of Restitution, one of the many modulations of the reparative gesture, which acts where the Irreparable manifests itself, in infinitely varied doses, as a plunder that is both (ir)remediable and (in)compensable to the vital gift.

We want to search for ways to repair a sensitive access to the complex and intricate web of inseparability through which we co-participate and are co-participated, reciprocally, in/by everything that exists, in the confidence that a body of political involvement in repairing the systemic Irreparable can (re)find its sustaining and proliferating force there. Recognizing that it is at the level of the body-soma that the Irreparable is lodged, and that it is from there that it makes each person a vector for its perpetuation, we insist on investigating the key question that drives the Modus Operandi AND - how to let die the system in us without dying? - as a commitment to the never-ending work of re-orienting our ways of existing, relating and living in the direction of respecting and honoring Life.

To unnumb and restore a sensibility to the Event as a Gift - that which is given in the very act of happening, and as so becomes, in a single gesture, presence and present - is to work on the microscopic curation of lives that are less adjusted and more just, less efficient and more sufficient, less exhausted and also less dull. And thus also more available to enjoy and provide enjoyment, to care for and be cared for.

Furthermore, recognizing the gift opens the way to acknowledge oneself in return and strengthens a body of refusal to continue participating in the endorsement and reiteration of entrenched systemic violence that never ceases to corrupt the gift into debt and doubt in the World-As-It-iIs. So restoring the gift also restores contact with one's own power-agency, in a process of intimate reconciliation between possibility and responsibility that allows freedom to be regained in the situated exercise of dis-cern-ment. To linger in this process, to savor this (un)learning, consists of taking back one's own presence-present, and reclaiming the spiral operative mode of giving-receiving-reciprocating, recovering the integrity that allows to make of each giving a reciprocation mediated by a receiving, also receiving oneself back each time, from what one give. An exercise in letting go and detachment; in surrender and trust; in remedial listening between radical intra- and inter-relationship differences; in affective and imaginative expansion based on letting-manifest the incarnate, ancestral and cosmic, historical and subjective wisdoms that give consistency (consist and co-insist) to the provisional aggregates we call Self, Other and Situation.

After a few years of (un)learning from the wisdom of the air and winged beings, in which we have been experimenting with the states of Nest and Flock and their (co)operations Alight and Flight, in the search for antidotes to the anxious and depressive affections of contemporary helplessness and disenchantment, we now summon, for the durational process of research-creation of 2025, the wisdoms of water and aqueous-aquatic beings, and a delay in the states-of-encounter of Callings and Glimmers.

Throughout this year, we invite you to inhabit these states as portkeys for the sensing of inseparability, searching the cosmos of each one and of the in-between-many for ways of repairing dissociated links and knots of identification through (de)integration. Each in their own way, both are marks of the Irreparable that have blocked the intensive-extensive access to the multidimensional integrity that constitutes, with only a variation in scale, each living being and the interweaving of the Living.

On the level of the Callings, we want to experience interspecific modes of communication and co(n)sensing, beyond verbal language, gesture and human expressiveness. On the level of Glimmers, we want to attend (co)operations between Glimpse and Dazzle that can open up relational passages, transversal to the illusion of linear time, to the enchanted and (im)permanent vibration of the Common Fund of Life, the unknown-unknowable hidden in the obvious of everything that exists.

Fernanda Eugenio

Lisbon, March 2025