Handling_tools. May and June 2013

May 2, 2013 in Slider, Workshops by Carolina-Campos

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“(…)To replace expectation with waiting, certainty with trust, complaint with commitment, accusation with participation, rigidity with rigor, avoidance with attendance, competition with cooperation, efficacy with sufficiency, the necessary with the precisely needed, conditioning with condition, power with force, abuse with use, manipulation with handling, discarding with repairing.”

in “O encontro é uma ferida”

from Fernanda Eugenio and João Fiadeiro

 

AND_Lab|Center for Artistic Research and Scientific Creativity

AND_Lab|Center for Artistic Research and Scientific Creativity emerges from the encounter between two modes of doing: the one from the choreographer João Fiadeiro and the one from the anthropologist Fernanda Eugénio. An encounter which strength lies in the way both share a common uneasiness around the questions how to live together and how not to have an idea that they where experiencing within the frame of their trajectories.

AND_Lab positions itself as an “alternative question” to the models of coexistence and collaboration from the 90’ and 00’, working as a theoretical and practical platform and point of convergence between arts, science and everyday life – and between the ethical, aesthetical and political questions that emerge within this fields.

hANDling_Tools Workshop

The hANDling_tools workshop is part of the hANDling Training Program of AND_Lab and is designed to become a minimum environment, able to “install” the conditions for sharing the theoretical and practical questions that move our project, in the form of exercises that work the different modulations of relations: from the in-between-two to the in-between-many, from collaboration to coexistence.

The term handling translates exactly this form of sharing, while proposing two other meanings: underlines the dimension of zeal and care evolved in the infinitesimal procedures of handling; and also the capacity to bear and sustain an ethics of living together, which isn’t pre-established but generated collectively and through presence, in the very act of the encounter.

Modus Operandi AND

The workshop hANDling_tools is dedicated to the transmission of the Modus Operndi AND (M.O_AND), an improvisation practice and a collective creation of common landscapes coming from the encounter between the Real Time Composition method developed by the choreographer João Fiadeiro and from Ethnography as Situated Performance developed by the anthropologist Fernanda Eugénio.

M.O_AND is a “mode of relation” which substitutes the prevailing of the subject, control and manipulation, for an ethics of sufficient handling that transfers the focus to the Event. The instruments generated by M.O_AND can be applied transversally, from the artistic composition to the co-position of social-relational activities, from creative collaboration to conflict mediation.

Target Audience

The hANDling_tools workshops are open to participants from various artistic and scientific backgrounds that are curious and willing to reflect upon questions we raise and to anyone sensitive to issues like sustainability, reciprocity, collaboration or creativity. We are looking for participants that can make themselves available to formulate and re-formulate questions around which we build the conditions for living together, whether in art or daily life.

Workload

The hANDling program is composed of two platforms of encounter that unfolds into two different temporal degrees of densities (15h and 30h). Each of those durations proposes different manners of “growing into the interior” of the M.O_AND research. Even if there are concerns proper to each of these platforms of encounter, the question dwelt in both workshops are the same and what differentiates a workshop from another isn’t the evolutional scale of difficulty (as it happens in pedagogical disciplines for instance) but the alteration of the intensity experienced by the participant through permanence, insistence and duration.

Workshop 24-26 May (15 hours)

Friday from 18:00 to 21:00

Saturday and Sunday from 14:00 at 20:00

Workshop 17-21 June (30 hours)

Monday to Friday, 14:00 at 20:00

Prices

Workshop 24-26 May (15 hours): 90 €

Workshop 17-21 June (30 hours): 150 €

 

Atelier Real has accommodation available to welcome some of the workshop participants.

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HANDLING_Tools Intensive Workshops | January-February 2013

December 21, 2012 in AND_Lab, Slider, Workshops by David

The AND Method emerges from the encounter between the Real Time Composition method developed by the choreographer João Fiadeiro and the ethnography applied to situated performances developed by anthropologist Fernanda Eugénio. The AND Method states itself as a privileged field of experience and study of what we understand by “composition” (position-with, when translated from Portuguese), a reciprocal positioning with the other.

The AND Method has attracted, in addition to artists and performers from areas such as contemporary dance, theatre or visual arts, researchers from disciplines as diverse as literature, architecture/urbanism, neuroscience, economics/foresight, social cognition, complex systems sciences, anthropology, permaculture, social work, clinical psychology, business management, philosophy of science or political science. The reason for this wide-rang interest has to do with its transversal nature as a system for thinking and practicing relationship, collaboration and decision, with applications as diverse as the artistic composition, conflict mediation or teams and projects management.

The AND Method has been transmitted, shared and worked in countries like Brazil, Russia, Netherlands, Chile, Argentina, Germany, England, Ukraine, France and Spain, just to name the most regular. It has also been present in the most prestigious master programs of performance in Europe, such as SoDA Master Programme in Berlin, the Amsterdam Master of Choreography and the Master of Theatre / DasArts both at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor Kunsten, the Masters in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg, the Master E.XE.RC.E in Montpellier, or the new Master in Contemporary Dance in S. Petersburg. It had occasional incursions into doctoral programs, among which are the Neurobiology of Action doctoral program at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown and the doctoral program of Complexity Sciences at ISCTE / Lisbon University Institute.

Tags: composition, collaboration, decision; mediation, creativity, sustainability, theory practice, community; self-organization; emergency

Links: Manifesto AND / Testimonials

Price: 150 Euros

Workload: 30 hours

+ INFO: andlab@re-al.org

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hANDling program November 2012

September 17, 2012 in AND_Lab, Slider, Workshops by David

The hANDling program welcomes the pedagogic initiatives developed by the AND_Lab. What we are looking for in this programme is to activate the minimum environment that enables the conditions for the encounter and to share instruments and modes of making-problem associated to our research Mayhapness.

Mayhapness is an improvisation practice and a collective creation of common landscapes coming from the encounter between the Real Time Composition method developed by the choreographer João Fiadeiro and from the ethnography as a tool for situated performance developed by the anthropologist Fernanda Eugénio. As a “mode of relation”, Mayhapness substitutes the prevailing of the subject, control and manipulation, for an ethic of sufficient handling that transfers the focus to the event emergence.

At the hANDling workshops we try to de-activate the dimensions of predetermination and conditioning that, in general, follow the hierarchical models that establish a stiff and pre-set distinction between “who knows” and “who doesn’t know”. In order to share the modes of operating “common life” defended by Mayhapness – both outside and inside art – we invest in a work of constant attention to transform what is normally felt as resistance into re-existence.

The term handling translates exactly this form of sharing, while proposing two other meanings: underlines the dimension of zeal and care involved in the infinitesimal procedures of handling; and also the capacity to bear and sustain an ethic of living together, which isn’t pre-established but generated collectively and through presence, in the very act of the encounter.

The hANDling program is composed of three platforms of encounter – the workshops hANDling_partyhANDling_tools and hANDling_craft - which unfolds into three different temporal degrees of densities (15h, 30h e 60h). Each of those durations proposes different manners of “growing into the interior” of the research Mayhapness. Even if there are concerns and “gravitational centres” proper to each of these platforms of encounter, the question dwelt in all workshops are the same: “how to live together?”. What distinguishes a workshop from another isn’t the evolutional scale of difficulty (as it happens in pedagogical disciplines for instance) but the alteration of the intensity experienced by the participant through permanence, insistence and duration.

“(…)To replace expectation with waiting, certainty with trust, complaint with commitment, accusation with participation, rigidity with rigor, avoidance with attendance, competition with cooperation, efficacy with sufficiency, the necessary with the precisely needed, conditioning with condition, power with force, abuse with use, manipulation with handling, discarding with repairing.”

in “O encontro é uma ferida” from Fernanda Eugenio and João Fiadeiro

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

João Fiadeiro has distanced himself from choreographic creation, working with the Sciences of Complex Systems, Neuroscience and Anthropology to question different ways of “how to live together”. This led him to the anthropologist Fernanda Eugénio, herself drawn to the performing arts by her growing concern about the omnipresence of relativist interpretivism in the Social Sciences. Their encounter is embodied in the AND_Lab project, sharing procedures, operations and ways of problematising, deriving both from art and science, in the tense relationship between politics, ethics and everyday life.

More information: andlab@re-al.org

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hANDling_tools Workshop Agosto 2012

August 15, 2012 in AND_Lab, Workshops by David

 

Workshop orientado por João Fiadeiro e Fernanda Eugénio entre 27 de Agosto e 01 de Setembro no Atelier Real, em Lisboa.

O workshop Handling_Tools é um projeto que se inscreve no âmbito da programação do AND_Lab, um centro de investigação artística e criatividade científica com sede no Atelier Real em Lisboa e que se afirma enquanto plataforma de partilha de procedimentos, operações e modos de fazer-problema, vindos tanto da arte como da ciência, na relação-tensão entre política, ética e quotidiano.

O workshop Handling_Tools foi desenhado à volta da investigação, da sistematização e da partilha das ferramentas-conceito e do modo operativo daquilo a que chamamos “secalharidade”, uma prática de improvisação e criação colectiva de paisagens de convivência, resultante do encontro entre o método de Composição em Tempo Real desenvolvido pelo coreógrafo João Fiadeiro e da etnografia como ferramenta para performances situadas da antropóloga Fernanda Eugénio.

“Secalharidade” é um “modo de relação” que assenta na substituição do protagonismo do sujeito, do controlo e da manipulação, por uma ética do manuseamento suficiente, que transfere o protagonismo para o Acontecimento. O termo Handling traduz a ideia de “partilha” que atravessa o projeto AND_Lab, propondo ainda dois outros sentidos: salienta a dimensão de zelo e cuidado envolvida nos procedimentos infinitesimais do manuseamento; e ainda a capacidade de “aguentar” e “sustentar” uma ética do viver juntos que não seja dada de antemão, mas gerada colectiva e presencialmente, no próprio ato do encontro.

“Convocar alguém para uma party-cipação envolve ampliar a membrana do “pequeno grupo” e abrirmo-nos a uma conversa sobre os modos de estarmos juntos, na partilha das responsabilidades pelo gerar e pelo gerir do nosso próprio entorno. Mas como usar o que temos para desenhar um território de “partycipação” franco e recíproco, quando o que temos são mecanismos de poder que escoam quase irresistivelmente para a  representação, a demonstração ou a exposição? E estes, a primeira coisa que fazem é imobilizar o outro, em algum grau, na condição de objecto, retirar-lhe a agência e a responsabilidade, cancelar o convite a ele recém-endereçado, organizar o “evento” e suspender a hipótese do acontecimento como acidente emergente e auto-organizativo. Pensamos então testar modos de tornar possível a emergência da  idiorritmia – modos de oferecer ao Outro a possibilidade de nos etnografar a nós, de disponibilizarmo-nos como matéria, como coisa, como combustível a alimentar um campo de forças comum, feito ao mesmo tempo da nossa (nossa e dos outros) autonomia enquanto agentes individuais e da nossa (nossa e dos outros) justa e assumida exposição a relações de co-dependência e reciprocidade. Relações estas que estão sempre a ser (re)feitas, cabendo a nós (a nós e aos outros) tornar o dispositivo que temos numa partycipação no aqui e no agora, mas também numa continuada inclinação à duração. Convocar uma party-cipação envolve oferecemo-nos, mas oferecer também as ferramentas que usamos – dizê-las, praticá-las convosco, expô-las ao vosso manuseamento.”

João Fiadeiro e Fernanda Eugénio

NOTAS BIOGRÁFICAS

O percurso de João Fiadeiro têm-no levado a aproximar-se da investigação através da arte e a distanciar-se, a uma velocidade proporcional, da criação coreográfica. Este movimento, que ganha agora uma dimensão mais formal com a sua colaboração regular com disciplinas como as Ciências dos Sistemas Complexos, a Neurociência ou a Antropologia, esteve sempre latente quer na sua prática enquanto artista, como na forma como desenhou a RE.AL – estrutura que fundou em 1990 – à volta de projetos transversais e laboratoriais. Em qualquer dos casos a sua ambição foi sempre investigar, questionar e experimentar modalidades do “como viver juntos”. E é exatamente essa questão que o leva a encontrar a antropóloga Fernanda Eugénio que, por sua vez, se tem aproximado das artes performativas na sequência de uma crescente inquietação em relação à omnipresença do interpretativismo relativista nas práticas de produção discursiva das Ciências Sociais e àquilo que começou, cada vez mais, a lhe parecer uma neutralização da vivência etnográfica na coerência explicativa do texto e na função-autor assumida pelo investigador.

PUBLICO ALVO

O workshop Handling_Tools está aberto a intervenientes de diversas disciplinas artísticas e científicas, que se interessem e reflitam sobre as questões por nós propostas. Procuramos participantes que se disponibilizem a formular e reformular as perguntas em torno das quais construímos as nossas redes de convivência, seja na arte, seja no quotidiano.

CARGA HORÁRIA: 30 horas

HORÁRIOS

As sessões têm lugar entre as 14:00h e as 19:00h.

PREÇO: 150 euros

Mais informações: andlab@re-al.org

Atelier Real tem alojamento disponível para acolher alguns dos participantes nos workshops.

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Handling_Tools

March 14, 2012 in AND_Lab, Workshops by Jaco

HANDLING_Tools, a two month weekly encounter, is dedicated to transmitting and stimulating the appropriation of the conceptual and operational tools that permit to activate the functioning mode of “mayhapness”. The programme of the course includes an “introductory class” and 10 sessions of  6 hours each, during which the articulations between the dimension of “inhabited philosophy” of concept-tools and the operational dimension of Real Time Composition  will be explored. The course is designed as part of a bigger project of clarification and systematization of a discourse that supports the ethics of the And_lab and will be captured and classified in real time through the use of the experimental software Creation Tools developed by TKB of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, still at the moment in an early testing stage. The aim is to make the concept-tools and the operational mode available in a web platform, to be launched at the same time as the official opening of the And_lab as a research centre in September 2012.

Time: 20March to 29 May 2012 every Tuesday from 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm (total 66 hours)

Target: Without any previous requirement, open to participants from different areas, up to 6 participants to be selected through CV and motivation letter

Atelier Real 20 March – 29 May 2012

Click here to see photos from the Handling_Tools sessions at Atelier Real.

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