* REPAIRING THE IRREPARABLE: MODUS OPERANDI AND - Fernanda Eugénio & Ana Dinger Espaço Jovem / Escola de Dança de Lagos Workshop + Lab
The Modus Operandi AND (MO_AND) is a practical methodology for an ethical-aesthetic, somatic-political and experimental investigation of relations and reciprocity. One condensed way of describing MO_AND is that it consists of a threefold procedure: Re-parar, Reparagem and Reparação. The three dimensions that are embedded in the Portuguese word Reparar: stopping-again; noticing; and repairing/taking care of. Systematized in a set of concept-tools and proposition-games that facilitate the exercise of a consistent articulation between self-care and care for the collective, and between discourse and its realization in gesture, MO_AND engages with the Irreparable by enabling the awareness of both the contingent-impermanent conditions of possibility of each encounter and the political consequences of individual and/or collective positions.
Fernanda Eugenio is an artist, anthropologist, researcher and educator. Her work involves field research, writing, conceptual creation, social intervention, somatic-spiritual practices and expanded performance (body, installation, video, photography and situated propositions). She works in the construction of transversal ways of doing for relational co-positioning, intimate and collective care-curation and creation by re-materialization – namely through the Modus Operandi AND (MO_AND). Her publications, artistic creations and collaborations circulate in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Ana Dinger would rather not define what she does, but she has studied dance and visual arts, as well as art history and theory. From early on she felt uncomfortable with categories, oscillating between theory and practice and often undermining disciplinary constraints. Her academic trajectory includes Escola Superior de Dança, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (graduation in Sculpture) and Universidade Católica Portuguesa (post-graduation in Contemporary Art and ongoing PhD in Culture Studies). Dinger is a researcher affiliated with AND Lab since 2015, and has since followed schools and labs and collaborated in the process of continuous reformulation of Modus Operandi AND.
* GRUPO DE CRÍTICA - João dos Santos Martins Espaço Jovem / Escola de Dança de Lagos Talk
João dos Santos Martins (b.1989, Santarém) has structured his artistic practices between choreography – usually co-created in collective collaboration – and dance, interpreting works by artists such as Moriah Evans, Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon and Ana Rita Teodoro, among others. His interest in dance history’s genealogies, in their transmission processes and the links between practice and discourse led him to create a device for a collective mapping of dance in Portugal, called Para uma Timeline a Haver, alongside Ana Bigotte Vieira, and to found a biannual arts journal, Coreia, dedicated to artists’ writing.
Occasionally, he is also a curator.
* MASTERCLASS - Ana Borralho & João Galante Espaço Jovem / Escola de Dança de Lagos Talk
Ana Borralho & João Galante have been working together since 2002 in performance-art, dance, installation, photography, sound and video. They frequently work on themes related to body-mind, inside-outside, emotion-feeling, I-others, private-public, social-political. Their works have been shown in several portuguese and international festivals since 2004.