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SUMMER SCHOOL – IN PRACTICE

Mending the Invisible (Futures)
with Bojana Kunst and Ivana Müller

Over the past few years, researcher Bojana Kunst and choreographer Ivana Müller have developed the collaborative practice Mending the Invisible in the cities of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Grenoble (France), involving local participants from various fields such as choreography, art, urbanism, poetry, philosophy, anthropology, social work, among others. This practice, which focuses on the idea of “commons” and the importance of generating care networks that nurture and sustain collective imagination, proposes participatory and poetic performative actions of “repair”, during which participants’ living environments are “restored” and “common places” are created through storytelling, which is woven into a collectively imagined map.

This edition of the Summer School IN PRACTICE is inspired by this practice and takes nature, specifically the surroundings of the Centro Ciência Viva do Alviela, as a common. Bojana Kunst and Ivana Müller propose a movement of daily walks to the group of participants, as a simple and democratic practice to explore and collect traces, ideas, objects, and stories connected to the idea of mending and care, that, over the course of the school period, will form a collective map. Being physically present while imagining the future hundreds of years from now is one of the presuppositions to be developed, alongside imagining and sharing ways of thinking, moving and feeling.

In Practice is a summer school focused in the performing arts field, for both artists and researchers, co-organized by Materiais Diversos and the Centre for Theatre Studies (FLUL). Aiming to emphasise and continue the work of blurring the boundaries between theory and practice, with particular attention to the methodologies explored in the context of artistic research, In Practice brings together researchers, students and artists every year for around a week in a programme of creation and thought in the areas of intervention of Materiais Diversos (Minde/Alcanena). The programmes usually focus on a specific practice by an artist invited to share and include their research in a wider discussion.

Registration:
The interested people must fill this form. The applications will be analysed and there will be a selection, considering the diversity and relevance of the profile of the participants in the constitution of a workgroup and in the development of the proposed issues. Multidisciplinarity and intergenerationality will be valued.