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.
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This edition of the IN PRACTICE — Summer School 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.
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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.
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PRATICAL INFORMATION
Participants: Artists, researchers and students from all disciplinary areas, or anyone interested in collaborative practices.
Maximum of participants: 12
Applications opening: 15th April
Applications: Until 25th May
Evaluation of applications: 26th to 30th May
Communication of the results: 30th May
The sessions will be held in English.
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APPLICATION FEEE
100€ (10% discount for FLUL students)*
Includes all the activities, accommodation**, meals and insurance. Does not include traveling expenses.
*Every year, we offer a scholarship to the IN PRACTICE – Summer School to one person from each of the partner schools:
— Students at the Programme in Theatre Studies or Researchers at the Center for Theatre Studies at FLUL
— Students at the Master’s in Choreographic Creation and Professional Practices at the Superior School of Dance
— Students at any Master’s courses at ESAD.CR – Superior School of Arts and Design, Caldas da Rainha
*If this is your case, please fill in the following fields marked with ✤
**Please note: This year, accommodation will not be provided in a dormitory at the CCVA, as the space will be under construction. There are two options described in the form below.
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REGISTRATION MODE
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.
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ACCESSIBILITY OF THE SPACE
Access to the venue is via Carsoscópio (Carsoscópio – R. do Alviela, 2380-421 Louriceira). Entry to the building is guaranteed by a ramp outside, next to the parking lot. WC: The space has an accessible WC.
Parking: Two parking spaces for people with disabilities are available in front of the Carsoscópio building.
10h-13h ● Arrival and check-in of participants.
13h-14h30 ● Lunch break
14h30-18h ● Getting to know each other and Presenting the practices to develop (auditorium)
19h30 ● Dinner
Wednesday to Friday 9th, 10th and 11th July
10h-13h ● Collective work to schedule according to weather conditions: walks (surroundings)
13h-14h30 ● Lunch break
14h30-18h ● Studio mapping and storytelling (auditorium)
19h30 ● Dinner
Saturday, 12th July
10h-13h ● Collective work to schedule according to weather conditions: walks (surroundings)
13h-14h30 ● Lunch break
14h30-17h30 ● Wrap up
Ivana Müller explores the poetics of language, rethinks the notion of body, movement and voice and their forms of representation, revisits the place of imagination and the imaginary, and questions the idea of “participation” through her choreographic and theatrical work as well as her performances, installations, texts and videos. In her experimental, radical and formally innovative work, she often considers the idea of social choreography. The notion of the collective and collaboration is equally important in Ivana Müller’s approach to artistic practice itself. She often works in collaboration with artists, theorists, writers and gardeners, applying the principles of conversation and other forms of collective writing to the creation of the work. She teaches or has taught frequently, notably at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Université Paris 8, University of the Arts Zürich, University of the Arts Berlin, P.A.R.T.S. Bruxelles, e.x.e.r.c.e de ICI-CCN de Montpellier, CNDC Angers, DAS Theater-Amsterdam, and others.
Bojana Kunst is a theorist of performance, theatre and contemporary dance — with a special focus on the late 20th and 21st centuries — dramaturge and teacher. She is a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, where she heads the international master’s program in Choreography and Performance. She lives between Germany and Slovenia. Her research focuses on the philosophy and theory of performance and dance, the role of the body in performance practice, the relationship between performance and politics and various theoretical and practical aspects of dramaturgy. She is particularly interested in research-oriented alternative and experimental theatrical formats, collaborative and dramaturgical processes in self-organised forms of performance and dance creation. It approaches performance and dance practice as a field of knowledge that can contribute to the way we think, write and produce theory.