Nest & Flock

The third AND Lab Exhibition-Occupation, Nest & Flock, brings to the public a multimodal installation-participatory landscape, made up of objects emerging from the last two years of continued research by Fernanda Eugenio & Coletivo AND as part of the School of Repair, AND Lab's research-creation and artistic-political training programme.

Between 2023 and 2024, the research was dedicated to two modulations of the intimate-collective work of reparation: re-membration (remembrance of the sensitive experience of the inseparability and re-membering of vital realities) and restoration (rest: deep rest, surrender; and re-story-action: self-repair of biographical illusions as a microscopic and situated investment in historical reparation).

Comprising installations, talks, a book launch and performances, the Exhibition-Occupation will be held at Espaço Alkantara from 20 to 22 September. On the 20th, Friday, from 7pm to 10pm, and on the 21st and 22nd, Saturday and Sunday, from 4pm to 10pm. Free entry.

Programme

FRI 20 SET

7pm — 8pm
Launch of the hANDbook (English translation of the AND Book Box)

8.30pm — 9.30pm
Talk: Modus Operandi AND, between artistic research and care practices - curating other possible worlds
with Ana Dinger, Fernanda Eugenio, Carlos Oliveira, Liliana Coutinho and Sílvia Pinto Coelho


SAT 21 SET

4pm — 4.45pm
Guided tour of the Nest & Flock installations with Fernanda Eugenio

5pm — 9pm
Durational activation of the human installation Flock
with Fernanda Eugenio (direction, creation and performance), Ana Corrêa, Bernardo Chatillon, Constança Carvalho Homem, Dai, Henrique Antão, Manoela Rangel, Mariana Pimentel, Nadiana Carvalho (co-creation and performance); Maria Khadidja and Rodrigo Sonoro (live soundscape)

9.30pm — 10pm
Terceiro Corpo (excerpt), performance by/with Mariana Pimentel


DOM 22 SET

4pm — 4.45pm
Guided tour of the textile installation Manual de Sobrevivência para Tempos Irreparáveis with the creators, recent graduates from the António Arroio Art School

5pm — 9pm
Durational activation of the human installation Flock
with Fernanda Eugenio, Ana Corrêa, Bernardo Chatillon, Constança Carvalho Homem, Dai, Henrique Antão, Manoela Rangel, Mariana Pimentel, Nadiana Carvalho, Maria Khadidja and Rodrigo Sonoro

9.30pm — 10pm
É um tipo de magia (excerpt of O que já cá está), performance by/with Bernardo Chatillon

LGP translation available during the guided tours mentioned in the programme. With the exception of the Nest installation, the programme is accessible to people with reduced mobility.

Credits

Creation, curation and direction Fernanda Eugenio Assistance Henrique Antão Co-creation and (video) performance (Nest & Flock) Ana Corrêa, Bernardo Chatillon, Constança Carvalho Homem, Dai, Fernanda Eugenio, Guto Macedo, Henrique Antão, Manoela Rangel, Mariana Pimentel, Milene Duenha, Nadiana Carvalho, Naiá Delion, Pat Bergantin Soundscape (Flock) Maria Khadidja and Rodrigo Sonoro Creation (Manual de Sobrevivência para Tempos Irreparáveis) Andreia Mestre, Assunção Gonçalves, Madalena Carvalheira, Madalena Sousa, Maria Santos, Marta Nunes, Mateus Dias, Matilde Rodrigues, Pedro Rodrigues, Raquel Fonseca, Tatiana Wang, final year students 2023/24 in Textile Arts at Escola Artística António Arroio Orientation (Manual de Sobrevivência para Tempos Irreparáveis) Andreia de Sá, Nuno do Carmo and Orenzio Santi (teachers); Fernanda Eugenio (accompaniment) Guest speakers (hANDbook launch and talk) Ana Dinger, Carlos Oliveira, Liliana Coutinho, Sílvia Pinto Coelho Guided tours Fernanda Eugenio and Coletivo AND; students and teachers Escola Artística António Arroio LGP translation Deolinda Grilo Graphics Alexandre Eugenio Audiovisual recording Gabriela Jung (Brazil) and Inês T. Alves (Portugal) Photography Raquel Pimentel Production and communication Luís Fernandes Management Rita Maia Research-creation residencies Casa Amarela (Guapimirim, Rio de Janeiro); Espaço AND Lab (Lisbon); Trust Collective (Barril de Alva) Hosting Espaço Alkantara Sponsor wine Casa de Mouraz Acknowledgements Sintra Music Conservatory; Laboratory Support Portuguese Republic - Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts; Gaivotas-Boavista Cultural Centre / CML

AND Lab | Research Centre for Art-Thinking & Politics of Togetherness is a practiced research platform dedicated to the continuous unfolding, transmission, sharing and application of the Modus Operandi AND, a methodology of ethical-aesthetic and somatic-political composition to "repair the Irreparable", created by Fernanda Eugenio. Based in Lisbon, AND Lab operates mainly on the Portugal/Brazil axis and combines ways of procedures and interfaces from different artistic fields (performance, dance, theatre, visual arts, site-specific practices, among others) and different areas of activity (anthropology, education and radical pedagogies, clinical psychology of territory, sustainable architecture and agriculture, activism and community mediation).

Fernanda Eugenio is an artist, researcher and educator. Her work involves conceptual creation and expanded performance (body, installation, video, photography and situated propositions). She founded (with João Fiadeiro) and has been running the AND Lab platform since 2011.