Workshops
The workshop mode - a hands-on training/learning unit with relative autonomy, eventually brief and whose contents tend towards the specific - is present in Ar.Co since the school’s initial moments. We hardly ever find this designation in the early training programs, but most of the so-called “Open Courses” of the 1970’s are really workshops disguised as “regular training” (maybe because nothing, at that point, had become “regular” yet). The function and objectives of workshops can vary: introduction, thematic synthesis, moment of intensive training, specialization. Still, it constitutes the basic molecular unit of Ar.Co’s artistic training, simultaneously an entryway and a complement, where experimentation by doing is raised to the status of an elementary/ideal learning formula. The ways of conceiving, organizing and developing workshops undergo alterations throughout the school’s forty years of existence (to “participate”, which is vague when compared to actually doing, is today’s assumption), but the relevance of the workshop’s function remains unaltered: to create the spaces where Ar.co can meet with what is outside of it, be it institutions, teachers, techniques, skills or knowledge. The designation sounds particularly right in the AIAS Workshops of October 1992, when Ar.Co was hosting the association’s General Assembly in Lisbon and Manuel Costa Cabral introduced this innovation in the event’s program.
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AIAS Workshops - Drawing. Ar.Co, Lisbon, 1992. Uwe Poth (teacher at Rietveld Academie).
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Polaroid photo workshop (oriented by Jorge Guerra). Ar.Co, 1997.
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Jewellery workshop with Fausto Maria Franchi. Ar.Co, Lisbon, 1998.
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Printing Workshop with Ângelo de Sousa, 2006.
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Jewellery workshop with Christoph Zellweger, 1998.
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Ceramics Workshop with Elsa Figueiredo, 2007.
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Polaroid photo workshop (oriented by Jorge Guerra). Ar.Co, 1997.
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Ceramics Workshop "Empedrado de Nisa", Quinta de S. Miguel, Almada, 2008.
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Jewellery Workshop with Manuel Vilhena, 2012.
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Jewellery Workshop with Paolo Marcolongo, 2012.
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Jewellery Workshop with Paolo Marcolongo, 2012.
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Jewellery Workshop with Paolo Marcolongo, 2012.
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Erotic Comics Workshop with Nuno Saraiva. 2012.
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Documentary Film Workshop at the Gulbenkian Museum with Marcelo Costa and João Dias, 2013.
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Documentary Film Workshop at the Gulbenkian Museum with Marcelo Costa and João Dias, 2013.
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Workshop at the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos, Lisbon, with Marcelo Costa. Drawing/Painting Lab, 2013.
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Workshop-performance with Ana Jotta, Marcelo Costa and students at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, 2013.
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Workshop-performance with Ana Jotta, Marcelo Costa and students at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, 2013.
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Drawing/Painting Workshop-residence at Carpe Diem with Manuel Caldeira and Marcelo Costa, 2014.
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Scientific Drawing workshop with Teodora Boneva at the Museu de História Natural e da Ciência, Lisbon, 2015.
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Drawing workshop “Man and the onion” with artist/jeweller Fausto Maria Franchi. Ar.Co, Lisbon, 2016.
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Drawing workshop “Man and the onion” with artist/jeweller Fausto Maria Franchi. Ar.Co, Lisbon, 2016.
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Scientific Drawing workshop with Teodora Boneva at the Museu de História Natural e da Ciência, Lisbon, 2015.
