The Aboagora Retreat (previously called the Aboagora Pre-symposium) offers Doctoral Researchers in all fields and MA Arts Students a momentary pause in habitual patterns and processes of practice – to share, listen and reflect attentively together.

It implies also retreat from the conventions of boundary-making between disciplines and epistemologies, in order to nurture an ecology of practices. It is a great opportunity to converse with artists and researchers from different fields and backgrounds, and a prospect for new collaborations.

The retreat is organized annually right before the main event, and it is structured around talks and workshops addressing issues and topics related to Aboagora’s theme for the year. The Retreat offers a momentary pause in habitual patterns and processes of practice, and space to share, listen and reflect attentively together for 5-10 participants every year, chosen through an open call. The Retreat theme changes every year to reflect the wider theme of each years’ Aboagora main event.

The open call for the Research Retreat is published annually in the spring.

History

Information on previous Aboagora Research Retreats (previously Pre-Symposium) is available through the links below: