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The A MATHA Residency Program: Arts and Sciences in the Study of Experience was born from the desire to expand the research of the A MATHA school into the field of transdisciplinary exchange and knowledge expansion.

A MATHA Residency Program:

Arts and Sciences in the Study of Experiences

Created by Mila Mogui (Camila Valenzuela Moguillansky), researcher and artist with a trajectory spanning biology, neuroscience, yoga, dance, and somatic practices, the school proposes the study of experience as a path to understand the mind, the body, and their relationship with the world.
Mila’s trajectory is traversed by a central question: how do we become conscious, and in what ways does embodiment participate in this process? Mila developed MAP (Multidimensional Approach to Presence), which integrates micro-phenomenology, somatic practices, and artistic expression as a contemplative approach to the study of experience. This investigation guides the school’s work and inspires the residency program: can we create research and creative processes with the body, with listening, with presence, and with the surrounding spaces, within a place where experience becomes practice, reflection, and creation?


In this sense, experience becomes the axis that sustains the program. Understood as the set of perceptual, bodily, and subjective processes that construct our relationship with the world, it is here approached as a living field of research. Among the methodologies used in the residencies for the study of experience are somatic practices, micro-phenomenology, and various artistic expressions. However, these are only some of the many possible ways of investigating the theme. For this reason, the program opens itself to multiple approaches and forms of knowledge around experience.


The Residency Program, coordinated by Mila Mogui, is aimed at researchers of experience and creates space for investigations that use sensoriality, attention, and presence as tools to generate and expand knowledge about the functioning of the body and the mind. The residencies are conceived as spaces dedicated to process development, where bodily practices, languages, methodologies, landscapes, and communities interlace.
The architecture of the school, located in Arraial d’Ajuda, in southern Bahia, between the sea and the Atlantic Forest, also dialogues with the research processes. Its structure is open to wind, light, animals, and the sounds of nature, supporting the investigative processes of the residency. Birds, leaves, rain, and sun flow through the practices, reminding us that paying attention also means being present in relation to the places we inhabit.


Each edition of the A MATHA Residency Program: Arts and Sciences in the Study of Experience proposes a period of shared living and creation, in which residents, school, professionals, and territory weave together, expanding and resignifying knowledge. It is an invitation to inhabit experience.

Practical Information of the Residency Program

Program Coordination

Mila Mogui

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​Structuring the program

Luana Vieira Gonçalves

 

What’s included?

  • Program of activities aligned with the residency theme, with practices, dialogues, and experiences in the territory.

  • Guidance from in-house professionals and guests, with training workshops, supervision, and listening moments.

  • Dialogue with local professionals and communities, fostering exchanges with the territory.

  • Partnerships and interaction with the physical and cultural environment: institutions (like UFSB), nature, local culture, and community.

  • Interaction with other residents, when more than one artist is in the program.

  • Shared infrastructure: kitchen for coffee, tea, and snacks; dance studio (by booking); collective outdoor workspace.

  • Connectivity and comfort: Wi-Fi access, mats for body practices (yoga, gymnastics, etc.).
     

What’s not included?

  • Airfare and transfers

  • Health insurance

  • Food

  • Accommodation
     

Important: The residency operates independently and currently has no sponsorships. Artists may seek support via consulates, national or international grants.

 

Who can apply?

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The program is transdisciplinary and open to anyone aligned with the theme of the residency. Applications are welcome from artists, researchers, and anyone interested in the residency’s central axis: experience as a form of knowledge.

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Physical structure

  • Capacity for up to 5 residents simultaneously

  • Common space with body arts room, open-air work areas integrated with nature
     

Available infrastructure:

  • Institutional Wi-Fi

  • Dance studio (by booking)

  • Bathrooms (in the studio and office)

  • Outdoor shower and taps

  • Outdoor work tables

  • Sound system

  • Shared kitchen with minibar (for coffee, tea, or snacks)
     

 

Resident’s contributions (counterparts)

The residency values respectful exchange with the territory and horizontal relationships with the community. For this reason, it suggests “counterparts” as a way of giving back to the community, by sharing the residency experiences with the surroundings.

Counterparts are not mandatory and are agreed upon with residents, according to their practice and the edition’s context.

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The school proposes some suggestions but remains open to residents’ own proposals.

Depending on each edition, counterparts may include:

  • Open workshops for A MATHA students and local community

  • Cultural presentations and open talks (performances, shows, lectures)

  • Sharing previous works and the process developed during the residency

  • Memory records for the school (texts, videos, photos, artistic actions, practices on site)
     

 

For information, questions, counterpart proposals, or applications, please contact:

E-mail: amatha.escola@gmail.com
WhatsApp: +55 21 98358-4589

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