"The School of Disobedience is not only a place to learn, it is also a place to unlearn. To decondition, to deprogram, to loosen inherited habits of seeing and making. It is a disruptive, progressive, transformative space that challenges traditional academic art education and rethinks the very idea of "learning". Here, theory meets intuition, concept meets emotion.
We study, but we also feel.
We think, but we also attend, intend, and listen.
We value trying.
We honour falling and failing.
We practice doing, making, attempting, experimenting, because learning is not the accumulation of correctness,
but the cultivation of courage.
At the School of Disobedience, you do not only create artworks: you also create conditions, methods, and possibilities. We accompany you in becoming a daring architect of your own path: an inventor of languages, a disruptor of norms, an amplified, subversive voice, an experimental risk-taker. Here, ideas take form. Dreams demand space. Visions insist on action, and find their way into the world."
—Anna Ádám
Founder of the School of Disobedience
Here, we don’t just make art.
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Founded by Anna Ádám, the School of Disobedience is an independent, artist-run school based in Hungary. A place to research, create, produce, show, and (un)learn performance art and creative writing. A living ecosystem that disrupts, questions, and reinvents. A playground for testing bold ideas, practicing experimental and embodied research, and engaging in collaborative creation. A shared garden where poetic, fragile, and hybrid forms sprout, take shape, and claim their space.
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Three forces shape our practice:
1. EDUCATION
We teach by doing.
A living curriculum rooted in performance art, community art, and experimental writing.
From modular performance masterclasses to a three-month somatic writing program — a space to research, experiment, and build your artistic independence.
2. EMPOWERMENT
Not motivation. Not inspiration. Agency.
We cultivate confidence, criticality, and voice — online and in person.
Tools for standing, speaking, choosing, and daring.
Skills that stay with you long after the classroom.
3. TRANSFORMATION
Four-day immersive retreats and ten-day residencies where daily noise dissolves and attention returns to body, land, and imagination.
A shift in rhythm.
A re-entry into authenticity and depth.
You come back changed — quietly, radically.
1. EDUCATION
We teach by doing.
A living curriculum rooted in performance art, community art, and experimental writing.
From modular performance masterclasses to a three-month somatic writing program — a space to research, experiment, and build your artistic independence.
2. EMPOWERMENT
Not motivation. Not inspiration. Agency.
We cultivate confidence, criticality, and voice — online and in person.
Tools for standing, speaking, choosing, and daring.
Skills that stay with you long after the classroom.
3. TRANSFORMATION
Four-day immersive retreats and ten-day residencies where daily noise dissolves and attention returns to body, land, and imagination.
A shift in rhythm.
A re-entry into authenticity and depth.
You come back changed — quietly, radically.
OUR OFFER
art education
PERFORMANCE ART
CREATIVE WRITING
- Modular one-month masterclasses (Budapest)
CREATIVE WRITING
- Three-month Masterclass in English (Budapest)
- Five-year program in Hungarian (Budapest)
- Modular online program
empowerment
INDIVIDUAL MENTORING
Artist-to-artist guidance to build your path, shape your methods, and design a sustainable artistic life.
ART & BUSINESS
Tools to structure your vision, sustain your practice, and transform ideas into livelihood without losing integrity.
FACILITATORS TRAINING
Learn how to hold space with ethics, rigor, presence, and imagination. For those who want to lead without dominating, and support without rescuing.
FIGHT CLUB
A tender arena for radical care.
A place to grow boundaries, strength, clarity, and courage. Soft power, sharp mind, grounded voice.
Artist-to-artist guidance to build your path, shape your methods, and design a sustainable artistic life.
ART & BUSINESS
Tools to structure your vision, sustain your practice, and transform ideas into livelihood without losing integrity.
FACILITATORS TRAINING
Learn how to hold space with ethics, rigor, presence, and imagination. For those who want to lead without dominating, and support without rescuing.
FIGHT CLUB
A tender arena for radical care.
A place to grow boundaries, strength, clarity, and courage. Soft power, sharp mind, grounded voice.
transformation
ART RETREATS
Short 4-day retreats at Lake Balaton (Hungary) every summer — to rest and reset, connect and share, get inspired and create.
RESIDENCIES 10 days in Budapest to deepen your research. You receive space, guidance, and structure to refine your language, strengthen your method, and let your practice grow in its own direction.
Short 4-day retreats at Lake Balaton (Hungary) every summer — to rest and reset, connect and share, get inspired and create.
RESIDENCIES 10 days in Budapest to deepen your research. You receive space, guidance, and structure to refine your language, strengthen your method, and let your practice grow in its own direction.
WHAT SETS US APART?
- Choose your language: Study with us in English or in Hungarian
- Small groups
- Focus on both learning and unlearning
- Flexible commitment: from 4-day retreats to 10-day resodencies or month-long masterclasses
- Multidisciplinary approach: integrate various art forms and methods
- Student-centered: programs tailored around each student's unique project
- Confidence building: Enhance self-confidence and self-esteem
- Diverse settings: Experience city life or countryside environments
- Collaborations & Networking: Engage in numerous collaborations and expand your professional network.
- Regular public performance opportunities: Showcase your work and gain valuable feedbacks.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
"Here, we make space for voices that do not fit, for marginal aesthetics and unruly practices, for visions that disturb comfort and interrupt consensus. Here, we challenge the milieu, the academy, the institution, the gatekeeper — those who guard the canon, police taste, and claim authority over value.
We support artists who risk invention — who forge alternative and experimental languages, who confront dominant aesthetic regimes and ready-made ideologies. Not to decorate the world as it is, but to unsettle it.
Not to inherit without question, but to reform radically, reinvent profoundly.
In short: Dream. Act. Assume.
Revolution not the world, first, revolution yourself."
—Anna Ádám
Founder of the School of Disobedience
The School of Disobedience is a journey.
A slow and attentive transformation — from self-exploration to self-acceptance, from self-doubt to self-trust, from self-censorship to self-liberation.
We accompany you — but you walk your own path.
The School of Disobedience is a springboard.
We do not offer careers; we offer capacity:
tools, rigor, methods, and a mindset
to claim your agency, shape your practice,
and create your own opportunities instead of waiting for permission.
The School of Disobedience is a laboratory.
A protected space for experimentation and risk,
where failure is method, curiosity is discipline,
and ideas become actions — messy, urgent, generous, embodied.
The School of Disobedience is an oasis.
A counter-space to pressure, comparison, and spectacle. Here we unlearn inherited models --
family scripts, institutional habits, cultural obedience — to make room for sincerity, depth, courage, and complexity.
The School of Disobedience is a new form of resistance.
An antidote to fast art, a collective healing garden, an ode to sincerity and courage, a passionate and radical platform for simple actions and profound changes.
A slow and attentive transformation — from self-exploration to self-acceptance, from self-doubt to self-trust, from self-censorship to self-liberation.
We accompany you — but you walk your own path.
The School of Disobedience is a springboard.
We do not offer careers; we offer capacity:
tools, rigor, methods, and a mindset
to claim your agency, shape your practice,
and create your own opportunities instead of waiting for permission.
The School of Disobedience is a laboratory.
A protected space for experimentation and risk,
where failure is method, curiosity is discipline,
and ideas become actions — messy, urgent, generous, embodied.
The School of Disobedience is an oasis.
A counter-space to pressure, comparison, and spectacle. Here we unlearn inherited models --
family scripts, institutional habits, cultural obedience — to make room for sincerity, depth, courage, and complexity.
The School of Disobedience is a new form of resistance.
An antidote to fast art, a collective healing garden, an ode to sincerity and courage, a passionate and radical platform for simple actions and profound changes.
month-long masterclass
You can enroll in as many Masterclasses as you wish to tailor your learning experience—anywhere from one to all seven! Each Masterclass delves into a specific aspect of Performance Art offering deep, focused exploration.
10-day residency program
A space to withdraw, to focus, to go deeper.
Our residencies offer time, structure, and artistic companionship for those developing new performance or text-based works.
A temporary home for research and creation including accommodation, studio access, 3 dramaturgical consultations, public sharing, documentation.
Our residencies offer time, structure, and artistic companionship for those developing new performance or text-based works.
A temporary home for research and creation including accommodation, studio access, 3 dramaturgical consultations, public sharing, documentation.
online writing program
Seeking an exclusively online program you can attend at your own pace?
Learn More about our ONLINE Somatic & Experimental Writing Program!
Learn More about our ONLINE Somatic & Experimental Writing Program!
facilitators training
Looking for a mix of online and intensive in-person training to empower you with skills, knowledge, and tools to become an effective and transformative facilitator?
Learn More about our hybrid Facilitators Training Program!
Learn More about our hybrid Facilitators Training Program!
fight club
Looking for a soft space for radical care and empowerment to develop self-confidence, physical and mental resilience?
Learn More about our monthly Fight Clubs!
Learn More about our monthly Fight Clubs!
creative entrepreneurship for artists
Instead of years of wandering alone, you receive orientation, perspective, and tested methods, so you can act with precision, not chance. Not “become successful,” but become sovereign in your artistic path. Here, entrepreneurial skills are not about branding yourself, they are about freedom: to choose, to create, to continue.