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OCTOBER (Hungary):
- Very Early Bird: before August 1st - 2 places:
Application process: here
- 8 x 1 week-long module (Part time or Full time)
- Flexible commitment: Attendees can register independently for each 1-week-long module
- For each module, you can choose between "Full time" (6h / day) or "Part time" (3h / day)
- October 2-30: Hungary
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- November 8-29: France
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- December 6-19: On-line
Fees:
OCTOBER (Hungary):
- Very Early Bird: before August 1st - 2 places:
- Work exchange for free tuition
- Part time: 25 000 HUF (75€) / module (15h, every day from 15-18h)
- Full time: 50 000 HUF (150€) / module (30h, every day from 12-18h)
- Part time: 100 000 HUF (280€) / 4 modules (4 weeks, 60h)
- Full time: 200 000 HUF (560€) / 4 modules (4 weeks, 120h)
- Part time: 35 000 HUF (100€) / module (15h, every day from 15-18h)
- Full time: 70 000 HUF (200€) / module (30h, every day from 12-18h)
Application process: here
pedagogical content
Join our radical, critical and anti-canonical Art School, Fight Club for women empowerment and Healing Center, open for all women.
Through creations, experiences, rituals, celebrations, community building activities, festival making practices and public showings, we will truly and honestly encourage you to:
Through creations, experiences, rituals, celebrations, community building activities, festival making practices and public showings, we will truly and honestly encourage you to:
- Develop self-confidence, find your own artistic voice and personal aesthetic;
- Liberate yourself from your fears, transgress your boundaries, go beyond your limits and push yourself out of your comfort zone;
- Dare to be you: defy self-doubt, fearlessly follow your own path and be confidently yourself!
modules
OCTOBER 4-8: "The healing garden" - HUNGARY
Dates: October 4-8: Part time (3h/day) or Full time (6h/day) with + Final public performance / ritual...
Venue: permaculture garden (Open Garden / Nyitott Kert) Association)
Related topics: healing, care, joy, serenity, gratitude, wellbeing, trust, vulnerability, mutual respect, love, temptation, freedom and desire
Art forms: contemporary dance, performance, ritual, ceremony, blessing, land-art, art in nature, participative performance
Unlearning facilitators & Collaborations: ZeroPlusz Dance Studio (Contemporary dance, Composition), Vincent Liegey (Politics & Ecology), Anna Adam (Performance, Rituals-Celebrations), Judit Kis (Healing, Care), Open Garden / Nyitott Kert Association (Gardening)
Description: Let’s imagine, create and make together a series of performances, dances, rituals, ceremonies, blessings and celebrations in a wild and secret garden. Let’s explore the garden as a “healing center”, a grenier of joy, serenity, wellbeing, trust, mutual respect and love. Let’s discover how nature can empower us, and how a garden can become a political soft-space of self-liberation and resistance. Let’s celebrate temptation, freedom and desire. Let’s dream of a common utopia, let’s build a simple, humble and generous community.
Venue: permaculture garden (Open Garden / Nyitott Kert) Association)
Related topics: healing, care, joy, serenity, gratitude, wellbeing, trust, vulnerability, mutual respect, love, temptation, freedom and desire
Art forms: contemporary dance, performance, ritual, ceremony, blessing, land-art, art in nature, participative performance
Unlearning facilitators & Collaborations: ZeroPlusz Dance Studio (Contemporary dance, Composition), Vincent Liegey (Politics & Ecology), Anna Adam (Performance, Rituals-Celebrations), Judit Kis (Healing, Care), Open Garden / Nyitott Kert Association (Gardening)
Description: Let’s imagine, create and make together a series of performances, dances, rituals, ceremonies, blessings and celebrations in a wild and secret garden. Let’s explore the garden as a “healing center”, a grenier of joy, serenity, wellbeing, trust, mutual respect and love. Let’s discover how nature can empower us, and how a garden can become a political soft-space of self-liberation and resistance. Let’s celebrate temptation, freedom and desire. Let’s dream of a common utopia, let’s build a simple, humble and generous community.
OCTOBER 12-16: "let it go" - HUNGARY
Dates: October 12-16: Part time (15-18h) or Full time (12-18h) with final public performance / ritual / exhibition / concert / dj set...
Venues:
Art forms:
Description:
Many people hold back from connecting deeply to others, engage in serious relationships or fall in love because they are afraid of being blessed, rejected, feeling themselves worthless, not wanted or accepted. But what if you choose to view breakups and rejections as one of life’s greatest gifts? What if you opened yourself up to look for its hidden benefits? Rejection doesn’t define you, how you respond does! See rejection for what it is: an incredible opportunity for growth and renewal.
Venues:
- art gallery (ISBN Gallery, Budapest, HU)
- dance studio
Art forms:
- with Anna Makay: electronic music, sound scapes, sound installation, dj set...
- with Roland Korponovics: performance, installation, video, photo, digital art...
- wit Anna Adam: performance, fight
Description:
Many people hold back from connecting deeply to others, engage in serious relationships or fall in love because they are afraid of being blessed, rejected, feeling themselves worthless, not wanted or accepted. But what if you choose to view breakups and rejections as one of life’s greatest gifts? What if you opened yourself up to look for its hidden benefits? Rejection doesn’t define you, how you respond does! See rejection for what it is: an incredible opportunity for growth and renewal.
October 19-24: "WILDFLOWERS FESTIVAL" - HUNGARY
Dates: October 19-24: Part time (16-19h) or Full time (12-19h)
Venues:
Unlearning facilitators: Anna Adam (Performance, Creation), Zsuzsanna Baranyák (Plastic surgeon), Alternative Women's Day (Festival making, Curating, Programming...)
Description:
The "Wildflowers Festival" is all about unconditional acceptance and love of our own bodies, learning to feel good in our own skin, coming to terms with our kilos, blemishes, shapes, age, sizes... Let's call a spade a spade, let's talk about taboos, let's break down inhibitions, eradicate purity culture and normalize female pleasure! Let this be a celebration of acceptance, a festival of the beauty of difference!
From 19 to 22 October, we're working on the festival programme: we're inventing performances, organizing events...
From 23 to 24 October we will open the festival to the public (thematic performances, workshops, rituals, coaching sessions...)
Activities:
Venues:
- art gallery (ISBN Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest, HU)
- public spaces
Unlearning facilitators: Anna Adam (Performance, Creation), Zsuzsanna Baranyák (Plastic surgeon), Alternative Women's Day (Festival making, Curating, Programming...)
Description:
The "Wildflowers Festival" is all about unconditional acceptance and love of our own bodies, learning to feel good in our own skin, coming to terms with our kilos, blemishes, shapes, age, sizes... Let's call a spade a spade, let's talk about taboos, let's break down inhibitions, eradicate purity culture and normalize female pleasure! Let this be a celebration of acceptance, a festival of the beauty of difference!
From 19 to 22 October, we're working on the festival programme: we're inventing performances, organizing events...
From 23 to 24 October we will open the festival to the public (thematic performances, workshops, rituals, coaching sessions...)
Activities:
- Programming, organizing: Make a festival
- Curating: Make an exhibition
- Creating, showing, presenting: Performing arts (movement, dance, choreography, performance, voice, spoken words...), Visual arts...
october 26-30: "HAPPINESS CLINIC" - HUNGARY
Dates: October 26-30: Part time (16-19h) or Full time (12-19h) + Individual public performances and seances
Venue: art gallery (ISBN Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest, HU)
Related topics: Localness, community, slowness, anti-fast art, community art, New Age, holistic and spiritual beliefs and healing practices, contemporary pagan perspectives, cultural imperialism, cultural appropriation, plastic shaman, plastic medicine people, happiness, joy, positivity, community, connection, human interactions, presence
Art forms: Mixing performance art forms (eg. ceremony, ritual, promenade, multi-sensorial experience, collective actions, gathering, public intervention, celebration, party...) with wellbeing, healing or therapeutic practices (eg. naturopathy, aromatherapy, relaxation, dietetics, massage, reflexology, meditation, hair care, body care, ayurvedic care, stretching, pilates, tai chi chuan...), creating interactive and participative forms, simple, humble and generous actions, public space interventions...
Unlearning facilitators: Zsuzsanna Zsuró (Queer Budapest, Art researcher and Curator), Zsuzsanna Iricsek (Economics, Geopolitics), dr. Katalin Lőrinc (Dancer, Lecturer), Anna Adam (Performance, Creation)
Description:
In reaction to the devastating impacts of current social, economic, ecological and public health disasters on mental health, participants create a “Happiness Clinic”, a pop-up ephemeral clinic, which offers artistic treatments, cures, cares and therapies, in form of short, individual "performance-consultations" (seances) to celebrate joy, happiness, and spread positivity in today's uncertain world. During one whole day the “Happiness Clinic” opens its fictional doors, and participants will encourage the public to participate in short, one-on-one, interactive "performance-consultaions". Curated alongside three axes (“Care”, “Creation”, “Connection”), participants'' "performance-consultations" will cope with a variety of mental health and psychological problems, such as stress, anxiety, insomnia, denial and fear, caused by today's social, economical, ecological and public health disasters. All "performance-consultations" will mix a performance art form (eg. ceremony, ritual, promenade, multi-sensorial experience, collective actions, gathering, public intervention, celebration, party...) with a wellbeing, healing or therapeutic practice (eg. naturopathy, aromatherapy, relaxation, dietetics, massage, reflexology, meditation, hair care, body care, ayurvedic care, stretching, pilates, tai chi chuan...). All of them are participatory, and engage actively the public.
Venue: art gallery (ISBN Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest, HU)
Related topics: Localness, community, slowness, anti-fast art, community art, New Age, holistic and spiritual beliefs and healing practices, contemporary pagan perspectives, cultural imperialism, cultural appropriation, plastic shaman, plastic medicine people, happiness, joy, positivity, community, connection, human interactions, presence
Art forms: Mixing performance art forms (eg. ceremony, ritual, promenade, multi-sensorial experience, collective actions, gathering, public intervention, celebration, party...) with wellbeing, healing or therapeutic practices (eg. naturopathy, aromatherapy, relaxation, dietetics, massage, reflexology, meditation, hair care, body care, ayurvedic care, stretching, pilates, tai chi chuan...), creating interactive and participative forms, simple, humble and generous actions, public space interventions...
Unlearning facilitators: Zsuzsanna Zsuró (Queer Budapest, Art researcher and Curator), Zsuzsanna Iricsek (Economics, Geopolitics), dr. Katalin Lőrinc (Dancer, Lecturer), Anna Adam (Performance, Creation)
Description:
In reaction to the devastating impacts of current social, economic, ecological and public health disasters on mental health, participants create a “Happiness Clinic”, a pop-up ephemeral clinic, which offers artistic treatments, cures, cares and therapies, in form of short, individual "performance-consultations" (seances) to celebrate joy, happiness, and spread positivity in today's uncertain world. During one whole day the “Happiness Clinic” opens its fictional doors, and participants will encourage the public to participate in short, one-on-one, interactive "performance-consultaions". Curated alongside three axes (“Care”, “Creation”, “Connection”), participants'' "performance-consultations" will cope with a variety of mental health and psychological problems, such as stress, anxiety, insomnia, denial and fear, caused by today's social, economical, ecological and public health disasters. All "performance-consultations" will mix a performance art form (eg. ceremony, ritual, promenade, multi-sensorial experience, collective actions, gathering, public intervention, celebration, party...) with a wellbeing, healing or therapeutic practice (eg. naturopathy, aromatherapy, relaxation, dietetics, massage, reflexology, meditation, hair care, body care, ayurvedic care, stretching, pilates, tai chi chuan...). All of them are participatory, and engage actively the public.
november 8-12: "Who is the boss?" - FRANCE
Dates: November 8-12: 14-17h / day (15h / week)
Venue:
Art forms: dance, performance, choreography, movement research
Unlearning facilitator: Anna Adam (Performance, Creation)
Description:
Why are people so willing to humiliate people from other social groups? What are the factors responsible for psychological and physical aggression? What are those aspects of human nature which lead to social exclusion? What are the cognitive, affective and motivational components of intergroup brutality? How can we resist, protest and fight against domination and oppression? What are our tools and how can we use them?
Through discussions (based on readings, life experience, self-examination) and practical application (creation of performance, dance, choreography…) we will trace the history of different forms and levels of domination, including institutional, interpersonal, and unconscious, their similarities and differences. We will discuss the experience of living with alienation, whether it is due to race, sex, sexuality, class, ethnicity, religion or an intersection of these, the ways in which the theoretical texts we discovered relate to our personal experiences and to socio-political contexts, and we create in response concrete actions, activist performances and politically engaged body-works.
Venue:
- Maubuisson Abbey - Regional Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône (FR)
- Dance Studio
Art forms: dance, performance, choreography, movement research
Unlearning facilitator: Anna Adam (Performance, Creation)
Description:
Why are people so willing to humiliate people from other social groups? What are the factors responsible for psychological and physical aggression? What are those aspects of human nature which lead to social exclusion? What are the cognitive, affective and motivational components of intergroup brutality? How can we resist, protest and fight against domination and oppression? What are our tools and how can we use them?
Through discussions (based on readings, life experience, self-examination) and practical application (creation of performance, dance, choreography…) we will trace the history of different forms and levels of domination, including institutional, interpersonal, and unconscious, their similarities and differences. We will discuss the experience of living with alienation, whether it is due to race, sex, sexuality, class, ethnicity, religion or an intersection of these, the ways in which the theoretical texts we discovered relate to our personal experiences and to socio-political contexts, and we create in response concrete actions, activist performances and politically engaged body-works.
NOVEMBER 22-26: "FEAR AND THE UNKNOWN"- FRANCE
Dates: November 22-26: 10-13h / day (15h / week)
Venue:
Art forms: dance, performance, choreography, movement research
Unlearning facilitator: Anna Adam (Performance, Creation)
Description:
Through discussions (based on readings, life experience, self-examination) and practical application (movement research, performance, choreography making, drawing, creative writing…) you will be introduced to the topic of fear in different contexts:
Venue:
- Maubuisson Abbey - Regional Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône (FR)
- Dance Studio
Art forms: dance, performance, choreography, movement research
Unlearning facilitator: Anna Adam (Performance, Creation)
Description:
Through discussions (based on readings, life experience, self-examination) and practical application (movement research, performance, choreography making, drawing, creative writing…) you will be introduced to the topic of fear in different contexts:
- Fear at work: failure, rejection, judgment
- Fear in the street: domination, oppression, violence
- Fear in the heart: love, relations, emotions
- Fear in the bed: sexualities, desires, fantasies
- Fear in the mind: the unusual, the unexpected, the unknown, the unsaid
November 22-26: "UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA"- FRANCE
Dates: November 22-26: 14-17h / day (15h / week)
Venue:
Art forms: dance, performance, choreography, movement research
Unlearning facilitator: Anna Adam (Performance, Creation)
Description:
Through the exploration of nature and environment, power and society, speculative fiction and eco-criticism, we will dress the limits and possibilities of how art is able to respond and to challenge the anthropocentric conundrum. We examine our personal and professional engagements with nature, rethink and redefine the concept of human, non-human, animal, and vegetal. During this class, we place equal weight on critical theory and artistic creation, develop ideas and fluency. We will observe our relationship with nature, our engagement with ecology, our psychosocial impacts of climate change (eg. scepticisme, denial, critical rejection, anxiety, indifference, panic...).
Venue:
- Maubuisson Abbey - Regional Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône (FR)
- Dance Studio
Art forms: dance, performance, choreography, movement research
Unlearning facilitator: Anna Adam (Performance, Creation)
Description:
Through the exploration of nature and environment, power and society, speculative fiction and eco-criticism, we will dress the limits and possibilities of how art is able to respond and to challenge the anthropocentric conundrum. We examine our personal and professional engagements with nature, rethink and redefine the concept of human, non-human, animal, and vegetal. During this class, we place equal weight on critical theory and artistic creation, develop ideas and fluency. We will observe our relationship with nature, our engagement with ecology, our psychosocial impacts of climate change (eg. scepticisme, denial, critical rejection, anxiety, indifference, panic...).
November 30 - December 4: "RIGHT FOR FIGHT" - FRANCE
Dates: November 30 - December 4: 14-17h / day (15h / week)
Venue:
Art forms: dance, performance, choreography, movement research
Unlearning facilitator: Anna Adam (Performance, Creation)
Description:
Through the practice of battle, fight, physical movement improvisation, in this “Fight Club” you will be encouraged you to raise your voice, echo freely the broader socio-political context, challenge hegemonic class, gender, normative behaviors, and dominant ideologies, develop your capacities to resist, protest, revolt, fight against oppression: make a first action towards sustainable changes.
Venue:
- Maubuisson Abbey - Regional Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône (FR)
- Dance Studio
Art forms: dance, performance, choreography, movement research
Unlearning facilitator: Anna Adam (Performance, Creation)
Description:
Through the practice of battle, fight, physical movement improvisation, in this “Fight Club” you will be encouraged you to raise your voice, echo freely the broader socio-political context, challenge hegemonic class, gender, normative behaviors, and dominant ideologies, develop your capacities to resist, protest, revolt, fight against oppression: make a first action towards sustainable changes.
class activities
- CREATION: performance/dance/choreography making, narrating and composing through structured improvisation and movement, scenography/installation, electronic music/dj set;
- RESEARCH: talks, readings, screenings, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources;
- COMMUNITY: making a festival (organizing, programming, curating, creating, performing, exposing…), building sustainable communities, care-healing-rituals, conscious clubbing;
- FIGHT CLUB: battles, physical & mental fights, self-confidence, empowerment, self-care, self-love, collaboration/cooperation.
students' learning outcomes
Creativity, generosity, sincerity
Risk taking, challenging the unknown
Curiosity, openmindness
Self-confidence, self-expression
- Create new art projects with diverse forms (performance, dance, visual arts, music...)
- Make a festival
- Create a "Happiness Clinic"
- Build sustainable communities
Risk taking, challenging the unknown
- Mix different artistic forms and expressions (performance, dance, acting, puppet theater, creative writing in different forms (poetry, manifest, comics, diary...), drawing, paining, collage, video, photo, installation art, multimedia art,...);
- Experiment with different methodologies and techniques of creation (narrating and composing through structured-improvisation, movement research through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources....)
Curiosity, openmindness
- Aquire the ability to think and act freely and critically;
- Get briefly introduced to some theoretical concepts linked to the class topic (feminism, oppression, domination, exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, violence, cultural appropriation...)
Self-confidence, self-expression
- Accentuate your uniqueness, develop out-of-the-box thinking;
- Create your own artistic voice and personal aesthetic;
- Liberate yourself from your fears, transgress your boundaries, go beyond your limits and push yourself out of your comfort zone;
- Dare to be you: defy self-doubt, fearlessly follow your own path and be confidently yourself!
staff
- Unlearning facilitators:
Roland Korponovics (Visual Arts, Digital Art, Installation)
dr. Katalin Lőrinc (Dancer, Lecturer)
Judit Kis (Healing, Care)
Anna Makay (Electronic music, Dj, Soundscapes)
Zsuzsanna Zsuró (Queer Budapest, Art researcher and Curator)
Zsuzsanna Baranyák (Plastic surgeon, Anatomy-Sexuality)
Open Garden / Nyitott Kert Association (Politics, Ecology)
ZeroPlus Dance Studio (Contemporary dance, Composition, Choreography)
Eden Tinto Collins (Artist Transmedia)
Alternative Women's Day (Festival making, Curating, Programming...)
- Partners & Collaborations:
Maubuisson Abbey / Theater & Contemporary Art Center (FR)
ISBN Contemporary Art Gallery (HU)
Open Garden / Nyitott Kert Association (HU)
Zero Plus Dance Studio (HU)
Budapest Capital 8th District (HU)
- Program coordinators:
