This four-day multidisciplinary art retreat invites you to explore the interconnection between bodies: human, animal, vegetal, fungal, and geological. You’ll engage in an embodied, artistic dérive through Budapest’s layered ecologies: rivers, rocks, gardens, and wild urban greens.
Together, we’ll use tools from psychogeography, hydrofeminism, queer mycology, panpsychism, and land-based practices. You’ll create poetic, fragile, and hybrid forms from what surrounds you and what stirs within.
Bring worn notebooks. Half-formed ideas. Old projects that want a second life. This is a space for reuse, composting, and gentle transformation.
Together, we’ll use tools from psychogeography, hydrofeminism, queer mycology, panpsychism, and land-based practices. You’ll create poetic, fragile, and hybrid forms from what surrounds you and what stirs within.
Bring worn notebooks. Half-formed ideas. Old projects that want a second life. This is a space for reuse, composting, and gentle transformation.
daily structure
- Morning session: 10:00–13:00
- Lunch break: 13:00–15:00 (self-organized)
- Afternoon session: 15:00–18:00
themes & locations
Day 1 — WATER
Location: Homoksziget, Göd (Danube Island)
We enter through the river. Fluid, shifting, never still. Water invites us into displacement of perception, position, and identity. We write and walk in response to tides, crossings, dissolutions.
Keywords: hydrofeminism, choreography of thought, permeability, emotion as current
Day 2 — ROCKS
Location: Buda Hills
We listen to stone. We map time through the body. We reflect on density, compression, and the slowness of geology. You’ll be invited to attune to groundedness, friction, and layers.
Keywords: stillness, embodied geology, erosion, time compression
Day 3 — FORESTS
Location: Buda Hills
The forest offers layers: shadow, root, canopy, decay. Here, we meet solitude not as isolation, but as a fertile geography.
Keywords: queer mycology, root systems, peripheral attention, fragmented memory
Day 4 — URBAN ECOLOGY
Location: Füvészkert Botanical Garden & abandoned urban greens
We end in the margins: wild urban weeds, community gardens, and rewilded corners. Plants that crack concrete. Systems that survive without permission.
Keywords: psychogeography, spontaneous ecology, green resistance, organizational models from below, fugitivity
Location: Homoksziget, Göd (Danube Island)
We enter through the river. Fluid, shifting, never still. Water invites us into displacement of perception, position, and identity. We write and walk in response to tides, crossings, dissolutions.
Keywords: hydrofeminism, choreography of thought, permeability, emotion as current
Day 2 — ROCKS
Location: Buda Hills
We listen to stone. We map time through the body. We reflect on density, compression, and the slowness of geology. You’ll be invited to attune to groundedness, friction, and layers.
Keywords: stillness, embodied geology, erosion, time compression
Day 3 — FORESTS
Location: Buda Hills
The forest offers layers: shadow, root, canopy, decay. Here, we meet solitude not as isolation, but as a fertile geography.
Keywords: queer mycology, root systems, peripheral attention, fragmented memory
Day 4 — URBAN ECOLOGY
Location: Füvészkert Botanical Garden & abandoned urban greens
We end in the margins: wild urban weeds, community gardens, and rewilded corners. Plants that crack concrete. Systems that survive without permission.
Keywords: psychogeography, spontaneous ecology, green resistance, organizational models from below, fugitivity
this retreat is for you if you wish to
- Work with nature without needing to define it
- Explore the fluidity of perception and expression
- Create beyond productivity or performance
- Shift from extraction to co-presence
- Discover the choreography of thought in walking, pausing, writing
- Compost your notes, objects, and gestures into something new
for whom
Artists, writers, educators, activists, creative souls, and sensitive practitioners working with the body, land, memory, or transformation. No previous experience with art or writing is needed.
frame
While our retreats provide valuable opportunities for self-reflection and sharing, it's important to understand that these are creative, not therapeutic, spaces. Our focus is on artistic exploration, personal growth, and community building through art education, empowerment, and transformation.
Please also note that our space is not equipped for explicit discussions of trauma. We kindly ask all participants to be mindful and avoid over-sharing sensitive personal experiences. At the School of Disobedience, we celebrate responsibility and respect for each participant's emotional journey and availability.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in maintaining a supportive and enriching environment for all.
Please also note that our space is not equipped for explicit discussions of trauma. We kindly ask all participants to be mindful and avoid over-sharing sensitive personal experiences. At the School of Disobedience, we celebrate responsibility and respect for each participant's emotional journey and availability.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in maintaining a supportive and enriching environment for all.
your facilitator
Ráhel Csizmadia – Researcher, Artist, and Author.
She holds a BA and MA in Psychology from ELTE-PPK and is currently a PhD candidate in the Theoretical Psychoanalysis program at the University of Pécs, where she researches the relationship between subjective experience and space through an interdisciplinary lens.
Ráhel is a trusted and regular collaborator of the School of Disobedience, where she holds spaces for artistic exploration, individual growth, and collective unfolding. Her focus lies in somatic and experimental writing, and the extended field of subjective map-making. She writes, reads and performs, works with ceramics, and wanders.
She holds a BA and MA in Psychology from ELTE-PPK and is currently a PhD candidate in the Theoretical Psychoanalysis program at the University of Pécs, where she researches the relationship between subjective experience and space through an interdisciplinary lens.
Ráhel is a trusted and regular collaborator of the School of Disobedience, where she holds spaces for artistic exploration, individual growth, and collective unfolding. Her focus lies in somatic and experimental writing, and the extended field of subjective map-making. She writes, reads and performs, works with ceramics, and wanders.