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In the "School is Disobedience" we will not teach to you to break the law, we will neither burn the civil code nor the Bible, we will not encourage you spitting on a police officer, insulting security guards, using verbal or physical violence, aggressiveness, brutality, vandalism, we will definitely not telling you to steal, cheat or lie at all, at all, at all! Quite the opposite...
We will teach you respect, empathy, open-mindedness, and tolerance towards difference and divergence. We will insist on authenticity, sincerity, generosity: we believe in you, we believe in your art, go further and further, make people be impacted by. We will encourage you to be honest and engaged, simple, humble and generous, free and independent, confident and strong. We will guide you to create meaningful and powerful art with a very personal, original and outstanding point of view.
We will develop your capacity of resisting, defying and revolting in two steps:
We will teach you respect, empathy, open-mindedness, and tolerance towards difference and divergence. We will insist on authenticity, sincerity, generosity: we believe in you, we believe in your art, go further and further, make people be impacted by. We will encourage you to be honest and engaged, simple, humble and generous, free and independent, confident and strong. We will guide you to create meaningful and powerful art with a very personal, original and outstanding point of view.
We will develop your capacity of resisting, defying and revolting in two steps:
- During the first part of the program, we will encourage you to disobey to yourself, step out of your comfort zone, overcame your barriers, break your personal rules both in the mind and in the body. Many of us are engaged in self-destructive behaviors that have become habits. In both our personal and professional lives, we sometimes find ways to damage or destroy ourselves physically, mentally, or emotionally. At times we deliberately prevent our own success and overall well-being. Let's recognize self-sabotaging habits. Let's try to understand it, identify root causes. Let's take time for self-reflection. Let's disobey to our fears, negative thoughts, counterproductive beliefs, and harmful emotions. Let's find your inner positive voice. Fight against and disobey to your pattern of behavior and habits. Make small but meaningful changes. Set personal and professional goals and make beautiful plans. Realize your dreams.
- During the second part of the program, we will teach you to disobey to others' gaze, judgements and expectations. Free yourself from your class, from your position, from your social status! Stop wanting to prove yourself to the art world, to be validated with an institution, stop using terminologies and theoretical references just because it is "required". Stop being manipulated by the market, stop creating for open calls, stop adapting your art, stop responding to trends. Resist, defy, revolt! We will teach you not to look for what looks good, what’s nice, what will the audience like, how will teachers and professionals react, what will the others think about. We will always tell you to do only what you personally like and believe in. To be concerned with what you want to say instead of how. To try out something completely new. Instead of avoiding, we will suggest you to look specifically for the risky, the unusual, the unknown, the weird, the uncanny. Not to throw away your "strange" ideas, but try them one by one. Try in art, with art, for art and through art everything you haven’t had time or haven’t had the courage to do so far. Be autonomous, be independent, be freely and proudly yourself.
