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.
Classes are not held by "teachers" but by artists, collectives, representatives of local NGO-s, associations, and grassroots initiatives. We can say that this is a fieldwork- and practice-oriented school in which participants are not sitting passively in a classroom and conceptualizing nice things for the elite, but actually they are creating for everyone, making concrete actions for a better future, building bridges between those who have access to knowledge and art, and those who do not.
We - staff and participants included - believe that art can be used as a tool for social justice, and art can make the difference.
Instead of "regular classes", the school is composed of modular indoor and outdoor immersive experiences, field works with other social groups and micro-communities (juvenile gangs, clubs, sororities, the elderly, high school students...), in addition to creating, curating and organizing public events (exhibition, performance, public space intervention, rituals, celebrations, hiking...).
The program briefly introduces to participants a series of theoretical disciplines (psychology, anthropology, sociology, sexuality-, gender and queer Studies, womens' rights, body politics, auto-ethnography, politics of desire...), concepts (domination, oppression, collaboration, togetherness, collectivity, leadership, fear, trust, desire, love, intimacy, sexuality, life cycle, care, rituals, healing, sisterhood, witchcraft, eco-feminism...), artistic expressions (dance, choreography, performance, visual arts, community art, social choreography, experience design, immersive installations, digital media art, audio-visual displays, construction of interactive and multi-sensorial devices, costume design, mask making, creative writing...) together with professional tools (collaboration and co-creation practices, collective working methods...).
Challenging artistic conventions and traditional canons, confronting standards, beauty norms, questioning social norms allow participants to acquire the ability to think and act freely and critically without worrying about others' gaze, judgment and expectations.
Day after day participants get to know themselves better and better, they develop self-confidence and self-love, in other words they build a solid basis to become afterwards autonomous and courageous people: dare to be themselves, fearlessly follow their own path, and be proudly and confidently themselves!
We - staff and participants included - believe that art can be used as a tool for social justice, and art can make the difference.
Instead of "regular classes", the school is composed of modular indoor and outdoor immersive experiences, field works with other social groups and micro-communities (juvenile gangs, clubs, sororities, the elderly, high school students...), in addition to creating, curating and organizing public events (exhibition, performance, public space intervention, rituals, celebrations, hiking...).
The program briefly introduces to participants a series of theoretical disciplines (psychology, anthropology, sociology, sexuality-, gender and queer Studies, womens' rights, body politics, auto-ethnography, politics of desire...), concepts (domination, oppression, collaboration, togetherness, collectivity, leadership, fear, trust, desire, love, intimacy, sexuality, life cycle, care, rituals, healing, sisterhood, witchcraft, eco-feminism...), artistic expressions (dance, choreography, performance, visual arts, community art, social choreography, experience design, immersive installations, digital media art, audio-visual displays, construction of interactive and multi-sensorial devices, costume design, mask making, creative writing...) together with professional tools (collaboration and co-creation practices, collective working methods...).
Challenging artistic conventions and traditional canons, confronting standards, beauty norms, questioning social norms allow participants to acquire the ability to think and act freely and critically without worrying about others' gaze, judgment and expectations.
Day after day participants get to know themselves better and better, they develop self-confidence and self-love, in other words they build a solid basis to become afterwards autonomous and courageous people: dare to be themselves, fearlessly follow their own path, and be proudly and confidently themselves!