Open Call for Residency
Research ⇢ Experiment ⇢ Create ⇢ Share
July 2–5, 2025 | Kolorádó Festival
What does it mean to begin? To grow? To break down, pause, or return in another form? SCHOOL OF DISOBEDIENCE x KOLORÁDÓ FESTIVAL invites artists, performers, and community practitioners to submit proposals that explore the stages of transformation. From genesis to collapse to regeneration—we are interested in works that move with and through the spirals of becoming.
We are especially looking for project that explores one of the following topics:
Research ⇢ Experiment ⇢ Create ⇢ Share
July 2–5, 2025 | Kolorádó Festival
What does it mean to begin? To grow? To break down, pause, or return in another form? SCHOOL OF DISOBEDIENCE x KOLORÁDÓ FESTIVAL invites artists, performers, and community practitioners to submit proposals that explore the stages of transformation. From genesis to collapse to regeneration—we are interested in works that move with and through the spirals of becoming.
We are especially looking for project that explores one of the following topics:
- Ontogenesis: birth, emergence, the branching beginning of something shared or cellular
- Abscission: the letting go of what no longer serves, disintegration as a gesture
- Senescence: slowness, stillness, exhaustion as sacred phases of decay and reflection
- Regeneration: rebirth and resurrection beyond organ, form, or structure, towards wild, embodied freedom
MORE ABOUT THE CURATORIAL CONCEPT
Ontogenesis:
What happens at the beginning? Ontogenesis is not only a biological process, but a journey of existence in search of itself. It is a process that is sometimes interrupted, sometimes halted, but always in motion and moving forward. Differentiation is the work of our cells and its rhythm as it echoes within the world. Evolution: a spiral. Each iteration leads deeper and gives new meaning, any moment can be the first.
Where does the beginning and the identity begin in the processes of individual development?
What happens when development is not carried by a single body?
Can branching, divergence, regression be a form of development?
Abscission:
The body strips away what no longer serves it, until there is nothing left. With the total exhaustion of the subject, the gesture of disintegration, of detachment, is repeated until it ceases. The body is no longer unified but distributed, no longer fixed but composed of flowing substances, a network, a memory, a technology.
The destruction is not merely a separation, but a final exhaustion: a dissolution of form, a total cessation of function, a total disappearance of meaning. Detachment does not give the chance of continuation, but the arrival of finality.
Senescence:
The later part of an organism’s life cycle. Deterioration, deterritorialisation and then reterritorialisation; complete entropy. The accelerated mode of being collapses in itself, forced to decelerate; senescence occurs. The organism enters dormancy. A noiseless stage, with room for self reflection and contemplation.
Regeneration:
Regeneration: renewal and resurrection. The body starts to move again, but this body has no organs. Organless and organumless. Free from the machinic assemblage of the circle, a line of flight, a nomad. Regeneration is the autopoetic notion of reclaiming the self, the soil and freedom.
What happens at the beginning? Ontogenesis is not only a biological process, but a journey of existence in search of itself. It is a process that is sometimes interrupted, sometimes halted, but always in motion and moving forward. Differentiation is the work of our cells and its rhythm as it echoes within the world. Evolution: a spiral. Each iteration leads deeper and gives new meaning, any moment can be the first.
Where does the beginning and the identity begin in the processes of individual development?
What happens when development is not carried by a single body?
Can branching, divergence, regression be a form of development?
Abscission:
The body strips away what no longer serves it, until there is nothing left. With the total exhaustion of the subject, the gesture of disintegration, of detachment, is repeated until it ceases. The body is no longer unified but distributed, no longer fixed but composed of flowing substances, a network, a memory, a technology.
The destruction is not merely a separation, but a final exhaustion: a dissolution of form, a total cessation of function, a total disappearance of meaning. Detachment does not give the chance of continuation, but the arrival of finality.
Senescence:
The later part of an organism’s life cycle. Deterioration, deterritorialisation and then reterritorialisation; complete entropy. The accelerated mode of being collapses in itself, forced to decelerate; senescence occurs. The organism enters dormancy. A noiseless stage, with room for self reflection and contemplation.
Regeneration:
Regeneration: renewal and resurrection. The body starts to move again, but this body has no organs. Organless and organumless. Free from the machinic assemblage of the circle, a line of flight, a nomad. Regeneration is the autopoetic notion of reclaiming the self, the soil and freedom.
the ring: our stage
What you work on during the residency will be presented on Kolorádó Festival’s brand-new stage: a real 5x5 meter boxing ring installed in the field. This is the School of Disobedience’s stage, where the line-up itself is an act of courage. On this ring-stage, we bring you the freshest and boldest voices in contemporary performance:
What makes it radical?
Its simplicity, honesty, and generosity. Its personal and authentic voice. It’s sensitive, layered, and focused. It has stakes. It doesn’t compromise.
Why experimental?
Because it’s still alive. In process. This stage is a laboratory, a trial space where audiences witness not just what a performance says, but how it’s made.
- Radical and experimental live art
- Community-based and participatory practices
- Raw, risky, process-oriented experiments
What makes it radical?
Its simplicity, honesty, and generosity. Its personal and authentic voice. It’s sensitive, layered, and focused. It has stakes. It doesn’t compromise.
Why experimental?
Because it’s still alive. In process. This stage is a laboratory, a trial space where audiences witness not just what a performance says, but how it’s made.
organization
This residency is composed of four phases: Research ⇢ Experiment ⇢ Create ⇢ Share and takes place in two distinct spaces:
- IN A SHARED STUDIO
- IN A BOXING RING
we are looking for
- Unfinished Performances (solo/collective, staged/site-specific)
- Community rituals & participatory actions
- Relational practices and experimental formats
- Work-in-progress presentations & process-based sharings
- We welcome submissions from artists at any stage in their career, including collectives, duos, or solo performers.
selected artists will receive
- A residency period at a dance studio in Budapest from July 2–5, 10:00–15:00 — a shared co-working space for research, experimentation, and creation.
- Flexibility: You can join for as many days as your time and curiosity permit.
- Mentorship from the School of Disobedience
- Opportunities for networking and collaboration with international artists
- The chance to present their work on the Ring stage at Kolorádó Festival during July 2–5, either as a finished piece or an open process
- Kolorádó Festival Pass (with the option to camp on site)
people
The RING of the School of Disobedience is a brave space for research and experimentation in the field of performance art and community practices.
Curated by:
Antman Kira Zoé, Magyar Míra, Primecz-Munkácsi Lőrinc, students of the Art Theory Department, Hungarian University of Fine Arts
Concept & Professional Mentor:
Ádám Anna, Founder of the School of Disobedience
Curated by:
Antman Kira Zoé, Magyar Míra, Primecz-Munkácsi Lőrinc, students of the Art Theory Department, Hungarian University of Fine Arts
Concept & Professional Mentor:
Ádám Anna, Founder of the School of Disobedience