"School of Disobedience" is an experimental and anti-canonical performance art school and fight club at the same time. Based on critical pedagogy, the school helps students achieve critical consciousness through the regular practice of questioning, protesting, resisting, defying and revolting. Composed of thematic both live and online theory- and practice oriented classes, the program introduces the concepts of oppression, domination, exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence through the exploration of different artistic forms, techniques and tools (performance, dance, theater, drawing, writing, photo, video, multimedia...). Following the last class, students present their creations in public spaces. The program is completely free of charge and open for all women.
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, theater, acting, storytelling, drawing, writing, painting, collage, photo, video, installation art, multimedia art…) 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.
Through discussions (based on readings, life experience, self-examination) and practical application (creation of performance, dance, theater, acting, storytelling, drawing, writing, painting, collage, photo, video, installation art, multimedia art…) 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.
Structured with exercises, creative tasks, dialogues and presentations, the "School of Disobedience" is helping you to push yourself out of your comfort zone, transform your imagination and open yourself to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations. During the classes you will use different artistic techniques and tools to generate both new works and seeds for the work you are in the midst of creating. You will be doing performances, including dancing, storytelling, and puppet theatre, automatic drawing and writing, video, gifs and photography within an immersive, intensive and experimental context. So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, you will move back and forth between creative writing, visual exercises and performance tasks. You will also receive one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details) during the development of your own original artwork.
