about
Bringing performance and critical theory together, the "Power of Community" is a week-long laboratory for creation, experimentation, and research in Subotica, Serbia (May 16-20), FREE OF CHARGE.
Composed of seven thematic workshops (performance, dance improvisation, movement research, play fight, self-defense, digital media, creative writing, lecture performance...), participants will be invited to produce and share knowledge and tools on community building- and organizing practices, and to imagine together the framework for a new economy of performing arts, in which the focus is switched from competition, career, fame, glory, and visibility to mutualisation, cooperation, collaboration, support, and care. We will give us a chance to build collectively a structured "creative healing space" to connect, collaborate, learn, and create with fellow members. A space, where we can reflect on ourselves as both an individual and member of a community. Where we can find ways to support ourselves and support others. Where we can progress together, move forwards together, grow together. Gain confidence and strength from friendship, trust, and kindness.
Composed of seven thematic workshops (performance, dance improvisation, movement research, play fight, self-defense, digital media, creative writing, lecture performance...), participants will be invited to produce and share knowledge and tools on community building- and organizing practices, and to imagine together the framework for a new economy of performing arts, in which the focus is switched from competition, career, fame, glory, and visibility to mutualisation, cooperation, collaboration, support, and care. We will give us a chance to build collectively a structured "creative healing space" to connect, collaborate, learn, and create with fellow members. A space, where we can reflect on ourselves as both an individual and member of a community. Where we can find ways to support ourselves and support others. Where we can progress together, move forwards together, grow together. Gain confidence and strength from friendship, trust, and kindness.
Fee: FREE OF CHARGE
Application: HERE
Instagram: HERE
Venues: indoor and outdoor places in Subotica, Serbia.
Flexible commitment: You don't have to follow the whole program. You can decide to attend only one or several classes.
MAY 16
Unlearning Facilitator:
Anna Ádám is an interdisciplinary visual artist working within the expanded field of performance art, community building, and choreography. She creates and curates non-judgmental and non-hierarchical political soft-spaces for women empowerment, where self-liberation embraces care, empathy, and independence.
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Organized by:
Application: HERE
Instagram: HERE
Venues: indoor and outdoor places in Subotica, Serbia.
Flexible commitment: You don't have to follow the whole program. You can decide to attend only one or several classes.
MAY 16
- 14.00-17.00: "Who is the boss?" (Community & Power)
- 18.00-20.00: " Erotic Writing Circle" (Community & Sexuality)
- 15.00-18.00: "Fear and the Unknown" (Community & Myths)
- 19.00-20.00: "Play Fight Club" (Community & Violence)
- 15.00-18.00: "Politics of Desire" (Community & Care)
- 19.00-20.00: "Clean Techno Clubbing" (Community & Trance)
- 16.00-19.00: "HOT PAPER LIVE LOVE" (Community & Body)
- 18.00: "Right for Fight" performance (Community & Dependency)
Unlearning Facilitator:
Anna Ádám is an interdisciplinary visual artist working within the expanded field of performance art, community building, and choreography. She creates and curates non-judgmental and non-hierarchical political soft-spaces for women empowerment, where self-liberation embraces care, empathy, and independence.
Web
Organized by:
- Klara i Rosa Cultural Centre (Serbia): klarairosa@gmail.com
- School of Disobedience (France)
- Gray Box Performance Art Company (France)
workshop descriptions
"WHO IS THE BOSS: Community & Power"
DATE: MAY 16. 14.00-17.00 (3h)
VENUE: HKC Bunjevačko kolo (Preradovićeva 4)
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: domination, oppression, control, leadership...
You will do: dance / movement research / performance / creative writing / text-performance / sound-poetry / discussion...
About: 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?
"EROTIC WRITING CIRCLE: Community & Sexuality"
DATE: MAY 16. 18.00-20.00 (2h)
VENUE: HKC Bunjevačko kolo (Preradovićeva 4)
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: pleasure, intimacy, eroticism, sexuality...
You will do: creative writing, lecture performance, sound poetry...
About: In the "Erotic Writing Circle", we deal with desire, repressed and lived sexual fantasies through creative writing exercises.
Following simple instructions, we write in our mother tongue (Serbian, Hungarian, English...) erotic texts in various forms (poetry, fiction, diary, sexting...), share, learn, inspire and connect with other erotic literature lovers. We name and dare to name what we have, what we feel, what we desire... We make the vocabulary on sexuality richer, more accurate and more precise. We rewrite words and expressions from our perspective, appropriate and redesign the language of pleasure.
At the end of each session, participants, if they want, can read and share their texts. If you want to approach your body, your desires and your sexuality(s) a little more naturally, liberated and lightly, join us, no previous writing experience is necessary.
"FEAR AND THE UNKNOWN: Community & Myths"
DATE: MAY 17. 15.00-18.00 (3h)
VENUE: HKC Bunjevačko kolo (Preradovićeva 4)
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: fear, frustration, anxiety, stress...
You will do: dance / movement research / performance / creative writing / text-performance / sound-poetry / discussion...
About: What are people most afraid of? What are our common fears? Why fear arises and how it can be combatted? What are the causes and cures of fear and anxiety? What is panic? Why the globalized world has become paralyzed by fear? How have we arrived in an age of fear? How fear became an integral aspect of our political discourses, security apparatuses, social and cultural narratives? How fear contributes to the constructions of our personal identity and our relationship with the others? What role does fear and threat play in contemporary societies?
"PLAY FIGHT CLUB: Community & Violence"
DATE: MAY 17. 19.00-20.00 (1h)
VENUE: Subotica, Serbia
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: self-confidence, self-control, courage...
You will do: play fighting, basic self-defense...
About:
"Play Fight" is an unrefereed contest in which participants try to dominate each other without inflicting injury.
It allows one to develop self-confidence, self-care, self-control both emotionally and physically, learn the difference between acceptable and unacceptable, how to say "no" and when to shout for "help".
"Play Fight" can also help you to recognize and recycle hidden tensions, blockages, vulnerabilities, denials and fears into self-empowerment and courage.
"POLITICS OF DESIRE: Community & Care"
DATE: MAY 18. 15.00-18.00 (3h)
VENUE: Yoga centar, Cara Lazara 17
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: desire, relationship dynamics
You will do: dance / movement research / performance / creative writing / text-performance / sound-poetry / discussion...
About: We will draw on historical, sociological, religious, feminist and philosophical work to shed critical light on a variety of questions, including: What is desire? What kind of desire do we know? Is there a hierarchy of desire which values some desires and denigrates others? Who and what shapes our desire and does desire shape our lives? Are we enslaved by our desire or by the desire of others? What is the relationship between human desire and obsession? Are we aware of our religious and socio-cultural heritage and their influences on our desire? What is moral, what is normal, and who is empowered to decide it? What are the consequences of satisfying desire? Are we trying to change who we are and trying to turn away from our desires? How are our understandings of masculinity and femininity tied in with what we believe about desire?
"CLEAN TECHNO CLUBBING: Community & Trance"
DATE: MAY 18. 19.00-20.00 (1h)
VENUE: Subotica, Serbia
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
You don't need to take additional drugs and drink alcohol to feel yourself happy, free and liberated, simply because you already have these hormones in your body, and you can create a great "cocktail" on your own in a totally conscious way and for FREE. A little bit of dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin: learn how to wake up your hormones, how to produce and control them, how to mix them naturally. Learn how to reach your personal trance state through intensive physical dancing, how to party clean, enjoy drug and alcohol free techno clubbing while staying safe and healthy.
"HOT PAPER LIVE LOVE: Community & Body"
DATE: MAY 19. 16.00-19.00 (3h)
VENUE: Savremena galerija, Subotica (Park Ferenca Rajhla 5)
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: sexual representation, gender stereotypes, body norms, standards of beauty...
You will do: drawing, collage, cutouts, writing and live streaming erotic paper-performance / collage peep-show / book-porn...
About: Far from canons and standards of beauty, the objective of this workshop is to make new erotic aesthetics of bodies emerge, transgress stereotypes and normative discourses on sexual representations, while defying the boundaries between genders and multiple sexualities.
During the workshop, you will create drawings, cutouts, and collages on desire, passion, and lust, compose kinky scenographies, and write sensual choreographies for fingers and hands. You will make eroticism escape from the enclosing pages of books and zines, and let it go on a liberated journey of your intimate fantasies.
You will finish the workshop by live-streaming your erotic paper-performance, collage peep-show or book-porn on the Instagram accounts of the School of Disobedience.
"RIGHT FOR FIGHT: Community & Dependency"
PERFORMANCE + PUBLIC TALK
DATE: MAY 20, 18.00
VENUE: Bokserski klub Spartak Subotica, Hala sportova, Sepa Ferenca 3
CREATED BY: Anna Ádám
PERFORMED BY: Anna Ádám, Eva Mora
REGISTER TO THIS PERFORMANCE HERE
From love to hate, blindness to open eyes, desire to boredom, harmony to conflict, we want to stay but leave, end but continue, take care but hurt, open but close. Full of contradiction, oppositional emotions, ambivalent reactions, passionate and irrational choices, this upcoming performance conceives love as a universal combat sport without protective equipment, in which vulnerable fighters constantly rewrite rules, negotiate power, fight with each other, for each other, against each other, next to each other...
DATE: MAY 16. 14.00-17.00 (3h)
VENUE: HKC Bunjevačko kolo (Preradovićeva 4)
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: domination, oppression, control, leadership...
You will do: dance / movement research / performance / creative writing / text-performance / sound-poetry / discussion...
About: 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?
"EROTIC WRITING CIRCLE: Community & Sexuality"
DATE: MAY 16. 18.00-20.00 (2h)
VENUE: HKC Bunjevačko kolo (Preradovićeva 4)
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: pleasure, intimacy, eroticism, sexuality...
You will do: creative writing, lecture performance, sound poetry...
About: In the "Erotic Writing Circle", we deal with desire, repressed and lived sexual fantasies through creative writing exercises.
Following simple instructions, we write in our mother tongue (Serbian, Hungarian, English...) erotic texts in various forms (poetry, fiction, diary, sexting...), share, learn, inspire and connect with other erotic literature lovers. We name and dare to name what we have, what we feel, what we desire... We make the vocabulary on sexuality richer, more accurate and more precise. We rewrite words and expressions from our perspective, appropriate and redesign the language of pleasure.
At the end of each session, participants, if they want, can read and share their texts. If you want to approach your body, your desires and your sexuality(s) a little more naturally, liberated and lightly, join us, no previous writing experience is necessary.
"FEAR AND THE UNKNOWN: Community & Myths"
DATE: MAY 17. 15.00-18.00 (3h)
VENUE: HKC Bunjevačko kolo (Preradovićeva 4)
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: fear, frustration, anxiety, stress...
You will do: dance / movement research / performance / creative writing / text-performance / sound-poetry / discussion...
About: What are people most afraid of? What are our common fears? Why fear arises and how it can be combatted? What are the causes and cures of fear and anxiety? What is panic? Why the globalized world has become paralyzed by fear? How have we arrived in an age of fear? How fear became an integral aspect of our political discourses, security apparatuses, social and cultural narratives? How fear contributes to the constructions of our personal identity and our relationship with the others? What role does fear and threat play in contemporary societies?
"PLAY FIGHT CLUB: Community & Violence"
DATE: MAY 17. 19.00-20.00 (1h)
VENUE: Subotica, Serbia
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: self-confidence, self-control, courage...
You will do: play fighting, basic self-defense...
About:
"Play Fight" is an unrefereed contest in which participants try to dominate each other without inflicting injury.
It allows one to develop self-confidence, self-care, self-control both emotionally and physically, learn the difference between acceptable and unacceptable, how to say "no" and when to shout for "help".
"Play Fight" can also help you to recognize and recycle hidden tensions, blockages, vulnerabilities, denials and fears into self-empowerment and courage.
"POLITICS OF DESIRE: Community & Care"
DATE: MAY 18. 15.00-18.00 (3h)
VENUE: Yoga centar, Cara Lazara 17
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: desire, relationship dynamics
You will do: dance / movement research / performance / creative writing / text-performance / sound-poetry / discussion...
About: We will draw on historical, sociological, religious, feminist and philosophical work to shed critical light on a variety of questions, including: What is desire? What kind of desire do we know? Is there a hierarchy of desire which values some desires and denigrates others? Who and what shapes our desire and does desire shape our lives? Are we enslaved by our desire or by the desire of others? What is the relationship between human desire and obsession? Are we aware of our religious and socio-cultural heritage and their influences on our desire? What is moral, what is normal, and who is empowered to decide it? What are the consequences of satisfying desire? Are we trying to change who we are and trying to turn away from our desires? How are our understandings of masculinity and femininity tied in with what we believe about desire?
"CLEAN TECHNO CLUBBING: Community & Trance"
DATE: MAY 18. 19.00-20.00 (1h)
VENUE: Subotica, Serbia
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
You don't need to take additional drugs and drink alcohol to feel yourself happy, free and liberated, simply because you already have these hormones in your body, and you can create a great "cocktail" on your own in a totally conscious way and for FREE. A little bit of dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin: learn how to wake up your hormones, how to produce and control them, how to mix them naturally. Learn how to reach your personal trance state through intensive physical dancing, how to party clean, enjoy drug and alcohol free techno clubbing while staying safe and healthy.
"HOT PAPER LIVE LOVE: Community & Body"
DATE: MAY 19. 16.00-19.00 (3h)
VENUE: Savremena galerija, Subotica (Park Ferenca Rajhla 5)
FEE: FREE OF CHARGE
UNLEARNING FACILITATOR: Anna Ádám
REGISTER TO THIS CLASS HERE
Keywords: sexual representation, gender stereotypes, body norms, standards of beauty...
You will do: drawing, collage, cutouts, writing and live streaming erotic paper-performance / collage peep-show / book-porn...
About: Far from canons and standards of beauty, the objective of this workshop is to make new erotic aesthetics of bodies emerge, transgress stereotypes and normative discourses on sexual representations, while defying the boundaries between genders and multiple sexualities.
During the workshop, you will create drawings, cutouts, and collages on desire, passion, and lust, compose kinky scenographies, and write sensual choreographies for fingers and hands. You will make eroticism escape from the enclosing pages of books and zines, and let it go on a liberated journey of your intimate fantasies.
You will finish the workshop by live-streaming your erotic paper-performance, collage peep-show or book-porn on the Instagram accounts of the School of Disobedience.
"RIGHT FOR FIGHT: Community & Dependency"
PERFORMANCE + PUBLIC TALK
DATE: MAY 20, 18.00
VENUE: Bokserski klub Spartak Subotica, Hala sportova, Sepa Ferenca 3
CREATED BY: Anna Ádám
PERFORMED BY: Anna Ádám, Eva Mora
REGISTER TO THIS PERFORMANCE HERE
From love to hate, blindness to open eyes, desire to boredom, harmony to conflict, we want to stay but leave, end but continue, take care but hurt, open but close. Full of contradiction, oppositional emotions, ambivalent reactions, passionate and irrational choices, this upcoming performance conceives love as a universal combat sport without protective equipment, in which vulnerable fighters constantly rewrite rules, negotiate power, fight with each other, for each other, against each other, next to each other...
