SCHOOL OF DISOBEDIENCE
school founder & program creator
The School of Disobedience was dreamed up and created by Anna Ádám (Hungary) as part of her artistic practice. It is administrated, produced, managed, and legally represented by the company Gray Box (France).
facilitators
The School of Disobedience is situated in Hungary and consciously works from the perspective of a chosen periphery. Rather than aspiring toward cultural centrality or institutional dominance, the school embraces its position within the shifting landscape between Eastern and Western Europe as a place of complexity, friction, hybridity, instability, and invention.
The project does not seek to replace one canon with another, nor to construct a new cultural center. Instead, it creates space for artistic practices, voices, methodologies, and sensibilities that emerge from contexts often considered secondary, transitional, marginal, fragile, or difficult to classify within dominant Western cultural frameworks.
Part of our facilitators and collaborators come from Central and Eastern Europe, or maintain a strong relationship to the region through their practice, language, research, or lived experience. Their work carries specific histories, economies, architectures, political tensions, and aesthetic sensibilities shaped by local realities rather than globalized cultural neutrality.
Another part of our collaborators are past students of the school. This is a conscious choice. We want the school to remain small, cyclical, and alive. Knowledge does not move here in one direction only, from teacher to student, from center to margin, from institution to applicant. It circulates. It returns. It transforms. A student can become a collaborator, a facilitator, a mentor, a witness, a future host, a future voice inside the school.
This is also part of our ecological thinking: to grow without constantly expanding, to strengthen what already exists, to nourish continuity instead of always extracting novelty. The school develops through relationships that last, practices that return, and people who come back differently.
The project does not seek to replace one canon with another, nor to construct a new cultural center. Instead, it creates space for artistic practices, voices, methodologies, and sensibilities that emerge from contexts often considered secondary, transitional, marginal, fragile, or difficult to classify within dominant Western cultural frameworks.
Part of our facilitators and collaborators come from Central and Eastern Europe, or maintain a strong relationship to the region through their practice, language, research, or lived experience. Their work carries specific histories, economies, architectures, political tensions, and aesthetic sensibilities shaped by local realities rather than globalized cultural neutrality.
Another part of our collaborators are past students of the school. This is a conscious choice. We want the school to remain small, cyclical, and alive. Knowledge does not move here in one direction only, from teacher to student, from center to margin, from institution to applicant. It circulates. It returns. It transforms. A student can become a collaborator, a facilitator, a mentor, a witness, a future host, a future voice inside the school.
This is also part of our ecological thinking: to grow without constantly expanding, to strengthen what already exists, to nourish continuity instead of always extracting novelty. The school develops through relationships that last, practices that return, and people who come back differently.
2026/2027 PERFORMANCE STUDIES
2026 WRITING STUDIES
- Anna Ádám (HU, artist, founder)
- Kata Balogh (HU, performer and maker)
- Lucie Blaževská (CZ, artist and maker) - PAST STUDENT (2026)
- Luca Borsos (HU, actress and maker)
- Relle Brugman (NL, movement artist) - PAST STUDENT (2024)
- Ráhel Csizmadia (HU, researcher)
- Júlia Gaál (HU, dancer)
- Andrea Lim (AU, violonist and sound artist) - PAST STUDENT (2025)
- Sándor Petrovics (HU, dancer and maker)
- Zita Thury (HU, dancer and maker)
2026 WRITING STUDIES
- Anna Ádám (HU, artist, founder)
- Ráhel Csizmadia (HU, researcher)
- Fruzsi Kovai (HU, artist)
office
ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER
Míra Magyar
SCHOOLOFDISOBEDIENCE.PROD (AT) GMAIL.COM
DIRECTOR
Anna Ádám
SCHOOLOFDISOBEDIENCE.INFO (AT) GMAIL.COM
Míra Magyar
SCHOOLOFDISOBEDIENCE.PROD (AT) GMAIL.COM
DIRECTOR
Anna Ádám
SCHOOLOFDISOBEDIENCE.INFO (AT) GMAIL.COM
credits
PHOTO
Nagy Lili Panna (From 2025)
Galsi Boglárka (From 2024)
Boglárka Zellei (2021-2024)
Myriam Reeve (2021, Hungary)
Lea Fiterman (2021, France)
Sandhya Menon (2021, India)
VIDEO
Martincsák Anna (From 2025)
Nagy Lili Panna (From 2025)
Galsi Boglárka (From 2024)
Boglárka Zellei (2021-2024)
Myriam Reeve (2021, Hungary)
Lea Fiterman (2021, France)
Sandhya Menon (2021, India)
VIDEO
Martincsák Anna (From 2025)