school founder & program creator

​The School of Disobedience was dreamed up and created by Anna Ádám.
​It is administrated and organized in collaboration with the company Gray Box.
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Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1983, and graduated from the ENSAPC Art School (France) in 2016, Anna Ádám is an interdisciplinary visual artist working within the expanded fields of performance art, community activism and choreography. Based on horizontal collaboration, trans-disciplinary experimentation and research, she creates and curates non-judgmental and non-hierarchical political soft-spaces for women empowerment and resistance. Her performances, exhibitions and community projects echo socio-political contexts from a feminist and lesbian perspective, challenge the body as a politically-affective geography, a historically shaped and colonized archive, where power and control are constantly contested and negotiated.
In 2018 she created the performance company "Gray Box", focusing on ecology, socio-cultural changes and subcultures, questioning hegemonic class, normative behaviors, and dominant ideologies.
In 2021 she officially founded the "School of Disobedience", as the culmination of her non-formal educational practices. In the last 12 months, her school was invited to many venues, such as by the Abbaye de Maubuisson (Fr), Lafayette Anticipations (Fr), Art Cologne (De), Dance City Theatre (Uk), Le BAMP (Be), Autumn Festival (Hu), A4 Theatre (Sk), Art Farm (India) to name a few.
Anna has also a significant experience in academic performance art education even though she no longer accepts this type of inquiry (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), Conservatory of Dance and Choreography (AM), University of Artois (FR), University of Novi Sad (SRB)...).​
www.annaadam.net 
www.instagram.com/AnnaAdamStudio

2022-2023 unlearning facilitators

Anna Ádám ("Fight Club", "Sober Techno", "Thinking in Images", "Research", "Creation")
Luca Borsos ("Women's Literary Salon: Open Stage")
Enikő Katalin Eged ("Women's T.o.p.l.ess Drawing Studio")
Júlia Gaál ("Replay! Remix! Remake!" + "The Decision / Indecisiveness")
Zsófia Kergyó ("Feminist Hammam")
​Judit Kis ("Philosophy & Hammam")
Rebeka Petra Kiss ("Yoga-Techno-Yoga Techno" + "Guilt Training")
Eva Mora ("Dirty Dancing")
Réka Pável ("Women's Ero.tic Writing Circle")
Kemelo Sehlapelo ("Zulu Tribal Dance & Battle culture")

past unlearning facilitators

Flóra Gadó (Curator, Aesthete), 2015
Judit Gellér (Curator), 2015, 2019
​Judit Kis (Healing, Care), 2021
Katalin Kis (Gender studies Researcher), 2015, 2016
​Roland Korponovics (Visual Arts, Digital Art, Installation), 2021
​dr. Katalin Lőrinc (Dancer, Lecturer), 2021
​Anna Makay (Electronic music, Dj, Soundscapes), 2021
Sally O'Neill (Dancer-Maker, Dramatist ), 2014
​Open Garden / Nyitott Kert Association (Politics, Ecology), 2021
Tímea Piróth (Painter, Multidisciplinary artist), 2016, 2018
Viktoria Popovics (Curator, Art historian), 2015
​Eden Tinto Collins (Artist Transmedia), 2021
Anna Zsigó (Dramatist), 2015, 2016
​ZeroPlus Dance Studio (Contemporary dance, Composition, Choreography), 2021
​Alternative Women's Day (Festival making, Curating, Programming...), 2021

program coordinators

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Created as a collective in 2014 in Berlin, and founded as a company in 2018 in Paris, Gray Box’s work takes interest in going beyond the boundaries between performance art and social sciences. Based on transdisciplinary research and collective experimentation, our company creates, curates and produces, in all horizontality, a body of work with a strong political, ecological and social dimension. We consider the moving body together with its immaterial aspects - such as perception, empathy, emotions, intuitions - as a political tool to forge emancipated communities, create social connections and human interactions. By exploring the ideological, cultural, political and historical parameters that shape our taste, what is meant by “popular culture” and “canonized culture”, by “good taste” and “bad taste”, “high culture” and “low culture”, Gray Box is interested in how anti-canonical and anti-contemporary aesthetics can be used as a means of opposition to class hierarchies, and how they can become a tool in the struggle against normative behaviors and dominant ideologies. Faced with an overproduction of artistic proposals, Gray Box believes in a new economy of the performing arts: less fast, more local, more sustainable and more ethical, with the hope to stop geographical divisions, and to respond to the evolution of social and environmental issues of our time. By deciding to perform mainly in alternative, remote, small, lesser-known and outlying places, the company wishes to, on one hand, address a large and diverse audience and, on the other hand, to free itself from the obsession with career, fame, glory, this race for novelty and visibility generates. Gray Box tries to create and co-create its projects with and for the inhabitants, the users and the local associative fabric in order to create bridges between those who have access to art and those who do not. We believe that art can be used as a tool for social justice, that art can make the difference. ​In the past years Gray Box has performed across Europe (FR, D, HU, SB, HR, AT...), in major cities and small towns alike, in formal and informal, indoor and outdoor spaces. We have been in-residence with many theaters and at universities (FR, HU, SB, AM, AT...), and held workshops for both professionals and non-professionals, adults, teens and children, in art spaces, conservatories, festivals, camps and nightclubs.
www.grayboxprojects.com
Instagram.com/grayboxprojects
Facebook.com/grayboxprojects

documentation

Boglárka Zellei (2021 Fall intensive Hungary)
​Myriam Reeve (2021 Summer Camps)
​Lea Fiterman (2021 Fall intensive France)
Sandhya Menon (The Art Farm, Goa, India)