There were no maps for what we were becoming

HOUSE OF DREAD has pioneered an anti-disciplinary approach as a practice rooted in refusal, reimagining, and deep remembering.Emerging from years of work across research, grassroots organising, cultural production, and creative practice, anti-disciplinary is not simply about crossing boundaries, it is about dissolving the very need for them. It is a framework, a feeling, a frequency. It’s how we work. How we live. How we dream beyond constraint.

 To be anti-disciplinary is to recognise that how knowledge is made matters just as much as what knowledge is made. It is a stance that challenges the fixedness of disciplines, classifications, and inherited norms; especially those shaped by colonial legacies. It is a process of affirming the intuitive, the ancestral, the collaborative, and the not-yet-defined.

Though "anti" may suggest opposition, our approach affirms more than it contests.

It is not destruction, but reorientation.
It is not chaos, but a different kind of order.
It is care. It is commitment. It is critique.

We welcome artists, researchers, organisers, dreamers, and doers to consider: What would it mean to see your own work as anti-disciplinary? What are we doing, truly? Who is our work in conversation with? What systems or classifications have helped us –  and which have harmed? Who benefits from how knowledge is ordered? What ways of working have been buried, dismissed, or erased? What new possibilities are we creating –  here and now, and for future generations? What are we preserving, and what are we transforming?

to manifest something new.