Application deadline: 23 May 2012
The two-year programme of the interdisciplinary Master Trajectory for Research in the Arts is the result of a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and is a research path of the interfaculty ArtScience.
In recent years, artists, musicians, and designers have shifted their attention to the discursive aspects of the practice of art and to its cognitive functions. Do artists produce knowledge? If so, what kind of knowledge? How does art’s knowledge relate to other kinds of knowledge? These are some of the questions that underpin the recognition of artistic research as a specific activity. All of them prompt ways of rethinking the relationship between the arts and other fields and between art and life itself. The Master Artistic Research provides students with the opportunity to develop, strengthen, and reflect on the relationship between practice and theory in their work through artistic research. Participants will have a background as an artist—in the fields of visual art or music. The result of the research is, in the first place, an artistic product in the broadest sense of the word. The Master Artistic Research is first and foremost focused on practice.
Students have individual supervision from core tutors who have a practice-based and/or theoretically-based professional background and who identify with an integrated approach to art and/or music theory and practice. Participants are encouraged to support each other’s development and to be active partners in dialogue in group sessions. Students are provided with a working space and have access to all the general facilities of the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire.
The trajectory furthermore comprises of regular group seminars, workshops, and studio visits facilitated by visiting artists, critics, curators, musicians, performers, and academics from various fields. The students and staff as well as guest lecturers are international in scope and origin, as well as being professionally engaged in the Netherlands.
How to apply
If you are interested in applying for the Master Artistic Research, please visit our website. The upcoming application deadline is 23 May 2012. More information on the application procedure, programme, and MAR students and events can also be found on our website.