Master Artistic ResearchRoyal Academy of Art and Royal Conservatoire, The Hague
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 research question of each individual student, which comes from their practice, forms the point of departure for the Master trajectory. During the course students learn to develop their critical reflection on their own work and areas of interest, to analyze and explore their ideas and findings and to communicate these with others through speech and on paper. They are supported in the process of finding appropriate forms through which to substantiate their own findings. 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.
A number of components of the course focus on developing forms of writing and oral presentation to communicate the research process and do justice to the complexity of one’s artistic practice. Students who wish to enroll on the Master Trajectory should thus have an affinity with verbal and written reflection on their own work and on visual art and music in general. Students with dyslexia will find the diversity of approaches to research to their benefit. Basic oral and written communication in the English language is required to take part in the course.
The study is conceived as being 60% “practical” (practice and research) and 40% “theoretical” (exploration and research). In real terms, these activities are approached as an integrated practice. It is understood that the status of what constitutes research or an artwork can be fluid. Focus is thus on developing the appropriate form for the work in process, based on the ideas and the demands of the content of the material itself.
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 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 workshop facilities of the KABK academy. They are invited to use additional facilities and participate in selected courses at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague.
The course furthermore comprises of regular group seminars, workshops, studio visits and lectures 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 The master trajectory is officially enrolled at the Royal Conservatoire, as a research path of the Interfaculty ArtScience. Practically this means the student is officially registered at the Royal Conservatoire, even if the study direction is visual arts. At the completion of the study the student will receive the title Master of Music.
For admission to the master trajectory, a Bachelor in one of the disciplines of the arts from a Dutch university of applied sciences (HBO / Hogeschool) or an equivalent Bachelor of Arts diploma earned abroad is required, as well as a demonstrable affinity with theoretical research and / or artistic reflection. English is the working language of the master trajectory, and proficiency in both speaking and writing is required. Applications and motivation letters should be written in English.
When these entrance requirements are met, the applicant is judged on the basis of: a portfolio of artistic work, a research proposal and / or study plan, in which an understanding of, and affinity with research in art are clearly evident as well as an interview about his / her work and affinity with research in the arts.
To apply please send the following documents and materials to masterartisticresearch@gmail.com before 1 April 2012:
In addition please send these documents by post to the address below:
We do not accept incomplete applications. The application deadline for 2012/2013 is 1 April 2012. Make sure all documents sent by post are in our possession on 1 April 2012.
Address: Master Artistic Research P.O. Box 11670 2502 AR The Hague The Netherlands
For more information please visit our website www.masterartisticresearch.eu or send an email to: masterartisticresearch@gmail.com
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