Transdisciplinary Approaches: Composing Time & Space
Learning Objective
The course aims to introduce students to practices that cross the borders of their discipline and help them rethink and redesign their own creative process.
Course Content
Throughout the course 6-10 students will attend a series of seminar days and tours, as well as a 5-day physical workshop. During the seminar days the participants will become acquainted with the work and practices of relevant influential artists and be introduced to related terminology. The students will be asked to share thoughts, observations, reactions and reflections, in relation to their own artistic practices and skills. In addition to the seminar days, the students will attend guided tours by specialists to institutions and venues such as the AHK-ATD and the Muziekgebouw. An important part of the course is the physical workshop, which functions as a creative laboratory without the stress of making a final performance. With all students on stage exploring presence and physicality, a set of creative performative tools will be introduced. By working with their bodies, voices and instruments, sound, light, time and space, they will dive into a dialogue across disciplines.
Course details
| teachers | Thanasis Deligiannis |
| term | September-December 2022 |
| participation | The course is addressed to composition and live electronics students, as well as to creative instrumentalists. It is mandatory for the bachelor students who take part in the Opera Forward Festival project. Each student can miss up to three days of the seminar and/or tours. They can miss one physical workshop day. |
| method of instruction | Seminar (irregular): 9 days x 3 hours |
| Τours x 2 (irregular): AHK-ATD, Muziekgebouw, x 2 hours | |
| Physical workshop (in December): 5 days x 4 hours | |
| readings | Works & writings by Heiner Goebbels, Mauricio Kagel, Pina Bausch, Iannis Xenakis, Thierry De May, Jennifer Walshe, Ryoji Ikeda, Robert Wilson, Christoph Marthaler, Beat Furrer, George Aperghis, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Dimitris Papaioannou, Robert Ashlery, Romeo Castellucci, Euripides Laskaridis, Alvin Lucier, Roy Andersson, Adam Magyar, Peter Tscherkassky, Takashi Ito, David Roesner, Matthias Rebstock, and others. |
| assessment | Based on the students’ participation. Throughout the course the students will be asked to keep an online diary of notes & thoughts, as well as answer a series of short questionnaires. All input will be put together in an e-booklet as an alternative overview, given back to the students by the end of the course. |
| credits | 5 |
| related electives | Creative Performance Lab |
| Music Theatre and Stage Performance |