Performance Practices is a two-year, low-residency master's programme. This means you will meet with other students four to six times a year, each time for a period of three to five weeks. You can complete the remainder of the master’s programme from the comfort of your own home or studio. The location of each residential period varies between Arnhem, the home of the master's programme, and sites abroad.
During the residential periods, you will have group sessions with other students, present your performances and provide feedback on your fellow students’ performances.
As part of this low-residency arrangement, you will travel four times a year to a unique location. You should therefore budget for additional costs for travel and accommodation.
"I loved working on location, coming back to see familiar faces, having the responsibility to be there for others like my classmates were there for me, plus the teachers who made this environment and this space possible. This all helped me to develop my research questions."
Between the residency periods, you will work independently on your research projects with support from one-on-one tutorials, online group meetings and peer review. You will design your own curriculum by selecting various modules and taking part in conferences and field trips. You can do all this from your own home or studio.
If you would like to learn more about the schedule, modules and residency periods, please download the annual schedule for the master’s programme in Performance Practices on our website.
The master’s programme in Performance Practices invites you to experiment and generate new knowledge through studio practice and practice-as-research. By combining theory with practice, you will learn to connect the studio to the outside world. You will also use the studio as a springboard for new and innovative ideas. Collaboration is key, and you will work with both professionals and non-professionals, as well as with humans and non-humans, to achieve a more ecological and sustainable approach to your artistic practice.
During the programme, you will interact with experienced lecturers and guest artists from around the world who will share their working methods and provide critical insights. You will work with fellow students to analyse texts, create performances and presentations, produce documentation and essays, and discuss ecological and social features of the system you work in. This will open up opportunities for growth and mobility that would not be available if you were working alone.
Students in this master’s programme run their own artistic practice alongside their studies. This provides you with a space to shape your own learning or to create that space yourself.