At this year’s AEC Congress, MusiQuE will host a brainstorming session titled Creating Conditions for Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration in and with Creative and Performing Arts Institutions, led by MusiQuE Board members, Orla McDonagh and Jacques Moreau.
Artistic practice increasingly crosses disciplinary boundaries, and higher arts education institutions are challenged to create environments that support collaboration across art forms. Multi-arts institutions, which bring music, theatre, dance, visual arts, design and media arts together under one roof, offer valuable insights into how this works in practice. Yet placing disciplines side by side does not automatically lead to collaboration. It flourishes when institutions deliberately create the conditions for encounters, dialogue and experimentation.
During the sessions participants will first share practice examples and then discuss four themes:
- cross-arts projects among students
- interdisciplinary exchange among teaching staff
- the role of research
- what specialised music institutions can learn from multi-arts institutions
The session closes with a look at the challenges involved, why interdisciplinarity matters, and how it could be evaluated.
Participants from all types of institutions are welcome. Beyond showcasing multi-arts practice, the session aims to help specialised music institutions build more connected and innovative learning environments. It also contributes to the wider AEC conversation on preparing artists for an increasingly collaborative professional world. The outcomes may inform a future update of the MusiQuE Standards for reviews of multidisciplinary institutions.
More details are available in the AEC Congress programme.
