X+Y Studies
«The sensitivity of daring is to know up to where you can go too far.»
Jean Cocteau
Transdisciplinarity is a strategy for the expansion of a certain discipline's visuals.
The work of many artists falls into this category - the poet, painter, musician, choreographer and actor Jean Cocteau is one of them.
The X stands for a Bachelor's degree programme at the BUA, which is always rooted in one discipline. The Y stands for the expansion beyond the boundaries of that discipline. Here are some examples how this could work:
- To X Music you add Y space, installation, directing, media art, text, image, acting...
- To X Design & Fine Arts you add Y directing, text, acting, voice, movement/body, performance art, architecture, journalism, publishing...
- To X Literature you add Y space, installation, directing, media art, image, acting, voice, movement/body...
- To X Theatre you add Y space, installation, media art, text, image, sound...
- To X Conservation you add Y space, installation, directing, text, voice...
The Y Institute, together with the Head of Studies of the respective Bachelor's degree programmes, supports the students in putting together an individualised programme for their studies, which allows them to acquire the expansion they are looking for. They then acquire X+Y status. The X+Y status is developped according to the individual student's plans, way of working and abilities. It is not possible to predict the final outcome precisely: the X+Y form of studies is an explicitly individualised approach for the students' artistic work, their practice, their performances. It does not stop at the boundaries of their discipline but reaches far beyond them.
