Connecting the Dots 1: Poetics
Module code
M-MA-JPPO
Curricular domain
Practical Classes
Credits
1
Group size
n/a
Number of course weeks
n/a
Class duration
n/a
Total contact hours
6
Study load
22
Form / content / level
Prerequisites
Admitted to the Master's
Competencies
pending
Aims
Developing the following:
Creative:
4. The student demonstrates a musical and artistic personality.
Contextual focus:
1. The student is abreast of developments in the professional field, field of activity and society. The student shows the way they integrate this into their professional behaviour and commitment to their own professional practice and society.
Research and development:
1. The student asks critical questions and is open to answering other people's questions.
2. The student reflects upon their own assumptions, preferences, strengths and weaknesses and understands how all of these affect their development and professional opportunities.
4. The student provides well-founded opinions on the artistic value of their own work and that of others and on the extent that it corresponds with the intentions of the creator.
Communicative:
5. The student uses verbal, writing and digital skills to convey their own work, working method, vision and results of research convincingly and effectively to professionals and audience.
Relation to other modules
This Master-wide course focuses on context and cohesion in the broadest sense. Links are made between various pathways, as well as different parts of the curriculum: on an individual level in the study plan, and on an interdisciplinary level in a common project week. In this week theory and creativity are alternated, as designed and supervised by the instructors of all pathways.
Content
This workshop focuses on two things: ‘strategy’ and ‘poetics’. We examine the student’s motives and artistry: not what you create, but why you create is important in this subject.
The famous writer Gombrowicz said: an artist who can’t speak of one’s own work, doesn’t make complete art. This explains everything about this subject: poetics. Your poetics are more than the opinions on your own. It is the whole of ideas, insights, and opinions, that someone may have on what literature and art should be. It is also a statement on the work of others and an image of the student’s perspective on the world. We search for the internal poetics of the students: how they express their vision in their work.
We will also discuss their external poetics: the way in which they speak about their work, in the classroom, in interviews, in essays, etc. But we will also discuss the way in which they manifest or publish their opinion, in what form, and how they shape their artistic career.
Mode(s) of instruction
Workshop, work groups.
The instructor gives the workshop and guides the students during discussions and in writing their manifesto.
Material & Tools
See: Instructions Digital Student Portfolio.
Reader.
Student activity
Students will receive assignments on themes offered by the instructor to work on independently. Based on Aristotelian poetical types, the instructor will look at their position within the course, the arts, and the work field. Through these classes and discussions, students formulate their own artistic manifesto.
Examination and assessment
Mode(s) of assessment
Manifesto is assessed, as well as if the student did participate in classes actively. A discussion about the manifesto is planned in consultation with teachers involved.
Criteria
Presence is necessary for assessment.
Consult assessment form Connecting the dots - Poetics for more info.
Pass requirements
The final assessment is either satisfactory or unsatisfactory. A satisfactory results in a pass.
Examination procedure
The assessor gives written feedback and discusses this personally with the student.
Resit options
Rewritten manifesto.
Module summary
Connecting the Dots is a context focused subject. Context is the full environment in which something gains meaning. The students understand how their context in or their perspective on the world is continually changing and influences their work and profile as a musician. Students of the various pathways within the Master of Music work together in multidisciplinary groups.
Stimulating (interdisciplinary) collaboration is important to us. Since the Master of Music is situated in three locations, it’s not obvious to meet each other. For that reason, there are two mandatory meetings every year, the so-called Meet the Masters. During the first one at the beginning of the year, the students introduce themselves to each other, by giving a short presentation or performance. During the second one at the end of the year, the students will present their plans for the 2nd year.
Besides those Meet the Master meetings, Connecting the Dots exists of three parts: Study plan, Project week and Poetics. In Poetics, on the basis of work groups, students get to know the current art world and formulate their position within it. They learn to motivate their opinion, learn about artistic strategies and how to realise them. The students are able to distance themselves of their ego and formulate a professionally motivated poetic manifesto.