Master Performing Public Space
Fontys School of Fine & Performing Arts
Program description
Master Performing Public Space
The new international Master Performing Public Space (PPS) is designed for international creatives from a variety of art disciplines, who currently focus on public space as their artistic environment. This blended-learning program (online/on-campus) is breaking new ground in investigating public space as a backdrop for artistic expression and intervention. Creatives with a background in theatre, dance, circus, music, fine arts, architecture, digital arts and graphic design are welcome to join this program.
Innovative online / on-site program
PPS offers you an enriching & flexible learning environment, which directly relates to your current artistic work in public space. The teaching methods, which are based on the principles of Social Transformative Learning, are designed to be highly adaptable. Individual coaching, paired with 24/7 access to the online learning platform, together with on-site bootcamps held in Tilburg, the Netherlands, will make you part of a creative international community.
Proposition
“We encourage critical thinking artists from diverse backgrounds that are currently developing artistic work in public space to co-investigate intervention practices through the blended learning programme.”
- Practical and theoretical artistic research in an interdisciplinary context
- Blended learning: online and on-site programme with individual coaching and 3 intensive bootcamps in the Netherlands
- A very unique programme and international community with like-minded people from different backgrounds
Admission requirements
- Prerequisite for admission is a Bachelor degree (preferably in the arts or in a related artistic practice).
- As the Master program is taught in English, students have to prove having sufficient command of the English language. Foreign students are required to prove English proficiency at IELTS level 6.0. After application, we will inform you if an English proficiency test is required in your case.
- Visa requirements (applies to Non-EU students only): master Performing Public Space is a blended program: partly distance learning (online) and partly on-site in the Netherlands. 2 weeks in October, 2 weeks in January, 2 weeks in May.
As a Non-EU student you have two visa options:
- Option 1: STUDENT VISA: long-stay visa
If you want to move to the Netherlands for an entire year. In case you choose this option, Fontys will help you to apply for this visa.
- Option 2: SCHENGEN VISA - Short stay Multi Entry
If you want to stay in your home country and only travel to the Netherlands for the on-site workshops (three times per year). You can arrange this yourself.
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What you will learn
- Develop skills in artistic (practice-based) research
- Expand knowledge on all forms of art in public space
- Co-create with other (art) disciplines
Tuition fees
EEA students: EUR 2.168
Non-EU/EEA students: EUR 7.170
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Fontys School of Fine & Performing Arts
Fontys School of Fine & Performing Arts is the perfect place for those creative minds who want to turn the world around. Our institute is part of Fontys University of Applied Science and located in Tilburg, the Netherlands. A city...
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