Es war einmal ein Lattenzaun mit Zwischenraum hindurchzuschaun. (“One time there was a picket fence with space to gaze from hence to thence.”) – Christian Morgenstern. Thoughts on the INTER in interdisciplinarity in the arts. Lecture with film examples within the framework of the preliminary conference of the “Kolleg für Musik und Kunst Montepulciano”, 2018, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln / Dependancy Wuppertal

11:00, Lecture with film examples, followed by a discussion
Venue: Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln / Dependancy Wuppertal

What interdisciplinarity really means is not all that clear. Sometimes it means a networking idea between various arts, between arts and science, or between arts and media; sometimes it means a method, a form of work, or a form of organization; sometimes it is instrumentalized as a fashionable program in order to acquire external funding. In some cultures, interdisciplinary networking concepts are perceived as peculiar, given that – according to the respective tradition – the various forms of artistic expression have always belonged together, so that it is impossible, even in the present day, to imagine them as being separate.

Taking a look at a variety of manifestations and perceptions of interdisciplinarity, a focus is placed on interfaces of “discipline”-oriented picket fences and the spaces between the pickets, which, when the attempt is made to look through them, reveal a wide variety of perspectives and panoramas. The film excerpts present possibilities for generating interdisciplinarity, for example in the “spaces from hence to thence” of performance art at Lab Inter Arts, Salzburg.