Research at RITCS
RITCS cultivates a lively research mentality. Whether it concerns artistic or practice-oriented research, RITCS stimulates an inquiring attitude among its students, alumni, and teachers. We are convinced that artistic research and artistic practice go hand in hand. Each research project starts from the personality of the individual researcher, the artist, or from the characteristics of a unique artistic collaboration.
Research at RITCS produces results in the form of works of art (objects and performances), new media, and content for new media—physical, material, analogue, digital—in addition to publications. RITCS organizes and facilitate presentations in the form of festivals, exhibitions, conferences, concerts, and research days in which the degree programs are involved in content and logistics as much as possible.
Research at RITCS has three “layers.” In the first, RITCS teachers carry out research in addition to their teaching assignments, in project form, preferably in an investigative collective. These projects run for two years and can be extended once, which is often the case. The second layer involves individual research projects for doctoral students in the arts, which are organized in collaboration with the Brussels Arts Platform (VUB/ RITCS/ KCB). These four-year programs are designed to lead to a doctoral degree. Every year, in June, vacancies are announced depending on the available financial means. Finally, the third layer consists of laboratories—structural research environments, material or virtual, where researchers, students, and artists from inside and outside RITCS work together in areas that are considered to be of structural importance for the present and future of RITCS as an art school.
The Research Committee of RITCS advises on research policy, sets the broad outlines every four years, and makes choices for projects and PhD tracks. It has an overview of research practice, at arms' length. Heads of programmes, other delegates from the programmes, the research coordinator and the director of RITCS make up the Research Committee.