First-year master's students from LHÍ's music and performing arts departments spent one week in Hólar in Hjaltadal last September.
There, the students had the opportunity to experience the nature, culture and history of this ancient place. The group experimented with interdisciplinary cooperation and thereby laid the foundation for a strong platform for joint artistic creation in the coming two years that it will study together. The group enjoyed excellent facilities and facilities offered by the University of Hólum and Hóladómkirkja, but both the cathedral and the medieval building Auðunnarstofa hosted numerous compositions, recordings, performances and various other fiction, but the university and the entire environment of the place were also used particularly well for joint creation and inspiration.
The course is an important part of the adaptation of NAIP Master's students (New Audiences and Innovative Practice) to their studies, and this is the 15th year in a row that such a course is held in some form. On all occasions, students from other arts and/or other art universities in Europe and elsewhere have participated in the course, broadening the cultural background of the group as a whole and promoting diverse and critical dialogue.
Ever since 2021, students from the Master of Performing Arts have participated, and this has borne fruit in the form of various collaborative projects across the school's departments, some of which have continued after the graduation of the students in question. But the formal collaboration between these two programs has been going on since 2016, among other things, through the European collaborative projects Beyond Arts Disciplines (BAD) and Training Artists Without Borders.