Interdisciplinary Art
Interdisciplinary art includes newer, hybrid art forms such as performance art, installation art, multi-media art, creative disturbances, guerilla art, sonic liberations, happenings, urban sound theatre, public art and interventions, as well as older forms such as opera, in interpretations that integrate new disciplines in innovative ways.
Although interdisciplinary art events sometimes take place in traditional venues such as concert halls, theatres, galleries and schools, they are just as likely to happen in public space or to have a virtual existence online. Public art can migrate around the city or internet to intersect with any geographic location and audiences of any cultural orientation.
Interdisciplinary art is, by its very nature, collaborative. It involves collaborators from different artistic fields (writer, composer, choreographer, performer, visual artist, filmmaker, craftsperson), specialists from fields such as the high tech sector, architecture, science and engineering, as well as trades people (metal workers, carpenters etc.), working together and combining their talents towards a common goal: to create a work of art. This cross-pollination results in groundbreaking art that is unique to the strengths of the Waterloo Region.
