The Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (IPF) is the platform for research and development in Film, Dance and Theatre at the Department of Performing Arts and Film at Zurich University of the Arts.
The institute initiates, promotes and supports research projects. It promotes dialogue and facilitates the artistic and academic exchange between researchers both inside and outside of ZHdK and encourages discussions between researchers and students. It brings experts together, pools results and publishes findings. It is not just the specialist audience and the interested public that are addressed; the results of the research are also directly channelled into the teaching of the Department of Performing Arts and Film.
Projects are developed in close collaboration with teachers, artistic practice and cooperative partners from the worlds of business, culture and education. This is where methodological and instrumental foundations that are practically relevant to film, dance and spoken theatre are to be developed.
The Institute originally had two research focuses: