Module overview
Energising your practice. The module is designed to add to the range of materials and techniques with which you are familiar, introduce the role of contextual research in creative practice, and prepare you for the direction of your own studio work in Part 2.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- apply reflection and critical engagement to your practice;
- begin to direct your experimentation and outcomes;
- develop practical and experimental outcomes informed by research processes.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- aspects of the critical contextual thinking in the practice of contemporary art.
- a range of further introductory methods, materials, techniques and skills;
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- communicate your ideas.
- manage and complete projects to deadlines;
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- extend your conceptual engagement through material testing and experimentation;
- the application of practical skills and techniques relevant to contemporary art to inform your practice.
Syllabus
The module offers workshop training in a further range of skills fundamental to painting, printmaking, sculpture, digital and lens-based media, and performance. Separately and in parallel, it offers further set projects, the subject of introductory briefings, which are markedly less constrained than the projects in Studio Practice 1A ( Materials and Techniques). The projects again provide you with the opportunity to develop your own ideas, test materials and techniques, and make work to given deadlines, but within an increasingly self-directed framework. A number of visiting artists deliver lectures on their practice
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
- project briefings
- lectures
- tutorials
- group critiques
- workshop inductions
Learning activities include:
- project briefings
- lectures
- library research
- tutorials
- group critiques
- workshop inductions peer-group learning
- self-evaluation
Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes
Outcomes and work in progress are discussed individually with tutors, and in group critiques and project reviews. The module requires ongoing research for relevant antecedents for the work in hand, from current practice and art history, for which use of the library is essential. The advice you receive and what you learn should all be documented in your sketchbooks and research folders and will be manifest in the work you produce. Taken together, these items are your ‘portfolio’, which will be assessed at the end of the semester against the learning outcomes for the module
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 100 |
Supervised time in studio/workshop | 180 |
Seminar | 18 |
Lecture | 20 |
Completion of assessment task | 130 |
Tutorial | 2 |
Total study time | 450 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Panopto via Blackboard.
Internet Resources
Academic Skills ( including AI).
The library provides comprehensive advice on researching and referencing material;.
Textbooks
Walker, J. and Chaplin, S. (1997). Visual Culture: An Introduction.. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Mirzoeff, N. (1999). An Introduction to Visual Culture. London: Routledge..
Barthes, R. (1993). Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. London: Vintage.
Dewey, J. (1934). Art as Experience.. London: Penguin.
Evans, J. and Hall, S. (eds) (1999). Visual Culture: The Reader. London: Sage Publishers..
Harrison, C. and Wood, P. eds. (2002). Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas.. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Storey, J. (2012). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction.. London: Routledge..
Benjamin, W. (1992). Illuminations, London. London: Pimlico.
Lessing, D. (1962). The Golden Notebook.. London: Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Portfolio Portfolio DevelopmentSummative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External