Studio Practice 2B (Focus and Ambition)

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• ways of resolving studio work through sustained experimentation;
• a focused range of technical methods and concepts to support continuing development of your practice;
• how to apply knowledge gained from a range of sources and contexts to advance your practice.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• focus your thinking and research within a framework of self-directed practice;
• extend your ideas through practical experimentation;
• conduct in-depth research including library research;
• evaluate your work in relation to its creative, social and cultural contexts.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• employ increasingly sophisticated hybridity of technique in the resolution of your work.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• develop and manage projects driven by your ideas;
• communicate ideas confidently and persuasively.

On this module, you continue to develop your own ideas, testing materials and techniques and reflecting on the results. You again create a portfolio of experimental material and outcomes, as part of an increasingly strategic approach to your emerging practice as an artist. A number of visiting artists deliver lectures on their practice.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• module briefing;
• lectures;
• tutorials;
• group critiques.

Learning activities include:

• module briefing;
• lectures;
• library research;
• tutorials;
• group critiques;
• peer group learning;
• self-evaluation;
• Study Skills Hub.

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. The module requires increasingly sophisticated research for relevant antecedents and theoretical underpinnings for the work in hand, 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.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Blackboard (E:learning).

Study Skills.

Lbrary.

Academic Skills ( including AI).

Textbooks

Vonnegut, K. (1987). Bluebeard. New York: Dell.

Bishop, C. (2012). Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. London: Verso.

Ranciere, J. (2011). The Emancipated Spectator. New York: Verso.

Batchelor, D. (2000). Chromophobia. London: Reaktion Books.

Larson, K. (2013). Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism and the Inner Life of Artists. London: Penguin.

Wake, P. and Malpas, S. (eds) (2013). The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory. London: Routledge.

Debord, G. (1967). Society of the Spectacle. London: Zone Books.

Groys, B. (2016). In the Flow. London: Verso.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External