Study Exchange for Fine Art

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• the broader cultural context of your practice with particular reference to your chosen location;
• how to employ a range of materials, methods and technologies to advance your individual practice with an understanding of critical debates in contemporary art.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• develop and manage your workload to set goals and meet deadlines.
• communicate your ideas effectively using an appropriate range of formats and presentations;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• reflect on your work and exchange experiences to enable the development of your practice as an artist.
• evaluate your work with reference to a range of social and cultural contexts relevant to your chosen location;
• extend your intellectual enquiry through research-informed approaches to advance your practice;

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.

This Exchange module will allow you to develop your specific practice in a different environment. It is intended to challenge you to engage fully with the cultural context in which you will find yourself. While syllabus content will be determined by your host institution it should be discussed with your WSA exchange tutor before you depart and relate to your exchange application.

You will be expected to critically engage with your study exchange through the production of a portfolio of work that encourages you to utilise available learning resources at the partner institution and apply working practices to test and challenge known solutions in favour of more uncertain and potentially ambitious outcomes. The experience will develop your cultural and contextual awareness, your abilities to study independently and to advance your practice and subject focus in readiness for Part 3 of your programme.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods may include:

• lectures;
• project briefings;
• seminars;
• tutorials;
• online tutor support.

Learning activities may include:

• lectures;
• project briefings;
• seminars;
• tutorials;
• workshops;
• peer group learning;
• self-reflection on your exchange.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.