Studio Practice 3A (Organisation and Connection)

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• frame appropriate questions around the nature of your studio practice;
• challenge established boundaries through sustained material experimentation;
• critically evaluate the skills, techniques and research methodologies relevant to the development of your work.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• work independently and collaboratively;
• engage in persuasive communication using appropriate media.
• demonstrate a high level of self-organisation to advance your practice;

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• the technical foundation and critical debates that situate your practice within a contemporary context;
• how to advance your ideas to more audience-aware outcomes.
• notions of uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge as applied to contemporary fine art practice;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• be increasingly sophisticated in the use of site, placement, duration, audience.

On this module, experimentation and the pursuit of dialogue with materials remains prominent, within an increasingly organised and professionalised strategic framework. You continue to develop your own ideas, testing materials and techniques and reflecting on the results. The portfolio of experimental material and outcomes you create demonstrates the increasing individuality of your practice and an awareness of issues of presentation and audience. On two occasions the module encompasses participation in a Shared Drive project - typically a remaking project – working alongside Part 1 and 2 students towards a collective outcome. A number of visiting artists deliver lectures on their practice.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

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

Learning activities include

• module briefing;
• lectures;
• library research;
• Shared Drive projects;
• tutorials;
• group critiques;
• 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. The module requires highly focused and effective ongoing 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

Academic Skills ( including AI).

Study Skills.

Library.

Blackboard (E:learning).

Textbooks

Mitchell, W.J.T. (2006). What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Schavemaker, M. (2007). Right About Now: Art and Theory since the 1990s. Amsterdam: Valiz.

Hudek, A. (2014). The Object: Documents of Contemporary Art. London: Whitechapel.

Morley, S. (2010). The Sublime: Documents of Contemporary Art. London: Whitechapel.

Tartt, D. (2013). The Goldfinch. New York: Little Brown.

Lippard, L. (1973). Six Years: The Dematerialisation of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. New York: Praeger.

Selby, A. & Beech, D. (2009). Art & Text. London: Black Dog Publishing.

Manghani, S. (2012). Image Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.

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.