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Postgraduate Course: MA Exhibition and Portfolio (Sculpture) (ARTX11006)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (n/a) Credits40
Home subject areaArt Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionIndicative course content
The culmination point of your MA study presented in the form of a solo Degree Exhibition for assessment and wider dissemination of your practice to peers and the contemporary art world.

Aims of course
1 To consolidate your organisation, presentation and exhibition strategies and professionally present your practice to a wide audience.
2 To develop your ability to critically examine, apply and disseminate the evidence of your research.
3 To professionally document, archive and determine the means of individually promoting your work to others.

Mode of delivery
Studio-based, Tutorials, Group Crit, Professional Practice Events, Visiting Artists, Exhibitions.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Pre-requisites


Co-requisites


Prohibited combinations
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a highly advanced ability to complete work to a professional standard and install it in a Degree Exhibition context.
2. Show an ability to clearly and professionally present in either portfolio, website or alternative format, the evidence of individual investigations and research focus.
3. Present evidence of a sophisticated ability to document, archive and promote exhibited work.
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
Not entered
Special Arrangements
Refer to Postgraduate Handbook
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Indicative Bibliography
DUFFIN, Debbie. Investigating Galleries : The Artist&©s Guide to Exhibiting, AN Publications, 1994. Site-specificity : the ethnographic turn / edited by Alex Coles. Published: London, Black Dog, 2000. DOHERTY, CLAIRE. Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation, London: Black Dog, 2004. Alberro, Alexander. Conceptual art and the politics of publicity Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003. NCNIFF, SHAUN. Art-Based Research London: Jessica Kingsley, 1998. GOUGH, Paul. Getting media coverage. Published: AN Publications, 1993. WADE, GAVIN, Curating in the 21st Century, University of Wolverhampton, 2000. GREENBERG, REESA. Thinking about Exhibitions. Routledge, London, 1996. ALTSHULER, BRUCE. Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art Princeton University Press, 2005.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Contact hours 15 hours
Directed study 120 hours
Self-directed study 265 hours
Total 400 hours
KeywordsEXHIBITION, RESEARCH, DOCUMENTATION, PROMOTION
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