Postgraduate Course: MFA Exhibition and Portfolio (Sculpture) (ARTX12002)
Course Outline
School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 12 (n/a) |
Credits | 40 |
Home subject area | Art |
Other subject area | None |
Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | Indicative course content
The culmination point of your MFA 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)
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
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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
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Special Arrangements
Refer to Postgraduate Handbook |
Additional Information
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Syllabus |
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Transferable skills |
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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. |
Study Abroad |
Not entered |
Study Pattern |
Contact hours 15 hours
Directed study 120 hours
Self-directed study 265 hours
Total 400 hours |
Keywords | EXHIBITION, RESEARCH, DOCUMENTATION, PROMOTION |
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