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Postgraduate Course: TPG Studio (ARTX11036)

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 (Postgraduate) Credits40
Home subject areaArt Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis course will enhance your ability to research, analyse, produce and exhibit your practice in relation to cultures of the studio. It encourages you to reconsider what sort of space a 'studio' is as a site of production in the contemporary art world and to speculate on what it might become. You are encouraged to explore you how the studio impacts upon your practice and to examine opportunities in
the ever expanding range of activities and infrastructures behind artistic production today.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 13/01/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 2, Fieldwork Hours 7, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Revision Session Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 380 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Generate a focus for and make a constructive contribution to group crits.


2. Working alongside some of your peers, install and present a Project for critical scrutiny.

3. Critically re-assess the function of the studio in the production, distribution and consumption of your work.
Assessment Information
Studentship
Installation
Portfolio
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Aims
1. To enable you to re-assess the function of the studio and the gallery in the production, distribution and consumption of contemporary art.
2. To generate a productive and supportive peer review environment that enhances your ability to elucidate your work and contribute to the development of contemporary art.
3. To enable you to work closely alongside your peers to initiate, organise and participate in exhibitions, projects and events.
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Indicative Bibliography
Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner, 'Studio reader: On the Space of Artists', University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Kim Paice, 'The Fall of the Studio: Artists at Work', Valiz, 2009.
Daniel Buren, 'The Function of the Studio', 1971.
Terry Atkinson "Phantoms of the Studio", The Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1990.
Rebecca Fortnum and Chris Smith 'The Problem of Documenting Fine Art Practices and Processes' Journal of Visual Arts Practice Volume 6 Number 3, 2007.
Kendall Buster and Paula Crawford, The Critique Handbook: The Art Student's Sourcebook and Survival Guide (2nd Edition), Pearson, 2009.
Rudolf Arnheim, 'Visual Thinking', 1969.
Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality, Marion Boyars, 2001.
Jacques Ranciere, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, Stanford University Press, 1991.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsPGDip Contemporary Art, School of Art
Contacts
Course organiserDr Neil Mulholland
Tel: (0131 6)51 5881
Email: n.mulholland@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Susan Mitchell
Tel: (0131 6)51 5743
Email: Susan.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk
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