Postgraduate Course: Introduction to Community Arts Practice: Modes, Methods and Meanings (MUSI11053)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Community Arts is a fast evolving and developing discipline which at its core is 'engagement for all', and the opportunity to participate in and benefit from a practical exploration of the Arts in environments often marginalised and without access. This course will explore the many forms of community arts; how to get involved professionally, safely, practically and authentically. |
| Course description |
The act of being creative together can give opportunities for change, impacting on both the individual, their community and the artists involved. The practice of community arts is ever changing and evolving. This cross-disciplinary activity is embraced in many sectors of ECA's pedagogy and research. The open borders of collaborative approaches connect people, disciplines, methods and genres, increasing our cognitive capacity, giving us new points of comparison and departure. You will be encouraged to discuss the ways in which your practice maps onto the wider discourse, politics, history and practices of community arts. The course will also impart information from the latest research that shows awareness of the history of community arts practice. Examining texts, policy documents and artists' statements will allow you opportunities to better understand the changes in taste and policy supported by different governments and arts organisations around the world. You will have the chance to consolidate your motivations as artists by participating in the shaping of collectively conceived ideas.
There is a range of teaching approaches across the course (lectures, tutorials and seminars) depending upon the content of each session.
Further information is available via the following link: https://digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/community-arts-practice/
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 17 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 24,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
172 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Submission 1 (10%) - Absorbing methods - Project Pitch week 5 - In small groups you will be given a context for creating a piece of collaborative art for example: working with a young offenders institution, working within a refugee community. You will look at each others strengths and work out how each discipline can inform the other and how these elements can be integrated. You will have small group tutorials to support the process.
Submission 2 (50%)- Making together - group presentations - students will be assessed as a group. This submission will be assessed using LO 2,3 4
You will produce 2 sides of A4 which outlines the project.
You will have the opportunity to demonstrate the different elements.
You will be able to expand on your ideas.
Submission 3 (40%) - You will write a reflective essay of up to 2500 words documenting your experience of the group project and examining issues in collaborative practice looking at the context for your work ; organisation, structure, and ethos with an emphasis on the potential engagement. You could include a memory stick with additional digital content.
There is a starting point and end point¿.
What are you seeking to achieve?
The essay could address the following:
Rationale and Motivation
Theme
Specific objectives
Participants
Phases and Timeline
Budget
Creative team
Evaluation
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| Feedback |
Feedback - you will be given formative feedback on your Group Project Pitch in week 5.
You will be given formal summative feedback on your final submission at the end of semester
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Learn how their own artistic practice intersects with the needs of community arts clients and learn about the role community arts plays in wider culture (Knowledge and Understanding).
- Be informed of current approaches to community arts in the context of government, policy, artist careers, and the communities that benefit (Generic Cognitive Skills).
- Develop skills in devising materials suitable for a range of community arts contexts and develop detailed knowledge of the way different practitioners approach community arts work (Practice / Communication).
- Develop a better understanding of funding processes , fund-raising and producing collaborative community arts projects.
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Reading List
Regular marvels : a handbook for animateurs, practitioners and development workers in dance, mime, music and literature /
Published: Leicester : Community Dance & Mime Foundation, 1994.
eds. Mark Webster and Glen Buglass, Finding Voices, Making choices: creativity for Social Change, Educational Heretics Press, 2004
Ken Robinson, Out of our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Capstone, 2011
Claire Doherty, Art in the Public Realm in London 1995-2005. Arts Council England, 2007.
Claire Doherty, Situation, London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2009.
Tim Ingold, Lines: A Brief History , 2007
Arcade : Artists and Place-making, London : Black Dog, 2006.
Mapping the Terrain : New Genre Public Art, Seattle, Wash. : Bay Press, 1995
Public Art Dialogue (Journal) Routledge http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpad20/current
Art & The Public Sphere (Journal) Intellect
Forecast http://forecastpublicart.org
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/publication_archive/open-space-art-in-the-public-realm-in-london-1995-2005 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
This course is available to practitioners from across ECA; designers, digitalists, architects, experimenters, musicians, animators, film makers, artists, sound designers, theorists and historians. As such, it will enable you to develop your accountability, participatory and collaborative skills. It will help to broaden your artistic vision and leadership skills and in particular the necessity to communicate effectively between and across different art forms . |
| Keywords | Creativity,Inter-disciplinary,arts,creativity,community,public art,outreach |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Dee Isaacs
Tel: (0131 6)51 4097
Email: D.Isaacs@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Emma Binks
Tel: (0131 6)51 5740
Email: Emma.Binks@ed.ac.uk |
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