Undergraduate Course: Presentation: Methods & Context 3 (ARTX09073)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will expand your knowledge and understanding of the impact of placing work in the public domain through presentations to internal and external audiences.
You will be encouraged to consider the interaction between artists and social situations, and to identify and use appropriate methods and strategies in the presentation, documentation and dissemination of your work.
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| Course description |
This course will refine your understanding of how context is critical to the development, presentation and reading of an artwork. Through self-initiated study and a range of externally focused projects you will be encouraged to engage in a range of professional contexts.
Through a series of Project Space presentations, cross school group crits, individual tutorials, gallery visits, an overseas trip, the Friday Lecture series and engagement with external projects, the course will enable you to articulate issues within contemporary art practice and help you to define the context you are working within.
You will produce a critically reflective body of work that draws upon historical and contemporary references evident in current practice.
Aims:
1. To refine your understanding of effective methods of contextual and visual presentation.
2. To enable exploration of appropriate methods of recording, documenting and disseminating art work in a variety of contexts.
3. To enable critical engagement with contextual and visual presentation strategies and social situations.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 4,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 8,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 10,
External Visit Hours 2,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 8,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
160 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment is formative at end of Semester 1 and summative at end of Semester 2. The 3 summative assessment components are submitted together on a single PDF document:
1. One public presentation of your work in a format that is appropriate for your practice. It is important that this presentation of work is outside of the context of Edinburgh College of Art (its studios, project spaces etc.) This is likely to be from a third year external project that you have participated in this year but equally it could be a self-initiated group or solo exhibition that you organise. It could take place in a flat, a disused shop or building, a forest, a street or a suitcase, for example. This is really open to you.
The work needs to be clearly explained in the documentation and appropriately presented for assessment. The documentation should include at least one image with explanatory text(no more than 300 words). Please include relevant information such as the context you were working within, title, materials, dimensions and date and in the case of an exhibition give the title, the exhibition space and list other exhibitors. In the case of group work your individual role should be articulated.
For formative assessment this could take the form of a proposal. This body of work will be assessed against Learning Outcome 1.
2. Two critical reviews: one of an exhibition that you have visited and one of a Friday Lecture Series speaker or programme specific visiting artist's talk. The reviews should find a relationship between the work or exhibition discussed and your own developing practice. The writing should be accompanied by images that document the exhibition/talk and there is a word count of 600 words for each review.
For formative assessment in December one of these critical reviews should be completed. This body of work will be assessed against Learning Outcome 2.
3. Six additional images of work installed and documented. This could be work that was installed in a Project Space or in other bookable spaces in college. Equally the installation of work could have taken place in spaces external to ECA. It could be work that was installed on an individual basis or as part of a group show. Please include relevant information such as title, materials, dimensions, date and where the work was installed.
For formative assessment you will need three images. This body of work will be assessed against Learning Outcome 3. |
| Feedback |
Formative feedback will be provided at the end of Semester 1. Summative feedback will be provided within 15 working days of your hand in. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate the ability to make and present work in different contexts both as an individual practitioner and as part of a group.
- Contextualize and critically evaluate individual practice in relation to peer group and wider contemporary art situation.
- Critically apply appropriate solutions to the documentation and dissemination of artwork.
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Reading List
Doherty, Claire, Contemporary art: from studio to situation, Black Dog 2004
BANK written by BANK ; designed by Maria Beddoes & Paul Khera, Black Dog, 2000
City Racing : the life and times of an artist-run gallery, 1988-1998, Black Dog, 2002.
Lippard, Lucy, Six years: the dematerialization of the art object 1966-1972, University of California Press, 1997
O'Doherty, Brian - Inside the White Cube- the ideology of the gallery space, University of California Press, 2000
Bishop, Claire, Installation Art: A Critical History, Routledge, 2005
Montmann, Nina, Art & its Institutions, Black Dog Publishing, 2006
Barker, Emma, Contemporary Cultures of Display, Yale University Press 1999
Transmission, Committee for the Visual Arts, published by Black Dog, 2001
Jeffrey, Moira, GENERATION Reader 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Edited by published by National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Life, 2014
Tacita Dean and Jeremy Millar, PLACE, Thames and Hudson, 2005
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Communication, autonomous practice, presentation, collaboration, critical judgement, practical and technical skills. |
| Keywords | Exhibition,Presentation,Installation,Publication,Documentation. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Susan Mowatt
Tel:
Email: s.mowatt@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Dr Eadaoin Lynch
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: eadaoin.lynch@ed.ac.uk |
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