Undergraduate Course: Contemporary Artistic Research (ARTX10051)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course gives an overview into the current place of artistic research in contemporary art practice. The popularity of Donald Bathelmes 'Not knowing' stands for the hiatus of dominant methods in artistic practice. Conversely artistic research, in recent years, has witnessed an increase in debate with writing giving an explicit verbal account of implicit knowledge embodied in an artistic practice.
This course will ask what roles does research play within contemporary artistic production? And how is artistic production a form of re-writing? The course will introduce students to a variety of contemporary discourses that respond to the entanglement of artistic practice and research within the art world and academia.
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| Course description |
This course asks that you reflect on artistic work through the lens of contemporary artistic research. This course requires that you look at issues of contemporary artistic research through extrapolating, dwelling, and in critically reflecting upon your own artistic processes. The course will utilize seminars, self-directed and group work but also exhibitions and other presentations of contemporary art.
The course will cover such topics as:
Introduction to Contemporary Artistic Research.
Not Knowing - On how artists think.
Art as a form of re-writing.
Reflective and reflexive practice.
Artists writing (Judd, Lewitt, Hess, Smithson, Kosuth, Tuttle, Fraser)
The artist and the archive.
Practice-based and/or practice-led research.
Self-direction, Networking and Collaboration
Artistic research in the future Academy
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is only available to students on a Degree Programme in the School of Art. |
| Additional Costs | Students are expected to pay for Art Materials and Equipment. Specific materials and equipment costs will vary depending on students individual choice of method of production. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | This course is only open to visiting students coming through a direct exchange with the School of Art. Exchange students outside of School of Art and independent study abroad students are not eligible to enrol in this course. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2020/21, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 2,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 14,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 6,
External Visit Hours 2,
Online Activities 1,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
166 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
1. You will be asked to plan and perform a experimental lecture which will be delivered to your peers and seminar group leader. The presentation will have maximum duration of 10 minutes. Your presentation should reflect your personal artistic methods in relationship to contemporary art and research. This component will be addressing learning outcomes 1+2 and will account for 50% of the final grade.
2. You will present a contemporary artistic research statement (maximum 1000 words). This statement should reflect upon your presentation and situate your artistic processes and methods in relation to key debates that have been introduced during the course and are pertinent to contemporary artistic research. This component refers to learning outcomes 3 + 4 and accounts for 50% of the final grade.
Presentation (maximum 10 min) 50%
Artistic Research Statement (maximum 1000 words) 50%
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| Feedback |
Both aspects of the assessment, Presentation and Statement, will be formatively assessed in week 6 of the course.
You will make a 10 minute presentation to your peers, reflecting upon your personal artistic methods In relation to contemporary art and research. Following this you will receive verbal (or online chat) feedback from your peers and the seminar leader and a letter grade. Formative Feedback will provide feed forward to allow you to improve for summative assessment.
For the written artistic research statement (maximum 1000 words uploaded to LEARN) you will receive a letter grade and a short written (or audio recording) statement which relates directly to the learning outcome 3.
Summative assessment will take place in week 11 of the course. You will deliver your revised 10 minute presentation to peers. The final research statement will be submitted in week 12 to allow for the necessary time to reflect on the presentation. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Prepare and make constructive contributions to tutorials, seminars, crits, and presentations on the area of artistic research.
- Communicate your methods and processes, in an innovative form, which demonstrates understanding of the key issues of contemporary artistic research
- Critically reflect on your methods and processes, referring to key texts, to establish your relationship to contemporary artistic research.
- Communicate your artistic research, showing analysis and initiative, in a well structured and coherent statement.
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Reading List
Biggs, M. and Karlsson, H. (eds), (2011), The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. Abingdon: Routledge. Available at: http://www.transart.org/writing/files/2015/02/routledge- companion-to-research-in-the-arts.pdf
Cocker, Emma. Tactics for Not Knowing: Preparing for the Unexpected in: Fortnum, Rebecca and Fisher, Elizabeth (eds). (2013) On Not Knowing - How Artists Think. UK: Black Dog Publishing
Gray, C. & Malins, J. ((2004) Visualizing Research: A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design. UK: Ashgate Available at: http://www.upv.es/laboluz/master/seminario/textos/Visualizing_Research.pdf
Madoff, Steven Henry (ed) (2009) Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) MIT Press Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/50009/Art_School_(propositions_for_the_21st_century)_Ed._Steven_Henry_Madoff.pdf
Williams, Gilda. (2014) How to write about contemporary art. London: Thames and Hudson
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Reflection, Analysis, Communication, Criticality, Collaboration |
| Keywords | Performance lecture,re-writing,not knowing,reflective practice |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Torsten Lauschmann
Tel:
Email: tlauschm@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Dr Eadaoin Lynch
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: eadaoin.lynch@ed.ac.uk |
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