Postgraduate Course: TPG Sites (ARTX11035)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course integrates your approach to artistic research, production and distribution by focusing on 'sites' as key factors in the professional development of your practice. |
| Course description |
You will research, analyse and communicate how art can both mediate and be mediated by the experience of its context and explore different ways in which space and place are constructed in contemporary art globally. You will develop artistic possibilities that lie inside the contexts of the museum and gallery and in the public and virtual realms.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2020/21, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 17,
Fieldwork Hours 16,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
348 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment will be based on the following components:
Portfolio (50%) - assessment will be based on Learning Outcomes 1 and 2 (Research and Analysis).
Project Space Exhibition (30%) - assessment will be based on Learning Outcome 1 (Research).
Student Participation (20%) - assessment will be based on Learning Outcome 3 (Communication). |
| Feedback |
Continual formative feedback will be provided during group presentations of critical analysis and research into chosen themes.
Summative feedback will be provided for the portfolio, project space exhibition and seminar participation, and will address each Learning Outcome in relation to the work produced. |
| No Exam Information |
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| Academic year 2020/21, 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:
400
(
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
392 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
|
| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment will be based on the following components:
Portfolio (50%) - assessment will be based on Learning Outcomes 1 and 2 (Research and Analysis).
Project Space Exhibition (30%) - assessment will be based on Learning Outcome 1 (Research).
Student Participation (20%) - assessment will be based on Learning Outcome 3 (Communication). |
| Feedback |
Continual formative feedback will be provided during group presentations of critical analysis and research into chosen themes.
Summative feedback will be provided for the portfolio, project space exhibition and seminar participation, and will address each Learning Outcome in relation to the work produced. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research - Demonstrate an ability to discuss with your peers, tutors and external participants the research and critical discourse that informs and validates your practice.
- Analysis - Using your studio space, present a body of work that demonstrates how you have further developed your practice to include a critcal awareness of suitable methods for the exhbition, distribution and consumption of your work.
- Communicate - Working alongside other students produce, install, curate and publicise a resolved exhibition for critical scrutiny that demonstrates originality and creativity.
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Reading List
ABBING, Hans. 'Why are artists poor?: The Exceptional Economy of the Arts, Amsterdam:Amsterdam University Press, 2002.
BAKER, C. (ed) (1994) The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility. London: Routledge.
BUSKIRK, Martha. 'The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art', MIT, 2005.
COLES, A. (ed.) (2000) Site-specificity: The Ethnographic Turn.
HUBBARD, P., KITCHIN, R. and VALENTINE, G. (eds)(2004) Key Thinkers on Space and Place. London: Sage.
KWON, M. (2003) One Place after Another: Site-specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge,MA: MIT Press.
MOSER, A. & MACLEOD, D. (1995) Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
O'DOHERTY, B. (2000) Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
PUTMAN, J. (2001) Art and Artefact: The Museum as Medium. London: Thames & Hudson. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Knowledge that covers many of the main areas of contemporary practice, including their features, boundaries, terminology and conventions.
A critical, detailed and often leading knowledge and understanding at the forefront of contemporary art practice.
Knowledge and understanding that is generated through research that makes a significant contribution to the development of the students studio based work
The ability to apply knowledge, skills and understanding in applying a range of standard and specialised research and/or equivalent instruments and techniques of enquiry.
The ability to apply knowledge, skills and understanding in using a significant range of the principal professional skills, techniques, practices and/or materials associated with contemporary art practice.
The ability to apply knowledge, skills and understanding in using and enhancing a range of complex skills, techniques, practices and/or materials that are at the forefront of contemporary art practice.
The ability to apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to forefront issues, or issues that are informed by forefront developments in contemporary art practice.
The ability to critically review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills, practices and thinking in contemporary art practice. |
| Special Arrangements |
N/A |
| Study Abroad |
N/A |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Supervised Practical / Workshop / Studio |
| Keywords | Art,Contemporary,Sites,Studio,Postgraduate,PG |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr John Beagles
Tel: (0131 6)51 5909
Email: j.beagles@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Dr Eadaoin Lynch
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: eadaoin.lynch@ed.ac.uk |
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