Undergraduate Course: Gendered Soundings? Sound art & feminism (ARTX10059)
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 | Sound art, a term used to describe works which merge music and visual art has evolved in various formats since the 1980s. This course makes use of critical feminist theory to explore contemporary sound-related practices. |
| Course description |
Visual Culture, by the nature of its very name tends to favour an occularcentric appreciation of contemporary art and culture. Since the 1980s, the term sound art has been used to describe works which merge music and visual art. This has been driven in part by developments in sound reproduction technology as well as experimental composition, interdisciplinary practices and installation formats. Whilst often considered in relation to how it differs from traditional music practices, the development of sound art as a dematerialised practice, shares many parallels with visual art. Rather than think through the fields of music, art and sound separately this course considers each in conjunction with each other. In doing so the course provokes questions about how we read and make contemporary work. Further to this, the course places gendered readings and theories at the centre of its concerns. Female practitioners in the relatively new field of sound art are underrepresented and often ignored in the dominant literature. This course will be motivated by a mobilisation of critical feminist theory to evidence the contribution of women working across the mediums of painting, performance, sound objects and sound montages to the scholarship of visual culture.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Present evidence of a high level of independent, scholarly research via group seminars and your written submission.
- Critically analyse a range of textual and non-textual discourses concerning gender and sound art, demonstrating a creative and original response to new problems and issues with regards to visual culture.
- Demonstrate the ability to write, talk and visualise responses to gender and sound art in visual culture, in oral and written formats. Present this research in forms that are imaginative, original and creative.
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Reading List
Campt, Tina. (2017) Listening to Images. USA: Duke University Press
Carson, Fiona and Claire Pajaczkowska. (2000) Feminist Visual Culture. UK: Edinburgh Uni Press
Hemmings, Clare. (2011) Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory. USA: Duke Uni Press Nicholson, Linda. (1990) Feminism/Postmodernism. UK: Routledge
Noy, Irene. (2017) Emergency Noises Sound Art and Gender. Germany: Peter Lang Publishing
Thompson, Marie. (2017) Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism. Bloomsbury
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING :
Demonstrating a critical, detailed and knowledge and understanding of sound art and its relationship to gender and contemporary art practice.
PRACTICE: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING
Knowledge and understanding that is generated through research that makes a signifcant contribution to the development of the students Visual Culture and studio-based work.
CHARACTERISTIC 3: GENERIC COGNITIVE SKILLS
The ability to critically review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills, practices and thinking in gender theory and practices of sound art to contemporary art practice.
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| Keywords | Sound,Feminism,Visual Culture |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Rebecca Collins
Tel: (0131 6)51 5875
Email: rcollin3@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mx Hannah Pennie Morrison
Tel: (0131 6)51 5763
Email: Hannah.PM@ed.ac.uk |
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