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Undergraduate Course: Presentation: methods & contexts 3a (ARTX10065)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis 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.
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 an externally focused project you will be encouraged to engage in a range of professional contexts.
Through a series of tutorials, group crits, gallery visits, the Friday Lecture series and engagement with an external project, 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.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate the ability to make and present work in different contexts both as an individual practitioner and as part of a group.
  2. Contextualise and critically evaluate individual practice in relation to peer group and wider contemporary art situation.
  3. Critically apply appropriate solutions to the documentation and dissemination of artwork.
Reading List
Doherty, Claire, Contemporary art: from studio to situation, Black Dog 2004

Putman, James. Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium, Thames & Hudson 2001

Obrist, Hans Ulrich. Ways of Curating, Penguin 2015

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

Tacita Dean and Jeremy Millar, PLACE, Thames and Hudson, 2005

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Communication, autonomous practice, presentation, collaboration, critical judgement, practical and technical skills.
KeywordsPublic,Audience,Art,Presentation
Contacts
Course organiserDr Sophia Lycouris
Tel: 0131 221 6291
Email: s.lycouris@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Rian Matsui
Tel:
Email: rmatsui@ed.ac.uk
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