Postgraduate Course: TPG Sites (ARTX11035)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| 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 learn about 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 2015/16, 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 2,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 14,
Fieldwork Hours 16,
Online Activities 1,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
358 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Portfolio
Studentship
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| Feedback |
Formative feedback on project exhibition.
Summative feedback on project and studio work.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically assess and integrate appropriate methods of distribution and sites of consumption into the production of your work.
- Communicate, using appropriate methods, to your peers and external participants the critical discourse that validates your practice.
- Produce, install, curate and publise 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.
Kwon, M. (2003) One Place after Another: Site-specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge,MA: MIT Press.
Putman, J. (2001) Art and Artefact: The Museum as Medium. London: Thames & Hudson.
O'Doherty, B. (2000) Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R. and Valentine, G. (eds)(2004) Key Thinkers on Space and Place. London: Sage.
Buskirk, Martha. 'The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art', MIT, 2005.
Moser, A. & MacLeod, D. (1995) Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Coles, A. (ed.) (2000) Site-specificity: The Ethnographic Turn.
Baker, C. (ed) (1994) The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility. London: Routledge. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr John Beagles
Tel: (0131 6)51 5909
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Jennifer Watson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: |
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