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Postgraduate Course: TPG Sites (ARTX11035)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummaryThis 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.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( 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 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Assessment details
100% coursework

Assessment details:
Assessment will be based on the following components:
LO1 Research (portfolio)
LO2 Analysis (portfolio)
LO3 Communication (external project)
Learning Outcomes are equally weighted.
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 and external project, and will address each Learning Outcome in relation to the work produced.
No Exam Information
Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 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 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Assessment details
100% coursework

Assessment details:
Assessment will be based on the following components:
LO1 Research (portfolio)
LO2 Analysis (portfolio)
LO3 Communication (external project)
Learning Outcomes are equally weighted.
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 and external project, 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:
  1. Research - Demonstrate an ability to discuss with your peers, tutors and external participants the research and critical discourse that informs and validates your practice.
  2. Analysis - Present a body of work that demonstrates how you have further developed your practice to include your practice to include a critcal awareness of suitable methods for the exhbition, distribution and consumption of your work. 3. Communicate - Working alongside other students produce, install, curate and publicise a resolved exhibition for critical scrutiny that demonstrates originality and creativity. a critical awareness of suitable methods for the exhibition, distribution and consumption of your work.
  3. Communicate - Working alongside other students produce, install, curate and publicise a resolved exhibition for critical scrutiny that demonstrates originality and creativity.
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
KeywordsArt,Contemporary,Sites,Studio,Postgraduate,PG
Contacts
Course organiserDr Kristin Mojsiewicz
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Course secretaryMs Georgia Dodsworth
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