Title: Commentaries - Critical Grounding, Taking a Position
Credits: 20 Credits
read more »Commentaries- Critical Grounding, Taking a Position offers post graduate students the opportunity to examine and analyse the different forms that social practice/socially engaged art can take. It also contextualises social practice in terms of theoretical frameworks and explores the notion of social responsibility. The work of leading theorists from Martha Rosler to Guy Debord will be explored through lectures and student led seminar responses to these works. This module is a foundational part of the MA programme, within the context of the trend in contemporary art and design practice from site specific work to situation specific work, and from individual to collaborative artistic intervention in the social dimension. It serves to provide the theoretical underpinning which informs such practice, as outlined in the literature by Claire Doherty (ed.) Situation, 2009, Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells, 2012 and Gregory Sholette, Dark Matter 2011. The aim of this module is to provide students with a strong critical and analytical setting, to contextualise practice within current cultural policy, as well as within which to frame their own social practice.
Title: Transactions, Roles and Research
Credits: 15 Credits
read more »Transactions, Roles and Research focuses on the interactions of the creative practitioner with broader community of practices. It also explores research techniques and methodologies relevant to post-graduate students. It introduces graduates to the disciplines, practices, languages and practices appropriated in socially engaged art, and gives an overview on the administrative, legal and planning aspects of working within defined space. It offers students the chance to explore and analyse the nature of experience, ethics and vernacular exchange.
Title: Practice - Analysis, Contextualise, Assimilate
Credits: 15 Credits
read more »Practice, Analyse, Contextualise, Assimilate is focused on exemplars of socially engaged creative practice, where through analysis and examination of best practice case studies delivered by practitioners and through student led seminars, workshops and reading groups, students achieve a critical and contextual background of the history and contemporary activity of their practice. It offers students the chance to explore and analyse the way that the artist or designer operates within a socially engaged context.
Title: Social Practice: Major Project
Credits: 25 Credits
read more »Social Practice: Major Project. In this practice based module students are requested to apply their learning to date through direct creative involvement in a social context. Each student will establish a creative and critical relationship with a chosen social context as a site for exchange, provocation, investigation or civic engagement. Prior to this module, students are expected to familiarise themselves with their student handbook which clearly sets out the roles and responsibilities of all partners in the major project. Through all their mediation with the public, students will be guided in best practice and coached in negotionating agreements with agencies and communities, especially in complex or challenging situations. Students are requested to examine and employ the theories and practices explored in earlier modules, in order to conceptualise and structure a major self directed project. The project should reach a resolution within the timeframe of the course.
The form of practice adopted by the students will be developed by the individual's active research and project choice; they may use various forms, methods, and approaches as the situation dictates; any combination might be used with the intention of creating significant engagement and/or commentary, investigation, exploration, experimentation, agency, activation, reportage/documentation/witness of the site, context or situation. It is essential part of the process that each student be aware of the boundaries of engagement and is responsible and sensitive to any individuals, groups or social contexts involved.
Drawing attention to the professional characteristics of the process, each student must present a working project management plan on their concept and the situation. This will illustrate where appropriate, contextual information, working methodologies, time management, project resources, documentation strategies, funds management, technical planning, project contracts and so forth.
The module will ascertain the students' ability to pursue Social Practice as an independent cultural producer/facilitator. The module is delivered through workshops, tutorials and group critique sessions.
Title: Documentation: Critical Reflection and Evaluation of Major Project
Credits: 15 Credits
read more »Documentation: Critical Reflection and Evaluation of Major Project relates to the documented reflection and evaluation of the Major Project. Students will apply research methods covered in Module 1, 2, 3 and 4. This reflection and evaluation will typically use the format of an action project, where the intervention/designed work/situation/collaborative piece or other form of project provokes a change which is then critically evaluated by the student producing a reflective portfolio. Which may include;
;a written text
;catalogue
;reflective diaries
;social media formats of documentation
;other documentary works, including sound, image, video etc
