Studio Practice 3A (Organisation and Connection)

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• engage in persuasive communication using appropriate media.
• work independently and collaboratively;
• demonstrate a high level of self-organisation to advance your practice;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• frame appropriate questions around the nature of your studio practice;
• critically evaluate the skills, techniques and research methodologies relevant to the development of your work.
• challenge established boundaries through sustained material experimentation;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• be increasingly sophisticated in the use of site, placement, duration, audience.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• notions of uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge as applied to contemporary fine art practice;
• the technical foundation and critical debates that situate your practice within a contemporary context;
• how to advance your ideas to more audience-aware outcomes.

On this module, experimentation and the pursuit of dialogue with materials remains prominent, within an increasingly organised and professionalised strategic framework. You continue to develop your own ideas, testing materials and techniques and reflecting on the results. The portfolio of experimental material and outcomes you create demonstrates the increasing individuality of your practice and an awareness of issues of presentation and audience. On two occasions the module encompasses participation in a Shared Drive project - typically a remaking project – working alongside Part 1 and 2 students towards a collective outcome. A number of visiting artists deliver lectures on their practice.

Teaching methods include:

• lectures;
• module briefing;
• lectures;
• tutorials;
• group critiques.

Learning activities include

• module briefing;
• lectures;
• library research;
• Shared Drive projects;
• tutorials;
• group critiques;
• peer group learning;
• self-evaluation.

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes

Outcomes and work in progress are discussed individually with tutors, and in group critiques. The module requires highly focused and effective ongoing research for relevant antecedents and theoretical underpinnings for the work in hand, for which use of the library is essential. The advice you receive and what you learn should all be documented in your sketchbooks and research folders and will be manifest in the work you produce. Taken together, these items are your ‘portfolio’, which will be assessed at the end of the semester against the learning outcomes for the module.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Portfolio

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: •In the early part of the module, you will have an orientation tutorial with your personal academic tutor with feedback on your early response to the module and guidance on how to proceed with portfolio development •You will have a formative feedback tutorial, usually in week 7, with your personal academic tutor, based on discussion of working material available in your studio space and any plans for practice you choose to outline in the meeting. A written summary of the discussion will be provided afterwards, indicating areas of strength and those needing extra attention; this is for your guidance, and does not carry marks or contribute to your assessment. •At least once during the module, you will have the opportunity to present work – a single item or a set - either completed or in progress, for discussion in a group crit, which will include formative feedback from the tutor leading the meeting. You are expected to take part in group crits on a weekly basis. •Interim tutorials in the studio will provide you with spoken feedback on work in progress. You can email a tutor to request such a tutorial, and there will be sign-up sheets for tutorials with visiting lecturers.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.