Course Details

Course Information Package

Course Unit TitleSTUDIO PRACTICE II
Course Unit CodeMFA505
Course Unit DetailsMA Fine Art: Contemporary Art Practices (Required Courses) -
Number of ECTS credits allocated15
Learning Outcomes of the course unitBy the end of the course, the students should be able to:
  1. Investigate further a range of traditional and emerging production disciplines applied in and beyond the studio.
  2. Develop advanced creative thinking: an analytical and visual expression through a process-oriented approach.
  3. Generate a multiplicity of meanings, directions and dimensions of their project through conceptual and visual experimentation and research.
  4. Examine the varied historical and cultural definitions and interpretations of concepts and notions related to the student’s practice.
  5. Analyze and critique topics of various disciplinary histories and conventions in the contemporary art world.
  6. Develop professional terminology and objective criteria to analyze concepts and ideas.
  7. Communicate ideas and actual work professionally using oral and visual presentation skills relevant to practice.
  8. Evaluate critically their peers’ artwork through a series of individual and group discussions.
  9. Demonstrate an inventive and unique approach to experimentation and research and final art form.
  10. Communicate own practice through multiple channels of engagement.
  11. Produce a high of standard portfolio and show-ready professional artwork.
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
PrerequisitesMFA501Co-requisitesNONE
Recommended optional program componentsNONE
Course ContentsStudio Practice 2 is the core course and a graduate major requirement of the program. It is designed as an advanced course of critique. Each student is provided with a studio where they are expected to spend many hours a day working and producing original, advanced work. Studios are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. During the second semester, students are expected to continue their studio work. Faculty staff has 40 - 60 minutes studio visits once a week to instruct and support students, and evaluate critically students’ work through discussions on issues and concerns in contemporary art related to each student’s work. Once a month, an artist, art historian or critic will be invited to give keynote lectures and/or take part in studio visits. This course also includes group critiques that take place once a month during the semester. The last week of the semester, open studios take place and students are expected to give a presentation of their work in progress for critique and evaluation.
Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks
    No specific textbook required
References
  • Fresh Cream, Phaidon, 2000
  • Vitamin P, New perspectives in Painting, Phaidon 2002
  • Cream 3, Phaidon 2003
  • Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, Michael Petry, Installation In The New Millennium, Thames & Hudson 2003
  • Ice Cream, Phaidon, 2004
  • Uta Grosenick (ed), Art Now vol 2, Taschen 2005
  • Judith Collins, Sculpture Today, Phaidon 2007
  • Hans Werner Holzwarth (ed), Art Now vol 3, Taschen 2008
  • Saatchi Gallery, Abstract America: New Painting, Rizzoli New York 2009
  • Cornelia Butler, Catherine de Zegher, On Line. Drawing through the twentieth Century, MoMA 2010
  • Defining Contemporary Art – 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks, Phaidon 2011
  • Uta Grosenick (ed), Art Now vol 2, Taschen 2005
  • Judith Collins, Sculpture Today, Phaidon 2007
  • Hans Werner Holzwarth (ed), Art Now vol 3, Taschen 2008
  • Saatchi Gallery, Abstract America: New Painting, Rizzoli New York 2009
  • Cornelia Butler, Catherine de Zegher, On Line. Drawing through the twentieth Century, MoMA 2010
  • Defining Contemporary Art – 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks, Phaidon 2011
Planned learning activities and teaching methodsStudio Practice course focuses on independent studio work in traditional and emerging media of fine art. The course is delivered through weekly studio visits, individual and group discussions and critiques on students’ personal work (research and visual practice) in relation to various disciplinary histories and conventions in the contemporary art world. This will encourage students to work with a more diverse and developed visual experimentation. An essential part of the teaching methodology is the presentations by visiting lecturers offered to students during the semester on issues related to different Arts, Humanities and Sciences
Assessment methods and criteria
Language of instructionEnglish
Work placement(s)NO

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