
* This course runs subject to recruiting the minimum number of students each academic year.
Term Dates
October 2023 to June 2024
Deadline To Apply
Applications Are Open
Interview Dates
TBC Applications Are Open
Contact
Core Module
01
Mémoire
This module adds creative response to the traditional model of a written dissertation. Working across both years of study, students undertake a body of research that identifies, articulates and contextualises the themes within their work. Theoretical contexts and the material influence of artists are considered as case studies with the Mémoire including creative responses where written outcomes can take many different approaches and be presented in different forms.
Progression accumulates through lectures, introductions to research and practice based arts, group discussions, creation of a blog and seminars.
Core Module
02
History & Philosophy of Art
Providing a basis for research into critical discourse, this module runs across both years of study. Students are introduced to a wide range of theory related to contemporary practice including embodied learning, intersectionality, permaculture and transition arts, meta narratives, storytelling, and more. Social, cultural and environmental issues are also considered through the consideration of discourse addressing the rise of production, exchange and values, new materiality, thing theory, consumerism and ethics.
The module take a discursive approach through regular tutor presentations, group seminars and tutorials.
These practice-based modules each run across eight weekly sessions and are based on the premise of making.
Practice Module
01
Maker & Body
Where creative themes include embodied and haptic drawing as movement, memory and presence. Sessions are based on themes of the body as societal, other, subverted, fragmented, watched, medicalised and fictionalised.
Practice Module
02
Making a Stand
This module looks into the role art has played in all forms of Protest. Students reflect on and explore how their practice can influence society, promote and achieve change, from the everyday to mass movements, whilst also developing individual approaches to aesthetic styles and identities.
Practice Module
03
Making Visible
This considers the expanded field of photography through the exploration of digital and analogue approaches to photographic materiality, apparatus and language leading to the production of artists books and zines.
Practice Module
04
Making Digital
Where students investigate the use of digital media to create short film works. Module elements include the use of software, stop motion, compositing and computer graphics and considers speculative disciplines such as science fiction, epistemology and new writing of the image.
Practice Module
05
Making Sounds & Something Else
Which introduces students to sound technology, sound art, experimental music, sound and public space, sound sculpture and practices of listening. The module includes improvised and performed approaches to sound-making and listening as practice and includes practical workshops on editing, composition, ways of combining sound and soundscape recording.
Term Dates
October 2023 to June 2024
Deadline To Apply
Applications Are Open
Interview Dates
TBC Applications Are Open
Contact
* This course runs subject to recruiting the minimum number of students each academic year.
Art, Society, Nature coordinator and tutors are research active practitioners and the programme is supported by a core team of regular tutors with visiting tutors joining the programme to teach specific practical modules. Student feedback helps to shape the programme each year.