This module is designed to enable you to maximise your potential for professional engagement, culminating with a public facing outcome negotiated with you module tutor. This module will provide you with the skills to investigate art in public contexts. You will learn how to research and develop your project, from idea to fully executed public facing art work.

The module will concentrate on critical and theoretical concerns in contemporary art practice. You will contribute to debate and discussion on and around contemporary concerns that form the basis of contemporary art. You will continue to develop a critically evolving practice of critique and writing, understanding the relationship between research and practice, and how it reflects and responds to political, economic and cultural concerns in the world of contemporary art.

This module will bring together ideas, materials, experiments and research to progress intellectual and practical achievements already established. You will build on the development of your studio practice through rigorous research surrounding your concerns. It will provide a sustained period of practical study offering the possibility to locate practice in transdisciplinary, post-studio concerns. Your study will involve both analysis and synthesis of contemporary practice, located and informed by current critical debate, and requires high levels of self-motivation and working independently. You will identify subjects linked to your emerging practice. Materials, methods and processes will be selected appropriate to the project. You will learn how to present your work to a high standard and articulate your ideas with confidence.

January 2021 Y1 S2

April 2021 Semester 2