VA5016 - Art Discourses and Encounters 2

The studio and project spaces are the primary location for your learning. It is here that you will reflect on the teaching offered and produce artworks that evidence your understanding as well as your own curiosity. A seminar/workshop series will help structure your learning and provide a focus for you to develop your own initiatives into the inter-relation of theory to practice within contemporary art.. You will have the opportunity to engage in further collaborative and collective art-making, building on your initial experiences of this is semester 1. The seminar/workshops may also include advanced technical demonstrations and field-working.

You are supported by the provision of a studio space and access to the project spaces.

Technical facilities are available, including the wood, construction and casting workshops, the print studio (including screen-printing, etching, lithography), the mac lab and digital print (including industry standard digital imaging, moving image and audio software), analogue darkrooms (black and white and colour processing and print) and digital photographic studios. You have access to specialist materials in all workshop areas. Resource areas include our Technical Resource Centre and the University Gallery. You have twenty-four-hour access to the University Library.

Your learning will be supported by subject specialist academics and by expert technicians. Academic support is provided within the group sessions, which will be constructed to support both your artmaking and development of a creative research file. We provide you with on-going formative feedback through the teaching you receive. Technicians run the demonstrations feeding in their own technical expertise and knowledge.

Your learning is clearly mapped out to you on the module page on BLACKBOARD (the University online Learning portal). This includes your assessment brief, guidance notes and key dates for the semester to help you organise and plan your time. Other teaching materials, notices and guidance are made available to you through BLACKBOARD. This is accessible to you on campus or externally through the Internet. You will have a university email that we contact you through. All timetabling is through the online University Timetabling system. REPS represent you in weekly meetings with the Programme Leader.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:

1 To produce a range of art works that critically explore the inter-relation of theory to practice within contemporary art.

2 To demonstrate a critical understanding of the dynamic between theory and practice within contemporary art through your own creative research processes.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:

3 Evidence initiative and curiosity in your art-making and creative research processes.

4 Demonstrate involvement in collaborative and collective ways of working.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

Summative Assessment:
1 Presentation of artwork produced during the module (MLO 1, 3, 4).

2 Creative Research Folder that supports your artwork and evidences your learning journey (MLO 2)

Summative Assessment Feedback:
Written feedback is delivered within 20 working days via the e-learning portal. Feedback is individual and provided in the context of the assessment criteria given to you at the start of the semester in the module guide.

Formative Assessment:
To prepare you successfully to undertake the summative assessment on this module, formative assessments will be set by the module team. These may take the form of in-class tasks or projects, developmental activities undertaken between classes, or learning exercises/activities set over a longer period. Oral feedback will be provided to help you learn from, reflect on, and develop in the light of these formative assessments

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This module builds on Art Discourses and Encounters 1, that you will have undertaken in semester 1. The module continues your exploration into themes and discourses within contemporary art that are relevant to our contemporary world. You will begin to understand the dynamic between theory and practice which is at the heart of contemporary art making and you will be able to begin to identify your own theoretic interests. The seminar/workshops will be led by the research interests of staff, which will allow for a stimulating and research-rich learning experience. There will be an opportunity for collaborative artmaking within your peer group which will introduce you to skills which are much valued within the wider contemporary art professional context.