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Focus area(s): INTERDISCIPLINARY

Module leader: DAVID RYCH

Included HMS: N/A

Who owns history? Who decides what is remembered, commemorated, or forgotten? This module examines how art shapes public memory and how historical narratives are negotiated through monuments, memorials, archives, reenactments, and contemporary artistic practices. Focusing on global contexts, we will explore contested histories of war, colonialism, migration, trauma, and social struggle, asking how artists intervene in debates over identity, power, and collective remembrance. Through historical and theoretical perspectives, the module considers art not only as a reflection of memory politics, but as an active site where history is challenged, rewritten, and reimagined. The module culminates in the development and presentation of a self-directed artwork engaging with questions of art and public memory, supported by contextual reflection and peer critique.

This is a project-based module with a focus on urgent global challenges and modes through which artistic practice can address them. Special emphasis is placed on research methods and forms of investigation.

PRO modules are designed to enrich your artist development (as explored in the ART modules) through activating skills, connecting communities of practice, and investigating disciplinary territories. PRO modules allow you to focus on a specific project critically connected to your own practice within a context established by the module leader(s).

Knowledge

• Develop awareness of social and political discourses
• Develop insight into artistic research strategies

Skills

• Enhance and broaden your own skills and methods through project development

General Competence

• Identify your own learning needs in relation to the subject area(s)
• Develop and present new work