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Focus area(s): PERFORMANCE

Module leader: NICOLA GUNN

Included HMS: N/A

This module focuses on the mechanics of performance and how it interacts with other time-based and experiential mediums such as sound, light, video and installation. We will work with ideas around affect, mood, emotion and atmosphere to address the following questions:

What does it mean to use the body as a material?

What does it mean to choreograph space?

How can light, sound, video and performance be integrated into a total artwork?

How can we re-conceive ideas around narrative and linear time?

How can a fundamental understanding of the elements of performance be used to co-create in a non-hierarchical space?

What does it mean to have a performance practice?

Teaching will be generative, task-based and workshop-led, and you will work individually and collaboratively. There will be a focus on early-morning body work, so loose-fitting clothes are advised.

This is a project-based module exploring artistic expression, affect, and/or gesture, with a specific focus on how the emotional, atmospheric, and irrational are constructed and presented within contemporary art.

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 relevant references and practices

Skills

• Explore approaches in the creation of affect, mood, tone, and atmosphere
• Identify, seek out, and apply relevant skills to a self-initiated project

General Competence

• Identify your own learning needs in relation to the subject area(s)
• Apply new knowledge and skills within your artistic practice
• Resolve, realize, and present new work