Site & Context
Postgraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 10
- Teaching semesters Autumn
- Course code
- PRO321
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- English and Norwegian
- Resources
Course description
Supplementary semester information
Focus area(s): PAINTING AND VIDEO
Module leader: JESSICA WARBOYS
Included HMS: PAINTING, VIDEO
With a focus on painting and video, this one-month module combines project development with reading and writing. Over the four weeks, you develop your practice through material experimentation, field trips, and encounters with guest contributions. Culminating in a group presentation and open studio, the module explores organic and inorganic materials in relation to analogue and digital technologies, through the lens of ecology and embodied practice.
Objectives and Content
This is a project-based module with a focus on the relationship between site, context, and artistic expression.
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).
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
- Develop awareness of site-based and site-sensitive approaches within contemporary art
Skills
- Explore approaches in relation to the creation of site-based works
- 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
Full-time/Part-time
Level of Study
Semester of Instruction
Place of Instruction
Required Previous Knowledge
Recommended Previous Knowledge
Access to the Course
Teaching and learning methods
Methods may include:
- Project development
- Individual research
- Group work
- Lectures
- Presentations
- Group discussions
- Tutorials
- Assigned readings
- Writing exercises
- Workshop-based instruction
See info text above for semester-specific details.
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
Forms of Assessment
Submission of artwork(s), either physical or digital, as assigned by the module leader.
Assessment criteria:
Research
Subject knowledge
Experimentation
Realization
Collaborative and independent work