Module Descriptors
CONTEXTS OF CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE
CRCU70503
Key Facts
Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
Level 7
40 credits
Contact
Leader: Ian Brown
Email: I.Brown@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 80
Independent Study Hours: 320
Total Learning Hours: 400
Pattern of Delivery
- Occurrence A, Stoke Campus, PG Semester 2
- Occurrence B, Stoke Campus, PG Semester 1 to PG Semester 2
- Occurrence C, Stoke Campus, PG Semester 2
Sites
- Stoke Campus
Assessment
- A Body of Practice with supporting work - Artist Statement (200 words) Critically reflective report (2000 words) weighted at 100%
Module Details
MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Apply an advanced knowledge & understanding of a comprehensive range of material techniques and processes, appropriate to your creative arts discipline and practice, in the production of resolved work.
2. Effectively apply and evaluate research methods and employ appropriate decision-making in a significant self-directed, independent research enquiry/project.
3. Clearly & effectively communicate theoretical research, enquiry and conclusions appropriate for delivery to audiences in a range of modes and contexts
4. Form a critical understanding of the diverse structures, policies and activities of organisations supporting and promoting the creative industries in local, national, intercultural and global contexts.
5. Work co-operatively and collaboratively to produce high level creative outcomes in academic contexts and formats as well as those appropriate to the chosen creative practice and profession.
6. Apply a comprehensive range of material techniques and processes appropriate to your creative arts discipline and practice that facilitate the production of complex and innovative ideas, forms and knowledge.
2. Effectively apply and evaluate research methods and employ appropriate decision-making in a significant self-directed, independent research enquiry/project.
3. Clearly & effectively communicate theoretical research, enquiry and conclusions appropriate for delivery to audiences in a range of modes and contexts
4. Form a critical understanding of the diverse structures, policies and activities of organisations supporting and promoting the creative industries in local, national, intercultural and global contexts.
5. Work co-operatively and collaboratively to produce high level creative outcomes in academic contexts and formats as well as those appropriate to the chosen creative practice and profession.
6. Apply a comprehensive range of material techniques and processes appropriate to your creative arts discipline and practice that facilitate the production of complex and innovative ideas, forms and knowledge.
MODULE ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT DETAILS
Students will be assessed:
1. A Body of Practice with supporting work will demonstrate several iterations of practice in appropriate contexts of encounter. (This should demonstrate evidence of sustained engagement, development and production commensurate with the total learning hours of the module at this point in the programme) (LO: 1, 2, 3, 6)
2. Artist statement. (LO: 3)
3. The Critically Reflective Report will provide evidence of the students individual connected activity, or activities, articulating the choices made and analysing outcomes in relation to the contextual and theoretical resources. (LO: 1, 2, 4, 5
1. A Body of Practice with supporting work will demonstrate several iterations of practice in appropriate contexts of encounter. (This should demonstrate evidence of sustained engagement, development and production commensurate with the total learning hours of the module at this point in the programme) (LO: 1, 2, 3, 6)
2. Artist statement. (LO: 3)
3. The Critically Reflective Report will provide evidence of the students individual connected activity, or activities, articulating the choices made and analysing outcomes in relation to the contextual and theoretical resources. (LO: 1, 2, 4, 5
MODULE INDICATIVE CONTENT
You will be engaged in understanding different local and global contexts via lectures, seminars, fieldwork and co-creative projects on London and Stoke campuses.
Staff will guide you through the testing of dissemination strategies, by supporting your engagement with appropriate cultural and community contexts.
Group and individual critiques will support your analysis and reflection of practice-based outcomes in relation to these encounters.
Individual and group tutorials will assist in the development of critically reflective writing as appropriate to your individual practice and its contexts.
Staff will guide you through the testing of dissemination strategies, by supporting your engagement with appropriate cultural and community contexts.
Group and individual critiques will support your analysis and reflection of practice-based outcomes in relation to these encounters.
Individual and group tutorials will assist in the development of critically reflective writing as appropriate to your individual practice and its contexts.
WEB DESCRIPTOR
Contexts of Contemporary Practice builds on the advances made in the Semester 1 modules, emphasising the ways in which the new knowledge you have gained through contextual and practice-based research methods, can be applied to public encounters. This module further investigates your role as cultural producer and the role of the artist in local and international contexts – including an engagement with both Stoke-on-Trent and Newham, London.
MODULE LEARNING STRATEGIES
The module will be formed around independent practice-based research and supported by teaching and learning sessions focused on debate, knowledge exchange, critical discourse, appropriate skill selection and development of relevant modes of public encounter.
Activities will include:
Seminars
Lectures
Feedback Tutorials
Feedback Group Critiques
Self-directed generative research and development of projects
Activities will include:
Seminars
Lectures
Feedback Tutorials
Feedback Group Critiques
Self-directed generative research and development of projects
MODULE TEXTS
El Baroni B (Ed.) (2022) Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art, MIT Press
Jurgenson N (The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media, Verso
Haraway D (2016) Staying with the Trouble Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Duke Univeristy Press
Healy M (2019) Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, Lawrence and Wishart Ltd.
Healy M (2022) Photography: Race, Rights and Representation, Lawrence and Wishart Ltd
Diack H (2020) Documents of Doubt - The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art, University of MInnesota Press
Bajorek J (2020) Unfixed: photography and decolonial imagination in West Africa, Duke University Press
Jobey L et al (2021) Dark Mirrors, Mack
Husain A et al. (2021) Can the Subaltern Speak? Afterall / Two Works Series
Jurgenson N (The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media, Verso
Haraway D (2016) Staying with the Trouble Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Duke Univeristy Press
Healy M (2019) Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, Lawrence and Wishart Ltd.
Healy M (2022) Photography: Race, Rights and Representation, Lawrence and Wishart Ltd
Diack H (2020) Documents of Doubt - The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art, University of MInnesota Press
Bajorek J (2020) Unfixed: photography and decolonial imagination in West Africa, Duke University Press
Jobey L et al (2021) Dark Mirrors, Mack
Husain A et al. (2021) Can the Subaltern Speak? Afterall / Two Works Series
MODULE RESOURCES
Access to seminar spaces on London Campus
Studios
Library services
IT facilities
Workshops
Studios
Library services
IT facilities
Workshops