Module Resources
As appropriate to individual projects:
Specialist workshop facilities, as appropriate
Library and slide library
Word-processing facilities
Internet access
Module Indicative Content
This module will familiarise you with the processes involved in realising an artwork for a particular site/location. You will visit the site/location and develop the project through visual and written documentation in the form of a proposal. Ideas will be tested and presented through maquettes, drawings, VR proposals or other appropriate methods. The culmination of this process is for you to realise the project on site.
Module Additional Assessment Details
You will present for assessment a body of work as outlined in the module information pack.
This will be:
An assessment of the sited work. (1)
Evidence of site research (1, 2)
Information gathering including Risk Assessment (3)
Module Learning Strategies
You will carry out research in situ (finding visual, historical and/or cultural significance) about the location.
You will thoroughly research your proposal using maquettes, models, drawings, VR etc. and identify the use of the most appropriate medium.
Your will develop your proposal to a stage where it is a realised project.
Module Texts
One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art & Locational Identity
Written by Miwon Kwon
Published by MIT Press (April 2004) ISBN 026261202X
Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation
edited by Nick Kaye
Publisher: Routledge
Pub Date: 08/2000
ISBN Paper: 0415185599
Donald Judd
Nicholas Serota
Publisher: Tate Publishing 2004
ISBN: 1854373951