1. Research and evaluate theoretical, critical, cultural or artistic sources for their significance to your own practice.

2. Engage in critical and analytical reflection on your own and others' creative work and ideas in the context of contemporary art.

3. Identify and articulate the relationship between your own creative work and other contemporary art.

4. Refine and develop your artistic practice in a studio and exhibition context.

5. Publicly display appropriate artwork to a high standard of sophistication and complexity.

For this module, you will submit for assessment:

1. Evidence of artistic practice (Learning Outcomes 4, 5)
This will consist of a body of practical artworks, presented in an exhibition context, along with relevant supporting material. Supporting work might take the form of sketchbooks, notebooks, material tests, or other forms of practical experimentation, depending on your own artistic practice. The artworks produced should show progression and development from the artworks produced on the previous module.

2. Practice in Context Document (Learning Outcomes 1, 2)
This will consist of a digital file (for example, a Powerpoint or PDF) that extends and develops the document produced earlier in Level 5, addressing the developmental process for the work in your end of year exhibition. It should provide evidence of the development of your practical work and engagement with ideas around exhibiting and curation. This should be between 15 and 20 slides, with a word count of no more than 1000 words.

3. Essay (Learning Outcomes 1, 3,) The essay is a digital file (for example, Word) that responds to an essay question to be set by your module tutor. The essay is written in an academic style, with Harvard referencing, to a word count of 1500 words.

In this module you will develop a body of artwork that is underpinned by critical questioning and contextual research, and that takes into account considerations of audience and public display. You will deepen your knowledge and understanding of discourses on contemporary art, building on your learning from the Studio Practice Development module. You will apply your research into relevant artists and curatorial approaches to the development of your practical artworks, their critical framing, and their exhibition. This module includes an opportunity to put selected artworks into an exhibition context that reflects your understanding of industry standards in contemporary art exhibiting. The essay for this module is a fully illustrated piece of academic writing that requires you to explore key concepts relevant to contemporary art and culture.

In this module you will develop a body of artwork that is underpinned by critical questioning and contextual research, and that takes into account considerations of audience and public display. You will deepen your knowledge and understanding of discourses on contemporary art, building on your learning from the Studio Practice Development module. You will apply your research into relevant artists and curatorial approaches to the development of your practical artworks, their critical framing, and their exhibition. This module includes an opportunity to put selected artworks into an exhibition context that reflects your understanding of industry standards in contemporary art exhibiting. The essay for this module is a fully illustrated piece of academic writing that requires you to explore key concepts relevant to contemporary art and culture.

Lectures
Seminars
Exhibition
Tutorials
Group critiques
External Visits
Workshops
Online resources
Group working

Documents of Contemporary Art (Whitechapel Publications) – including Materiality/ Moving Image/ Systems/ Information/ Animals/ Destruction/ Boredom/ Queer/ Craft/ Practice/ Work/ Science Fiction

Williams, G. (2014).¿How to write about contemporary art. London¿; New York, New York: Thames & Hudson.

Steeds, L. (2014). Exhibition (Documents of Contemporary Art). Whitechapel Gallery.

Harrison, C., & Wood, P. (eds.) (2003).¿Art in theory, 1900-2000: an anthology of changing ideas. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.

Kocur, Z. and Leung, S. (2005)¿Theory in contemporary art since 1985. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Wade, G. (2000)¿Curating in the twenty-first century. Walsall/Wolverhampton: New Art Gallery Walsall/University of Wolverhampton.

Magazines and online sources to be regularly consulted:
Art Monthly
Art Forum
Art in America
Flash Art
Frieze: Contemporary Art & Culture

Further appropriate texts and references will be suggested by staff and students, directly relating to individual projects.

Studio Space
Gallery Spaces
Workshops
Library
Student word-processing facilities
Computer suites
AV Equipment
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module.