FNA2035 · Interventions in sound, performance and socially engaged practices

Overview

This unit introduces you to critical thinking and its role in contemporary creative practices. The unit contextualises the theories and discourses of critical interventions within the history of conceptual art and the politics of subjectivity. These practices are explored through a range of fine art and design methodologies, drawing on the history of performance, sound art, video and socially-engaged practices. Particular attention will be paid to developing creative responses that contextualise contemporary cultural politics through an exploration of the sonic imagination, the poetics of movement and media-based technologies, as well as a variety of critical material and strategies.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Develop experimental studio processes that integrate a range of critical strategies in a contemporary art context;
2. Identify and employ creative skills and practical strategies in a range of media and public platforms appropriate to the concepts you are investigating;
3. Demonstrate an understanding of sound, performance and video practices in relation to your creative intervention;
4. Critically reflect on the place of feminist, conceptual, socially-engaged and identity based politics to the field of contemporary art, nationally and internationally;
5. Communicate the implications of critical interventions within contemporary cultural production.

Workload

12 hours per week including 4 contact hours plus 8 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.