FNA2211 · Studio practices 3

Overview

This unit is the third in the sequence for students to continue a range of leading contemporary art practices and methodologies. The unit further develops an experimental approach to interdisciplinarity, conceptual development, and material and technical fabrication. Projects are introduced based on theories of contemporary art, professional practices and research based strategies. You will develop inventive and sustainable solutions to a series of projects that will enable you to continue to develop a personal methodology and aesthetic language.

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 a deeper level of awareness of practical aesthetic and technical systems or theories and the skills related to them;
2. Possess considerable manipulative skills in their chosen area of self-expression relating to interdisciplinary practice;
3. Demonstrate enhanced perceptual skills and critical sensibility necessary for the development of a personal aesthetic language;
4. Articulate current issues in fine art and various modes of professional practice and recognise the potential to ethically produce artworks within the framework of contemporary culture;
5. Demonstrate a growing sophisticated ability to contextualise and communicate the theoretical and material rationale of the artwork within the field of contemporary art practices;
6. Apply appropriate learning of Indigenous cultural frameworks; knowledge, cultures and values to studio production.

Workload

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

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