module specification

FA7055 Collective Art Practice is a studio practice module offering you another opportunity for making art in studio, still using wider peer group interaction and collaboration towards a specific art goal – but this time an art exhibition around a socially responsible theme devised and agreed by you and all your module cohort peers. As ever, the module provides you with the opportunity to combine agility and adaptability in your own artmaking with a core underlying philosophy of collaboration. You will again draw upon new aspects of your art practice to generate a professional opportunity via the art exhibition. The module contributes to the MFA award it serves by providing the second show in a formal sequence of three art exhibitions over the duration of the course.

The aims of the FA7055 Collective Art Practice module are for you to:

• acquire confidence and resilience in negotiating and agreeing with peers an inclusive and socially responsible theme for a group art project;
• devise in a team a project plan to manage an art exhibition arising from a negotiated group art project proposal;
• develop your ability to argue for a group art proposition to art organisers and other artists;
• foster a team ethic in which all group members participate in project tasks equally and inclusively;
• provide you with the collaborative opportunity to organise a live event.

The overall aim of the module is to establish and embed common studio practice principles around and towards art exhibition and display in a collective, collaborative and socially responsible way led entirely by the student group itself.

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Available for Study Abroad? NO

The syllabus will begin with an explanation of the FA7055 Collective Art Practice module’s aims, learning outcomes and assessment. This first session (W16) will outline what is expected of the Second Exhibition Display as a Coursework assessment that develops over the 12 teaching weeks. In Weeks 16 and 17, the module will workshop two sessions on the student-generated, collective curatorial brief for exhibition (LO1). In Week 18 the exhibitor group will present the underlying principles for the exhibition to a panel of academics and critics (LO3) and obtain feedback to act upon. In Week 19 this module will workshop and publish an exhibition plan (LO2). Weeks 20-27 will be spent making for, publicising, building and installing the show for a Week 29 display (LOs 3 and 4) to the general public.

Scheduled teaching provides the guidance and foundation to ensure that independent study is effective in addressing the FA7055 Collective Art Practice module’s learning outcomes and assessment tasks.

In-class activity makes use of varied student-centred approaches such as active, flipped and blended learning, so that a range of learning strategies is deployed, and individual learning styles are accommodated. Information is provided through a range of means and sources to minimise and remove barriers to successful progress through the module. The course team seeks to embed the University’s Education for Social Justice Framework in fostering learning that is enjoyable, accessible, relevant and that takes account of the social and cultural context and capital of its students.

Activities foster peer-to-peer community building and support for learning. Reflective learning is promoted through interim formative feedback points that ask students to reflect on their progress, receive help where they identify the opportunity for improvement in learning strategies and outcomes and make recommendations to themselves for future development. Throughout the module, students build a body of art work for display in exhibition.

The School’s programme of employability events and embedded work-based learning within the curriculum supports students’ personal and career development planning. Through these initiatives, students are increasingly able, as they progress from year to year, to understand the professional environment of their disciplines, the various opportunities available to them, and how to shape their learning according to their ambitions.

By the end of the FA7055 Collective Art Practice module you will be able to:

1. negotiate in a group an inclusive and socially responsible theme for a group art project;
2. devise in a group the component parts of a project plan to manage all aspects of an art exhibition;
3. articulate and defend a group art proposal to peers, academics and external critics;
4. collaborate in a group approach to the build and installation of an art exhibition;
5. organise, contribute to and complete a student-generated live event.

There is only one portmanteau assessment item in the art studio practice module FA7055 Collective Art Practice. This item is thus weighted at 100%, meaning no aggregation of any other assessment item. The component’s item is Second Exhibition Display, served by the Coursework assessment method.

In summative assessment, assessors will measure your coursework contribution to this collective effort. “Your contribution” means not only your artwork displayed (LO5) at the exhibition that ends this module, but also your demonstrable understanding of the student-generated theme for the group art project (LO1); your participation in the creation of the project plan (LO2) and the presentation of the written, designed and published group art project proposal to critics (LO3) and in the installation of and publicity for the art exhibition event (LO4).

Assessors will use the published table of grade descriptors and assessment criteria to mark your contribution, to a moderated marking scheme as set out in the module’s virtual learning environment (Weblearn) and in accordance with the University’s Academic Regulations.

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