This course introduces students to installation as a conceptual framework for making and display and explores contemporary artistic methods for responding to and intervening in existing sites and creating new spaces. This involves finding ways to respond to how spaces are used and formed by humans and non-humans, their ecologies, atmospheres, architecture, histories, relational dynamics and functions. Spatial practice involves taking action, and sometimes making actions that are already taking place visible. It often involves both conceptual and intuitive approaches, using media that are most conducive to the project. Site responsive projects are ubiquitous in biennials and other contemporary art exhibitions around the world, and in developing their own projects, students will examine the genealogy of art practice that current approaches have developed from and consider new directions.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. use, create and discuss spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice;
2. make artworks that critically engage with their context;
3. conduct research into spatial art practices and related discourses and apply findings to creative production; and
4. substantiate artistic outcomes with research and rationale.

Field Trips

Week 2: Field trip to National Gallery of Australia

Additional Course Costs

Required Resources and Incidental Fees – ANU School of Art and Design

Required Resources and Incidental FeesStudent contribution amounts under the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (HESA) and tuition fees support the course described in the Course Outline and include tuition, teaching materials and student access to the workshops for the stated course hours.

Students are requested to refer to the School of Art website for information: http://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/required-resources-and-incidental-fees

Politics of Spaces fees:

$60 Optional Workshop Fee

$90 Materials Fee

Examination Material or equipment

Students are required to present completed work, test pieces, visual diaries, drawings and other support material.

Students will present their work for assessment in a nominated area within the Sculpture and Spatial Practice Workshop.

Required Resources

Please see Wattle

Recommended Resources

Please see Wattle

Staff Feedback

Students will be given feedback in the following forms in this course:

• written comments
• verbal comments
• feedback to whole class, groups, individuals, focus group etc

Student Feedback

ANU is committed to the demonstration of educational excellence and regularly seeks feedback from students. Students are encouraged to offer feedback directly to their Course Convener or through their College and Course representatives (if applicable). The feedback given in these surveys is anonymous and provides the Colleges, University Education Committee and Academic Board with opportunities to recognise excellent teaching, and opportunities for improvement. The Surveys and Evaluation website provides more information on student surveys at ANU and reports on the feedback provided on ANU courses.

Class Schedule

Week/Session	Summary of Activities	Assessment
1	Introduction to Politics of Spaces and Spatial Practice	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Modelling Room
2	Aesthetics and Politics of the White Cube Field trip to National Gallery of Australia	LOCATION: National Gallery of Australia
3	Museological Conventions and Display Languages Project outside the exhibition space	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Modelling Room
4	Context and Site-specificity Reworking project for exhibition space	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Modelling Room ASSESSMENT: Minor project 1: Engaging with a given site (Major Project and Developmental Work 70%)
5	The Exhibition and the Relation Between Curatorial and Art Practice	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Modelling Room
6	Working With a Chosen Site	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Modelling Room ASSESSMENT: Minor project 2: Documentation of a work made for a chosen site in the region (Major Project and Developmental Work 70%)
7	No Class - Public Holiday Students must still submit their Major Project Proposal electronically by 1pm on 2019.04.25	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Modelling Room ASSESSMENT: Major Project Proposal due (Contextualising Research 30%)
8	Review	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Modelling Room ASSESSMENT: Install developmental work to date including both Minor Project 1 and 2 and additional work done towards developing the Major Project (Major Project and Developmental Work 70%)
9	Methods and Strategies: Student Presentations and Individual Tutorials	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Seminar Room and Modelling Room ASSESSMENT: 6 students give their oral presentation and submit their oral presentation paper (Contextualising Research 30%)
10	Methods and Strategies: Student Presentations, Group Critique and Individual Tutorials	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Seminar Room and Modelling Room ASSESSMENT: 6 students give their oral presentation and submit their oral presentation paper (Contextualising Research 30%)
11	Workshop with visiting artist Ash Kilmartin Methods and Strategies: Student Presentations and Individual Tutorials	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Seminar Room and Modelling Room ASSESSMENT: 6 students give their oral presentation and submit their oral presentation paper (Contextualising Research 30%)
12	Double session to make up for public holiday in Week 7	LOCATION: Sculpture Workshop Seminar Room and Modelling Room ASSESSMENT: At the end of this double session, all Major Projects are to be finished and installed on campus for a group tour and critique. Students must also have a plan of how they will communicate and document their work for their final assessment in the Sculpture and Spatial Workshop area on 2019.06.06 (Major Project and Developmental Work 70%)

Assessment Summary

Assessment task	Value	Due Date	Return of assessment	Learning Outcomes
Major Project and Developmental Work	70 %	06/06/2019	04/07/2019	1, 2, 3, 4
Contextualising Research	30 %	25/04/2019	02/05/2019	1, 3, 4

* If the Due Date and Return of Assessment date are blank, see the Assessment Tab for specific Assessment Task details

Policies

ANU has educational policies, procedures and guidelines, which are designed to ensure that staff and students are aware of the University’s academic standards, and implement them. Students are expected to have read the Academic Misconduct Rule before the commencement of their course. Other key policies and guidelines include:

• Student Assessment (Coursework) Policy and Procedure
• Special Assessment Consideration Policy and General Information 
• Student Surveys and Evaluations
• Deferred Examinations
• Student Complaint Resolution Policy and Procedure

Assessment Requirements

The ANU is using Turnitin to enhance student citation and referencing techniques, and to assess assignment submissions as a component of the University's approach to managing Academic Integrity. For additional information regarding Turnitin please visit the ANU Online website. In rare cases where online submission using Turnitin software is not technically possible; or where not using Turnitin software has been justified by the Course Convener and approved by the Associate Dean (Education) on the basis of the teaching model being employed; students shall submit assessment online via ‘Wattle’ outside of Turnitin, or failing that in hard copy, or through a combination of submission methods as approved by the Associate Dean (Education). The submission method is detailed below.

Moderation of Assessment

Marks that are allocated during Semester are to be considered provisional until formalised by the College examiners meeting at the end of each Semester. If appropriate, some moderation of marks might be applied prior to final results being released.

Participation

• Respectful, generous and intellectually rigorous participation in group critique and other group learning formats is required

Examination(s)

Final assessment requires that students install their finished projects and developmental work in an allocated space in the Sculpture and Spatial Practice Workshop during the examination period before your allocated examination time.

Assessment Task 1

Major Project and Developmental Work

Developmental Work

The developmental work for Politics of Spaces consists of four assessment components:

1. Minor Project 1: Engaging with a given site

Due: 2019.03.21 at the end of class

2. Minor Project 2: Documentation of a work made for a chosen site in the region

Due: 2019.04.04 at the end of class

3. Review:

Install developmental work to date including both Minor Project 1 and 2 and additional work done towards developing the Major Project

Due: 2019.05.02

4. Other research materials and experiments

Due: 2019.06.06

Major Project:

The Major Project consists of two assessment components:

1. A project engaging with a chosen site within short walking distance of the Sculpture and Spatial Practice Workshop

Due: 2019.05.30 in the second half of the double class

2. An installation in the Sculpture and Spatial Practice Workshop that transfers, communicates and documents this work

Due: 2019.06.06

Rubric

Criteria	HD 80-100	D 70-79	CR 60-69	P 50-59	N <>
Use, create and discuss spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice.	Uses, creates and discusses spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice to a very high level.	Uses, creates and discusses spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice to a high level.	Uses, creates and discusses spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice to a competent level.	Uses, creates and discusses spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice to an adequate level.	Insufficient use, creation and discussion of spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice.
Make artworks that critically engage with their context.	Makes artworks that critically engage with their context to a very high level.	Makes artworks that critically engage with their context to a high level.	Makes artworks that critically engage with their context to a competent level.	Makes artworks that critically engage with their context to an adequate level.	Insufficient critical engagement with context through art practice.
Conduct research into spatial art practices and related discourses and apply findings to creative production.	Conducts research into spatial art practices and related discourses and applies findings to creative production to a very high level.	Conducts research into spatial art practices and related discourses and applies findings to creative production to a high level.	Conducts research into spatial art practices and related discourses and applies findings to creative production to a competent level.	Conducts research into spatial art practices and related discourses and applies findings to creative production to an adequate level.	Insufficient research into spatial art practices and related discourses.
Substantiate artistic outcomes with research and rationale.	Substantiates artistic outcomes with research and rationale to a very high level.	Substantiates artistic outcomes with research and rationale to a high level.	Substantiates artistic outcomes with research and rationale to a competent level.	Substantiates artistic outcomes with research and rationale to an adequate level.	Artistic outcomes inadequately substantiated.
Make artworks that are technically resolved with materials appropriate to the conceptual frame.	Makes artworks that are very highly technically resolved with materials that are very highly appropriate to the conceptual frame.	Makes artworks that are highly technically resolved with materials that are highly appropriate to the conceptual frame.	Makes artworks that are technically resolved with materials that are appropriate to the conceptual frame.	Makes artworks that have some technical resolution with materials that are somewhat appropriate to the conceptual frame.	Artworks have insufficient technical resolution and are made using materials that are inappropriate to the conceptual frame.

Assessment Task 2

Contextualising Research

The contextualising research you do to develop your Politics of Spaces Projects is made up of two components: the Project Proposal, and the Oral Presentation and Paper:

Project Proposal

Word length: 500 words

Due: 2019.04.25

Remember, a proposal is a beginning and a way to get you thinking. It doesn't mean you can't change the plan as you go about doing your project, that will definitely happen as you respond to feedback and the project itself takes you in new directions. That said, in order to make your final project in time for assessment, you will need to commit to at least one aspect of this proposal at the time of submission: i.e. the site that you are working with and some of the strategies you want to use.

Proposal format:

Title: A few clever/poetic/succinct words that describe what your project is and perhaps even what its aims are

Description (200 words)

• Introduce the specific site you want to work with for your Major Project
• How will you engage with it? What media and formats will you use and why
• Nominate which contemporary artists are references for you in this approach and briefly explain why. Include illustrations and captions for these in your document. At least one of these artists should be prominent internationally in the field of contemporary art as represented by the following magazines/journals (some available in the library): Eflux Journal (available online), Texte zur Kunst, Mousse Magazine, Artforum International and Frieze.
• What are your aims in engaging with this site in this way? Which broader principles or ideas motivate these?

Methodology (100 words)

• How are you going to develop an approach for engaging with this site?
• What kind of research/experimentation do you need to do and how are you going to use it?
• How will you make and present the work that comes of this process?
• How are these material strategies appropriate to the project aims and concepts?
• Are there specific conceptual methods you need to learn about or skills or processes that you need to develop or outsource? 

Rationale (100 words)

• Why is this project important or relevant to others?
• What might be the effects of your work?
• How are the strategies you intend to work with important in achieving your aims?

Timeline (100 words):

• Using dot points or a table, the timeline outlines the steps you must take to complete your project in time. Writing a timeline helps you to think about what is realistically achievable in your available time, and in what order you need to undertake different aspects of the project.
• Use the weeks of the semester as your guide, finishing with assessment on 2019.06.06

Bibliography:

• Include at least four scholarly references formatted in the Chicago style (see below). These may not be websites. You may access peer-reviewed journals online using the University's databases, but otherwise, online content does not count towards the four scholarly references.
• At least one of these scholarly references must be about the artworks by other artists that you write about in your description.
• At least one reference must be a theoretical/philosophical text which contributes to your thinking/methodology.
• Only two of your references may be from the required and recommended reading for this course.
• Chapters in an edited volume by different authors constitute one reference each.

Proposal Style:

• The project proposal must be fully footnoted using the Chicago style of referencing. Footnotes and bibliography must be formatted precisely using the Chicago style. Please refer to this link for further information: http://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/referencing-guidelines
• The format of the captions for your images must also follow the Chicago style.
• The text should be double-spaced, in size 12 Times New Roman format, unless you want to work with the graphic design as part of your project. If so, please provide a short 50-100 word statement about why you have designed the assignment in the way you have. If you do choose to experiment with design, you still need to fully reference your work with all information required by the Chicago Style included.
• Pages should be numbered consecutively.
• Margins: Left-hand 30mm, Right-hand 20mm, Top 20mm, Bottom 30mm
• Include your name and student number as a header visible on each page
• The assignment should be printed double-sided using recycled paper
• Staple the assignment in the top left corner

Submission:

• The proposal should be submitted electronically by 1pm on 2019.04.25

2. Oral Presentation and Paper

Duration: 8 minutes

Word Length: 1000 words plus bibliography

Due: 1 pm Weeks 9-11 - students are allocated a particular week

Task: Identify three artistic strategies, each a different approach to engaging with a site developed by a different artist. Analyze the politics of each of these artistic strategies and how it functions in a specific artwork. The strategies you choose should all address a particular interest you have in your own project. Your task is to analyze each of them and discuss the relative merits and effects of each of them, coming to a conclusion that brings your three analyses together and answers a question you have about how to approach your own project.

Format:

• Divide your oral presentation paper into five sections with subheadings:

1. Introduction to the question you have about how to approach an aspect of your own project
2. Artistic Strategy #1: (plus a few words describing the strategy - not the name of the artist whose work you are discussing)
3. Artistic Strategy #2: (plus a few words describing the strategy - not the name of the artist whose work you are discussing)
4. Artistic Strategy #3: (plus a few words describing the strategy - not the name of the artist whose work you are discussing)
5. Discussion of the implications of the three strategies in relation to each other and how this informs your approach to the question you have regarding your own project.

• Write your paper and then rehearse presenting it out loud along with a slideshow. Adjust the language so that it is suitable for an oral presentation. Bring a slideshow on a PC compatible USB stick to your presentation.
• If you want to add performance elements to your presentation, or to format it differently to fit with a particular concept you are working with, that is very welcome, but you must still fulfill all the requirements. If you want to make changes to the set format in any way, please provide a detailed plan to your lecturer at least one week in advance for approval in person during class.

Bibliography:

• Include at least six scholarly references formatted in the Chicago style (see below). These may not be websites. You may access peer-reviewed journals online using the University's databases, but otherwise, online content does not count towards the four scholarly references.
• At least three of these scholarly references must be about the artworks by other artists that you write about.
• At least one reference must be a theoretical/philosophical text which contributes to your thinking/methodology.
• Only two of your references may be from the required and recommended reading for this course.
• Chapters in an edited volume by different authors constitute one reference each.

Style:

• Follow the same guidelines provided for the Project Proposal on how to present your oral presentation paper.
• Include your name and student number as a header visible on each page.

Submission:

• Email your finished paper and slideshow to your lecturer before your presentation and before the start of class that week.
• Submit a hardcopy (stapled double-sided and printed on recycled paper) following your presentation.

Rubric

Criteria	HD 80-100	D 70-79	CR 60-69	P 50-59	N <>
Use, create and discuss spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice.	Uses, creates and discusses spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice to a very high level.	Uses, creates and discusses spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice to a high level.	Uses, creates and discusses spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice to a competent level.	Uses, creates and discusses spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice to an adequate level.	Insufficient use, creation and discussion of spatial and architectural methods for engaging with spaces and places in contemporary art practice.
Conduct research into spatial art practices and related discourses and apply findings to creative production.	Conducts research into spatial art practices and related discourses and applies findings to creative production to a very high level.	Conducts research into spatial art practices and related discourses and applies findings to creative production to a high level.	Conducts research into spatial art practices and related discourses and applies findings to creative production to a competent level.	Conducts research into spatial art practices and related discourses and applies findings to creative production to an adequate level.	Insufficient research into spatial art practices and related discourses.
Substantiate artistic outcomes with research and rationale.	Substantiates artistic outcomes with research and rationale.	Substantiates artistic outcomes with research and rationale to a high level.	Substantiates artistic outcomes with research and rationale to a competent level.	Substantiates artistic outcomes with research and rationale to an adequate level.	Artistic outcomes inadequately substantiated.
Organise, format and reference assignments according to academic standards and use clear, correct English.	Organises, formats and references assignments accurately and rigorously according to academic standards and uses excellent, clear and correct English.	Organises, formats and references assignments accurately according to academic standards and uses good, clear and correct English.	Organises, formats and references assignments according to academic standards and uses clear and correct English.	Organizes, formats and references assignments according to some academic standards with an adequate use of English.	Organisation, format and referencing of assignments does not meet academic standards and/or use of English is not clear and correct.

Academic Integrity

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Online Submission

You will be required to electronically sign a declaration as part of the submission of your assignment. Please keep a copy of the assignment for your records. Unless an exemption has been approved by the Associate Dean (Education) submission must be through Turnitin.

Hardcopy Submission

For some forms of assessment (hand written assignments, art works, laboratory notes, etc.) hard copy submission is appropriate when approved by the Associate Dean (Education). Hard copy submissions must utilise the Assignment Cover Sheet. Please keep a copy of tasks completed for your records.

Students should develop work for assigned critique times and present all work for review and assessment. Oral Presentations presentations should be given in the scheduled timeframe. Students will submit their work for assessment at the allocated time in the designated place during the examination period. Work must be displayed appropriately. All work must be removed from the workshop after assessment.

Late Submission

Individual assessment tasks may or may not allow for late submission. Policy regarding late submission is detailed below:

• Late submission not permitted. If submission of assessment tasks without an extension after the due date is not permitted, a mark of 0 will be awarded.
• Late submission permitted. Late submission of assessment tasks without an extension are penalised at the rate of 5% of the possible marks available per working day or part thereof. Late submission of assessment tasks is not accepted after 10 working days after the due date, or on or after the date specified in the course outline for the return of the assessment item. Late submission is not accepted for take-home examinations.

Referencing Requirements

Accepted academic practice for referencing sources that you use in presentations can be found via the links on the Wattle site, under the file named “ANU and College Policies, Program Information, Student Support Services and Assessment”. Alternatively, you can seek help through the Students Learning Development website.

Returning Assignments

Students must remove all of their work at the completion of their assessment.

Extensions and Penalties

Extensions and late submission of assessment pieces are covered by the Student Assessment (Coursework) Policy and Procedure. The Course Convener may grant extensions for assessment pieces that are not examinations or take-home examinations. If you need an extension, you must request an extension in writing on or before the due date. If you have documented and appropriate medical evidence that demonstrates you were not able to request an extension on or before the due date, you may be able to request it after the due date.

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Since first semester 1994, ANU uses a grading scale for all courses. This grading scale is used by all academic areas of the University.

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