This course provides students with a broad view of contexts that underpin and continue to shape discourse in contemporary crafts, visual arts and critical design practices. The course theme, "Materiality and Situation", addresses how meaning is constructed through choices of materials, material processes, modes of display and presentation. Students will engage in speculative experiments with making and display to create and subvert perceived value and to shape audience interpretations. A series of seminars and research projects will introduce students to wide-ranging works and installations of contemporary art, craft and design as examples and references for their own projects. The overarching theme encourages trans-disciplinary, practice-based responses in which students interrogate their choices of materials, processes and display to make intentional decisions . Students will demonstrate and apply critical thinking and studio theory to projects through independent and/or collaborative work. This course does not provide workshop-based demonstrations or direct studio supervision.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- investigate and experiment with a range of materials, processes and modes of display through speculative, practice-based projects addressing course and task themes;
- demonstrate advanced critical awareness of how choices of materials, processes, and presentation impact the meaning of contemporary craft, art and design works; and
- demonstrate advanced rigour and independence in Identifying, researching and interrogating appropriate contextual references of craftspeople, artists and designers whose work demonstrates course themes and informs project development.
Other Information
School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.
Indicative Assessment
- Portfolio of work (60) [LO 1,2,3]
- Written reflections, 1200 words (20) [LO 2,3]
- Presentation, 12 minutes (20) [LO 2,3]
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Workload
130 hours of total student learning time made up from:
a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and
b) 94 hours of independent studio practice, reading and writing.
Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
Texts provided via Wattle and through independent research.
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 12
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2023 | $3660 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2023 | $5100 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
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