Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE ALA4206

 
TITLE Final Project

 
UM LEVEL 04 - Years 4, 5 in Modular UG or PG Cert Course

 
MQF LEVEL 6

 
ECTS CREDITS 4

 
DEPARTMENT Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education

 
DESCRIPTION This is a year-long course designed to introduce students to different exhibition practices in history and particularly in the contemporary art world. Students will learn how to show their own practice in public exhibitions, and will learn the organisational skills required to organise art exhibitions or installations (including preparation of press releases, catalogues, posters, visitor information, layout principles, relationships between work, site and audience, etc). Throughout the year, each student will explore a specific theme and/or techniques required to produce a body of work that is exhibited in public at the end of the year.

Study-unit Aims:

To gain experience in the production of a consistent body of art -work that can be exhibited in a public space.

To learn how to present one's own or other's work.

To understand the relationship between the development of a concept and technical skills involved in the production of new work.

To understand the relationship between 1) the artist; 2) the work of art; and 3) the public.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Knowledge & Understanding:
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

Discuss different exhibition practices and articulate one's own ideas about the best way to exhibit a specific body of work in a specific site.

Know how to relate the medium and the 'message' (theory/practice).

2. Skills (including transferable [generic] skills):
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

Prepare initial sketches; develop ideas further and articulate their ideas about these initial ideas; do theoretical, literary, or other research related to the concept and site, produce the work, exhibit it, and document its exhibition, and the public's feedback.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

Julie H. Reiss, From Margin to Center: The spaces of installation art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.

 
ADDITIONAL NOTES Offered only to B.Ed (Hons) Art students.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Project

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Project SEM2 Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S Raphael Vella

 

 
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