AMP42118 Composition 2: Materiality (Autumn 2019)

Facts about the course

ECTS Credits:: 10
Responsible faculty:: Akademi for scenekunst
Teaching language:: English
Duration:: ½ year

The course is affiliated to the following study programme

Obligatory course in Master in Performance (120 ECTS)

Required prerequisite knowledge

Passed all exams in 2nd semester

Teaching semester

3rd semester

Content

Departing from the individual master projects, this course aims at providing time to explore the material aspects of each project. Students will compose and recompose with material (material is understood as everything from bodies, to sound, text, objects, light etc.), introducing and experimenting with unexpected materials related to each project. This will take place individually and in groups. The course will include one or two introductory workshop sessions with guest teachers or teaching staff focusing on relating compositional strategies to theory / practice.

The student's learning outcomes on passing the course

The student will:

gain knowledge of philosophies of materiality and how those lines of thought are linked with ethics. Questions that will be raised are among others: what has life, what has agency, what has ownership, who or what creates a form?
gain skills in how to relate to and provoke different kinds of material relevant for each individual project, exploring the status and implication of found and made materials, both physical and ephemeral
learn to question the nature of materials; how they come into being, how they move, and how they interact with the surroundings.
gain skills in defining and composing with materials of various kinds in different

Teaching and learning methods

There will be one or two mandatory workshops with guest artists and/ or staff, introducing the spatial strategies, philosophical framework and practical research tasks related to the explorations of composition and materiality in each master project. This course will include self-study individually and in self-organized groups. Tutoring sessions will follow the self- study.

Workload

Approx. 300 hours

Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam

Workshop teachers will give short practical assignments individually and/or in groups. The course will end with a group reflection where each student will orally and spatially present their research on materiality and how it has provoked and questioned their master project. An attendance of minimum 80 % is required.

Exam

Verbal examination

Duration: 20-30 minutes individual examination plus plenum discussion.

Assessment of student achievement of course's learning outcomes is accomplished by conclusion of the semester by structured discussion between the student, the student's advisor and one employee lecturer, based on the participation in workshops and the presentation of individual research at the final group reflection session.

Uses verbal feedback. Uses the grade pass / fail.

Examiners

To be announced spring 2018

Conditions for resit/rescheduled exams