AMP41318 Open Space 1: Territory (Autumn 2020)

Facts about the course

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

Table of contents

The course is affiliated to the following study programme

Mandatory course in Master in Performance (120 ECTS)

Required prerequisite knowledge

None

Recommended previous knowledge

None

Teaching semester

1st semester

Content

Open Space 1: Territory aims at giving students time to reflect and go deeper into their research questions both practically and theoretically. It is a course where students learn to organize their own time and schedule, and how to become aware of their creative processes. It is a time to listen, read, watch, discuss, write, create and relate to the chosen materials, spaces, methods, and aesthetics. The module also gives possibility for self organized creative collaborations and laboratories among fellow students from this programmes, or other relevant programmes (for example Master in Scenography at HiØ or partner programmes).

The student's learning outcomes on passing the course

The student
  • will learn to develop structures that can provide time, space and invitation for risk within practice, where artistic questions are allowed to circulate openly.
  • will learn what it means to be moved into unknown territory through provocations from the practice of fellow students as participants in shared experiments.
  • will learn to become more conscious and articulated about their own point of departure; identifying what is their unique entry point into an artistic process in relation to concepts, materials, cultures, methods, modes of questioning and making
  • will experience and try their own artistic research methods by questioning the conventions of their own discipline through encounters with others.
  • will gain competence in self-organization and developing research strategies, and learn to engage in critique and reflection on both their own, and others' 'artistic territories'.

Teaching and learning methods

The course offers time to research and develop each student's practice, learning to articulate and share the individual methods and working practices. They can choose to go on research trips and/or to organize practical or theoretical laboratories with fellow students. The course will conclude with an organized and tutored group meeting where each student presents their current questions and issues related to practice and theory in connection to the development of their Master project.

Workload

Approx. 300 hours

Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam

To document the activity and research undertaken during the course in the form of either a working diary or a verbal presentation of individual artistic methods and research questions during the final group meeting. 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 material in the student's submitted working diary and/or verbal presentation.

Uses verbal feedback. Uses the grade pass / fail.

Examiners

Student's supervisor and one lecturer who is a member of staff.

Conditions for resit/rescheduled exams

Failure to pass the exam in one or more courses will only be given one new exam attempt. New examination paper is formulated by programme coordinator in collaboration with the student's supervisor during the course of the semester's 3rd last week.

In continuation assessment, the programme coordinator must in addition to supervisor and staff teacher, who normally assess the student, appoint one additional employee teacher to this sensor array.

The programme coordinator, head of study and student must sign that new exam paper is announced and received.

A new course evaluation (continuation assessment) takes place during the last week of the semester.

Course evaluation

See the programme description.

Reading list

Each student is required to hand in a list of literature and research sources that have been consulted during the course.
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