AMP41518 Open Space 2: Movement (Spring 2021)

Facts about the course

ECTS Credits:
20
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

Passed all exams in 1st semester.

Teaching semester

2nd semester (spring).

Content

In this course students will do practical research, moving into other artistic disciplines than their own in order to deepen and trigger a further development of their research questions, and new perspectives on their own practice. They will be required to experiment with movement of thought, concepts, spaces and environments. This can happen through exchange studies in other teaching institutions, participation in workshops and seminars in external institutions and projects, artistic experimentation and practical research in spaces that are unconventional in relation to the conventions of their artistic practice, e.g. studios, workshop spaces, theatre spaces, galleries, public spaces and other contexts. They will also write a critical text, which is an articulation and critical self-reflection related to their Master Project as artistic work. The aim is to begin distilling and merging the education as a whole into a living document which can feed into and converse with the artistic process.

The student's learning outcomes on passing the course

The student
  • will be challenged to seek movement intellectually, conceptually and physically and explore the impact of their work in various contexts and spaces.
  • will acquire skills when dealing with collaborative challenges in group work across aesthetic and methodological differences, and how this may influence and move their own practice and research further.
  • will learn how to generate new artistic work in an open creative space where there are no predefined tasks or commissions.
  • will gain knowledge in how artistic practice can be moved, challenged and developed through practical collaborations with peers from different backgrounds.
  • will acquire skills in the articulation of personal artistic working methods, values and aesthetic norms.
  • will gain competence in ways to write critically about their research aims, contextualizing their artistic practice and articulating the bases for their artistic choices and methods in their own voice and style.

Teaching and learning methods

Work in this course will be primarily independent with interventions by tutored group meetings. These interventions can potentially also occur in collaboration with other MA programmes, art institutions, workshops or professional artistic projects taking place outside established institutions. The course will culminate in the handing in of a critical text, which contextualizes and questions the practice of each individual student and their initial research questions moved by the experiences of the first study year. There will be group tutoring on writing formats and methods.

Workload

Approx. 600 hours

Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam

Handing in of a critical text reflecting on the student's practice and research, exploring an artistic vocabulary that documents the activity and research undertaken during the course. The text should contextualize the work dealing with the core areas of the program.

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 tutoring sessions and the critical text.

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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