This studio based course teaches Sculpture, Performance, and Installation Art in all its cross disciplinary, cross cultural guises. The aim is to produce a self motivated practice resulting in a substantial body of major artworks. Conceived and executed under your own aegis, you will make artworks, with the guidance of your lecturer, building on your experience of the many approaches, conceptual frameworks and open experimentation experienced in previous studio courses, and your studies of the theory and history of Contemporary Art Practice. Exploratory experimentation is underpinned by a rigorous attention to your aesthetic and conceptual objectives, your methods of material execution, whether action based or ephemeral. With an emphasis on progressing your independent practice, the course supports your imminent transition to the rigour of studies in Honours, and from art student to contributor to the wider arts community and a vocation in the arts industry. The course aims to equip you with management skills to facilitate this transition, reinforced by feedback, tutorials. skills acquisition tailored to the requirements of your self initiated practice. For SPI's studio theory program, Talkfest, you will reflect upon your development to analyse and define the particular proclivities of your practice, beginning the initial stages of planning a research proposal for your Honours Year. At this level of study your participation in critical discourse, outreach and collaborative activities provides valuable leadership in SPI's community of scholarship and creativity.
