This studio based course, SPI: Visual Poetics, focuses on the sophisticated poetic languages deployed by artists to represent their ideas, such as heightened, immersive aesthetics, parodox, irony, metaphor, and symbolism. In response to projects that require the considered application of visual language, you are encouraged to investigate the temporal and corporeal, for example the body as site, sound and video installation, as well as the spatial and sculptural, for example object sculpture, installation art, environmental art. The means of expression will be determined by you in relation to the conceptual premise of your ideas. The findings of your experiments will be shared with your peers, and vice versa, to enhance your learning. Interdisciplinary practices, cross disciplinary quotation, image and text, inter active electronics, land art, object sculpture, urban intervention - nothing is out of bounds in the Sculpture, Performance and Installation (SPI) Studio. Research skills are enhanced in Talkfest, SPI's studio theory program, where you will investigate, in depth, a non-art topic that is driving your practice, such as scientific aspects of your environmental concerns, to demonstrate the benefits of interdisciplinary research to enrich the content of your practice. In seminars that share research, collaborative activities, and the on-going critical evaluation of art making in the studio you will contribute to building a community of scholarship and creativity in the Sculpture, Performance and Installation Studio, to support a trajectory to your self directed practice in Third Year and Honours.
