Handbook

This course introduces you to the value of fieldwork conducted outside the studio in urban and natural environments to enrich the content of your practice. In the process, you will build experiential and academic knowledge of the disciplines Sculpture, Performance and Installation Art and their interdisciplinary potential. The issues of identity, social engineering and indoctrination will be investigated in the urban environment. You will investigate environmental sustainability and our relationship to the natural environment and you will experiment with corporeal action, ephemeral processes, site specific installations and environmental interventions. Using your experiments and research skills in consultation with your lecturer and your peers, you will independently develop approaches to the representation of your ideas by fabricating a substantial body of artwork both in the studio and the natural environment. The principal aim is to build an integrated approach to art making supported by lectures, research, an intensive workshop, challenging project work and its critique. This 2nd Year course contributes to studies in the Sculpture, Performance and Installation stream.