AMP41518 Open Space 2: Movement (Spring 2019)

The course is connected to the following study programs

Obligatory course in Master in Performance (120 ECTS)

Absolute requirements

Passed all exams in 1st semester

Lecture Semester

2nd semester

The student's learning outcomes after completing 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.

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.

Forms of teaching and learning

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 programs, 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

Examination

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

To be annonunced spring 2018

Conditions for resit/rescheduled exams

To be annonunced spring 2018

Course evaluation

See the main program plan

Literature

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