STAGE 2

Contextual and Critical Studies

Mini-Programmes 06/07

The Critical and Contextual Studies mini-

programmes aim to encourage discussion of

contemporary practice and theory with a view

to situating that discussion in a wider cultural

and historical framework, and enabling you to

make links with your studio practice.

Contextual and Critical Studies

Mini-Programmes 06/07

Cross-course / Cross-year delivery (BA Stage 2&3)

Mini-Programme = 3 weeks(3 lectures/3 seminars)

3 Mini-Programmes per semester

Stage 2 students elect 2 programmes per semester for assessment (but should go to all lectures!)

Contextual and Critical Studies

Mini-Programmes 06/07

Andrea Peach

Lesley Scott

Allan Harkness

Contextual and Critical Studies

Staff Team

Students elect 2 Mini-Programmes for assessment

Should attend ALL lectures

Mini-Programmes

Semester 1

WEEK 2006/07

1 25

Sept

2 2 Oct

3 9 Oct

4 16 Oct

5 23 Oct

6 30 Oct

7 6 Nov

8 13 Nov

9 20

Nov

10 27 Nov

11 4 Dec

12 11 Dec

13 14 15

Mini-Programme 1 Andrea Peach Lecture Monday

Mini-Programme 2 Allan Harkness Lecture Monday

Mini-Programme 3 Lesley Scott Lecture Monday

STAGE

TWO

Intro and sign

up

Seminar 1

Tuesday

Seminar 2

Tuesday

Seminar 3

Tuesday

Seminar 1

Tuesday

Seminar 2

Tuesday

Seminar 3

Tuesday

Seminar 1

Tuesday

Seminar 2

Tuesday

Seminar 3

Tuesday Christmas

Break

Reading

Week

Assessment

Assessment

Lectures: Monday 1-2pm SB42

Mini-Programmes

Semester 1

Seminars: Tuesdays 9.30-10.30 SC2410.30-11.3012.00-1.00

Seminar Participation and Attendance

Written Assignment (1 for each programme)

Mini-Programme

Coursework

Submission of written assignments:2 weeks after end of mini-programme

Andrea PeachElevating the Ordinary: Narrative on the Everyday

Allan HarknessTurning to Beauty

Lesley ScottBetween the Lines

Semester 1

Mini-Programme Themes

Elevating the OrdinaryNarratives on the ‘Everyday’ Andrea Peach

This programme will look at the idea of ‘the

everyday’ and its influence in contemporary

art, design and material culture. It will

examine the history of how everyday

objects have influenced art and design, and

why ‘readymades’ continue to provide a

source of inspiration to contemporary artists

and designers.

Using examples from contemporary art and design, the programme will

consider different narratives that encompass the notion of the everyday

including: Situating the Everyday, the Secret Meaning of Things,

the Strangely Familiar and Elevating the Ordinary.

Art & Psyche[on fairy tales, mud and horror]

Themes: the uncanny; the unconscious, fantasy and gestalt; fetishism; individuation, archetype and neurosis; abjection and semiotic chora.

Art & Psyche[on fairy tales, mud and horror]

The psyche as a machine for transforming the real or evading the real? Our subjectivity formed in relation to both a pleasure principle and a reality principle, self and society caught in perpetual conflict and anxiety?

The modern discourse of psychoanalysis, as formulated in the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Julia Kristeva, offers helpful ways in approaching contemporary art.

Lectures and seminars explore particular works by artists - video, photographs, sculpture and installation -and short texts on key concepts from the three theorists.

Tutor: Allan Harkness

Between the Lines

This programme aims to examine the nature of knowledge through the work of artists and designers who challenge the boundaries of art and science. A key question is, whether nature and humanity are best understood through fact, reason and scientific system or whether value remains in the perspective of the creative arts? What questions do creative practitioners ask and what do they reveal about the true nature of knowledge and the structure of our world?

Lecture themes:

• Critiquing thought, reason and progress. Programme tutor: Lesley Scott

• Order and chaos. Form, pattern and structure.

• The seen, the unseen and the unknowable.

Students can state preference for a particular programme, and will be allocated accordingly

Places limited: 75 students per programme

Once allocated to your programmes, you are not permitted to switch!

Electing Your Semester 1

Mini-Programmes for Assessment

Will be posted on CCS notice boardMonday October 2nd

First Programme lecture starts Monday October 2nd at 1.00 in SB42 Scott Sutherland

Seminars start on Tuesday October 3rd9.30-1pm in SC24 Scott Sutherland (see CCS noticeboard for seminar groups)

Mini-Programme Student Lists

www.studioit.org.uk

Look Under:

CCS Support Files

Stage 2 & 3 Mini-Programmes

Want More Information?

Andrea Peach (coordinator)(26) 3692GP20 Portacabinsa.peach@rgu.ac.uk

Lesley Scott(26) 3692GP20 Portacabinsl.scott@rgu.ac.uk

Any Questions?