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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course provides students with a working understanding of how textiles-based and textiles-informed methodologies can be deployed in contemporary art. Through set projects students will apply and extend basic techniques in conjunction with further topic specific material processes. Contemporary textiles practices afford multiplicity: they enliven rich and diverse threads of thinking through making. Each set project involves deepening analytical engagement with and a hands-on approach to complex issues, such as the material culture of marginalised people or environmental regeneration as it takes place on campus. Supported by seminars, group critique and tutorials, students will become increasingly independent in developing their own research-led methodologies and artworks. The resolution of projects includes learning how to display outcomes in ways relevant and appropriate to contemporary art. Students may complete this course up to three times for a maximum credit value of 18 units, provided they enrol in a different topic in each instance/semester. Please note that the course content, assessment structure, and reading list will change depending on the topic and the expertise of the lecturer convening the course. Please refer to the class summary for the specific term in which you wish to enrol for a detailed description. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: - Subverting Stitch: Labour, Gender and Image - Plants and Place: locating colour and fibre The practices of tending, gathering and processing natural materials can embed a knowledge of plants and place into crafted objects. This knowledge can then be carried, worn and shared. The focus of this course is to gain an insight into local knowledge, plants and places and to deepen that understanding through material processes. Students will learn how to undertake a materials-based investigation of their immediate environment and how to communicate these processes and outcomes. Through research and experimentation students will develop skills and knowledge relating to the rich historical, social and cultural meanings embedded in these processes and produce creative and conceptual outcomes. - Textile Thinking: materialising embodied knowledge This course investigates textile-based actions and ideas to critically position bodies and materials in knowledge making practices; both within contemporary art and broader philosophical discourse. Through set projects, students will reframe textile techniques as generative processes for creating installations, tactile images, objects and performances. With each iteration the spatial, temporal and affective possibilities of textiles will be explored processually and in the display of finished works. Critique, lectures, readings and discussion are integral to developing informed and expansive methodologies.
Set project suite 1: development and outcomes
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Set project suite 2: development and outcomes
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Independent project: development and outcomes
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Critical Evaluation equivalent to 1200 words (may include visual diary, written reflection and/or presentation)
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of contact over 12 weeks: lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and b) 82 hours of independent studio practice, reading, writing and active research engagement (gallery visits, scoping sites, public observation etc.) Other Information School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place. This course will have a Materials Fee. At the ANU School of Art & Design, each workshop sources appropriate specialist materials, which are made available to students to facilitate their working effectively, efficiently and safely within our programs. The School of Art & Design is able to supply materials that don’t compromise ANU obligations under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS), and that have been assessed as suitable for each course. The Materials Fee is payable for the School of Art & Design to supply consumables and materials that become your physical property. You can choose to pay the Materials Fee and have these materials supplied to you through the School of Art & Design, allowing you to take advantage of the GST-free bulk purchasing power of the ANU. These materials are also WHS compliant. The exact cost of the Materials Fee will be updated in the Class Summary for each semester in which the course is offered. The full SOAD policy can be read here: https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/required-resources-and-incidental-fees.
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