ObjectivesThis is an innovative course and the only one of its kind in the UK that provides you with the technical and critical means and experience to work as a professional artist in the European arena. Based at Kingston, but including a placement and exhibition project in a major European city, you will work and learn within a growing Europe-wide network of artists, curators, galleries and museums.
Academic titleEuropean Arts Practice MA
Course descriptionWhat will you study?
Through a combination of studio project and theoretical study at Kingston University, together with two two-week periods of work in Rotterdam, you will have the opportunity to develop and apply your chosen art practices, culminating in an exhibition in that city. Rotterdam has been chosen because of the excellent connections, professional experience and knowledge of this city and its cultures that your MA course team members have built up over the past six years.
You will also focus on the concept of ‘transdisciplinarity’, with an emphasis on learning from practice and through discursivity and topicality. Within this, there is a further emphasis on making findings public – by means of exhibitions, websites, publications and events. Through your programme of practical projects undertaken in Kingston and Rotterdam, you will investigate and research the artistic ideas and cultural policies that are currently being pursued in different cities in Europe.
Research areas 1
Many of the staff in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture are research active. This ensures they are in touch with the latest thinking and bring best practice to your studies.
Course structure
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.
Modules
-Project 1 (Studio Project)
-Theory: European Arts Practices
-European Arts Practice Placement
-Masters Project
-Interdisciplinary Research Methods: The Proposal and Analysis2
-Interdisciplinary Research Methods: The Synthesis3