KVB223 Post 1989 Art
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| Unit code: | KVB223 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,024 |
| International unit fee | $3,828 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KVB223 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Courtney Pedersen | cb.pedersen@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit introduces key ideas and styles of art practice that have emerged since 1989 in a global economy. It develops knowledge and skills that are relevant to cultural literature and visual analysis. It furthers your expertise in problem solving, creative thinking and effective communication of knowledge in a variety of contexts and modes. As a creative industries student, it is important to possess an informed knowledge of art and culture since 1989, including the rise of the experience economy and the centrality of entertainment and post-avant-garde art in global creative industries. The concepts and knowledge gained will aid you to organise and evaluate information, synthesise research material into a coherent form, and write and verbally articulate ideas. This unit is intended to provide a foundation skill-base for you in Creative Industries and is applicable to all disciplines including art criticism, arts practice, architecture and fashion.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify, interpret and articulate knowledge about art and cultural concepts and contexts from 1989 to the present.
- Formulate independent perspectives through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others in a manner that demonstrates respect for cultural and social differences.
- Demonstrate ethical judgement and professionalism in your writing, research and information literacy.
Content
The unit addresses content such as the economic, political, social, cultural, artistic and formal issues related to the production of art since 1989 in the contemporary era. Major topics include an examination of the international art system and the ways in which the art market, and art museums play central roles in the experience economy and the marketing of cultural expression. You will also study post-avant-gardism and art as entertainment, Neo-Conceptualism, and Installation Art. You will study the philosophical underpinnings of Relational Aesthetics and ‘Post-Theory’ and movements such as Participatory Art. The study of these issues will assist you in understanding the nature of arts production in today’s global environment and the role that creative industries plays in this world. This unit will assist you to define, research and articulate the key issues and art works that have been produced in the last few decades.
Learning Approaches
This unit will consist of lecture modules, tutorials, and online discussions. The lecture modules will provide you with skills for visual literacy, critical inquiry and independent thinking. Tutorials will encourage intellectual debate and enhance your capacity to formulate and articulate arguments in a group situation. Your research and writing skills will also be developed through essay assessment. Your oral communication will be developed through discussion and presentation. The consideration of art work will encourage you to identify and carefully scrutinise visual material in an objective, clear and informed manner. It will also enable you to recognise contemporary art styles and cultural themes with greater accuracy. The refinement of your critical and creative thinking when forming judgments about visual information will enhance your capacity for life-long learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
The overall aim of the assessment schema is to foster a combination of textual and visual critical analysis skills. Your tutor and your peers will provide formative feedback throughout the semester in tutorials. In addition to class discussion, your tutor will be available at specified times to provide feedback on your essay plan, draft paragraphs and visual analysis presentations. Visual analysis presentations will take place throughout the semester to ensure full discussions of all content topics. The essay assessment task topics will be available throughout the semester, and students are invited to submit essay plans and draft paragraphs for feedback. The essay assessment task will assist you to improve on critical, analytical and argumentative skills and is to be submitted at the end of the semester.
Assessment
Overview
There are two individual assessments for this unit: a visual presentation and an essay. You present your visual analysis in the relevant week and tutor and peer feedback will assist you to use visual analysis in the written essay task. The feedback process relating to both assessments is explained in the next section.
Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information see the Canvas site for this unit. This includes information about assignment submission, late assignments and assignment extensions.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Visual Analysis Presentation
Visual analysis discussion of allocated artworks. You are required to provide a brief analysis of contemporary art works, taking into account the characteristics of the works and their contexts in art and society. Equivalent 800-1000 words as a PowerPoint presentation.
Assessment: Essay
Select and critically analyse the work of a contemporary artist and consider their strategies and tactics in relation to particular issues in the international art system, the creative industries, and the global economy.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Texts, references and images are available through the Canvas site for this unit. Electronic resources can be accessed through QUT’s computer labs. No personal computer hardware or software is required.
Preliminary reading of Nicholas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics (Paris: Les presses du reel, 2002); Gill Perry and Paul Wood, Themes in Contemporary Art (New Haven/London: Yale University Press 2004); Terry Smith, What is Contemporary Art? (Illinois: Chicago University Press, 2009) would be helpful background reading for this unit.
Risk Assessment Statement
All students and staff are required to complete the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction for access to campus buildings and facilities. This must be completed online.
There are no undue risks for you when participating in this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO1 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
Relates to: ULO2 - Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
Relates to: ULO3