Contemporary Fine Art Major Project - TMA1441

Assessment 1: Project work

Presentation of proposed direction for the major project, which includes: aims, proposed outputs, rationale for project outcomes and time management/project planning.

Project work

Assessment 1: Portfolio

Practical Contemporary Fine Art Portfolio

Portfolio

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

The Contemporary Fine Art Major Project is the culmination of your research, advanced studio practice and professional development. In this module you will initiate a comprehensive research project of your own choosing that demonstrates a level of complexity concomitant to professional contemporary art practice.
You will build upon your project proposal to develop a final stage framework to realise a set of outcomes and this may include group work subject to negotiation with your specialist supervisor. The Final Major Project will bring together the conceptual, aesthetic, functional and professional features of your work.
Working with a robust proposal you will rigorously test materials, techniques, approaches, and technologies of pre and post production to realise a unique creative practice. The work you make will demonstrate a focused interrogation of contemporary practice informed by technological, social, cultural, ecological, theoretical and professional contexts. You will test your knowledge and understanding of appropriate exhibition formats at key stages and present the culmination of your creative innovations in a showcase portfolio. Your individual project may evidence exemplary approaches to contemporary fine art in drawing, painting, electronics, performance, sculpture, spatial practices, sound art, photography, film and video, curation, writing, interactive media and/or other hybrid and transdisciplinary forms.
To stimulate intellectual and personal development, and a deep knowledge of advanced contemporary contexts, it is imperative that you work autonomously to identify and rigorously test key analogue and/or digital processes. The Major Project provides an opportunity for in-depth research into your unique area of interest. You will work to research, develop, critically reflect, refine and communicate both your personal methodological approach to contemporary fine art and your conclusions, seeking an informed resolution to your personal artistic enquiry.

School of Arts and Humanities

<a href="http://library.hud.ac.uk/my/TMA1441">http://library.hud.ac.uk/my/TMA1441</a>
In the Flow - Boris Groys
<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/2525-in-the-flow">https://www.versobooks.com/books/2525-in-the-flow</a>
Duty Free Art – Hito Steyerl
<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/2992-duty-free-art">https://www.versobooks.com/books/2992-duty-free-art</a>
Females – Andrea Long Chu
<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/3061-females">https://www.versobooks.com/books/3061-females</a>
Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism – Frederic Jameson
<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/1126-postmodernism">https://www.versobooks.com/books/1126-postmodernism</a>
The Intangibilities of Form – John Roberst
<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/268-the-intangibilities-of-form">https://www.versobooks.com/books/268-the-intangibilities-of-form</a>
Techniques of the Observer – Jonathon Crary
<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/techniques-observer">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/techniques-observer</a>
Downcast Eyes – Martin Jay
<a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520088856/downcast-eyes">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520088856/downcast-eyes</a>
On Blackness and Being
<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-6294-4_601.pdf">https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-6294-4_601.pdf</a>
K-Punk – Mark Fisher
<a href="https://repeaterbooks.com/product/k-punk-the-collected-and-unpublished-writings-of-mark-fisher-2004-2016/">https://repeaterbooks.com/product/k-punk-the-collected-and-unpublished-writings-of-mark-fisher-2004-2016/</a>
Capitalist Realism: is there no alternative – Mark Fisher
<a href="https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism">https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism</a>
Queer Phenomenology – Sara Ahmed
<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/queer-phenomenology">https://www.dukeupress.edu/queer-phenomenology</a>
The Love of Painting – Isabelle Graw
<a href="https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-love-of-painting-genealogy-of-a-success-medium/">https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-love-of-painting-genealogy-of-a-success-medium/</a>
Illuminations – Walter Benjamin
<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Illuminations.html?id=xXAZGIfhhGUC">https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Illuminations.html?id=xXAZGIfhhGUC</a>
Visions of Excess – Georges Bataille
<a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/visions-of-excess">https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/visions-of-excess</a>

Fine Art

TMA1441 - Contemporary Fine Art Major Project

Contemporary Fine Art Major Project

be able to systematically plan, organise and project manage your outcomes, using appropriate formats.

be able to demonstrate advanced subject knowledge through robust research development to produce original outcomes in contemporary fine art. 

be able to communicate your chosen specialism and evaluate the artistic outcomes in an appropriate professional manner. 

be able to evidence skills as a reflective practitioner to record and critically analyse progress in order to make decisions, conceptualise complex ideas and initiate new discoveries. 

be able to evidence comprehensive knowledge of relevant techniques applicable to contemporary art practice. 

be able to assess the currency, relevance and suitability of your project (individual or group) within a defined context. 