Hobart, Launceston
Introduction
Ecologies place us in relationship with other living beings and our physical surroundings, as well as being a way we can talk metaphorically about having a place within a wider network. This unit will introduce you to place, ecology and cartography in the visual arts and encourage you to locate yourself within a creative ecology/community. You will consider examples and ideas of local and global ecologies (environmental, cultural, social and economic) via an investigation of key works of theory, literature, art, design, film and popular culture. You will reflect on how government policy and cultural values are made visible in the creative arts and wider environment.
You will explore a range of artistic strategies for mapping physical and psychological spaces through image, text and sensory mechanisms, developing a suite of approaches for presenting speculative, imaginative and critical responses to ideas of ecology and place. You will learn and apply core skills relevant to visual communication and comparative writing as part of an introduction to the creative arts emphasis on praxis, where theory is tested and embodied in making and writing.
Summary 2021
| Unit name | Critical Practices in Art: Ecologies |
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| Unit code | FSA119 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| Faculty/School | College of Arts, Law and Education School of Creative Arts and Media |
| Discipline | Arts |
| Coordinator | Dr Troy Ruffels |
| Available as student elective? | Yes |
| Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Learning Outcomes
- Use a variety of oral, written and visual strategies to examine historical and contemporary approaches to ideas of societal structures, cultures, and representations of ecologies of place.
- Evaluate and compare images and texts to identify underlying cultural and social ideologies.
- Apply processes of mapping and visual communication to make artwork that responds to unit theme.
Fees
Requisites
Mutual Exclusions
You cannot enrol in this unit as well as the following:
FSA122 Critical Practices 1B
Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | Lecture (weekly/1 hour) |
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| Assessment | Task 1: Map your local environment (10%) Task 2: Written Review, 300 words (20%) Task 3: Artist Book - Making, text and image (25%) Task 4: Comparative Essay, 1000 words (25%) Task 5: Journal, 36 pages (20%) |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required | None |
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