Sculptural Practices

Code:

PE500

Acronym:

PE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Fine Arts

Instance: 2015/2016 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Fine Arts Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Fine Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
AP	7	Official Study Plan 2011	3	-	4,5	64	121,5
			4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1 - To promote and consolidate in multidisciplinary environment the involvements of the students in projects of production and independent creation;

2 - Ensure that the mentioned projects are properly articulated with methodologies that promote the study of phenomena related to contemporary art practices;

3 - Promoting an eclectic approach susceptible to methodological framework in the area of artistic practice;

4 - Encourage the exercise of artistic practices preferably in terms of practical experience, in the sense that only one learns to draw by drawing.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the UC Practice of Sculpture the student should have the skill and autonomy to manage an individual project since the conception to conclusion. The goal is the ability of a theoretical-artistic reflection and contextualization of the work itself in relation to the chosen site, either in the sense of a response to a particular situation or as a topic of interest in relation to the place itself found. This should help the student to find his own position in the art world.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1 - The only guideline of the discipline of Practice of Sculpture given to students is the development of a proposal for a site-specific work preferably outside of the campus of the Faculty. It is intended to discover the urban space as a stage for an artistic intervention that enters into dialogue with architectural / landscape conditions in a historical, cultural and social context. The proposal can be designed for both indoor and outdoor places but must match the specific features of the place.

2 - The proposal of the student is naturally diverse and flexible. Guides to realize autonomous research, based on proposals submitted by the students. Therefore, the experiences in theoretical and / or theoretical-practical domain that structure the field of the topics of the discipline are in a certain way dependent or at least a function of each of the proposal, safeguarding approaches which the teachers consider as indispensable for understanding contemporary artistic practices.

3 - Since this is an optional subject offered to a wide range of students coming from widely varying sectors of the university, Portuguese and foreigner (Mobility Erasmus and students from the Intern Mobility of the UP), the program of Practice of Sculpture promotes an eclectic approach respect to environments of methodological framework in the area of artistic practices, safeguarding that these same practices must conform to the normative of investigating the importance of the plastic potential of different materials used in the production of artifacts.

Mandatory literature

Kwon, M.; One place after another: Site-specific art and locational identity, Massachutts: MIT Press, 2004

Teaching methods and learning activities

1 – In the beginning the student present, confirming to the designated deadlines, the proposal of his individual project of work and the place of his intervention, explaining the artistic practice that he wishes to develop throughout the semester, supervised under continuous review.

2 - Monitoring / orientation of individual project preferably take place within the time set for the discipline. The teacher compete coordinating and regulating themethods that respect and better interpret the ideas inherent to each of the different projects, guiding students to literature and specific artistic experiences.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Trabalho laboratorial	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Trabalho laboratorial	121,50
Total:	121,50

Calculation formula of final grade

Depending on the work produced and the commitment showed during the classes