Sculptural Practices

Code:

PE500

Acronym:

PE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Fine Arts

Instance: 2019/2020 - 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	10	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.
5 - To consolidate skills at both verbal and writing levels

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended that the student acquires the capacity to think, plan and construct a work project in accordance to the principles presented in his working proposel and following the predicted orientations of the program agreed for the subject of Practices of Sculpture.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1 - The subject program regarding Práticas da Escultura is naturally flexible. Guides to realize autonomous research, based on proposals submitted by the students. Therefore, the experiences in theoretical and 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.

2 - 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. ISBN: 0-262-1265-51
AA.VV.; Rodin y la revolución de la escultura. De Camille Claudel a Giacometti, Fundación la Caixa, 2004. ISBN: 84-7664-859-6-7664-859-6
AA.VV.; Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra and Richard Serra , Beyeler Museum AG and Oliver Wick, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-7913-4562-8-3-7913-4562-8
Richard Serra; Richard Serra. EScritos Y entrevistas. 1972-2008, universidad Pública de Navarra/ Cátedra Jorge Oteiza, 2010. ISBN: 978-84-9769-262-578-84-9769-262-5
Barañano, Cosme María de; Alberto Giacometti. Dibujo, escultura, pintura, lunwerg Editores S. A., 1990. ISBN: 84-7782-111-9
Curtis, Penelope; Sculpture. vertical, Horizontal, closed,open., new Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780300227222
Paulino, Carla (Coord.); Curtis, Penelope; The very Impress of the Object, FCG, 2017. ISBN: 978-989-8758-38-5

Comments from the literature

Extensive bibliography will be provided to the students in the course of the work in development in the UC, according to the specificity of the individual works.

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

Eligibility for exams

Not aplied

Calculation formula of final grade

1 - Depending on the work produced and the commitment showed during the classes.

2 - The following are the weighing factores for final classification:
i) the nature and originality of the project;
ii) The performance and capacity of student prodution;
iii) The adequacy of the proposals towards the previously definid goals of the subject;
iv) The clearness of theinstallation of the object(s);
v) Argumentation;
vi) The effective participation of the student in the atelier spaces

Observations

The attendance to the students will be held on Tuesdays at 6:00 pm, being previously scheduled with the teacher one week in advance.