Studio and Research Practices

Code:

PEI1

Acronym:

PEI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Fine Arts

Instance: 2021/2022 - 1S

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

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MAP	25	Plano de Estudos do MAP_Publicação em DR de 31 de agosto de 2020	2	-	6	45	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding and capacity of communication of their individual artistic and critical concerns;

- Evaluate critically the means and materials of presenting studio-based research;

- Utilise source material effectively for attaining innovative objectives of their individual practice and research;

- Understanding of the social, ethical and sustainable responsibilities of creative arts research.

Learning outcomes and competences

This course in the second year aims to involve the student in the dynamics of the program, through the presentation of her/his work to the new students and through the articulation of her/his research proposal with the studio and research work. By presenting the student with alternative, imaginative and innovating strategies of presentation and dissemination of studio-based research, adapted to the singularity of each work, the course intends to develop skills in the communication of the research outcomes, in the field of art research. At the level of documentation methodologies, students are informed of the several possibilities in the use of documental reference materials, both at the level of a literary review and of the documentation of the creative process. The exhibition methodologies and the exegesis of the research process aims to enhance a relationship between studio practice and the ethical and sustained responsabilities of student’s project, in the context where it is developed.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Presenting Research in Alternative Ways - performance, exposition, oral presentation, poster and expository presentation.


2. Documentation Methodologies: recording the creative process in art and research.


3. Exposition Methodologies: Rethorics and argumentation of the exposition act in research;


4. The exegesis: discussion of the studio research process.

Mandatory literature

Elkins James 1955- 340; What do artists know?. ISBN: 978-0-271-05424-7
ELKINS, James; Why Art Cannot Be Taught, University of Illinois Press, 2001
Madoff Steven Henry 340; Art school. ISBN: 978-0-262-13493-4
Doherty Claire 340; Contemporary Art. ISBN: 1-904772-06-4
Jacob, M.J. and Grabner, M.; Studio reader: On the Space of Artists, UCP, 2009
Paice, K.; The Fall of the Studio: Artists at Work, Valiz, 2009
Atkinson, T; Phantoms of the Studio, The Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1., 1990
Fortnum, R.; Smith C.; The Problem of Documenting Fine Art Practices and Processes, Journal of Visual Arts Practice Volume 6 Number 3., 2007
GRAY, Carole; MALINS, Julian; Visualizing Research – A Guide to the Research Process In Art and Design, Aldershot, UK/ Burlington, USA: Ashgate, 2004
BARRETT, Estelle; BOLT, Barbara; Practice as Research - Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, London: I.B.Tauris., 2010
Ranciere, J.; The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Stanford University Press, 1991

Teaching methods and learning activities

Practice based and theoretical teaching, based on:

Experiential approaches to studio practice.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	30,00
Trabalho de investigação	20,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Trabalho laboratorial	30,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Evaluation distributed without final examen, based on:

Exposition and other alternative ways of communicating practice-based research outcomes.

Outline of an exegesis of the creative process /research project.

Calculation formula of final grade

Exposition and other alternative ways of communicating practice-based research outcomes - 60%

Outline of an exegesis of the creative process /research project - 40%