UnitLevel 1Undergraduate

VPR1113 Research practices

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

VPR1113 Research practices is a level 1, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, offered in 2020 in Semester 2 at Caulfield. It has no prerequisites and unlocks 1 unit, leading on to 2 units in all.

Credit points
6
Offered in 2020
Semester 2
Caulfield
Assessment
No exam
2 tasks

The 2027 handbook has no page for VPR1113. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.

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Requisites

Before VPR1113

Corequisites

Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.

After VPR1113

1 unit list VPR1113 as a prerequisite or corequisite.

Enrolment rules

Prerequisite: Entry in to a Visual Arts stream

Prohibitions: VPR1001, VPR1002

Overview

Research practices is a core unit in the Visual Arts sequence and is one of four first year units. This unit is a practice driven, workshop based unit which explores varied drawing methodologies and ways they can contribute to a research practice in visual culture. It is designed to develop, challenge and expand how you think about making artwork and to develop research skills. A series of individual and collaborative exercises and projects are presented as starting points that, when navigated, foster creative research skills and develop your material skills. The main emphasis of this class is to demonstrate how thinking operates through making. Fabrication processes in the workshop can be in any medium from across two- and/or three-dimensional works, to sound and performance. The aim of these exercises is to have a generative influence on production, creating a pool of ideas, strategies, forms and processes for you to draw on and develop as you progress through the course. Teaching methodology involves critical dialogue, classroom discussion and peer review. This unit presents a broad range of approaches to contemporary art and its institutions for those wishing to work in the arts industry as artists, curators, arts writers, educators or practitioners. Research practices encourages an experimental approach to conceptual and material outcomes. Safe and sustainable approaches to fabrication and materials are core values in the unit.

Offerings in 2020

Teaching periodCampusMode
Second semesterCaulfieldOn campus

Assessment

  • Development Folio
    40%
  • Research Practices Folio
    60%

Learning outcomes

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

  1. 1

    Apply a broad range of conceptual and analytical approaches to projects;

  2. 2

    Experiment with a variety of materials and technical approaches in relation to assigned research topics;

  3. 3

    Undertake collaborative approaches across contemporary visual art practices;

  4. 4

    Differentiate between strategies of observation, analysis, experimentation and critique across the developmental process and begin consolidating solutions to assigned research topics;

  5. 5

    Contextualise in a basic capacity the theoretical and material rationale for your work and the work of others within the field of contemporary visual art practices;

  6. 6

    Understand and apply the rules of occupational health and safety appropriate to sustained independent studio practice and in order to collaborate safely with peers.

Workload and teaching

  • Studio activities48 hours
  • Teaching approachPeer assisted learning
  • Teaching approachResearch activities
  • Teaching approachOnline learning
  • Teaching approachActive learning

12 hours per week including 4 contact hours plus 8 hours of independent study and studio practice.

Learning resources

Required resources

Fraser, Andrea. Why Does Fred Sandback's Work Make Me Cry?

Gardner, Anthony. Art in the Face of Fame: Ricky Swallow’s Reflection of Reputation , Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture – Autobiography in the wake of conceptualism Issue 01/2007, pp.60-79

Storr, Robert. Painting History – Painting Tragedy in Gerhard Ricter: Doubt and Belief in Painting, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003, pp. 250 -263.

Butler, Rex. Bright Shadows: Art, Aboriginality and Aura in A Secret History of Australian Art, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2002, pp. 129 – 147.

Carter, Paul. Peculiar to the Night: the knowledge of Craft in Knowledge Makers Papers from the Craft Victoria Forum on Research and Craft Practice 19 July 1997, ed. S. Attiwill, (Melbourne: Craft Victoria, 1998 )

Burgin, Victor. Art Common Sense and Photography in Visual Culture: the Reader. SAGE Publication, London, 1999

Lippard, Lucy. Escape Attempts in Six years: the dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972 .edited and annotated by L Lippard. (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997)

Every Form of Art Has a Political Dimension Author(s): Chantal Mouffe, Rosalyn Deutsche, Branden W. Joseph, Thomas Keenan Source: Grey Room, No. 2 (Winter, 2001), pp. 98-125

Katz, Jonathan. Rauchenberg’s Honeymoon in Art/Text, No. 61 May-July 1998

Krauss, Rosalind. The Destiny of the Informe , Formless – A User’s Guide, Zone Books, New York, 1996, pp. 235 – 252.

Crow, Thomas. The Return of Hank Herron in Endgame – Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting, MIT press, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 11 – 27.

Juan Davila, 'Aboriginality: A Lugubrious Game?', Art & Text 23/24 1987. Also in Rex Butler, (ed), What is Appropriation? An anthology of critical writings on Australian art of the 80's and 90's, Institute of Modern Art and Power Publications 1996

LEE, PAMELA M. Bridget Riley’s Eye/Body Problem, OCTOBER Fall 1998, Fall 2001, pp. 27–46.

Amelia Jones; Geoffrey Batchen; Ken Gonzales-Day; Peggy Phelan; Christine Ross; Guillermo Gómez-Peña; Roberto Sifuentes; Matthew Finch: “The Body and Technology”, Art Journal , Vol 60, no. 1 (Spring 2001) pp. 20-39.

Buren, Daniel. The Function of the Studio in October 10, Fall 1979

Port Melbourne, Vic.: Craftsman House, an imprint of Thames and Hudson, 2005.

Schwabsky, Barry. Painting in the Interrogative Mode, Vitamin P, Phaidon Press Inc., New York, 2002, pp. 6-10

Murray, Kevin. Introduction to Craft Unbound: make the common precious.

Foster, Hal. Design and Crime in Design and Crime and Other Diatribes, Verso, London, 2002, pp. 13 - 26.

Babette Mangolte, “Afterward: A Matter of Time”, in Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida; Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson, eds. Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey, Amsterdam University Press, 2003. pp.261-274.

Den Besten, Liesbeth. Keeping the Gift Moving in Gift: Papers and Exhibitions 2007, Think Tank – a European Initiative for the Applied Arts, Austria, 2007, pp. 14 – 18. http://www.thinktank04.eu/page.php?4,116

Tanya Harrod, The gift: a starting point for a discussion of craft in Gift: Papers and Exhibitions 2007, Think Tank – a European Initiative for the Applied Arts, Austria, 2007, pp.28-31 http://www.thinktank04.eu/page.php?4,116

Bachelard, Gaston. The House. From Cellar to Garret. The Significance of the Hut , The Poetics of Space, Beacon Press, Boston, 1958, pp. 3 – 37.

Den Besten, Liesbeth. Deskilled Craft and Borrowed Skill, Think Tank – a European Initiative for the Applied Arts, Austria, 2008, http://www.thinktank04.eu/page.php?4,137,139

White, Anthony. Industrial Painting’s Utopias: Lucio Fontana’s “Expectations”

Sontag, Susan. In Plato’s Cave in On Photography, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1977

Bois, Yve-Alain. Introduction: Resisting Blackmail (pp. xi - xxx) & Painting as Model (pp. 245 - 258) in Painting as Model, MIT press, Massachusetts, 1993.

Potts, Alex. Minimalism and High Modernism in The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000, pp. 178

Trinh T. Minh-Ha, “Documentary Is/Not a Name”, October, vol. 52. (Spring 1990) pp. 76-98.

Interview between Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Tim Rollins Felix Gonzalez-Torres, New York : A.R.T. Press, c1993.

October Spring 1997, No.80: 125-134 OR from One place after another : site-specific art and locational identity , Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.

Greenhalgh, Paul. The History of Craft in The Culture of Craft Status and Future, ed. P.Dormer, (New York: Manchester University Press, 1997)

Moore, Catriona. Margaret Preston at Home in Radical Revisionism: An Anthology of Writings on Australian Art, edited by Rex Butler, IMA, Brisbane, 2005, pp. 200 – 212.

Morris, Robert. Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making: The Search for the Motivated in Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris 1993 MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts

Adamson, Glen. Wearable Sculptures: Modern Jewellery and the Problem of Autonomy & Reframing the Pattern and Decoration Movement in Thinking Through Craft, Berg Publishing, New York, 2007.

Philip Brophy Curating Video Art 101 in Photofile (Issue 94, Winter 2005) OR

Owens, Craig. The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism. IN FOSTER,

Joselit, David. Notes on surface - Towards a Genealogy of Flatness, in Theory in contemporary art since 1985 / edited by Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung. # Publisher:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2005, pp. 292 – 308.

Thurman, Judith Profile on Vanessa Beecroft, The Wolf at the Door , The New Yorker, March 17, 2003

Hickey, Dave. Introduction in Invisible Dragon: Four essays on Beauty, Los Angeles

Wall, Jeff. Marks of Indifference: Aspects of Photography in, or as, Conceptual Art, in Veronica’s Revenge: Contemporary Perspectives on Photography, E Janus (ed.) LAC Switzerland, 1998

Lucy Orta in conversation with Nicolas Bourriaud OR Pipilotti Rist in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist In pressPlay: Contemporary Artists in Conversation Phaidon Press, London, 2005

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Cezanne's Doubt (1945) in Maurice Merleau-Ponty : basic writings / [edited by] Thomas Baldwin. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004. pp. 9- 24

H. (Ed.) Postmodern Culture. Port Townsend, Bay Press. 1983 O’Doherty, Brian. Inside the White Cube: Notes on the Gallery Space http://www.societyofcontrol.com/whitecube/insidewc.htm or Santa Monica, CA : Lapis Press, 1986. Or Art Forum 1976

Baker, George. Film Beyond Its Limits , Grey Room, Fall 2006, No. 25, Pages 92 - 125

Kwon, Miwon. One Place after Another: Notes on Site Specificity

Krauss, Rosalind. Sculpture in the Expanded Field, October, Vol. 8, (Spring, 1979), pp. 30-44

To Make an Inner Time: A Conversation with Gabriel Orozco Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Megan Sullivan October Fall 2009, No. 130: 177–196.

Off With the Pixies: An Interview with Hany Armanious Lara Travis, Like Art Magazine, No. 14 Autumn 2001

Schorr, Collier. The Fine Line Between This and That (on Sarah Lucas’ photographic self-portraiture) in PARKETT No. 45 1995

Paul Taylor, ‘A Culture of Temporary Culture’ , Art & Text #16 (Burnout) 1984. pp. POSITIONS

Rowley, Sue. There once lived…craft and narrative traditions.” in Craft and Contemporary Theory , ed. S. Rowley (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1997)

Crimp, Douglas. The End of Painting October, Vol. 16 pp. 69-86 Published by: The MIT Press OR Pictures, October, Vol. 8 (Spring, 1979), pp. 75-88

Ian Burn, The Metropolis is only Half the Horizon in The Boundary Rider, catalogue, The Biennale of Sydney Ltd. 1992,

Koolhaas, Rem. Junkspace, October, Vol. 100, Obsolescence. (Spring, 2002), pp. 175-190.

Contacts

Unit Coordinators
Ms Marian Crawford
Chief Examiners
Ms Marian Crawford

Common questions

What are the prerequisites for VPR1113?

None, but you must take OHS1000 before or alongside it.

What can I take after VPR1113?

VPR1113 is a prerequisite or corequisite for 1 unit, including VPR2011. Those lead on to 2 units in all.

When is VPR1113 offered?

In 2020, VPR1113 runs in Semester 2 at Caulfield.

Does VPR1113 have an exam?

No. VPR1113 has 2 assessment tasks and no exam.

More details

Credit points
6
Level
1
Study level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Organisational unit
Department of Fine Art
Type
Coursework
EFTSL
0.125
Student contribution
SCA Band 1
Study abroad
Not available
Handbook years
2020