VPR3012 Visual practices 3
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
VPR3012 Visual practices 3 is a level 3, 12-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, offered in 2021 in Semester 2 at Caulfield. It needs OHS1000.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2021
- Semester 2
- Caulfield
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
This is the 2021 handbook entry. See the 2024 entry.
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Requisites
Before VPR3012
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After VPR3012
No unit lists VPR3012 as a prerequisite in the 2021 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prerequisite: VPR3011 and two department approved electives
Overview
This unit is the last and culminating unit in the Visual Practices sequence and is second of the two third year units. In this unit emphasis is placed on independent cultural research and its relation to a broader collaborative or group context in the public realm. You will develop a creative, expressive and critical project that utilises advanced conceptualisation and material manipulation, engaging with the artwork as part of a chain of production, reception, distribution and publics. You will develop an individual program in conjunction with the lecturer that reflects your evolving cultural practice and professional direction. The program focuses on clear articulation of concepts and their publication in the written form as a supplement to the your Visual Practice. Detailed analysis and discussion of your work takes place primarily through personal tuition with lecturers, peer-based critique and experimenting with various modes of public presentation. This unit provides a stimulating and supportive environment through the introduction of a supervised studio and bridges this to independent professional practice in the broader arts arena. This unit contextualises individual practice within various public platforms that require different modes of group and/or collaborative modes of engagement. The work produced culminates in an end of year exhibition of a professional standard, preparing you for entry into the professional world as cultural producer in broad array of Visual Arts disciplines, or the pursuit of further studies at a higher level.
Offerings in 2021
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Caulfield | On campus |
Assessment
- Preparatory folio30%
- Creative public outcome40%
- Creative public outcome exhibition30%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Compose a self-directed and coherent work plan that addresses advanced research in your field of enquiry;
- 2
Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills in techniques, materials and logistics in relation to their production in accordance to questions that emerge out of your cultural research;
- 3
Critically explore the developmental phase of your research through an advanced engagement in observation, analysis and experimentation;
- 4
Justify through the creative use and presentation of writing a position in relation to the historical, theoretical and artistic fields your own cultural production sits in;
- 5
Demonstrate a sophisticated ability to contextualise your cultural practice and the work of others within a curatorial and collaborative rationale in various professional public platforms;
- 6
Demonstrate the knowledge and ability to achieve safe and sustainable working practices within the studio environment and to independently initiate OHS&E procedures in accordance to their respective work practices.
Workload and teaching
- Studio activities96 hours
- Teaching approachResearch activities
- Teaching approachPeer assisted learning
- Teaching approachOnline learning
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachIndustry-based learning
- Teaching approachField trips
24 hours per week including 8 contact hours plus 16 hours of independent study and studio practice.
Learning resources
Required resources
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.
Ian Burn, The Metropolis is only Half the Horizon in The Boundary Rider, catalogue, The Biennale of Sydney Ltd. 1992,
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
Port Melbourne, Vic.: Craftsman House, an imprint of Thames and Hudson, 2005.
Krauss, Rosalind. Sculpture in the Expanded Field, October, Vol. 8, (Spring, 1979), pp. 30-44 Kwon, Miwon. One Place after Another: Notes on Site Specificity
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
Baker, George. Film Beyond Its Limits, Grey Room, Fall 2006, No. 25, Pages 92 - 125
Butler, Rex. Bright Shadows: Art, Aboriginality and Aura in A Secret History of Australian Art, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2002, pp. 129 – 147.
Interview between Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Tim Rollins Felix Gonzalez-Torres, New York : A.R. T. Press, c1993.
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
Burgin, Victor. Art Common Sense and Photography in Visual Culture: the Reader. SAGE Publication, London, 1999
Owens, Craig. The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism. IN FOSTER,
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
Off With the Pixies: An Interview with Hany Armanious Lara Travis, Like Art Magazine, No. 14 Autumn 2001
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
Greenhalgh, Paul. The History of Craft in The Culture of Craft Status and Future, ed. P.Dormer, (New York: Manchester University Press, 1997)
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 )
Buren, Daniel. The Function of the Studio in October 10, Fall 1979
Paul Taylor, ‘A Culture of Temporary Culture’, Art & Text #16 (Burnout) 1984. pp. POSITIONS
Bois, Yve-Alain. Introduction: Resisting Blackmail (pp. xi - xxx) & Painting as Model (pp. 245 - 258) in Painting as Model, MIT press, Massachusetts, 1993.
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
Fraser, Andrea. Why Does Fred Sandback's Work Make Me Cry? Grey Room Winter 2006, No. 22, Pages 30-47
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
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.
Koolhaas, Rem. Junkspace, October, Vol. 100, Obsolescence. (Spring, 2002), pp. 175-190.
Hickey, Dave. Introduction in Invisible Dragon: Four essays on Beauty, Los Angeles
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.
LEE, PAMELA M. Bridget Riley’s Eye/Body Problem, OCTOBER Fall 1998, Fall 2001, pp. 27–46.
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
Bachelard, Gaston. The House. From Cellar to Garret. The Significance of the Hut, The Poetics of Space, Beacon Press, Boston, 1958, pp. 3 – 37.
Schorr, Collier. The Fine Line Between This and That (on Sarah Lucas’ photographic self- portraiture) in PARKETT No. 45 1995
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
Krauss, Rosalind. The Destiny of the Informe, Formless – A User’s Guide, Zone Books, New York, 1996, pp. 235 – 252.
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.
Philip Brophy Curating Video Art 101 in Photofile (Issue 94, Winter 2005) OR Bad Video Art Like Art Magazine (haven’t located yet)
Katz, Jonathan. Rauchenberg’s Honeymoon in Art/Text, No. 61 May-July 1998
Potts, Alex. Minimalism and High Modernism in The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000, pp. 178
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)
Murray, Kevin. Introduction to Craft Unbound: make the common precious.
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
October Spring 1997, No.80: 125-134 OR from One place after another : site-specific art and locational identity , Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.
Crow, Thomas. The Return of Hank Herron in Endgame – Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting, MIT press, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 11 – 27.
Rowley, Sue. There once lived...craft and narrative traditions.” in Craft and Contemporary Theory, ed. S. Rowley (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1997)
Foster, Hal. Design and Crime in Design and Crime and Other Diatribes, Verso, London, 2002, pp. 13 - 26.
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.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Emily Floyd
- Chief Examiners
- Emily Floyd
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for VPR3012?
You need OHS1000 before you enrol. Enrolment rules also apply.
When is VPR3012 offered?
In 2021, VPR3012 runs in Semester 2 at Caulfield.
Does VPR3012 have an exam?
No. VPR3012 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.