UnitLevel 3Undergraduate

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 2022 in Semester 2 at Caulfield. It needs OHS1000.

Credit points
12
Offered in 2022
Semester 2
Caulfield
Assessment
No exam
3 tasks

This is the 2022 handbook entry. See the 2024 entry.

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Requisites

Before VPR3012

Prohibitions

You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.

After VPR3012

No unit lists VPR3012 as a prerequisite in the 2022 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 2022

Teaching periodCampusMode
Second semesterCaulfieldOn campus

Assessment

  • Preparatory folio
    30%
  • Creative public outcome
    40%
  • Creative public outcome exhibition
    30%

Learning outcomes

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

  1. 1

    Compose a self-directed and coherent work plan that addresses advanced research in your field of enquiry;

  2. 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. 3

    Critically explore the developmental phase of your research through an advanced engagement in observation, analysis and experimentation;

  4. 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. 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.

Workload and teaching

  • Studio activities96 hours
  • Teaching approachIndustry-based learning
  • Teaching approachOnline learning
  • Teaching approachField trips
  • Teaching approachActive learning
  • Teaching approachPeer assisted learning
  • Teaching approachResearch activities

24 hours per week including 8 contact hours plus 16 hours of independent study and studio practice.

Learning resources

Required resources

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 )

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

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

Philip Brophy Curating Video Art 101 in Photofile (Issue 94, Winter 2005) OR Bad Video Art Like Art Magazine (haven’t located yet)

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fraser, Andrea. Why Does Fred Sandback's Work Make Me Cry? Grey Room Winter 2006, No. 22, Pages 30-47

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

http://www.societyofcontrol.com/whitecube/insidewc.htm or Santa Monica, CA : Lapis Press, 1986. Or Art Forum 1976

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

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

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

Contacts

Chief Examiners
Professor Kathy Temin
Unit Coordinators
Professor Kathy Temin

Common questions

What are the prerequisites for VPR3012?

You need OHS1000 before you enrol. Enrolment rules also apply.

When is VPR3012 offered?

In 2022, VPR3012 runs in Semester 2 at Caulfield.

Does VPR3012 have an exam?

No. VPR3012 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.

More details

Credit points
12
Level
3
Study level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Organisational unit
Department of Fine Art
Type
Coursework
EFTSL
0.250
Student contribution
SCA Band 2
Study abroad
Not available
Handbook years
20202021202220232024