Course summary
This programme will provide you with an opportunity for your own work to engage with the widening horizons of new practices. It will also enable you to invent methodologies, reframe urgencies, and reimagine the contexts for work. Building on theoretical grounding, the programme offers an opportunity to bring together different sources of knowledge, methodologies, and models of making public. Concepts animating our work on the programme:
- Choreo politics
- Anthropology as Cultural Critique
- Cultural Metabolics
- Curatorial Knowledges
- The Exhibitionary Matrix
- The Intrusions of Nature
- Race and Digital Ecologies
- Practice Epistemology
- Spectral Infrastructures.
- Adam Bencard, Chief Curator, Museum of Medicine, Copenhagen
- Christine Shaw, “The Work of Wind”, Chief Curator, Toronto University Museum
- Manuela Moscoso (Liverpool Biennial “The Stomach and The Port”)
- CAMP, Arts and Research Collective, Mumbai
- Coco Fusco, Performance Artist, Filmmaker and writer, Florida.
- Nora Sternfeld Curator and Educator, Hamburg and Vienna.
- Elvira Dyangani Ose, The Showroom, London
- Michael Neuman, Medicin San Frontieres
- Michel Feher
- Michael Taussig
- Naeem Mohaiemen
- Stefano Harney
Modules
MPhil/PhD students will participate in 6 annual seminars, oral presentation of research project, participation in department pre-upgrade panel and dissertation (Practice based and written submission). There is a collaborative Practice Laboratory focused on an annual thematic that is investigated collaboratively – this Laboratory is currently taught in weekly online meetings, seminars, and guest lectures.
Assessment method
Visual Cultures assessment are 100% coursework. Normally this consists of essays, sometimes accompanied by creative projects, group projects, multi-media projects, presentations, symposia, reviews, and studio work.
Entry requirements
You should normally have (or expect to be awarded) a taught Masters in a relevant subject area. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level. We welcome applicants from all disciplines, as well as those with a background in art and curatorial practices who want to engage with the expanded field. Such background can be a relevant degree or cumulative practice. The programme enables exchanging knowledges and experiences between multiple fields contributing to the advancing of practices. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Sponsorship information
Funding may be available from the ESRC and AHRC.
Provider information
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
Lewisham
SE14 6NW