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Advanced Practices at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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7Dec
Goldsmiths, University of London - Postgraduate Open Day
Postgraduate

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.
This is practice-driven and research-based programme which can incorporate projects in progress, collaborations with organisations, and platforms. It can also be an opportunity to rethink the circulation and meaning of how/to whom work is communicated, and to put forms of transdisciplinarity into practice. The programme is linked to the European Forum for Advanced Practices (funded by the cost.eu action).

Modules

Seminars are taught six times a year, encouraging those working in the field to be able to maintain their work. Participants are artists, curators, organisers, researchers, and activists. In addition to the seminars the programme will involve the oral presentation of a research project, participation in department pre-upgrade panel, and a 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

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

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.

Advanced Practices at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS