Artistic Research

Course Structure

1. Attend regular individual tutorials and group classes with practice, theory, and writing tutors.
2. Participate in course research groups with their peers.
3. Regularly present new works to tutors and fellow students to demonstrate their artistic evolution and the relationship between his/her research processes and artistic work.
4. Complete reflection papers in year 1 and an Artistic Research Statement paper in year 2.
5. Actively participate in guest workshops and theoretical seminars, and attend guest lectures.
6. Periodically exhibit or perform new work in MAR exhibitions and events and actively contribute to the organization and putting together of these events.
7. The Master Artistic Research teaches students to critically reflect upon and analyze their artistic practice, in order to develop their artistic outputs to a level suitable for autonomous professional practice in the fields of music and/or visual art.
8. Students are led to explore an expanded field of practice, extending into new areas and further developing aspects of their practice, which may have received limited support due to the restrictions of their disciplinary backgrounds.
9. Students learn to position their practices within wider debates in their respective fields, and in relation to wider social and academic discourses.
10. Students are taught how to present their artistic work within the professional context through the putting together of exhibitions and events, with critical reflection and input from tutors and professionals in their field.
11. The Master Artistic Research teaches students discursive written and oral means to communicate their practice and disseminate their research to audiences within and outside of their field.