Course Title: Sculpture Studio The Body in Space in Sculpture

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Sculpture Studio The Body in Space in Sculpture

Credit Points: 12

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
VART1913	City Campus	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2007, Sem 2 2008

Course Coordinator: Peter Cripps

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 3625

Course Coordinator Email:peter.cripps@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Bld 37.1

Course Coordinator Availability: Via Appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

This course is for Fine Art Students from BP201 only.

Course Description

This course is designed to give students an understanding of the Body in Space as both the subject and site of sculpture.
It provides practical and theoretical methods for translating the body in space, employing analytical, technical and interpretive processes.
Over the course of the semester a series of studio classes, seminars and projects will address contemporary and historical perspectives.
In this course the central theme is the head/face and identity. Students will begin with traditional clay modelling skills and body casting. Expanding upon this base are projects dealing with Concurrent Research and Figurative Space and Public Identity. These components conceptualise the relation of objects to the body and the body and face out to the world.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course incorporates a number of projects investigating the human body and its spatial context. Technical processes appropriate to recording, modeling, casting and other translational processes will be explored. This investigation will be supported by a number of lectures investigating anatomical, theoretical and technical issues in contemporary figurative sculpture. Additional information concerning relevant areas of investigation will be presented to address issues raised by students as they progress through this course.
Three projects introduce students to aspects of figurative representation and related spatial considerations. Project 1 is an ongoing project that develops a sequence of marquettes, research and documentation. Project 2 revolves around the constructed modelling of a head and/or bust. Project 3 examines the face as a public site and leads to a consideration of the autonomous object, performance, installation and exhibition.
By the end of the program students will have acquired familiarity and self-sufficiency in a number of modelling languages, an insight into the historical ground of figurative sculpture and a sense of how such skills can be used in contemporary practice and ideas.
Each class will involve the discussion of student’s work in progress.

Overview of Learning Activities

This course incorporates a number of projects investigating the human body and its spatial context. Technical processes appropriate to recording, modeling, casting and other translational processes will be explored. This investigation will be supported by a number of lectures investigating anatomical, theoretical and technical issues in contemporary figurative sculpture. Additional information concerning relevant areas of investigation will be presented to address issues raised by students as they progress through this course.
Three projects introduce students to aspects of figurative representation and related spatial considerations. Project 1 is an ongoing project that develops a sequence of marquettes, research and documentation. Project 2 revolves around the constructed modelling of a head and/or bust. Project 3 examines the face as a public site and leads to a consideration of the autonomous object, performance, installation and exhibition.
By the end of the program students will have acquired familiarity and self-sufficiency in a number of modelling languages, an insight into the historical ground of figurative sculpture and a sense of how such skills can be used in contemporary practice and ideas.
Each class will involve the discussion of student’s work in progress.

Overview of Learning Resources

Specialist and reference texts

Overview of Assessment

Assessment Criteria
Your grades are based on the lecturer’s expectation that you will:
1. Attend all feedback sessions, and exhibit assessable work at each session. Assessment and Feedback sessions are held in or around weeks 7 and 13 of this course. If work is not exhibited at a feedback session, then no grading can be given, and therefore you will fail that review.
2. Project One: Research, Documentation and Marquettes: Physical evidence of on-going research processes undertaken throughout the semester and documentation of research, artworks and other materials developed for this Course.
Project One assessment criteria is equal to 35% of the total mark
3. Projects Two, and Three: All works of art exhibited in Feedback sessions are to be finished to a resolved, professional standard of presentation commensurate with your year level. The work needs to answer the criteria set for each project
Project Two, feedback session and assessment 35% of the total mark .
Project Three, feedback session and assessment 35%. of the total mark.
Submission of Assessment Tasks
Assessment will be conducted by a panel of staff from the course area. The assessment will be reviewed by the course coordinator, Sculpture.
Week 7: Project Two, Assessment and Feedback session.
Week 13: Project One and Project Three, Assessment and Feedback session.

Return of Assessment Tasks
Assessment Feedback will take the form of a written report, which will be available to students

Course Grades Available
HD High distinction (80-100%)
D Distinction (70-79%)
C Credit (60-69%)
P Pass (50-59%)
N Fail (0-49%)