760-403 Installation and Superfiction

Formerly available as 760-403 Visual Arts: Installation Projects, 760-347 Visual Arts: Installations. Students who have completed 760-403 or 760-347 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

25 points of visual media at second year or equivalent.

The subject introduces visual media students to installation art and the idea of the Superfiction. This includes broad introduction through theoretical lectures to: site specific art; process art; art in public spaces; earth works; deconstructive tendencies; video art; relational aesthetics; and performance art. The relationship between visual media and architecture will also be explored and contextualised, as will the relationship between curating and site specific visual media objects. Researching a large project and the appropriate use of materials techniques and processes will also be covered. With approval some students majoring in two and three-dimensional work may wish to collaborate on a single project. Through an understanding of the Superfiction, other students may present a small part of a much bigger project including research plans and models.

• apply analytical, cognitive and practical skills to the planning and successful completion of an installation or superfiction;

• think creatively and independently and engage in constructive critical discourse;

• research the role of installations, superfictions and site specific works from historical, cultural and contemporary perspectives;

• express complex concepts and undertake intellectual investigations through visual imagery;

• participate in informed discussion relative to the philosophy and methodologies inherent in the discipline.

A 15 minute oral/visual presentation equivalent to 500 words 10% (due week three). A reflective essay/interview/exhibition review equivalent to 1000 words 20% (due in week nine). A folio (Installation Project and sketchbooks /models) equivalent to 2000 words for 3rd year, and 3000 for 4th year level, 60% (due at the end of semester), and a written research proposal equivalent to 500 words 10% (due mid semester). A hurdle requirement of a minimum 80% attendance required.

A subject reader will be available from the Bookroom at the beginning of semester.