2018/19 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
DESN2405 Contemporary Art and Memory
10 creditsClass Size: 20
Module manager: Dr Judith Tucker
Email: j.a.tucker@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2018/19
Module replaces
DESN2400This module is approved as a discovery module
Module summary
In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries there has been a preoccupation with memory in contemporary art. Indeed, the emerging area of memory studies has attracted much interest across different cultural and academic disciplines. This course will consider a very diverse range of approaches both in terms of art practices from the representational to the performative, and in terms of a wide selection of appropriate theoretical texts, the whole will be held together by the major thematic of memory.Objectives
On completion of this module students should have a critical understanding how contemporary art, both as object and as practice, might both be inflected by and contribute to the growing interdisciplinary arena of memory studies.Students should be able to analyse and contextualise a range of visual practices thus enabling them to position themselves and their practice within contemporary theory/practice debates.
Learning outcomes
-Students should have a grasp of key concepts concerning recent debates on individual, collective and cultural memory.
-Students should have a perception of how these concepts have a symbiotic relation with a variety of contemporary art practices.
Skills outcomes
- An understanding of how to analyse visual art
- Verbal and written fluency in constructing a logical and coherent argument
- Independent research including use of bibliographies
- Critical engagement and construction of arguments
- Use of audio visual aids
- Participation in group discussions.
Syllabus
This module introduces the ways in which contemporary art practice might be positioned in relation to a specific theoretical and cultural context. In order to see how the selected work might be said to mediate key debates and theoretical concerns; case studies of both individual works and exhibitions will be analysed and considered in relation to critical texts.
Examples might include contemporary art relating to autobiography, commemoration: monuments and counter-monuments, enactments and re-enactments, the museum, the archive, trauma theory in relation to strategies of remembrance after the Shoah.
Teaching methods
Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
Class tests, exams and assessment | 1 | 2.00 | 2.00 |
Seminar | 9 | 1.00 | 9.00 |
Tutorial | 2 | 2.00 | 4.00 |
Private study hours | 85.00 | ||
Total Contact hours | 15.00 | ||
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100.00 |
Private study
Private study includes preparing set readings for seminars, reading beyond the class texts, visiting a gallery or museum, preparation for assessed presentation and for the essay assignment. An essay of 3000-3500 words is presented for summative assessment.Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Student progress is monitored through registers at seminar attendance and through contribution to discussion. It will also be monitored through the verbal presentation and submission of the essay plan.Methods of assessment
Coursework
Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
Essay | 3000-3500 words | 80.00 |
Literature Review | 1000 words | 10.00 |
Presentation | verbal presentation with slides | 10.00 |
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 |
The resit for the verbal presentation will take the form of a powerpoint presentation with speaker notes
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 30/04/2018
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