Module Identifier SG31020  
Module Title SCENOGRAPHY AND THE AESTHETIC EVENT  
Academic Year 2004/2005  
Co-ordinator Mr Richard D Downing  
Semester Semester 2  
Other staff Mr Nick Strong, Mr Richard D Downing, Mr Simon J Banham  
Pre-Requisite SG20110 Students must have completed at least one of the following to enable them to do SG31020, SG20210 , SG20310 , SG20430 , SG20520 , SG30720  
Course delivery Lecture   2 Hours 10 x 2hr lecture / seminars  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Assessment Solo Project - electronically realised For information on due dates for submission of assessed work, please refer to the departmental web pages at http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/duedates.shtml 40%
Semester Assessment Solo Project - physically realised  60%

Learning outcomes

Typically, upon completion of the module, the student will be able:
- To demonstrate the ability to re-appraise methodologies and practices previously studied, through the conception and articulation of two autonomously generated aesthetic events, realised and presented within the public domain.
- To show the skills and understanding necessary to simultaneously engage actual and virtual space within the parallel articulation of two cross-referenced, aesthetic events.
- To manifest cohesion of electronic folio material as transferable artistic artefacts and documents of practice available within the public domain.



Aims

The aim of this module is:
- To provoke informed re-appraisal of methodologies and practices previously studied, within the context of complete aesthetic events autonomously motivated, determined and executed from the principles of scenography.
- To provide a structure for the manifestation of such re-appraisal through the conception and articulation of independently generated aesthetic events, realised and presented within the public domain.
- To encourage simultaneous creative engagement with actual and virtual space within the parallel articulation of two, cross-referenced, aesthetic events.
- To foster the drawing together of electronic folio material as transferable artistic artefacts and documents of practice available within the public domain.


Content

Process :

This concluding module aims to provoke informed re-appraisal of methodologies and practices previously studied, within the context of complete aesthetic events autonomously created from the principles of scenography and visual performance. The module provides a structure for the manifestation of such re-appraisal through the conception and articulation of two independently generated aesthetic events, both presented within the public domain. These solo works are intended to inform and reflect one another, and are developed in tandem, one within actual, the other within virtual, space. The module also facilitates a final drawing together of individual electronic folio material as transferable artistic artefacts and publishable documents of practice.


Content :

The content of the first three lecture/seminars will principally be determined and led by the course tutors and is intended to offer orientation for subsequent individual project work. These sessions will re-appraise methodologies and practices previously studied, within the context of aesthetic events autonomously motivated, determined and executed from principles of scenography and visual performance. Attention will also be drawn to the associated practices and procedures of time-based installation; electronic and digital time-based art; land and environmental art.

The content of the four subsequent lecture/seminars will principally be determined by students in consultation with the course tutors. Tutors will recommend avenues of research relevant to the particular direction of student projects and this research will directly drive further discussion and study.

The final three lecture/seminars will specifically address conceptual and practical concerns relevant to the realisation of students' solo projects within the public domain.


Criteria for assessment :

i] For physical realisation of the solo project assessment will be made upon the basis of the following criteria:
- Conception: evidence of embodied knowledge of conceptual context; integrity, originality and creativity of ideas. (35%)
- Realisation: evidence of sustained development; rigour of methodology and form; facility with media employed. (35%)
- Presentation: relevance, efficiency and sophistication of delivery. (20%)
- Personal Management: effective use of time, awareness of context within peer group work. (10%)

ii] Similarly, for `virtual` realisation of the solo project assessment will be made upon the basis of the following criteria:
- Conception: evidence of embodied knowledge of conceptual context; integrity, originality and creativity of ideas. (35%)
- Realisation: evidence of sustained development; rigour of methodology and form; facility with media employed. (35%)
- Presentation: relevance, efficiency and sophistication of delivery. (20%)
-Personal Management : effective use of time, awareness of context within peer group work. (10%)


Transferable skills

- fully conceiving and executing personal creative initiatives.
- self-discipline and reflexive functioning within the articulation and re-examination of personally generated material.
- practical facility across a range of media.
- self assessment and self criticism.
- project design, problem solving and implementation.
- facility with IT.
- the generation and ordering of intellectual and dramatic material in contexts outside either the play script or the auditorium.


Reading Lists

Books
** Recommended Text
Haenlein, (ed) (1997) Rebecca Horn: The Glance of Infinity Scalo
VIEWING: Wallis, Brian (1998) Land and Environment Art Phaidon
Blair, Lindsey (1998) Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order Reaktion Books
Childs & Walwin (1998) A Split Second of Paradise: (Live art, installation and Performance) Rivers Oram Press

Web Page/Sites
http://art.ntu.ac.uk/dpa Digital Performance Archive, Nottingham Trent University

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6