Faculty of Arts
Street Arts
Module Catalogue
Semester 2 - 2015/2016
Module Code: DPA1000SA
Module Name: Histories and Contexts
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 4
Millie Taylor
Module Description:
The module will be presented as a series of lectures introducing performance practitioners,
concepts and their contexts, exploring how the history of ideas informed – and was
informed by – social and cultural developments across cultures and art forms. It will
encourage the students to study its historical, cultural, social and political contexts through
case study of key practitioners. It will actively question performance in all its manifestations
and encourage students to build on their personal experience. By studying performance as
‘living history’ and placing the study firmly within these specific contexts, the students will
be able to reference and manipulate the information to inform their own future creative
work.
Specific to:
Street Arts
Assessments:
001:
Portfolio of written assignments
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S2
100%
Day
Time
Module Code: DPA1001SA
Module Name: Making
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 4
Yvon Bonenfant
Module Description:
This module takes students on a year-long journey that introduces them to the process of
making Performance in the current artistic environment. Building on understandings of
performance creation and composition developed at pre-University level, students will be
guided, largely through practical workshops accompanied by appropriate critical and
practitioner readings, through exercises and formative tasks in inventing new work that take
them into the realm of the unknown and that help them expand their capacity to create
unique and original creative material for their academic age and experience. This module is
a university-level primer in creative and compositional technique for the ensemble group
and will engage students in a range of strategies for making work, and will require extensive
in-class showings and critical feedback sessions in preparation for the assessment.
Specific to:
Street Arts
Assessments:
001:
Group performance
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S2
100%
Day
Time
Module Code: SA2004
Module Name: Street Arts Study
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
15
1
Level 5
John Lee
Module Description:
This module will involve the student to conduct an in-depth research into a street arts
organisation or event. Central to this enquiry is the need for students to have a knowledge
of the organisational structures that can support their future structures and with which they
will develop collaborative relationships to produce their work The students will be expected
to conduct their research in an ethical and critically reflective way aware of the choice of
methods with which they are basing their conclusions. It is important that the students can
also identify the wider infrastructure of street arts practice(creating organisational
structures, legal requirements, health and safety) and that they can relate this knowledge to
their own practice in ways that will be of later use. This module will be characterised by
many opportunities to work with creative production practitioners and techniques
Specific to:
Street Arts
Assessments:
001:
002:
Viva
Assessed work manual (2500 words)
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S2
20%
80%
Day
Time
Module Code: SA1105
Module Name: Production Skills 1
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 4
Olu Taiwo
Module Description:
In a subject such as street arts that has a strong visual element; this module develops the
basis of the students’ visual awareness and relates the practice to the contemporary themes
of digital arts. In this module students are encouraged to explore visual awareness and new
media and to consider the ‘design’ interface along with its related context and performance.
They will be asked to experiment and question concepts surrounding body/technology in
public space and issues of ‘Scenography’ (Set/Costume design; sound technology;
lighting/projection; camera operation/film editing). In Semester One, the students will show
that they can work with and effectively negotiate their ideas and create the platforms
through which they document and disseminate their work. They will also become
competent at creating prototype modelling using (visual art) techniques to plan the creation
of structures and designs that will lead to sonic/ visual effects or specific constructions for
street performance in the Second semester; these designs will refer to and address
strategies and structures that support an actual Performance Event developed in parallel
with a Performance Making Module (i.e.Devising/Performance Skills) Additionally within this
module students will be offered introductions to recording and editing (sound/video),
set/object ‘design and construction’ and scenography. In Semester 2 the students will
develop/ practice skills to fulfil their proposed performance idea from Semester 1. They will
develop constructions and scenographic models of their proposals ranging from the
carnivalesque to the digital and informed by an overarching concept of interactivity. The
module provides an important link between the carnival and the dramaturgical influences in
the programme whilst linking with specific skills of street arts, , The students construct
scenographic ideas for the street, installations, outdoor performance and creative
productions. Students will be introduced to different skills to do with planning and ‘making’
through structures drawing from digital media, masks, mobile carnival structures, site
specific installation and will explore the relationships between social networks and street
performances. They draw on the concepts from companies such as Welfare State
International, Carabosse, Wildworks, the Naturals and Plasticiens Volants street theatre
companies among others
Specific to:
Street Arts
Assessments:
001:
002:
003:
Availability:
Occ.
A
A performative and visual
presentation which proposes and
articulates the plans concerning the
making of a street event
Group presentation of ‘production
plans’ for specific performance
event
Written digital or web-based
response (equivalent to 2,000
words)
Year
15/16
Semester
S2
20%
30%
50%
Day
Time
Module Code: SA1106
Module Name: Performance Skills
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 4
Olu Taiwo
Module Description:
This module introduces a number of body disciplines, including Feldenkreis technique,
Andrea Olsen and authentic movement, to enable the student to discover their own
physical neutrality and how that neutrality can impact on space. With the study of body
tension the student will start to learn about performance presence and levels appropriate
for a wide range of sites and settings, allowing the student to understand the
appropriateness for intense physicality and stillness. Through the introduction to physical
dynamics in space the student will be introduced to the skills necessary for corporeal
devising, thus enhancing the experience in the Making module
Specific to:
Street Arts
Assessments:
001:
002:
Performance
Viva
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
70%
30%
Semester
S2
Day
Time