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Full time | Goldsmiths, University of London | 1 year | 23-SEP-24

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

23-SEP-24

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Politics

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Working from a materially diverse basis, this programme engages with a range of empirical, aesthetic, conceptual and material issues that traverse and exceed both 'art' and ‘politics’ to speak with our current contemporaneity.

Why study MA Art and Politics at Goldsmiths?

  • Explore practices and issues related to our current contemporaneity in terms of public space, democracy, equality, participation, states of exception, collectivity, performance and justice.
  • Examine a range of material practices and strategies which, in the encounter between art and politics, play out in numerous forms and very different kinds of social spaces.
  • Develop frameworks and spaces that are mixed and mobile, and which can operate in trans-disciplinary settings. You'll join students from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, meaning that the political character of both theory and material practice take on renewed vigour and urgency.
  • Investigate the potential of art, material practice and trans-disciplinarity in times of political and cultural crisis. You will have the opportunity to interrogate the relationship between material practices and theoretical work, to work within constraints but also within the interstices of artistic, cultural, social and political practices.

Careers

Our graduates come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and embark on highly contrasting career paths. These include careers in curating (both independent and embedded); art practice (both collaborative and individual); journalism (radio, web and print journalism); performing arts; central and local government; work with NGOs (national and international); research (academic and professional); project development, administration and management. Some of our graduates undertake further professional training in law; journalism; education and social work.

Skills

You'll develop: a critical engagement with the broad field of international studies, communication skills, research skills, presentation skills.

Modules

Through practice-based group activity and pre-arranged project work, you'll create work that engages with themes agreed to between your peers and tutors and arrived at through course discussion, interaction, site visits and through harnessing and channeling the creativity, originality and imagination of the participants themselves. In a set of site-specific practices that avoid overt engagement with either art or politics in the traditional sense (where art is treated as a set of techniques and politics is treated as self evident) you'll be invited into new mental spaces that aim to engage them in novel and original site specific projects that change each year. Combining site-specific work with related theoretical reading the module will offer you an opportunity to engage with politics and art as a way of seeing the world differently. These project-based projects offer spaces where ideas and proposals can be put into a practice based environment that leads to a set of material outcomes enabling students to reflect upon how and where a public or audience encounters such work.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£11,170

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£22,640

Entry requirements

Students should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject. Students might also be considered for some programmes if they aren’t a graduate or their degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that they have the ability to work at postgraduate level.