Stage 2 CCS MiniProgrammes 0607 Stage 2 only

Stage 2 CCS Mini-Programmes 06/07 Stage 2 only (stage 3 follow separate research programme) Mini-Programme = 3 weeks Choice of 2 Mini-Programmes Students follow one programme for assessment (but should go to lectures for both programmes)

Mini-Programmes Semester 2

Mini-Programme Assessment Critical Notebook including written essay 2, 500 -3, 000 words Submission Dates: Programme 1 - Tuesday 13 March Programme 2 - Tuesday 10 April

Semester 2 Mini-Programme Themes 1. Judith Findlay A Delicate Shuttle - ‘Art as Non-Modern’ 2. Lesley Scott / Andrea Peach Consuming Signs

A Delicate Shuttle: ART AS ‘NON MODERN’ ‘In the eyes of our critics the ozone hole above our heads, the moral law in our hearts, the autonomous text, may each be of interest, but only separately. That a delicate shuttle should have woven together the heavens, industry, texts, souls and moral law – this remains uncanny, unthinkable, unseemly. ’ Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard, 1993), p. 5

A Delicate Shuttle-ART AS NON MODERN: The anthropologist Bruno Latour proposes that ‘We Have Never Been Modern’: the ‘careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing are distinctions that our ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology and phrenology never made. But, he argues, alongside the ‘modern’ purifying practice that defines modernity, there is a seemingly contrary one that mixes politics, science, technology, culture and nature. This programme proposes that Art is also such a mixture and aims to apply a concept of hybridity, connections, context, interdisciplinarity, networks and relationships to the perception of Art. The aim of the programme is not to study the work of Latour but to apply a key idea that art is a ‘quasi-object’ (a part of several categories at once) and a ‘delicate shuttle’. Key themes will include: Art and Ambiguity; Art and the Domestic; Art Ecology; Art and Fiction. ‘I think what we miss…in art schools is discussion. Wayne Biggs talked about “wild conversations”, rather than academic direction. [What we need in art schools is] something less academic. ’ Francis Mc. Kee, ‘Teaching Ignorance: A One Step Programme’, The Dynamics of Now: Issues in Art and Education, London: Tate, Wimbledon, 2000.

CONSUMING SIGNS ‘What are increasingly produced are not material objects, but signs’ Roland Barthes

CONSUMING SIGNS Andrea Peach / Lesley Scott This programme will look at how we ‘consume’ culture, and the ways in which the art and design ‘industries’ increasingly produce commodities that we consciously or unconsciously aspire to possess. We will investigate theories behind the complex system of cultural signs and signifiers that surround us all, and use case studies from contemporary art and design, as a means of critiquing art and design practice. This programme should enable you to have a better understanding of what is meant by cultural consumption and how cultural artifacts can be read on many different levels. We will investigate case studies from art and design such as: art as commodity advertising and branding, labels and identity, and the cult of the designer. We will also draw upon texts such as: Roland Barthes, Judith Williamson, etc. ,

Electing Your Semester 2 Mini-Programme Students can state preference for a particular programme, and will be allocated accordingly Maximum number of students per Mini-Programme = 65 Programme lists will be posted on CCS noticeboard by end of the week

Electing Your Semester 2 Mini-Programme X Name: David Brent Course: Painting

Mini-Programme Lectures First Lecture starts Monday February 12 th at 1. 00 in SB 42 Scott Sutherland All students should attend lectures

Mini-Programme Seminars will be held on Tuesday mornings in A 34 M (Gray’s) First seminar on Tuesday 13 February See CCS noticeboard for groups and times

Any Questions? CCS coordinators: Andrea Peach (26) 3692 a. peach@rgu. ac. uk Lesley Scott (26) 3692 l. scott@rgu. ac. uk

Reminder: Please pick up your Semester 1 Coursework from outside GP 20