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University College for the Creative Arts @ Canterbury

MA Spatial Practices: Art, Architecture, and Performance

This unique MA course has developed out of the special context of the 
University College for the Creative Arts (UCCA) Canterbury campus which is 
shared by Fine Art and the Canterbury School of Architecture. The course 
offers students from disciplines such as art, architecture, performance, 
performance theory, geography, design, and anthropology to engage in their 
individual practices within an interdisciplinary framework whilst 
developing a critical theoretical context for their work.
The MA Spatial Practices encourages and supports investigation and 
experimentation with a site. 'Site' and 'space' may be interpreted widely 
as phenomenological, institutional, discursive, specific, architectural, 
performative, etc.
Students will work within an array of relationships between their own 
discipline and art, architecture and performance. Concepts of cultural 
performance (e.g., social drama, ritual, and play, as well as notions of 
theatricality) and aspects of performativity (e.g., agency, identity 
production, transformational power, and citationality) will inform the 
shapes of these relationships. Students will engage with their particular 
discipline through an expanded notion of 'spatial practice' which will 
evolve through an investigative approach drawing on the interdisciplinary 
framework of the course. Students' work and research will be contextualised 
within a wider theoretical debate relevant to contemporary practice in 
terms of how, for example, spaces are produced, performed, theorised, 
gendered. What is the relationship, for example, between the 
psychoanalytic, the political and the cultural in determining meanings and 
material possibilities for space in relationship to the performativity of 
art and architecture practice? What is the relationship between the 
analytical, the imagined, and the artefact? What is the significance of 
identity in the constructions of spatial meanings and vice-versa? What are 
the cultural and theoretical dimensions of site-specificity and the nature 
of 'art geography'?
The course will draw upon the research/practice within an expanded 
interdisciplinary field. Support will be provided through visiting 
lecturers, practitioners in fields which may include architecture, art, 
cultural/art theory, geography, performance, performance theory, and 
design. Over the one year (full-time) or two year (part-time) course, 
students will be supported in practice-based work which can take many 
forms, including a written document such as a dissertation.

For more information, please contact one of the following leaders of the 
course:
Richard Davies, Director of Studies Fine Art 					[log in to unmask]
Professor Oren Lieberman, Head of Canterbury School of Architecture 
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Dr. Judith Rugg, Reader in Critical and Contextual Studies, 
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Research Councils Academic Fellow
Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television
University of Bristol
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