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The Dartington Hall Trust: Arts and Place

Institution The Dartington Hall Trust
Department Dartington Arts School
Web https://www.dartington.org/
Study type Taught

Summary

This course puts forward a new master’s model for practising artists through field-research and post-studio practice. Through a series of residencies, starting here at Dartington and then at sites around the UK, we encourage students to develop an understanding of their role as an artist in relation to place, both urban and to nature and landscape.

Through the place-based nature of the course, students come away with an expanded repertoire of imagining, experiencing, knowing and representing our relationship to landscape and environment. We encourage a purposefully collaborative, socially engaged arts approach, with a flexibility that helps students refine their skills in their chosen field or medium, while also offering opportunities to experiment and trial new ideas with others.

Arts residencies are a significant part of the contemporary arts industry and of contemporary art making and play a critical role in building experience and competencies; as well as pathways for the exchange of skills and knowledge, inter-cultural learning and understanding. We are increasingly confronted with complex challenges that require new ways of knowing and forms of collaborative engagement and practice, and this Master’s is designed to help you find space for this in your work, and to develop new modes of creative fulfilment.

To further expand the meaning and context for place and site responsive art, the Arts and Place programme invites guests, including scholars, writers, curators, artists, activists, filmmakers, to share their practice in relation to each module and focus of study. These include:

Arts & Place guests include:

Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation; Aurora Tang, Curator and Program Manager at CLUI; Angela Burdon and Sheyda A. Khaymaz, Co-directors of Lungs Project; Lucinda Guy, Director of Soundart Radio; Irini Papadimitriou, Creative Director of Future Everything; Rod Dickinson; Martha King, Becca Rose Co-Curators of Control Shift; Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist, Artists, Co-founders of Postcommodity; Chris Taylor, Director Land Arts of the American West; Elizabeth Fisher, Curator, Writer; Ella Mills, Art Historian, Curator; Cara Courage, Curator, Writer; Tim Edensor, Author

Artists:

Heather Ackroyd (Ackroyd/Harvey); Rana Begum; Jeremy Dennis; Jessica Auer; Laura Harrington; Maria Arceo; Emma Bush; Mita Vaghela; Barton Hargreaves; Oswaldo Macia; Ruth Maclennan; Claire Macleod and Dave Macleod; Susan Stockwell; Deborah Stratman

The programme includes a five-week residency at Dartington for a 30 credit introduction to fieldwork methodologies and post-studio practice with seminars, screenings and workshops and group crits. This is followed by three 30 credit residency modules (Urban Places, Contemporary Remote and Themes in Residency). Each 10-day residency is hosted by one of our partner organisations. The programme concludes with a 60-credit dissertation or practical major project module which begins with a week onsite at Dartington followed by a group exhibition.

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