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2011/2 Provisional Module Catalogue - UNDER CONSTRUCTION & SUBJECT TO CHANGE
 Module Code: DANM035 Module Title: LONDON CASEBOOK
Module Provider: Dance,Film & Theatre Short Name: DANM035
Level: M Module Co-ordinator:
Number of credits: 15 Number of ECTS credits: 7.5
 
Module Availability

Semester 1.
Assessment Pattern

Unit(s) of Assessment (SITS MAB)

 
Weighting Towards Module Mark( %)

 

Casebook (2000-3000 words, with creative content/layout)

 

100

 

 

 
Module Overview
Prerequisites/Co-requisites
None.
Module Aims

To introduce London as a complex and layered place, as evidenced through artistic practice/curation

To establish connections between theories of the city, culture and/or policy and creation of arts practice/curation

To develop and articulate critical awareness of specific examples of practice (theatre/dance/film/performance) in London and their contribution to culture in and/or of the city

To introduce approaches to displaying reflections on connected examples in a critical and creative form

 
Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module students should be able to

 

 

·         Demonstrate knowledge of multiple case studies of artistic practice that reveal complexities of London

 

·         Articulate and apply critical theories to inform the analysis of artistic practice in London

 

·         Select and analyse case studies of practice/curation and identify and establish informed perspectives.

 

·         Present reflections on cultural practice in a coherent, critical and creative form.

 

 
Module Content

London Casebook introduces a series of critical perspectives on cities, London and cultural creation and/or curation to enable students to identify, analyse and draw connections with and between forms of artistic practice.  The creation of a Casebook involves creative and critical engagement with the articulation of this thinking and requires students to understand and propose a particular way of documenting and debating artistic practice and/or display in the city.

 

 

The Casebook may be a single student Casebook or a document comprising entries by multiple students.  In each case, individual student work will be marked separately, but in the latter case, with attention to the stated aims of the group Casebook collection.

 
Methods of Teaching/Learning

The module will involve taught sessions, discussion and may involve field trips to London.  Students will be expected to attend performances/showings/openings etc as relevant to their particular and individual area of interest.  There will be a cost to these trips.

 

 
Selected Texts/Journals

Selected Texts/Journals (Kennedy 2009; Rendell 2008; Pickering 2008; Hopkins 2008; Bogart 2007; Cardiff and Schaub 2005; Bennett 2005; Horodner 2002; de Certeau 1988; Harvie 2005)

 

 

 

Bennett, Susan. 2005. Theatre/Tourism. Theatre Journal
57:407-428.

 

Bogart, Anne. 2007. And then, you act : making art in an unpredictable world. Abingdon, [England] ; New York: Routledge.

 

Cardiff, Janet, and Mirjam Schaub. 2005. Janet Cardiff : the walk book. Vienna: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.

 

de Certeau, Michel. 1988. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Harvie, Jen. 2005. Staging the UK. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

 

Hopkins, D. J. 2008. City/stage/globe : performance and space in Shakespeare's London, Literary criticism and cultural theory. London: Routledge.

 

Horodner, Stuart. 2002. Walk This Way. In Walk Ways, edited by S. R. Frankel. New York: Independent Curators International.

 

Kennedy, Dennis. 2009. The Spectator and the Spectacle: Audiences in Modernity and Postmodernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Pickering, Michael. 2008. Experience and the Social World. In Research Methods for Cultural Studies, edited by M. Pickering. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

 

Rendell, Jane. 2008. Art and Architecture: A Place Between. London: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd.

 

 

 
Last Updated
13.04.11