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| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,369 - ≈ € 12,862 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Oxford / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 90 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Oxford Brookes University
The MA in Contemporary Arts and Music is one of four taught postgraduate courses for artists, composers and interdisciplinary practitioners offered by the School of Arts at Oxford Brookes University. The other three courses are:
* MA in Composition and Sonic Art
* MA in Contemporary Arts
* MA in Social Sculpture.
These interdisciplinary courses broaden awareness of cross-art-form concerns, question the boundaries of contemporary art practice, provoke shifts in perception and help to develop work which is relevant to contemporary life. A concern for location, context and audience is central. All projects culminate in a public presentation or performance.
A special feature of these courses is the MA forum, in which students and staff meet to discuss each other's work in a supportive and stimulating environment. You are offered the opportunity to spend a semester at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Students have 24-hour access to excellent studios and workshops. The courses are situated in the Richard Hamilton Building on our beautiful Headington Hill site, one and a half miles from Oxford city centre.
Why Brookes?
* The School of Arts offers a unified hub for the arts in the Richard Hamilton Building, with state-of-the-art technical facilities and 24-hour studio access.
* Innovative cross-disciplinary and socially-engaged creative practices, including internationally-renowned programmes in sonic art and social sculpture.
* A stimulating environment where creative practitioners and writers about the arts and culture work closely together to form specialist research units and interdisciplinary research clusters in areas including the nineteenth century and modernism.
* Research and teaching programmes linked to some of Oxford’s leading cultural organisations such as Modern Art Oxford, Oxford Contemporary Music, and events such as the annual OXDOX International Documentary Film Festival.
* Opportunities for international study, with students recently visiting the United States, Europe and Australia.
Contents
Course length
Full-time: MA: 12 months, PGDip: 9 months
Part-time: MA: 24 months, PGDip: 18 months
MA in Contemporary Arts and Music students take two compulsory modules - Creative Strategies, and Research and Development - together with one of three elective modules and an appropriate Major Project.
PGDip students take one compulsory module - Research and Development - together with one of three elective modules.
Modules may change from time to time; an indicative list is shown below.
Interdisciplinary modules
* Creative Strategies is shared by all four MA courses. This module explores methodologies and strategies for generating contemporary and cross-art-form work, sonic art and musical composition, social sculpture and related expanded art practices. You are encouraged to become aware of your working process as a creative practitioner and to understand the influence that certain methodologies and strategies have on the kind of work that you do. Through individual and collaborative practice-based work, staff-led seminars and feedback discussions, attention is focused on how we generate practice-based work. Strategies that encompass the intuitive, spontaneous, interventionist, discursive and analytical are used, individually or in collaboration with others.
* Research and Development provides the opportunity to identify an area of interest as a starting point for investigation and speculation. You will develop project proposals through deliberate, rigorous and sustained research and exploration. The module emphasises practical research processes relevant to your own concerns.
Specialist modules
* Contemporary Practice in Art and Music allows you to explore your conceptual concerns and develop your technical skills as they relate to a specific aspect of creative practice. You will develop a body of practical research and reflect upon this through seminar feedback sessions and by articulating, in a written self-evaluation, the concerns in your evolving practice. In addition, you will pursue a research topic that explores contemporary practice, for instance through the analytical study of the work of a composer or artist, or by considering in detail an issue that can be identified in cross-art-form and interdisciplinary practices.
* The Theories and Practices of Social Sculpture explores the idea of social sculpture with special reference to the proposals, projects and legacy of Joseph Beuys, and examines the broader field of expanded art practices. You will have the opportunity to study relevant theoretical and philosophical frameworks underpinning these ideas, and to examine contemporary research and practice that explores the relationship of social sculpture to ecological sustainability. You will also explore relevant practice-based methodologies and research strategies as the basis for developing your own practice-based, interdisciplinary social sculpture and expanded art projects.
* Composition and Sonic Art Practice explores a range of conceptual approaches to your practice in a series of group seminars and individual tutorials informed by relevant technical and theoretical discourses. You can focus on acoustic composition, electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, work with live electronics, sound art, or any combination of these. Site and context will be discussed as essential elements in an artist's frame of reference. You will develop a body of practical research, which may include scores, recordings, video documentation of installation works, and reflect upon this through seminar feedback sessions.
At the end of the course there is an annual degree festival of the MA work. The Major Project is the culmination of your course of study. You can take an active role in organising, marketing and running the festival, which in previous years has taken place at a variety of sites around Oxford, as well as well as exhibition spaces in the School of Arts.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
The general entry requirements are:
* A good honours degree, i.e. an upper second or first, in any subject
* An internationally recognised qualification equivalent to a good British honours degree.
Applicants without a first degree, but with extensive experience may also be considered and individual courses may have additional entry requirements to these. Please contact the Admissions Tutor to discuss this.
English language requirements
If English is not your main language then you will also need to show that your English is at a high enough level to succeed in your studies. You will need IELTS IELTS 6-7 (normally with 6.0 in Reading and Writing and a minimum of 5.5 in Listening and Speaking); TOEFL internet-based test 80-100 (with minimum scores in each section) or equivalent, depending on the course you have chosen to study. For more information see your course details.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 550 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 80 |
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