This course combines critical theory, urban studies with research method and art-making.
It encourages free deployment of creative tools, from photography, collage work, critical writng, web-engines, video to installation; and...
Starting October, members of this course will go inside the Victoria Prison plus the Central Police Station on Hollywood Road and Old Bailey Street to create narratives with cameras, video camera, and/or via writing...; and
this would be a good course to prepare you for your FYP alongside Dynamic Space as it practices integration, and it wants you to be playful as much as critical.
The pre-prequisite/pre-cursor for this course is SM3125 Critical Theory for Society.
By definition, avant-garde work minimizes traditional models, and therefore tends to be an active, dialectical interrelationship between the form which a work assumes and the material of which it consists. The material is not channeled into an existing mode, but, rather, uses whatever uniqueness there is in the material to determine itself.
-- Dick Higgins, Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia, p. 1
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