MA in Contemporary Art Practice
Duration: 16 month taught Masters in Contemporary Art Practice, delivered full-time over 3 semesters.
Further Information: https://www.mtu.ie/courses/craartp9/
Course Fee: EU Applicants: €4,500, Non EU Applicants - please click here for course fee information.
MA in Contemporary Art Practice is committed to ensuring the cost of tuition does not discourage applications.
Applicants eligible for Ireland’s SUSI grant support must apply directly to SUSI.
What is the course about?
This MA offers artists the opportunity to undertake a deepening of individual research through a trans-disciplinary approach within a supportive and engaged peer environment. The complexity of the contemporary drives the ethos of the course, acting as a stimulus to generate new ways of thinking and being in the world.
This programme encourages material experimentation with critical theory enabling participants to reframe and position their research within performance studies, art history, ecology, feminist theory, queer theory, postcolonial/decolonial thought, and curatorial studies. Students are encouraged to develop critical, ambitious bodies of work that fully explore the challenges faced in responding to the multiplicity of contemporary culture and society.
Why do this course?
The MA in Contemporary Art Practice is an intensive and stimulating taught masters course. This research-intensive programme enables students to investigate, develop, and position their art practice in a supportive learning environment that incorporates rigorous studio investigation, critical discourse, and conceptual development. This MA offers: innovative approaches to learning, individual studio spaces, access to college workshops & facilities, professional experience through collaborative projects, peer-to-peer exchange, and a bespoke visitor lecture series. Students engage in seminars, tutorials and lectures to support the interconnectedness of research and practice and to strengthen their individual practice.
Semester 1 INVESTIGATION: The autumn semester opens the course with an intensive period of interaction and events, contextualising art practice within contemporary critical thinking through seminars, visiting lectures, and a study trip.
Semester 2 RESEARCH: The spring semester is defined by research. Having rehearsed research methodologies, this is a period to reflect on and consolidate practice through studio and text based work.
Semester 3 PRESENTATION: The final autumn/winter semester is defined by intensive studio development with a high level of critical input, which builds towards an exhibition of work. This exhibition is then the object of further learning opportunities, through a final period of critical reflection, characterised by writing, documentation, and working with audience groups.
Contact
Course Enquiries:
sarah.kelleher@mtu.ie
For further information: https://www.mtu.ie/courses/craartp9/