It challenges you to reach beyond received notions of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture to connect your project and on-going experiments to a body of references across textual and audio-visual sources as much as researched and witnessed visual, material, spatial and socio-cultural phenomena. These can variably address different aspects of your practice, including subject matter, formal strategies, as well as material and social processes. Students accepted onto the programme will already have outlined their key interests in their project proposal. It is from this starting point that you will be supported in developing your project through various teaching modes, including tutorials, seminar presentations, research skills training, workshops, mentoring and masterclasses with relevant professionals, which continue across the three terms of the programme. Those benefiting include Leigh Spinners Mill in Wigan, whose grant of £126,000 will help refurbish the fifth floor, repair the roof and engine house, and create a heritage store … Read More
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