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MA Art & Politics

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    MA 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Course Description

Working from a materially diverse basis, this programme engages with a range of empirical, aesthetic, conceptual and material issues that traverse and exceed both ‘art’ and ‘politics’ to speak with our current contemporaneity.

Why study MA Art & Politics at Goldsmiths?

  • Explore practices and issues related to our current contemporaneity in terms of public space, democracy, equality, participation, states of exception, collectivity, performance and justice.
  • Examine a range of material practices and strategies which, in the encounter between art and politics, play out in numerous forms and very different kinds of social spaces.
  • Develop frameworks and spaces that are mixed and mobile, and which can operate in trans-disciplinary settings. You’ll join students from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, meaning that the political character of both theory and material practice take on renewed vigour and urgency.
  • Investigate the potential of art, material practice and trans-disciplinarity in times of political and cultural crisis. You will have the opportunity to interrogate the relationship between material practices and theoretical work, to work within constraints but also within the interstices of artistic, cultural, social and political practices.
  • Choose from a range of option modules that encourage you to work across areas of particular interest to you including practice-based Individual and Group project work, the politics of space, gender politics and human rights.

Entry Requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject.

You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

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Programme Funding

Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.

Student Destinations

Our graduates come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and embark on highly contrasting career paths. These include careers in curating (both independent and embedded); art practice (both collaborative and individual); journalism (radio, web and print journalism); performing arts; central and local government; work with NGOs (national and international); research (academic and professional); project development, administration and management. Some of our graduates undertake further professional training in law; journalism; education and social work.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Art and Politics 1: Theory History Event 30 credits
  • MA Art & Politics Dissertation 60 credits

You will also take a compulsory practice-based module from a pool of options including the following, totalling either 15 or 30 credits.

Practice-based modules

  • Counter-Mapping: The Politics of Space 30 credits
  • Designing politics (group project) 30 credits
  • Material encounters (Individual project) 15 credits

Option modules

Students make up their remaining 90 Credits from the following list of options:

  • Comparative Political Thought 15 credits
  • Material encounters (Individual project) 15 credits
  • Islam, Revolution, and Empire 15 credits
  • Counter-Mapping: The Politics of Space 30 credits
  • Art, War, Terror 15 Credits
  • Memory and Justice in Post-Conflict Societies 30 credits
  • Decolonising Knowledge: Debates in Human Science 15 credits
  • Global Capitalism: Theory and History 30 credits
  • The United States in the World Economy 15 credits
  • Politics of Human Rights 15 credits
  • Psychopolitics 15 credits
  • Theories of International Relations 30 credits
  • The Political Economy of the Anthropocene 30 credits
  • Finance and Power 15 credits
  • Experts and Economies 15 credits
  • Islam, Revolution, and Empire 15 credits

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