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Study Details: Two years (60 weeks) Extended full-time
The Performance programme at Central Saint Martins takes a radical, interdisciplinary, experimental, and frequently collaborative approach to performance-making. The work produced is political, decolonial, free-thinking, and inclusive. It encompasses live performance, moving image, critical theory, socially engaged practice, choreography, scenography, dramaturgy, performance writing, animation, and immersive technologies.
MA Performance: Screen offers an experimental, open, and discursive framework in which to explore the convergent mediums of performance and moving image via critical thinking and experimental studio practice. Students are encouraged to situate their work within the context of the wider social, racial, political, environmental and economic realities of contemporary visual culture and interrogate how images are encountered, produced, consumed and exchanged. The course provides a supportive environment where complex questions around justice, cultural diversity, care, sustainability and community are explored.
Specifically aimed at interdisciplinary moving image and performance makers, the course supports an expanding field of practice across performance art, artists’ moving image, expanded cinema, experimental film, participatory practice, documentary, community cinema, and post-internet art to encourage new approaches and methodologies of making, processes, and outcomes.
The course promotes the acquisition of practical production skills. These include single and multi-camera directing and dramaturgy, cinematography, lighting, choreography / blocking for camera, sound recording, editing and colour grading. The course is structured to simultaneously help students to develop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of relevant critical discourses including theories of performativity, mediation, and representation. Project outputs on the course might include single or multiscreen narrative works, site-specific installations, hybrid documentaries, experimental films, performance lectures, and online and immersive moving image projects.
We select applicants according to potential and current ability in the following areas:
MA Performance: Screen graduates are equipped with the practical and critical skills to thrive as independent artists, freelance filmmakers, or interdisciplinary practitioners across diverse creative contexts. The course encourages experimental approaches to filmmaking, lens-based performance and moving image, preparing you for a dynamic career in an evolving cultural landscape.
Whether working in industry settings, such as production companies and advertising agencies, or collaborating on independent documentaries, ground-breaking narrative films, or community-led initiatives, our graduates bring a unique perspective to diverse creative contexts. The innovative and interdisciplinary methods developed throughout the course empower them to question conventions, adapt to new challenges, and produce impactful work across a wide range of settings.
Central Saint Martins is a site of intense cultural production, generating critical practice which frequently crosses discipline boundaries and intersects with areas of image-making, society and politics.
Grounded on critical histories and debates around social, political and environmental contexts for performance and moving image practice, you will progress through a variety of technical and production processes based on the experience of independent and collaborative making. This will culminate in a final point of realisation which is supported by critical analysis and reflection.
Central Saint Martins, as a college community, seeks to prioritise the urgencies relating to: identities and equity, climate ecologies, and publics and commons. In particular, that our community of staff and students actively pursue change in their sphere of influence that will impact and improve social justice, climate sustainability and cultural democracy. These are reflected in research themes across the college and in the College’s programme of course development. The MA Performance: Screen course sits within this environment and is motivated by these themes.
The course is structured into six units. This complete learning arc offers intense moments of individual and group production and project work. The programme works with our Knowledge Exchange team to source opportunities for off-site collaboration. Optional units midway through the course support you in choosing where to place your emphasis.
The initial practice block grounds you in the technical and practical aspects of single-camera audio-visual production. It encourages an expansion of knowledge through collaborative experimentation with different ideas and processes relating to camera, body and space. This unit will provide opportunity to develop skills in camera operation and cinematography, sound recording, lighting for video, editing, colour grading and audio post-production via practical workshops and conceptual experimentation. Privileging the body, outcomes for this unit might include experiments in live art, video-streaming, dance films, performance lectures or other forms of expanded cinema.
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