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MA Performance: Society critically explores the conventional boundaries between art, performance, screen, theatre and activism. It recognises that you, the performance maker, can be an agent for change in relation to local places and challenges. The course examines how performance, and its methodologies can provoke debate, build community and make lasting change.
MA Performance: Society is aimed at students who are interested in participatory arts, socially engaged arts, applied theatre, site-specific, site-responsive performance, moving image, live arts, scenography and performance in the expanded field. CSM, as a College community, seeks to prioritise the urgencies relating to; identities and equity, climate ecologies, and publics and commons. The Performance: Society course recognises that its students will seek to contribute to collective efforts to address the urgencies faced by their community in a particular place as well as the global context.
Teaching and learning encompass the relationship between ideas, process and context. Taking into consideration their personal lens, students will create a learning environment where complex social, cultural and artistic viewpoints can be explored.
Whilst studying and practicing on the course, you will engage with a range of theoretical and practice-orientated approaches, political and ethical positions, and methods of performance-making in relation to contextual settings. Our focus is on student-centred learning, bringing your work to the critical scrutiny of the academic setting.
Students completing this postgraduate award will be able to:
We select applicants according to potential and current ability in the following areas as evidenced through the application and personal statement:
With the exception of intensive residencies running at key points of each academic year, this course is delivered online for the majority of the timetable. Consequently, applicants will need to have access to:
MA Performance: Society will equip you with advanced professional skills required to engage in radical, socially engaged, performance practice. It will encourage experimentation, risk-taking and critical reflection whilst supporting you to develop your own independent and sustainable practice as a maker. Through processes of making, reading and debating, you will gain a sophisticated knowledge of ethical, creative and inclusive ways of working with others.
The course will generate and deepen productive networks for your work and you will leave able to identify, construct and resource performance projects, that creatively initiate change within a wide range of interdisciplinary contexts. Whilst this programme facilitates professional development as an artist and performance-maker it also supports progression to PhD study, and is guided by staff with expertise in portfolio careers that move between academia and the creative industries.
The Postgraduate Performance Programme, as a whole, has wide-ranging links with professional organisations, collections and galleries associated with political and socially engaged performance practice. It offers opportunities for interaction and networking with outstanding practitioners across the spectrum of the creative sector such as participatory artists, activists, contemporary performance and moving image practitioners.
MA Performance: Society creates a space for you to challenge and shape your creative practice around contextual issues, social practice and political frameworks. It aims to engage with community and place, addressing how artistic practice can be an active agent of change.
The course intention is to promote and support the development of reflective, responsible creative encounters that have relevance to a place, a circumstance, and a moment. MA Performance: Society offers an environment where complex social, cultural and artistic viewpoints are explored through the lens of the individual and their context.
The course is simply structured to develop your curiosity and processes of enquiry from an initial understanding of context and contextual drivers for performance, through an analysis of process based on the experience of making (independently as well as with others) to a point of realisation supported by critical reflection. The course includes 20 credits that you select from three possible elective units. This element of the course specifically supports international learning mobility and exchange; offering students possibilities to engage with international opportunities and activities.
The first block of units explores context and develops learning through direct engagement with and research about the nature of place, identity, community and action.
The start of the course is focused on your community, and your personal lens looking at location and place as a field for active and creative research. It asks each individual to share personal perspectives and sense of the local in relation to physical, psychological and cultural spaces. The unit initiates the exchange of intra-local conversations and encourages practice and enquiry as a mode of research.
You will start to explore strategies for building and understanding community through both debate and initial approaches to making or processing content. The theme of the unit is how performance in action can generate and extend the experience of community. These early initiatives are supported by group debate and through the application of practical theories and approaches to engaged practice.
This unit considers and articulates the social and cultural context that you will respond to in Unit 3.
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