MA Degree Programmes
The department offers a variety of innovative degree programmes at MA level.
MA in Contemporary Art Theory
The MA explores the relationships between modern and contemporary artistic practice and theoretical interpretation. This interdisciplinary field of enquiry incorporates perspectives from art history, performance studies, critical theory, phenomenology and cultural studies. The taught part of the degree offers you a heterogeneous critical and theoretical framework within which to focus and develop your own understanding of contemporary art practice and its wider cultural significance, thus enabling you to prepare the area of research for your final dissertation. For further information, please see MA in Contemporary Art Theory.
MA in Aural and Visual Cultures
This challenging new programme examines how different types of attention to music, phonography, broadcasting, the voice, telephony and noise have radically changed our understandings of visual and spatial cultures. This study is set within the broader context of Visual Culture, and the programme provides a preparation for higher research in this area. For further information, please see MA in Aural and Visual Cultures.
MA in Research Architecture
Can spatial practice become a form of research? Might the notion of architecture be expanded to engage with questions of culture, politics, conflict and human rights? This new and innovative MA programme is for suitably qualified graduates from a range of disciplines wishing to pursue studio-based spatial research within a theoretical context. For further information see MA in Research Architecture or the Centre for Research Architecture website.
MA in Global Arts
Designed for students who are interested in critical approaches to the impact of globalization, migration and international circulation of Visual Culture. This includes an understanding of how art exhibitions respond to issues of globalization, how activism and critical practices intervene through the arts and their institutions, and how post-colonial experience and theory have moved from geographical margins to cultural centers. Our arena of study is positioned on the one hand, in the aftermath of anti-colonial struggles for liberation and of their concurrent processes of self constitution. On the other it considers the demands of the market to produce cultural references that signify clearly across the globe. In dialogue with these tensions, this programme begins the work of mapping out how, in the twenty-first century, creative practices are constituting new realities within globalization. For further information please see MA in Global Arts
