Limerick School of Art & Design is a constituent school of Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland.
Application deadline: May 1, 2012
Limerick School of Art & Design in the southwest of Ireland is now inviting applicants for its MA SPACE. This MA invites applicants from an art and design background AND related areas.
Currently in its second year MA SPACE is an international high-level MA, which focuses on Social Practice and the Creative Environment [SPACE]. This programme is tailored towards the development of a sustainable artistic praxis rather than training in certain media or genres. It recognises that the relationship between creative production and the contemporary structures of social production is one of opportunity. The theoretical and critical grounding supports a creative response for a multitude of possibilities in social practice.
MA SPACE is unique in that it is designed to fulfill student demand from art, design and related fields, nationally and internationally. This is a one-year full-time/two-year part-time taught MA programme. It is multidisciplinary in nature, and focuses on the growing area of social practice.
This innovative MA programme is distinctive in that;
– It is focused on Social Practice.
– It is delivered through theory and practice.
– It is open to practitioners of art and design.
– It is also open to experienced graduates outside of the art and design fields.
BACKGROUND
Founded in 1852 Limerick School of Art & Design is a constituent school of Limerick Institute of Technology and is one of the largest schools of art and design in Ireland. It has consistently maintained its prominence as a major provider of art and design education.
Limerick School of Art & Design continues to be driven by a fusion of modern and traditional didactic principles with active learning as a core activity.
MA SPACE – EXPECTATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
The MA in Social Practice and the Creative Environment builds on the Limerick School of Art & Design experience. It will educate you in roles within communities/situations/spaces, and ultimately, offers a deep level of authentic experience and situated learning within the context of the delivery and documentation of your self-chosen social practice project. You will have defined a community of interest as an integral part of your project and the programme encourages candidates to formulate and deliver a position arising from an engagement within it.
The programme is delivered by both Limerick School of Art & Design staff and a varied range of national and international visiting lecturer specialists through an exciting mix of active learning, field research and engagement in the wider world. Ongoing learning opportunities are also provided within off campus research projects focusing on the concept of the city as a socially engaged laboratory. Within each project the intention is that the audience continues to be the rationale in both the making and reception of the work. A reflection of this by the first group of postgraduates has generated an exciting variety of positions and interventions ranging from online projects, bi-located works in Egypt and France as well as creative ‘re-imagining’ of subjects locally.
Visiting lecturers have included;
Claudia Eipeldauer from the Austrian collective WochenKlausur.
Anab Jain from the UK and India based design group Superflux. Suzanne Bosch (artist), University of Ulster.
BikVanderpol (artists), Netherlands.
Paul Sullivan (architect, artist, curator) UK.
Our current external moderator is Sean Miller from the University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida USA.
APPLICATIONS
All candidates must fill out an application form.
Application forms and information sheets are available from www.lit.ie/courses/MASPACE or by contacting [email protected].
Applications should be e-mailed or posted to arrive by 5pm on the 1 May 2012
