Doing Time

Focus area: CERAMICS AND CLAY

This is a project-based module with a focus on time in relation to ceramics and clay. Engaging with process as form and reflecting on the lifespan of objects, we will use strategies of co-production, collaboration, and site-responsiveness to create artworks that are immersive, dialogue-based, and rooted in material realities. Together we will explore the relationship between time, site, and artist, looking to both historical and contemporary contexts and examples.

Module leader: Pauliina Pöllänen, Associate Professor ¿ Ceramics and Clay

This is a project-based module with a focus on time in relation to artistic processes, exploring one or several perspectives such as slow time, accelerated time, non-linear time, captured time, geological time, etc. Emphasis is placed on the possible timespans and time signatures of an artwork; the histories of its material components, the process of its fabrication in the hands of the artist, the rhythm of its circulation and dissemination, the politics of its absorption into a cultural context.

PRO modules are designed to enrich your artist development (as explored in the ART modules) through activating skills, connecting communities of practice, and investigating disciplinary territories. PRO modules allow you to focus on a specific project critically connected to your own practice within a context established by the module leader(s).

Knowledge

• Develop awareness of relevant references and practices

Skills

• Develop new skills in relation to time-oriented processes artworks
• Enhance and broaden your own skills and processes through the creation of a self-initiated project

General Competence

• Identify your own learning needs in relation to the subject area(s)
• Develop and present new work.