Artistic Practice York St John University

Overview

Here is your opportunity to rigorously explore, trial, test, and share, through research, practice, and creativity. As part of your course, you will study in our newly refurbished Design Centre. Explore its innovative facilities and learning spaces in our flythrough video.

This research degree has been developed for the furtherment of artistic research and professional development of artists from a variety of disciplines. These include:

• Performance (acting and theatre)
• Music (composition/production)
• Media Production (film making and intermedial performance)
• Visual performance (installation)

On this Artistic Practice course at York St John University, you will embark on extensive research into your chosen topic that suits the course overview’s disciplines. Your developing research will be informed by varied research methodologies, cutting-edge principles, theories, and critical analysis. Your research will focus on your chosen topic in relation to ethics, ethnography and autoethnography, aligned with the scope of artistic research.

Your practice, artistic mode, and personal creative journey will allow you to shape your degree. As a researcher, you will develop essential aspects of critical and creative inquiry, to provoke thought and enthuse your reflective capabilities, within a contextual critical awareness. The course will provide you with the essential knowledges of artistic research methodologies, and understanding and awareness of recent artistic research literature, practices and bodies of artistic work.

The course is designed for you to develop theoretical, methodological, ethical, interrogative, practical, creative and reflective approaches to building your artistic practice. Research techniques will be informed by creative processes which offer findings within and through both the artistic dissemination, in a range of domains, and in writing.