Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen
Koninklijke Academie van Antwerpen
Autonomous practice 337398/3298/2425/1/57
Study guide

Autonomous practice 3

37398/3298/2425/1/57
Academic year 2024-25
Is found in:
  • Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts, programme stage 3
    Choice option within specialisation:
    • Sculpture within Fine Arts
  • Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts
    Choice option within specialisation:
    • Sculpture within Fine Arts
This is a single course unit.
Study load: 21 credits
Co-ordinator: Colson Vaast
Languages: Dutch
Scheduled for: Academic year
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Possible deadlines for learning account: 31.10.2024 ()
Re-sit exam: not possible.
Possibility of deliberation: You have to pass this course unit (will never be deliberated).
Total study time: 504,00 hours

Prerequisites

previously registered for Autonomous practice 2 OR previously registered for Studio Sculpture 2.

Prerequisite competencies (text)

The student is able to express concepts spatially in various materials and techniques in a personal way. He/she is familiar with a step-by-step design process. Design sketches, models, and studies of all kinds are part of this process. He/she is sensitive to elements from the reality surrounding him/her that have an artistic usefulness for him/her. The student is able to communicate his/her work to teachers and fellow students and can dissect and evaluate his/her work.

Through artistic research and reflection in the form of sketches, notes, models, literature but also through a deepening and analysis of source material, the student can arrive at his/her own artistic concept in the form of a personal question.

The student can carry out a thorough investigation into the various aspects of the medium of sculpture. Presentation, possibilities, material research and construction possibilities, color and form are part of this.

The student can research relevant references to frame their own artistic work.

The student can be critical of their own artistic work.

The student can enter into discussion with his/her teachers and fellow students about the content and form of his/her artistic project.

Learning outcomes (list)

BA1 - The student has the necessary artistic skills to design and/or realize a personal project within the broad spectrum of the visual arts under supervision.
The student can realise an art edition / portfolio / artist's book with a series of images.
The student communicates with audiences via visual language. (creation)
The student can translate a personal question in a plastic way.
BA2 - The student has the necessary knowledge, skills and insights regarding material, form, action, concepts, function and contents of the chosen medi
The student can translate a personal question in a plastic way.
BA3 - The student knows about and understands the social, cultural, artistic, historical and international context of the visual arts and artistic praxis, and continues to develop this knowledge and understanding.
The student can translate a personal question in a plastic way.
BA4 - The student develops and sharpens his/her critical and investigative attitude towards designs and/or realizations that arise from visual experiments and research, emotion and intuition.
The student has a critical attitude towards his own work. (research)
The student can translate a personal question in a plastic way.
BA5 - When developing his/her personal visual language the students starts from a searching and reflective attitude when developing one's own visual language.
The student can position himself within the broad field of formal, aesthetic, critical artistic positions.
The student is able to synthesize and integrate the various acquired skills and insights and put these to work in his practice.
The student can deepen his own visual language on the basis of his own research.
The student can reflect self-critical about his autonomous work.
The student has a critical attitude towards his own work. (research)
The student studies the different possibilities with regard to the presentation of his plastic work.
The student can analyze and evaluate his work, and make connections between his individual works.
The student can translate a personal question in a plastic way.
The student can communicate in writing and orally about three-dimensional images, using the appropriate jargon.
The student can enrich his knowledge and understanding of contemporary sculpture with a personal point of view and relate it to his own work.
The student has developed his own visual language.
BA6 - The student understands the characteristics of his/her personal designs and/or realizations and is able to communicate about this in an appropriate manner.
The student can formulate a specific and personal 'artist statement'.
The student can translate a personal question in a plastic way.
BA7 - The student is able to organize his/her artistic project in consultation with others.
The student can translate a personal question in a plastic way.

Course content

The student independently searches for their own artistic attitude and visual language with attention to material choice, material use, scale and the status of the materialized work.

The student is asked to place the work in various contexts: the context of a group exhibition with fellow students, the context of a studio visit in which the student receives fellow students in the studio, and the context of multiple evaluations.

During multiple evaluations and in the context of classroom studio visits, the student is asked to express him/herself in his/her own words. As well as to critically approach and position the work of others.

Educational organisation (list)

Learning Activities
Artistic praxis120,00 hours
  • Remark: - The student is individually supervised, assessed and evaluated in the studio. This means that participation in the lessons and in the studio are necessary.
    - The student participates in projects that are part of the curriculum: project weeks, exhibitions, study tours, lectures, and other projects relevant to the program.
Work time outside of contact hours384,00 hours

Evaluation (list)

Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
MomentForm%Remark
Eerste examenperiodeArtistic practical assessment100,00

Evaluation (text)

Continuous evaluation based on various presentation and control moments during the academic year, concluded with jury at the end of the academic year.