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Royal College of Art MA Contemporary Art Practice
Royal College of Art

MA Contemporary Art Practice

London, United Kingdom

1 Years

English

Full time

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* visit the RCA website to find out about fees for this programme as well as scholarship and funding opportunities

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Introduction

To provide prospective students with opportunities to find out about the RCA experience and programs we run several on-campus and online open days as well as events in various countries around the world. You can find out about upcoming events or watch replays of past open days on the RCA website.

Contemporary Art Practice (CAP) at the Royal College of Art is a cutting-edge MA program in the School of Arts & Humanities that is driven by a post-medium, critical approach to the making and reception of art, where theory and practice come together to form new ways of responding to the contemporary world. The program supports the development of your art practice within a responsive, dialogical, and critical context with an emphasis on wider political issues – interrogating art production about urgent socio-political contexts as well as questioning and redefining practice.

CAP supports ambitious, exploratory, and research-driven artists, with program specialisms in critical, speculative, and social art practices, moving images, performance, writing, and techno aesthetics.

Our approach to Contemporary Art Practice is not determined by either technology or material, and CAP students create work using any media possible: from images, installations, and moving image works, to publications and sonic art, participatory events, 3D modeling and VR, writing, and performance. The program offers a flexible environment that supports collective and peer-led learning.

How will I learn?

The MA in Contemporary Art Practice offers a discursive environment in which to discuss contemporary issues for thinking about, making, and presenting contemporary art supported by individual tutorials, group critiques, lectures, seminars, and workshops that take place across the year. Units are tailored to nurture the development of your art practice from the earliest manifestations of ideas through to platforms for exhibition and making public, whilst also providing the skills required to be able to situate your practice within current dialogues and debates. Supported individual learning is complemented by generative workshops collaborative events and exhibitions, with critical feedback offered throughout the degree from world-leading contemporary artists, writers, and curators.

The MA in Contemporary Art Practice is premised on an understanding that artists, makers, writers, curators, critics, and historians today are concerned with the function, contribution, and work of the artist and art’s potential to reflect upon and intervene in the world. CAP research clusters, reading groups, collaborations, group crits, generative workshops, and seminars interconnect with one-to-one tutorials and technical support as well as the School and College-wide teaching units to create an innovative, dynamic, and responsive habitat for new approaches to thinking, making and exhibition of contemporary art practices.

Meet the RCA

We host a range of online and on-campus open days as well as recruitment events in cities around the world. These events can include 1-to-1 meetings and portfolio advice, informal chats, presentations, and sessions with staff, students, and alumni. Check the Check the RCA event webpage for details of upcoming events.

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