Visual Language Brief and Context

Context



The brief is divided into two assignments, both of which explore collectors, collections, collecting and curatorship, and are brought together with the idea of you exhibiting your work. You can choose to look at a particular museum, gallery, collector or group of collectors. You may wish to consider a particular collection or collect something yourself. All that is required is that you consciously consider and analyse how a collection is made, represented and engaged with by audiences.
This brief will enable you to develop a professional level of technical competence and explore creatively your own visual language in the context of narrative, sequence and audience. Both assignments allow you to generate your own content. The brief will be delivered through lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials.
You should spend approximately 75% of your time on Assignment 1 and 25% of your time on Assignment 2



Brief

1) Book - generate content and produce a book (or multiple books), moving image, or multimedia outcome,
in response to the idea of ‘collecting, collectors and collections’.These books may be included in the end-of-semester exhibition (in addition to the work below) and some will be
selected for the University of Leeds International Book Fair.
2) Exhibition – produce two pieces of work for the Vis Com end-of-semester public exhibition.
Responding to the opportunity to exhibit publicly, you must submit two finished, self-contained pieces of work:
i)  a ‘postcard’ no larger than 15cm x 10cm
ii) a piece of work that can either be shown on a showreel or can be wall mounted
These should represent your ‘visual language’. This can be entirely new work or be a development from your ideas about ‘collecting’. The theme for these works and style of the exhibition may be developed and agreed as a group.
We are assessing your ability to study independently and manage your own workload; you may choose the mostappropriate way to organise each of the assignments. Your evaluation should reflect on your workload
management