Critical Frameworks B engages with the range of fundamental principles and contemporary concerns informing art critical creative practices at an intermediate level. Lectures and tutorials will encourage you to discuss issues including aesthetics; the construction of meaning in art from semiotics to affect; material innovations; philosophical discourses affecting practice; contemporary understandings of site and place; and the multiplicity of art cultural history/s.

Discussions draw upon the many narratives that underpin the understanding of art creative practice today, including interrogating histories and conventions. Classes are not specific to media but draw upon a range of practices from discrete art objects and cultural artefacts to the ephemeral and the social.

You will use this course to situate your practice within appropriate contemporary theoretical frameworks and synthesise material histories that relate to creative practice. In lectures and tutorial classes you will be encouraged to critically reflect on ideas and make informed contributions to the theoretical discourses that arise.

Critical Frameworks B is usually co-delivered with Critical Frameworks A in the same semester and they share the same format and content. The content rotates each semester so that students can complete either Critical Frameworks A or Critical Frameworks B in alternate semesters.