An ongoing series of group critiques provide a forum for participants to reflect together on each others’ work and analyze practice.

The presenting participant sets the agenda for his or her group critique. S/he prepares a presentation of work (in progress), and a written statement, evaluating the artistic decisions that informed their work, and identifying questions, issues or concerns in relation to their work for joint discussion.

By preparing for your group critique, you will develop appropriate ways of presenting and framing work and ideas in progress to peers. You will learn to identify artistic questions, ideas and themes relevant to your work, and to articulate them in writing. Listening to your peers discussing your work, in relation to your stated artistic questions and intentions, will provide an opportunity to test and reflect on the readings your work generates.

By engaging in discussions of the work of others, you will also develop a critical vocabulary and tools to analyse and interrogate work. Discussing the work of peers against their stated intentions and questions is an exercise in reading art works, thinking out loud, and speculating on different perspectives, approaches and solutions.

Group critiques take place every three to four weeks. Each participant presents his or her work for a group discussion twice per year. The discussions are supported and moderated by a tutor and a fellow-participant.

Since the group critiques are the main forum for participants to test and discuss their work with each other, they are continued throughout the two years of study. This also allows first and second year students to have group critiques together. The critiques will take up ca 7% of your time throughout your studies.