The School Of Critical Arts

10/07/2022

The SCA Studio Crit Program is a coordinated series of group studio critiques for artists working in the field of Contemporary Art. Participants present works in progress for critical feedback from the cohort, with the aim of aiding the material and conceptual development of their artistic projects, exchanging ideas, and fostering discussion.

Participation in the SCA Studio Crit Program is by application, with up to eight positions available. Over eight sessions, each participant will individually present their work to the group for discussion. It is imperative that all participants attend all sessions. Sessions will take place in the studio of the presenting participant, and where this is not possible alternative arrangements will be made.

Please note that the program is not open to currently enrolled students, and privileges artists that have an undergraduate degree or qualification in art or higher. The program is coordinated by artist David Attwood.

To apply for the SCA Studio Crit Program, please submit a CV and a PDF portfolio or link to artist website to [email protected] by 6pm August 7, 2022.

If accepted, we will send you a link to enrol. We ask you to pay what you can—$250, $100, or $0. There is no cap on the number of free enrolments of the 8 positions available.

https://criticalarts.org.au/Studio-Crit-Program

23/05/2022

New courses for the upcoming months. Check out our website for more information, including payment options

https://criticalarts.org.au/Courses

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17/05/2022

Course: "Critical Reading".
Presented By: Keegan Martens

https://criticalarts.org.au/Critical-Reading

This course provides solid introductions to critical reasoning and the interpretation of literary and scientific texts. Each week students will learn new techniques for critically engaging with texts and will be encouraged to practice these techniques in a group setting. The emphasis will be on explaining and justifying interpretations and critiques to others, rather than coming to a canonically “correct” perspective.

The course is split into three parts of three weeks each, with a final week bringing together and reflecting on what has been covered in the first nine.

Topics

Block I: Arguments
1. Introduction to arguments
2. Analysing arguments
3. Assessing arguments
Block II: Literary Theory and Hermeneutics
4. Introduction to literary theory
5. Critical theory
6. Hermeneutics
Block III: Scientific Writing
7. Reading scientific papers and textbooks
8. Method and methodology
9. Interpreting statistics and probability
Final week (10): Theory and metaphor

Please see our website for more information, including payment options.

16/05/2022

Big thanks to Perth Indymedia and RTR for having us this morning! Click the link below to listen 👨‍🎓

We speak to Kyle Gleadell from the School Of Critical Arts about the school, their upcoming courses and the need for alternatives to the increasingly neoliberal university system. http://www.critical

15/05/2022

Re-Storying Precedent: Indigenous Legal Narratives

Janelle Koh

Fremantle Library, Walyalup Civic Centre
Seminar
Saturday June 4, 10am–4pm

Law may be thought of as made up of the stories that we tell about the law, and the stories the law tells about itself. This course will constitute a critical retelling of the legal story of precedent, in the context of law and Indigenous peoples. Precedent is a story of law’s authority, of how it is established and maintained, both generally and in particular cases. This course will consider both official and unofficial narratives of precedent, including Indigenous legal narratives, and query the impacts of stories told and untold upon the past and the future of the common law.

We will look at Ronald Dworkin’s “chain novel” theory, which has been highly influential in conceiving of our modern-day understanding of legal precedent, as well as the landmark decision of Mabo v Queensland (No 2) in considering how official (and settler) narratives of precedent can impose real and painful limits upon the lives of Indigenous peoples. We will also query the possibilities of settler law in acknowledging the lived experiences of Indigenous peoples, and consider the work of Canadian Indigenous legal scholar John Borrows, to ask what role Indigenous legal narratives might have in shaping the imaginary/future of the common law.

https://criticalarts.org.au/Re-Storying-Precedent

09/05/2022

02/05/2022

Perun Bonser is a Ngarlama writer/director based in Boorloo. Bonser has written and directed several short …

18/04/2022

Check out our website for more info on this exciting new course! Lot more stuff coming up too!

https://criticalarts.org.au

26/02/2022

See our website for more info!

The City of Fremantle has partnered with The School Of Critical Arts to host their classes and seminars throughout the year right out of our very own Fremantle Library. The SCA will have courses for every artistic interest; from philosophy, to literature, to practical arts, law history and politics—with some courses running up to 10 weeks. The first course of the year begins March 6. This course, presented by Associate Professor Ľubica Učník, offers an introduction to existentialist philosophy with courses running on Sundays 1–3.30pm. To enroll, or check out the other courses running, head to criticalarts.org.au/Courses 🎨

06/02/2022

This course involves weekly readings from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky alongside optional secondary readings. Classes will consist of a lecture followed by open discussion concerning the sections from the weekly assigned readings. The particular focus of the course is Dostoevsky’s treatment of the increasing role of material sciences in political thinking and its effect on ethics and our understanding of what it means to be human.

Secondary readings will situate Dostoevsky within the context of nineteenth-century Russia and the broader development of European thought since the French revolution. This was a century in which the application of science was seen by Russian radicals to offer an efficient political alternative to Russia’s absolute monarchy. We will explore the ways in which the introduction of the sciences into politics and other fields changes our understanding and relationship to other human beings. Throughout this course, The Brothers Karamazov will be discussed alongside representative texts from various “sciences” (e.g. physiology, psychology, sociology, Marxism). These texts will help familiarise students with the ideas and thinkers that Dostoevsky explicitly or implicitly grapples with, as well as some of the secondary commentary on Dostoevsky.

Geoffrey Power-King
Fremantle Library, Walyalup Civic Centre
10-week course
Tuesdays, 5pm–7pm
April 19–June 21, 2022

To enrol, visit our website, where you can find out more about our other upcoming courses

criticalarts.org.au