This course offers a special focus on social sculpture, agents of change and ecological citizenship, connective practices and cultural creative action. Alongside exploring strategies of engagement, and the relationship between imagination and transformation, it makes special reference to the proposals, projects and legacy of Joseph Beuys. The course also explores the broader field of expanded art practices, examining theoretical and philosophical frameworks; exploring the relationship of social sculpture to ecological sustainability; and developing practice-based methodologies and strategies as the basis for your own practice-based, interdisciplinary social sculpture and expanded art projects.

It is one of four taught postgraduate courses for artists, composers and interdisciplinary practitioners currently offered by the School of Arts at Oxford Brookes University. The other three courses are:

• MA in Contemporary Arts

• MA in Contemporary Arts and Music

• MA in Social Sculpture

Why choose this course?

• The School of Arts offers a unified hub for the arts in the Richard Hamilton Building, with state-of-the-art technical facilities and 24-hour studio access.

• A special feature of all four interdisciplinary arts MA courses is the MA Forum, in which students and staff meet to discuss creative practice in a supportive and stimulating environment.

• Innovative cross-disciplinary and socially-engaged creative practices, including internationally renowned programmes in sonic art and social sculpture.

• A stimulating environment where creative practitioners and writers about the arts and culture work closely together to form specialist research units and interdisciplinary research clusters in areas including the Sonic Art. Popular Music, Opera and Social Sculpture.

• Research and teaching programmes linked to some of OxfordÕs leading cultural organisations such as Modern Art Oxford, Oxford Contemporary Music, and events such as the annual OXDOX International Documentary Film Festival.

• You have the opportunity to spend a semester at one of the following institutions: the Bauhaus University in Weimar; Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam; or the Vilnius Art Academy.

• The School of Arts has a thriving culture of practice-based PhD research students, linked to our specialist research units. Seventy per cent of these research students began on our MA courses.

• Opportunities for international study, with students recently visiting the United States, Europe and Australia.