Master of Education in Art & Design

Denise Coll

The extent to which creating a response to an artwork through performance, generates appreciation for performance art, in second level education

This research study was designed to examine the extent to which students gain an understanding of performance art through the making. The influence for this work stems from my background in performance art and socially engaged practice. As an artist and educator, my aim was to bring my skills in these art practices into the classroom and introduce performance art to Junior Cycle students and the wider school community. The research challenges the exclusion of performance art from the curriculum and looks at the methodologies that could potentially be used to conduct a project of this essence in school. The project was linked with TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway. In this, the students visited the festival and used their responses to the work as the basis to form a concept for their performance. The findings of this research show that students developed an understanding of performance art through the making of a collaborative performance piece. While the work was documented for evidence and assessment purposes, the research suggests that, students also gained valuable skills in film studies. This project has shown that there is space in the curriculum for students to engage with performance art. It has also shown that the skills learned within this practice are strongly linked with the eight key skills laid out in the Junior-Cycle framework. I hope Irish educators will embrace contemporary art practices by considering to introduce performance art into their curriculum.

denisecoll22@gmail.com

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We formally welcome you to IMPACT the Limerick School of Art & Design Graduate Show of 2020 featuring the work of final year LSAD Graduates from Animation & Motion Design, Creative Broadcast & Film Production, Ceramic Design, Creative Media and Design, Digital Animation Production, Fashion Design, Fashion & Textiles for Product & Costume, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design Communication, Music Technology & Production, Painting, Photography Film Video, Print Contemporary Practice, Sculpture & Combined Media and Professional Masters of Education in Art and Design with Digital Media.

In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Limerick School of Art and Design Graduate Show takes the form of this online showcase to celebrate the resilience, creativity and talent of our final year students. This is the 6^th edition of the LSAD Graduate Showcase and it is never more important. We wish to play a special tribute to Joe Lane, Programme Leader of Graphic Design Communication, who played a key role in the development of this platform back in 2015. This year, due to the COVID-19 crisis it has come into its own as the sole means of presentation of our graduates work and as an important archive of LSAD graduates over the last six years.

This years showcase features the work of LSAD Graduates across fifteen programmes, from our Limerick City Centre Campuses, Moylish Campus and Clonmel Campus. We are delighted to welcome our first graduates from Music Technology & Production and Creative Broadcast & Film Production on this platform.

The arrival of the pandemic has been a tremendous shock to our lives and the ways we interact with the world. We have all had to figure out new ways of being and doing in this ‘new normal’. It has been a tremendous challenge to our students and staff to adapt to these new circumstances. However we have been overwhelmed by the creativity and tenacity of our LSAD family of students and staff who adapted so quickly and dynamically to find ways to facilitate learning and to present work in digital forms.

We hope, that even through this situation was not in any ideal, it has forged the graduates of 2020 into a cohort of people that have adapted to adversity and succeeded.

If you are on this site as a graduate or a viewer we would like to thank all those who helped make it happen this year in challenging circumstances, our academics, technicians, administrators, students union, support staff and most importantly the 2020 graduates. Finally a huge congratulations to LSAD Student Union President, Sinead Nix and her team on their management of the Impact 2020 campaign, to Arlene Ellis and Olivia Barrett from Graphic Design Communication who proposed the Impact 2020 concept and to Pat Shortt and Simon Maguire, a big thank you for coming on board to launch our site with a cast of many.

May your creative IMPACT in our society represent our best future. #LSADFutureCreatives