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Unit 3: Art as knowledge
Quick questions on Stimulus, focus and the two concepts in QCE Visual Art Unit 3
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What is the stimulus?Show answer
Every inquiry begins with a teacher-directed stimulus: a concept, object, experience, site or provocation given to the class. The stimulus is deliberately broad so a whole class can branch from it. You do not invent the starting point; you transform it. The stimulus is the same for everyone, but what you make of it is yours.
What is the focus?Show answer
From the stimulus you develop one focus, the individual angle that makes the inquiry personal. The focus is narrower than the stimulus and broad enough to sustain a whole body of work. If the stimulus is threshold, your focus might be the threshold between sleep and waking, or the doorways of a demolished family home. The focus is singular by design: you carry one focus through the entire Year 12 sequence, which is what holds the body of work together.
What are the concepts?Show answer
The single focus then evolves across two concepts. A concept is a developed idea or direction within the focus, and the syllabus structures the body of work so the focus moves through two of them. The two concepts are not two separate projects; they are two stages of one evolving inquiry. The second concept typically extends, complicates or reframes the first, deepening the focus rather than abandoning it.
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