This is the third TAKEOVER exhibition. The students exhibiting are 2nd and 3rd year Creative Arts and Fine Art students taking the Interdisciplinary Practice 2 and 3 core modules.

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I am very pleased and proud to be leading the Creative Arts degree scheme, now in its fourth year. Beginning as a work in progress, it is now a firmly established degree scheme within the Institute of Arts and Humanities portfolio. The students select from a wide range of modules from across the institute to develop individually tailored pathways through Fine Art, Creative Writing, Film & TV, and Theatre, Performance & Scenography. The suite of core modules guide and support the students through a rigorous process of self-reflection, experimentation, and research towards self-led interdisciplinary projects which draw from the expertise and skills that they have gained through their selected modules, culminating in a final, site-specific intervention project which directly or subtly intervenes with the architecture, culture, and creative programme offered by the Arts Centre.

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At the beginning of semester 2, students were asked to identify an aspect of the Arts Centre that particularly interested them. Through a series of workshops and discussions, the students were led more deeply into an understanding and appreciation of the structure, function, and culture of the 'site', enabling them to explore and reveal qualities of the Centre in pursuit of unique expressions of their findings.

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the TAKEOVER 2018

I hope you will agree that the seventeen site-specific interdisciplinary interventions in this year's TAKEOVER are exciting, challenging, and original responses, interpretations, and revelations to a publicly engaged platform which is central to the Aberystwyth community.

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I would like to express my thanks to the Arts Centre staff for accommodating and supporting this project, to all the IAH lecturers who have taught these students through their various modules, to the 3rd year curatorial team for all their ideas, passion, enthusiasm, and hard work in helping to bring this exhibition to its realisation, and of course to the students for their inspired and insightful projects.

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Miranda Whall

Co-ordinator of the Creative Arts Degree Scheme