“So did anyone watch or do anything interesting over the weekend?”
Alexia always introduces the Monday session with the above question. Sometimes when I’m late I always seem to catch the class into some deep conversation about some film or latest episode of some T.V show (Twin Peaks usually). Alexia’s experience with Floatation really intrigued as she described it as if she slept for 3 days! (Something that we all really need once in a while).
The rest of the tute involved questioning the purpose of curating in the contemporary world. Historically, curating was only exclusive to curators of Museum’s or art galleries for its audience. Nowadays, there are curators for mood board’s and flat lays on blogs that it becomes a personalised curating for themselves. Someone even mentioned that it becomes driven by consumerism and is self-representing. Many of the modern curators include Oprah, Gwyneth Paltrow and even Martha Stewart. The more I think about curating, the more I realise how much of my Facebook newsfeed and Instagram is all curated content based on the likes I give (mostly Broadsheet articles and upcoming events) or the people I follow and who they follow. To avoid this filtered and potentially biased content we’re consuming, it’s important to realise that we have to try and source information and content outside our echo chamber. Expand and keep your mind open!
Our exercise on Wednesday involved picking a random show from the top our head and pick a prompt from a ~magic~ hat. The show was Scrubs and the word was body. Immediately you would think of dead or alive bodies in a hospital but my mind on a Wednesday did something weird as always:
“Everybody is a fragment of J.D’s imagination: the bromance that occurs between him and Turk, his romance with Elliot and the many incidences between him and the janitor”
Patrick added an interesting take on it; that J.D is in a coma and all of these interactions are happening in his mind. Perhaps one of the best conspiracy theories?
After our little chat about interactions with celebrities (I don’t even remember how this conversation came up), we then moved onto what is the difference between an active and passive voice?
Active: It’s all about action; who is doing what to what?
Passive: States fact at times but only use with short sentences.
Alexia recommends that active voice is preferred when writing a review as it gets to the point and has a better flow to a piece of writing. As someone who struggles with simple sentence structure, I found that it put my writing into perspective and something I’ll be more conscious about on my next critical piece.