Well Happy New Year!

I have already tried to rewrite the opening to this new Blog, and I think my first?. I’m the kind of person that journals for a few days in a row then doesn’t bother for another 3 months and one notebook covers about five years of sporadic ramblings, awful grammar and hideous spelling!

So, with this first post I will share that alongside my lighting design projects and creative development. I am excited to say I am now an enrolled student at UAL: Central Saint Martin’s studying my Masters in Culture, Criticism and Curation.

I plan to use this space to document my reading, findings and opinions on the subject matter once a week, just to keep track of my journey over the course of this really exciting year.

Next week, the course begins. We’ve been advised that the next month of lectures will all be taking place online due to a new variant of the coronavirus being more transmittable and unsurprisingly post holidays there has been a surge in cases. However, this is not the space to document the virus, although I expect it will not be the last time that it will impact studies and daily life.

I have prepared for next week by reading the recommended Dust by Carolyn Steedman and working my way through Anna Green’s Cultural History. It’s been a process of adjusting my mindset into the academic style. I have found myself frustrated at the style of language used by academics, I have a wild idea of ‘decolonising’ academic language to make it accessible, I think this is something I would like to dive into more.

I have thought more about this since engaging with the source material presented to us in advance of Monday’s sessions. Maura Reilly’s talk in regard to her book Curatorial Activism and The Extractive Zone by Macarena Gómez-Barris have already given me food for thought ahead of the course beginning and I am so excited by it.

Love,

Franki