The Week Six Recap

Monday’s class saw us discussing the definition of a curator. We analysed how it has changed over time. It doesn’t solely refer to art gallery or museum curators anymore, now any individual can be a curator online using a blog, website or Instagram; much like the idea that everyone’s a critic. As a class we tried to outline the differences between a critic and a curator. In this task we unravelled the wide and jumbled web of a modern day curator like Gwyneth Paltrow and her lifestyle “instruction manual”, Goop. We asked ourselves is it a genuine collection of tips and tricks to achieve a healthy happy life or perhaps just a pretentious collection of products the average Jo or Joanne could never afford?

Alexia gave us two readings for the class to read out together, prompting more discussion that helped us nut out the confusing world of curation. The studio finished with an update on PB3 and what our coming weeks looked like.

On Wednesday we tackled a couple of writing exercises. Alexia asked us to think of a tv show, it could be anything we liked. This was daunting as we knew we would be writing on  it but had no idea in what context. I chose Sex in the city. We were then asked to choose from a basket full of pieces of paper with a single word written on them. we then had to use the word and our tv show and write whatever came to our head. Use both topics as prompts for each other and see where we ended up. I received Architecture. At first i was thrown off and started listing the obvious, then i got a bit more descriptive with my prose. When we went around the room and read out our topic and word it was fascinating to see all the different ideas and obscure topic people got onto using their imagination and by following a trial of thought.

We moved onto a grammar lesson. We discussed the difference between active and passive sentences, for example:

Somebody stole my laptop.

My laptop was stolen by somebody.

We identified the object (laptop), the verb (stole) and the subject (somebody). We can identify the first sentence as ACTIVE because the subject does the action to the object. This sentence is more clear and gets to the point quickly.

Another example is:

While Mr. Taylor was driving down Highway 101, he was pulled over and given a ticket by an officer. (PASSIVE)

 While Mr Taylor was driving down Highway 101, a police officer pulled him over, and gave him a ticket. (ACTIVE)

Heading into the second half of the semester, it’s extremely handy to have these sorts of grammar lessons as we are delving into our portfolios and final pieces.

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