24-03-15

The focus of the todays Lectorial was threefold:

The first instalment was a talk about the way in which ideas, unless put into practice, are essentially useless and won’t grant you any sort of reality. It was presented by a man whose demeanour was reminiscent of the Rabbit in Alice In Wonderland.

The second phase of the Lectorial consisted of a collaborative exercise between the people either side of you developing an interchangeable story, penned to post-it notes. This exercise proved to be quite worthwhile as it not only granted me insight into the creative minds of my contemporaries, but also enabled the group to collect ideas and develop a (albeit simple) story.

Part III of the class was again a presentation by one of RMITs lecturers. This brief presentation centred around the idea of ‘editing’ as a practice, and the endless amounts of connotations that can be drawn by making an edit. The concept that I enjoyed the most from this part of the Lectorial was the idea that the images (scenes) that you choose to place on either side of the cut only act as half the reason you make an opinion…It is “the space between cuts, the collision of two images where meaning is formed”.

-donandsherri