I'd been hearing quite a lot of talk about these lectures by Dr Steven Gartside, and so was quite excited to get started on them having never really studied theory in depth like this before. Yesterday was our introduction to the lectures and I have to say, it's going to be a tough one! The lectures require complete concentration but also they encourage you to think. Thinking whilst trying to concentrate on what is being said at the same time just doesn't happen! For these lectures I need to train myself to concentrate without wandering off on thoughts about the lecture to be able to take it all in and understand it! Then think about it afterwards!
There are 7 of these lectures, one each over the next 7 weeks. They aim to focus on a range of theorists/writers in relation a particular theme. Before each lecture a piece of text is sent out for us to read and to help give the lectures a central focus on some core ideas. In the paper given to us on our first lecture it explains that " Further to this, it explores the possibility that strategies of thought are crucial in illuminating/analyzing/deconstructing the visual and experimental aspects of the things that surround us."
This weeks talk introduced us to the lectures from which the most I took away this week was that to truly understand a piece of text you must re-read it over and over. Bringing this into context, if throughout your life you have only read the books you have read once, how many of them have you truly read?!
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