Starting the Memory Lane

A Mem­o­ry Lane to Ana­lyze the Phys­i­cal­i­ty I have cho­sen for this blog that tells about my prepa­ra­tions. The prepa­ra­tions are for the Stock­holm Uni­ver­si­ty of the Arts Project I will present in more detail here. In this blog I will be work­ing through an intro­spec­tive jour­ney. I fig­ure out my cur­rent sit­u­a­tion and what I still have to do before the start of the journey.

This is the blog post, or an arti­cle, pre­sent­ing the blog itself. I make sure things become clear­er as I go on and update you about them through this blog. I’ll work through any ques­tions I still have to clar­i­fy. This helps me delve deep­er and recheck any sources I have stum­bled upon. This is a per­son­al check-in with myself.

In this arti­cle, I’ll answer to four ques­tions. Why I have cho­sen this name? What is this blog about? What kind of con­tent am I pre­sent­ing? How is my process with the blog and research prepa­ra­tions in practice?

Why name The Memory Lane?

For me, the word ‘Mem­o­ry Lane’ includes a notion of unre­li­a­bil­i­ty. It is sim­ply some­thing I remember.

Some­times there will be links and ref­er­ences to check my sources. Oth­er times I will just let you know what I remem­ber from some­where. The mem­o­ry might be from a pri­vate dis­cus­sion, some spe­cif­ic les­son or just some show­er-thought I had.

I try my best to be trans­par­ent where the infor­ma­tion comes from. I do remem­ber wrong, which will cre­ate inac­cu­ra­cies to what I will write about. Don’t trust this to be on a lev­el of an aca­d­e­m­ic text. It is just a warm-up for my jour­ney. I want to present it open­ly so that oth­ers may follow. 

The pur­pose of this blog is to let me recheck my source mate­r­i­al. It is part of the prepa­ra­tions for the research. It will help me gath­er every­thing here in one place. There will be inac­cu­ra­cies, mis­re­mem­brance and such. The plan is to recheck my mate­ri­als before I write cre­ate offi­cial­ly about them.

Treat this blog as my per­son­al notes. Treat it as some­thing I will use as a frame of ref­er­ence dur­ing the research itself. 

What is A Memory Lane to Analyze the Physicality about?

The Mem­o­ry Lane blog is an intro­spec­tive jour­ney. The pur­pose of it is to pre­pare myself to the degree project at Stock­holm Uni­ver­si­ty of the Arts. The cur­rent work­ing title of the project is Ana­lyz­ing the Phys­i­cal­i­ty in the Per­form­ing Arts Process­es, and you can find more infor­ma­tion about it here: https://www.juuso-matias.fi/uniarts-project/. The project will nat­u­ral­ly devel­op dur­ing the next two-and-a-half years. I haven’t even start­ed the stud­ies yet! I have applied for some fund­ing for the project and have for­mu­lat­ed this page for that pur­pose — and for future co-researchers to read. 

I will go through all the things I have writ­ten in my cur­rent research plan. Then I will work through it step by step, to make sure I have cov­ered every­thing to rea­son­able degree. Some things will come up dur­ing the process. Oth­er things will change dur­ing it. That is all fine. The whole pur­pose of this blog is to make sure I have a strong plan to fol­low when I actu­al­ly start the research.

Memory Lane Recap

A Mem­o­ry Lane to the Phys­i­cal­i­ty tells a sto­ry about my prepa­ra­tions for the jour­ney with­in Stock­holm Uni­ver­si­ty of the Arts Pro­gramme. I will be writ­ing it as I pre­pare for the project in order to keep things prac­ti­cal. Project starts in 2024.

A Mem­o­ry Lane is an intro­spec­tive blog, inac­cu­rate and rough, but thrives to add trans­paren­cy and com­mu­ni­ca­tion to my process. That is why I will be look­ing for­ward to hear­ing any com­ments or obser­va­tions that you might have.

Thank you for join­ing this jour­ney with me. Look­ing for­ward to con­tin­u­ing it with you!