Correspondence: New Research Group at RCA London

Beginning of ‘Correspondence’, a weekly research seminar convened by Blackshaw and Rebecca Fortnum at the Royal College of Art, London, which has been developed in order to explore creative research methods that facilitate innovative forms of art historical research. The group’s activities will explore ideas emerging from both the meanings of the word Correspondence (for example, how a researcher makes connections and equivalences with, and through, their subject), as well as notions of communication through ephemeral forms of writing. We will be thinking about what it means to be a ‘co-respondent’ and how connections or communication can often take huge leaps, straddling differences in period, genre and form.