Jess's What am I doing?

Word count 1500 max.

1 What are you working on now? What are you thinking of making? I am continuing to write and read for my PhD Sex Lies and Videotape. I am simultaneously opening up the box of the stuff that happened in South Africa for the White Horse.

2 How do you plan to make it? With my hands. I have been experimenting with a different (for my practice - not revolutionary for art practice) way of unpacking ideas though objects rather than though research.

3 Why do you want to make it? I want to understand what the White Horse project is and how/if it will continue to grow as a constellation of work.

4 Who can help you and how?

5 Relation to previous practice 6 Relation to a larger context 7 References

What are you working on now? What are you thinking of making?

How do you plan to make it? Describe how you will go about conducting your research through reading, writing and practice. In other words, through a combination of these approaches, you will explore questions or interests you have laid out in your general introduction. In this section you can help us understand how your project will come together on a practical level and talk about possible outcome(s). Of course, the outcome(s) may change as your research evolves, but it's important to have some idea of how your project might come together as a whole.

Why do you want to make it?[edit] Who can help you and how?[edit] Relation to previous practice[edit] How does your research connect to previous projects you have done? Here you can use the descriptions you made in the first session or make new descriptions

Relation to a larger context[edit] Meaning practices or ideas that go beyond the scope of your personal work. Write briefly about other projects or theoretical material which share an affinity with your project. For example, if you are researching urban interventions, you might want to research about Situationist approaches to psychogeography, urban tactical media and activist strategies of reclaiming the streets. Or, if you want to explore the way data is tracked, you might touch upon the politics of data mining by referencing concerns laid out by the Electronic Frontier or highlight theoretical questions raised by Wendy Chun or others. (Keep in mind that we are *not* expecting well formulated conclusions or persuasive arguments in the proposal phase. At this juncture, it's simply about showing an awareness of a broader context, which you will later build upon as your research progresses.)

References[edit] A list of references (Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias and wikipedia are not references to be listed. These are starting points which should lead to more substantial texts and practices.) As with your previous essays, the references need to be formatted according to the Harvard method.) See: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/A_Guide_to_Essay_Writing#The_Harvard_System_of_referencing

Feel free to include any visual material to substantiate, illustrate or elucidate your proposal. For example use images to reference your work or that of others.