User:Ohjian/Project Proposal

Project Proposal

What do you want to make?

I want to make a printed publication that brings together two parts:

1. The project: An artistic exploration of the term Ghost Files
2. The thesis: An academic essay about the methods, procedures and structures used in the project
   
   

While the project will follow an experimental, practical and artistic approach, the thesis will investigate the methods, procedures and structures that are used in it. The main interest of the thesis is to communicate how those methods and structures enable and influence artistic investigation.
Combining these two approaches in one final publication addresses artists, researchers and educators alike: The artistic project will be accompanied by a theoretical contextualization that embeds it into the discourse of artistic research practices. The thesis vice versa will be enriched by the practical, visual and intimate perspective of the artistic project.
The entanglement of this twofold investigation will become apparent through numerous cross references between the two parts of the publication.

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In the following proposal I will mainly focus and elaborate on the project part of the publication.

Genreal idea for the project:
My project shall be an artistic investigation into Ghost Files, trying to delineate this ambivalent term that has no official meaning or definition. While the word Ghost may symbolize vagueness and immateriality, Files represent something concrete and tangible. This ambiguity of Ghost Files opens up a paradoxical terrain of (im)possibilities, oscillating between the no-more and the not yet, between nothing and everything at the same time.
I want to try and unpack this term in a series of experiments that I host for myself and others, focussing on different aspects of what it enfolds.

2. How do you plan to make it?

What is your timetable?

Why do you want to make it?

Who can help you and how?

Relation to previous practice

Relation to a larger context

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