SELF - directed

Self-directed research essay = 1000-1500 words

The aim of this exercise is:

(1) to further articulate your practice and to discuss it within a broader cultural and historical context

(2) to identify and articulate a methodology

Abstract/ Intro/ Text/ Conclusion
(Note on mode of address: imagine you are writing for a reader who is known to you, a peer or colleague. What needs to be explained to them for them to understand what you do?)

Guidelines: The aim of this assignment is to use description of your work as a way of identifying and articulating your method. Describing first what and then how and why you make work often leads to discussions of the works context (what work is similar to the work you describe; what are the key ideas the work deals with) . The theoretical elements of the texts you write should therefore emerge from, and have a very clear connection with, the work you are making. For this experiment I am asking you to follow the method outlined above so that you can begin to reflect and write quite deeply about the work you are making. A second method you will find useful is to draw on annotations of texts you have read which have a particular relation to the work you make.