User:Ohjian/XPUB 2

YEAR 2

Graduation Project

Getting Started

Mappings

This is a first draft. I am trying to map my interests.

Mapping Keywords

This is an attempt to lay out all keywords that are present in and important for my past, current and future practice. I want to find out how all these things relate to each other, how they connect.

Mapping Related Resources

Here I am trying to map all related resources (texts, artworks, artist books etc.) that come to m mind while thinking with the keywords in the precious map.

Mapping Prototypes

In this map I collect visual sketches of my recent experiments, prototypes and projects that relate to the keywords map. They all have certain aspects I am curious about and that I want to explore further.

Project Proposal

Last update: 2022/11/02

1. What do you want to make?

My project shall be an investigation into Ghost Files and the question of „How does matter emerge?“ or „How can matter find its way into our shared existence and towards imaginary futures?“

The outcome of this investigation shall be a (printed) publication, that itself becomes a space where matter emerges: It remembers, archives, collects, arranges and curates matters of concern around the idea of Ghost Files. In a process of empirical becoming and researching it manifests itself in temporary visualizations, ready to be re-thought and re-formulated again.

2. How do you plan to make it?

The term Ghost Files, that has no official meaning or definition, will function as the entry point, the lens and the mode of operation for this research process. It delineates the liminal space of becoming, where Ghost stands for something vague and immaterial whereas 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 imagine this project to be an intimate attempt, creating a space for myself and others to explore this unknown terrain from within and to experiment with diffractive ways of thinking, reading, writing and making.

3. What is your timetable?

4. Why do you want to make it?

Through this deep dive into the abstract idea of Ghost Files and by asking „How do we imagine what is unformulated yet?“ I hope to reveal some troubling dynamics, structures and implications that are immanent in the production of matter but often concealed or overlooked:

How is matter created and who creates it?
Under what conditions and limitations?
Who decides what matters?
What are the implications of matter?


I hope that thinking, reading, writing and making with Ghost Files helps me to understand and potentially subvert, infiltrate, haunt and hack these conditions. For me this counter normative attempt is a gesture towards a more open, intersectional, distributed and experimental approach to my publishing practice.

5. Who can help you and how?

6. Relation to previous practice

My practice has always been situated in the realm of graphic design and printed matter, evolving around the question of structure: network, interconnection, multiperspectivity and non-hierarchy are just a few of the keywords that have been present throughout my work.

Looking at the production of matter in the context of print publishing, this practice could be roughly divided into three different roles or stages of a project:

a) Hosting: initiate a publication; provide a space, a topic, prompts; invite others to create material
b) Creating: produce textual or visual material to be published
c) Curating: select, organize, arrange the material; design the publication

Previous to XPUB I have mostly positioned myself either at the beginning or at the end of this process: As a workshop host I would initiate a project and provide a structure and space for students to create material. As a graphic designer I would organize, curate and design pre-existing material to form a publication from it.
With this project I want to explore a new role and start from the middle: Accompanied by the familiar processes of hosting and curating I now also want to create material for a publication. By integrating all three roles into my work I aim to trigger an iterative process towards a more entangled, less divided publishing practice where hosting, creating and curating shape and inspire each other.

7. Relation to a larger context

8. References/bibliography

Reading, Thinking, Writing, Making with Ghost Files

SUMMERSCHOOL 2022 – GHOST FILES

Ghost Files – Images

Ghost Files – Annotations

Ghost Files – Definitions

Ghost Files – Synthesizer

Public Moment: Leeszaal

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Ghost Files – Circuits

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  Ghost Circuit 01

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  Ghost Circuit 03

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  Ghost Circuit 04

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  Ghost Circuit 05

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  Ghost Circuit 01.1

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  Ghost Circuit 02.1

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  Ghost Circuit 03.1

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  Ghost Circuit 05.1

Collective Moment: M&M Session

Collective writing session

Diary of Unfinished Thoughts

MISC.

MISC.1

MISC.1.1