Are you operating in an artistic, scholarly, community or other public context?
What kind of architectural and spatial configuration are you working in?
What is the time frame, and what else may be happening at the same time? Will there be distractions to attention?
What social, cultural and political context are you operating in, and what is taken for granted?
What hierarchies are operational in the space and how are you positioned within them?
Do you need to perform the work or be in the space with it in order to provide context; or be removed from it so not to cloud it with too much information?