Can I use words to build a house?
(2025)
author(s): Yanbing Wu
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022
BA Fine Arts
I started from my father’s dream - his future house. From a dialogue with him, dives me into memories and shapes a poetic space through the idea of Bachelard’s 'The Poetics of Space'. The house becomes the imagery in which the memories stay that we can enter in and touch it, to interact with the house that belongs to us, or never belongs to us.
Through the ‘experience of imagination’, the house exists not only to provide a space for perception and memory to meet but also to bring ‘awareness’ to the ‘back of self’. When the imagination circulation begins to drift away, a space is needed to enclose it. By encounters with the theories, literature, films, artists and artworks mentioned in the text, it is like walking through a forking path where you learn that yourself can be a way of knowing others.
Exploring Utopian Worlds
(2025)
author(s): Helmi Nieminen
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022
Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE)
This thesis is nonlinear, fluidly organized and freely associative because that’s how I think and work. I have learned to embrace this way of working and thinking through the writer and philosopher Helene Cixous. Helene Cixous argues that we need new languages and so she has proposed what she calls Écriture féminine (feminine writing). Feminine writing resists patriarchal and binary modes of thinking which usually require correct methods of organization and rationalist rules of logic. This logic relies on narrow cognitive experience and discredits emotional and intuitive experiences. According to Cixous feminine writing also resists linear reasoning. I have created my own way of constructing a thesis. I have established my own rules and logic and allowed myself to be intuitive. The order of this thesis might be a bit unconventional. There is no beginning, middle and end (conclusion).
Ethics of joy: the disruptive immanent in art thinking and art making
(2025)
author(s): Clara Pallí Monguilod
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022
MA Artistic Research
Ethics of Joy: the Disruptive Immanent in Art Thinking and Art Making, I explore the ‘image’ as a form of resistance and the experience of joy that emanates from questioning (through images) dominant modes of representation. Specifically, I look for ways to propose new modes of possibility within current capitalist approaches, by studying the workings of a series of painAngs from the seventeenth century. I look for strategies of resistance at a time when early capitalism started configuring visual representations of ‘progress’. Such strategies could be used today to subvert ongoing representations of ‘future’ and the transcendental beliefs that might still be implicit in them, in order to shape our own paths.
Earth bound: spatial exploration of ancient construction methods and their value for the present and future design of the human habitat in Western society
(2025)
author(s): Eda Karabocek
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022
Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE)
Meditating Through the Brass Instrument
(2025)
author(s): Eglė Liutkauskaitė
published in: KC Research Portal
This study examines the relationship between meditation and brass players' ability to cope with music-related mental challenges, as well as its effect on breathing. The results highlight that meditation could be beneficial for brass musicians, even though there were initial concerns that meditation might interfere with breathing during playing. The findings show that brass musicians might have additional tools for dealing with mental challenges without compromising their airflow and breath support. Future research could further explore brass-playing-specific meditations and tailor them to greater effectiveness.
An experiment was conducted with two groups of conservatory brass players (experimental and control) to assess whether music-specific and general guided mindfulness meditations affect their ability to deal with music related mental challenges (MPA, negative self-perception and focus issues) and how they in particular affect participants’ breathing. The findings indicate that both types of meditation affect students’ abilities to deal with mental challenges in a positive way while mostly having either positive or no effect on their breathing and sound. The participants’ progress was assessed by using the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, the Mindfulness for Musicians Questionnaire, weekly forms evaluating MPA, negative self-perception and focus in different settings such as daily practice sessions, main subject lessons and performances as well as interviews. Furthermore, the Self-Experimentation Log suggests that aside from aforementioned benefits, one of the most visible short-term effects is enhanced focus that has been observed during practice sessions right after meditating.
Immersive Music: Mixing and Recording Strategies for Theatrical and Home Film Reproduction
(2025)
author(s): Mikko Raita
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
Mikko Raita 2025
Master's Thesis, Demonstration of Proficiency
Master of Music in Music Technology
Music Technology Department
Sibelius Academy
University of the Arts Helsinki
