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).
Trans*Writing Immanence and Transformation Towards a Political, Ethical and Aesthetical Theory of Writing as Artistic Research
(last edited: 2017)
author(s): Elisabeth Schäfer
connected to: University of Applied Arts Vienna
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
How can writing as an entangling practice of “artistic research” contribute to an understanding of these processes?
Can the figure of “Trans” as prefix (see method and title of the project: “Trans*Writing”), which is addressing the movement of crossing, be promoted as new thinking pattern for a writing that has the immanent tendency to exceed meanings, bodies, subjects, settings, knowledge, lives, spaces etc.?
