Blue sky and Wonder, a Landscape without horizon
(2024)
author(s): Yasmin Kök
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023
BA Fine Arts
Summary:
Death, ritual, religion, my cultural heritage, I guess I am trying to make sense of it. We share some same questions. We are not sure about the answers we provide. Via condensed nodes, I try to unravel my ‘truth'. As I can predict, this piece of research will make me less sure about myself, and my beliefs. But that is okay. I know these issues will stay uncertain throughout my life. But the topics keep coming back to me daily. Being confronted with many possibilities, and freedom of choice, as far as I believe choices are free, I take a dive.
To see death, the dead, from up close, to see someone disappear, fascinates me and at the same time frightens me. It is a bundle of stories. My own and an analysis of stories of others. I research many aspects of death, around death, that goes hand in hand with us.
Our existence. My spirituality. My body and mind. I and other, mother, father sister, brother. A goalless search without hierarchy or linear approach.
How to stay alive?
(2023)
author(s): Man Huen Christy Ma
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
This research exposition is part of my MA research in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research in Theater Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki and Goethe University. The other part is the artistic work “how are we still alive here? what about there?” consisting of a performance and exhibition which took place in Studio 1, Theater Academy in February 2023. The research is a response as well as an investigation on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on contemporary dance, how it affects my corporeality and my creative process in consideration to changes in spectatorship in the mediatized post-pandemic society. The literature review is an exploration of how different disciplines of knowledge intersect with my artistic practice, this exposition is best to be viewed along the artistic part for a better understanding.
Hugging Atmospheres
(2023)
author(s): Elena Mooibroek
published in: Research Catalogue
The main question around this research paper is how can we translate ambiances? This ungraspable ‘something’? What is our relationship with the atmosphere of spaces that brings out our emotional state? Can we characterize atmospheres by simply giving them names? Giving them a place for their selves to develop.
I researched six certain atmospheres, Masculinity, Sound, Death, Warmth, Lust, and Serenity. They are the ones that I went through most recently before writing this research paper. I wanted them to all come together and hopefully come across an answer on how they might be useful in day-to-day life as an artist in creating art, but also in general, can we understand each other better while talking about them? They are unseen yet as important as our imagination.
Hoping for a translation of the ungraspable ‘something’. Into moments of poetry and storytelling to get a grip on where they touch each other. Giving them a platform/to create a world where atmospheres/ambiances are more visible. To have conversations with them to create an understanding of what they mean. And how they would look like. Along the way I figured, one can not stand on one’s self, they are all in need of the other. Which seems like a reflection of our reality.
Ode to Black Earth
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Devrim Kadirbeyoglu
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Ode to Black Earth
This project explores humanity's deep relationship with the Earth, inspired by Asik Veysel's song "Black Earth." It invites reflection on themes of existence, portraying the Earth as a loyal companion that provides, heals, and witnesses our joys and struggles. It reveals a cyclical intimacy between our hardships and the Earth's resilience. It highlights the spiritual and material connection between humans and the land, culminating in a meditation on mortality and our return to the soil.
This short video captures moments from the performance by Devrim Kadirbeyoglu, presented on December 18, 2024, at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. The artist walks on stage wearing her grandmother's coat and hat, carrying a suitcase that belonged to her grandfather. These cherished heirlooms symbolize a connection to the past while resonating in the present. She places her brown leather suitcase on a table and opens it, inviting the audience to read a text aloud from their phones, tablets, or other devices in their chosen language. As they immerse themselves in words, they are invited to glance at the artist with phrases like 'look at the performer,' creating a shared moment of reflection. With care, the artist extracts personal belongings from her suitcase, each item telling a story, before returning them to their original home. As each viewer completes their reading, the artist closes the suitcase, lifts it with purpose, and walks away, leaving a lasting impression of connection and memory.
The performance is a study of the chapter "Death" from Sergio Blanco's Memento Mori. "All my autofictions were not written to show off but to search for myself. Each one was written from an "I" that sees in writing the possibility of meeting itself to reach out to others. In writing about the self, I find an opportunity to express myself, the chance to construct my story and to connect with others. I will never stop repeating this: I write about myself because I am alone and need to meet others. I write about myself in an attempt to understand both myself and others. I write about myself by projecting into imaginary situations in an effort to decipher the world."
Practices for the future / an Artogrphic approach
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Sebastian Ruiz Bartilson
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Task submission for course Dokumentation, reflektion och kritisk granskning / Documentation, Reflection and Critical Review
Application of Artographic methods towards own and/ or others dance practice.
Project "Practices for the future"
CLIMA: "the deviding of heaven an earth"
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano, Mark Douglas Edmund Price
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This expo begins with to voices. One dead one alive. Performing together. Through the Unknown...
This research exposition is part of my MA research in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research in Theater Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki and Goethe University. The other part is the artistic work “how are we still alive here? what about there?” consisting of a performance and exhibition which took place in Studio 1, Theater Academy in February 2023. The research is a response as well as an investigation on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on contemporary dance, how it affects my corporeality and my creative process in consideration to changes in spectatorship in the mediatized post-pandemic society. The literature review is an exploration of how different disciplines of knowledge intersect with my artistic practice, this exposition is best to be viewed along the artistic part for a better understanding.open exposition comments (0)
Task submission for course Dokumentation, reflektion och kritisk granskning / Documentation, Reflection and Critical Review Application of Artographic methods towards own and/ or others dance practice. Project "Practices for the future"open exposition comments (0)
This expo begins with to voices. One dead one alive. Performing together. Through the Unknown...open exposition comments (0)