Vessels of Home: A Search for Belonging
(2025)
author(s): Naomi Arabel Moonlion
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023 - BA Photography
'Vessels of Home' is a 'Search for Belonging.' As more and more people feel disconnected from the world around them, finding belonging is no longer only a question of physical place, but of creating moments in an imaginative space. These moments of belonging are short-lived, they are hard to grasp and contain in our ever individualizing world. Yet, I believe they can be found and nurtured through conscious acts and rituals.
Rowan Moonlion proposes various ways to cultivate moments of belonging, through stories contained in the vessels of Fire, Earth, Water and Air (Le Guin 2020). Firstly, in Fire, regarding human interactions: rejecting patriarchal and capitalist notions of group thinking, by letting go of identity definitions based on difference. Secondly, in Earth, considering nature: returning to our connection to the land, to understand the unifying power of interbeing. Thirdly, in Water, looking within our bodies: searching for sensorial experiences of belonging by making our bodies our homes. Finally, in Air, gazing in our minds and memories, imagining new worlds, holding stories together with our ancestors.
Witchcraft and Earth honoring rituals are used as a framework to explain and exemplify the four proposed layers. 'Vessels of Home' combines academic research grounded in queer and feminist theory, conversations with witches and other lived experience stories, poetic reflections taken from Moonlion’s artistic practice, and practical tools like rituals, recipes and affirmations. Together the four layers of belonging and the four types of writing form a unifying whole. Moonlion urges you to connect to your own personal form of belonging, and hopes you will learn to understand the value of trying to live in harmony with all else on this Earth.
The elements return again and again in a cyclical manner. The circle of life is ever present.
The Bloom of Emotions
(2025)
author(s): Alejandra Conrado Carcasona
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023
BA Photography
With the recent cultural emphasis on the pursuit of happiness, the expression of negative emotions seems to be neglected. The impact of not valuing and integrating emotions that can be viewed as negative can be detrimental to one’s well-being. There seems to be a widespread denial or suppression of such emotions that, eventually, can lead to problems such as self-esteem problems, depression, anxiety, etc. This has led to the urge to better understand what this observation is based on.
How do you dress? What parts of your life do you share?
What version of yourself do you show? Do you show the socially acceptable version or the raw and authentic version of yourself?
There seems to be an unspoken rule that dictates how people should behave and portray themselves in front of others, showing only the positive aspects of their life. Taking this concept to a photographic level, I have encountered this scenario many times. You walk up to somebody and ask if you can take a picture of them. Their body tenses up, they rise tall and proud, and their smile stretches from ear to ear. They suddenly seem to be the happiest they have been all day, just for the picture.
This is also the reality of social media. Once you open the app you are sucked into a wonderland. Posts and stories of people seemingly living their best lives, travelling, smiling, flexing, and comparing themselves to a #FAKEBODY. This makes me question what power photography holds in this day and age. In what ways could photography be used as a tool used to suppress our emotions instead of allowing us to express our true feelings?
Through the use of chaptersation and personal stories, this thesis is presented by different emotions. By doing this, my aim is to create awareness and highlight the emphasis of emotions, making the reader question their own feelings and emotions, taking what resonates and helping them to tap into into their own body.
On Sworld: Report and reflections on an artistic research into how audio can evoke human experiences of absence, ghosts and lost memories, explored through performance and composed walks
(2025)
author(s): Alexander Holm
published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
Alexander Holm have been developing the artistic research project 'Sworld' on the APD program at RMC in Copenhagen 2021-2024. The project seeks to explore how simultaneous experience of sounds with- and without a visible cause can evoke human experiences of ghosts, absence and lost memories. The project researches and expands on composer and theorist Michel Chion's audio visual concept of Synch Points, examined through a versatile compositional praxis including choreography, text, voice, walks and live performance.
Virtual Hallucinations
(2024)
author(s): Emma Richey
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
A master's thesis that aims to see how 2D animation can visualize hallucinations in VR, while examining the greyzone between technology and spirituality in the animation process. The animations are made for the VR documentary film: Urban Witches, by Nicia Fernandez.
PERFORMATIVE THEOLOGY
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Network for Performative Theology
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The purpose of this exposition is to collect data of what Performative Theology can be and become primarily within an academic research but also beyond. The expo will be a timespace nurtured by members the Network for Performative Theology, established 6 October 2022 in Oslo.
THE CHAKRA EXPERIENCE [THE CHAKRA EXPERIENCE - 2025-06-13 01:05]
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Michele Guerrieri
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This research explores the connection between music and the Chakras, centers of activity with definite characteristics (colors, sounds, frequency) that receive, assimilate and express life force energy.
The study investigates the correlation between music and Chakras through the analysis of literature, a comparison with an expert, and practical experiments. It reports the criteria and evaluations that led me to select seven piano pieces for each Chakra. It then documents how, recording sessions as examples, I played the chosen pieces before and after increasing my spiritual awareness of the Chakras. Finally, it shows the comparison, in live musical settings, of my “piano piece - specific Chakra” choices with those of the listeners, confronting their sensibilities with mine and gathering their feedback.
Results show the contribution of Chakra perception into my own piano interpretations by reviewing the stages of the research process, that eventually led me to create an interdisciplinary concert: “The Chakra Experience.”
The research also addresses arguments about the importance of music and art nowadays and offers insights for those with an interest in approaching interdisciplinary projects.
A quest to belonging
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Sanne Rambags
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A quest to belonging
My role within music and meaning-making
This reflection is about my quest to find my own folklore, which turned ou to be a quest for belonging. Along the way, I discovered that what I was truly searching for was a sense of belonging and deeper meaning in my life as a human being and musician. My master’s study became an exploration of existential questions, providing me with greater understanding. This quest changed my perspective on being a musician, proving to be life-changing. The journey initiated by this master’s study will continue beyond graduation. Within these two years, through this existential quest for belonging and learning from different wisdom traditions, I found my folklore, because I found out a little bit more about myself. This led to discovering my purpose as a musician and how I want to dedicate the rest of my life to it.
HEAR THE VISIONS: sacred materials and archeology of findings
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Clara Marchana
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Sacred materials and archeology of findings
Design 1 and 2, Do and Document Assignments, Research Line, Artistic Research
Master Choreography at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam and Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts in Tilburg, Netherlands
Although Changed, I Arise the Same (The Spirituality of Spirals)
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Calum Builder
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Although Changed, I Arise the Same (The Spirituality of Spirals) is a personal artistic exploration into the artist’s shifting context & practice derived from the utilisation of spiral formations in the creative process. Originally conceived as an intervallic system based on spiral formations, this project evolved to encompass an investigation into the metaphorical and conceptual implications of spirals. This is a different form of a system — one not built on intervals but on swirling water & howling winds. It is a story about shifting from the concrete & practical to the abstract & conceptual.
It explores how, where & why I utilise spiral formations.
Yet, more pertinently, it discusses how working with spirals redefined my own artistic context.
A spiral became a symbol that transcended inspiration.
It became a form of spirituality.
Non-Duality and Artistic Creation
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Maja Maletkovic
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
How can metaphysical concept presented in the Vedic school of non-duality (Advaita) be used as a gridline to describe works of artist working with Spirituality as a guiding force of their creation?
Further, how could this concept be re-interpreted into a XR experience?
Lessons in the Shadow of Death
(last edited: 2017)
author(s): Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano
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A voice.
Alone.
Sounding as a prayer.
As a meditation.
Moving through lamentation and hope.
In the middle of life.
In the middle of living.
In the shadow of Death.
There is a voice.
Voice of Life itself.
Voice of God.
A performance of a vocal prayer.
Voice - Elisabeth Belgrano
Alexander Holm have been developing the artistic research project 'Sworld' on the APD program at RMC in Copenhagen 2021-2024. The project seeks to explore how simultaneous experience of sounds with- and without a visible cause can evoke human experiences of ghosts, absence and lost memories. The project researches and expands on composer and theorist Michel Chion's audio visual concept of Synch Points, examined through a versatile compositional praxis including choreography, text, voice, walks and live performance.open exposition comments (0)
A master's thesis that aims to see how 2D animation can visualize hallucinations in VR, while examining the greyzone between technology and spirituality in the animation process. The animations are made for the VR documentary film: Urban Witches, by Nicia Fernandez.open exposition comments (0)
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