Research Catalogue

an international database for artistic research

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  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.
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  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).
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  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.
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  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)
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  Do Androids remember they once dreamed of Electric Sheep? (2025) author(s): Shizhe Qian published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2024 BA Photography My research paper, Do Androids remember they once dreamed of Electric Sheep? investigates the interplay between artificial intelligence and human cognition, focusing on the theme of "dreams" as a metaphorical and literal framework for understanding large language models (LLMs). Starting with a personal reflection on the nature of knowledge, the research probes the philosophical question of what can truly be known, using the enigmatic functionality of LLMs like ChatGPT as a focal point. It challenges traditional views by comparing the often-unpredictable outputs of LLMs to the elusive and revealing nature of dreams.
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  echoes of a journey through eco (2025) author(s): Bødvar Hole published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023. BA Photography. The research paper Echoes of a Journey Through Eco is a record of several-yet-one-and-the-same journey(s). I departed guided by the two questions: What can I learn from the forest? How can I learn from the forest? The first part of the journey I started as a humble, aimless observer in Haagse Bos, where I would sit and let my surroundings dictate what I would write. The symbolic, yet totally non-existent line between culture and nature became subject of my research. I did not even know the history of the forest, or anything about trees from a more universally agreed upon perspective (science). I had to alter my approach to the research. Slowly the humble observer discovered a part of him inquisitively searching for questions and answers. I was approaching the field of ecology. Some months into my journey I carved the fateful words “bark bark” in the bark of a tree. I questioned myself as an artist making a mark on nature. I started writing a text to underpin a few things I think an artist should think about when their practice takes place in and with nature involved. Some very critical, almost cynical part of me took stead of the humble observer. It seems I needed to vent some things. The final paper holds fragments from all parts of the journey, from the humble observer to the cynical critic. As a journey it has barely begun, and as a text it is full of superficial reflections, very subjective opinions, and shortcomings. But, as the seed this text sprung from was planted only 6 months ago, it should be expected that it is still only a sapling about yay tall (20-30cm were I a Scots pine). If there is one thing I learned from trees, it’s patience.
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