Recuerditos de Cuba
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author(s): Anabel Pérez Lubián
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Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023.
BA Fine Arts.
This thesis explores the intersections of tourism, memory and visual culture through a decolonial lens, using personal photographs and lived experience as the primary site of inquiry. Centered on the context of Cuba, the work interrogates the postcard as both a material object and a colonial modern artifact, tracing how the tourist, particularly the white, gaze commodifies La Habana's histories, spaces and bodies. The project unfolds through the author’s own diasporic return to Cuba, structured around a series of photographs taken at the age of eight. These images, constituent of a family archive, anchor the narrative and serve as points of entry into the layered relationships between personal memory and colonial visual regimes. Throughout the book, the research brings forth the archival materials that inform the knowledge the author stands upon. The materials that shape memory, and memory itself as knowledge. Drawing on the flat, affective style of Annie Ernaux’s écriture plate, the thesis adopts a third person narrative voice to perform close readings of these childhood images, allowing the memory of a child to guide the inquiry. Rather than reproduce the vistas of La Habana Vieja, which Rolando Vázquez critiques as visual regimes that sustain the colonial difference, the work turns inward, toward domestic interiors and overlooked everyday scenes as potential sites of resistance. Ultimately, the thesis proposes a situated decolonial aesthetic practice grounded in embodied memory, affective inheritance and visual testimony.
The Shape of Becoming
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author(s): Olivier Blom
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A magical journey through space time and matter.
form's instances
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author(s): Jedrzej Eltman
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Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025
BA ArtScience
Form's instances is an investigation of form and its function in relation with open systems, questioning the position of cognition in context of everything and nothingness.
From Within and Beyond: The History of Automatism and its Artistic Applications - Indra Joachimsthal - BFA GRP
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author(s): Indra Joachimsthal
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KABK Thesis / Graduation Research Paper of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2024/25.
Bachelor Fine Arts
This Graduation Research Paper explores automatism as an art-making method, both its historical trajectory and its practical application. The historical context will touch upon the use of automatism in the Spiritualism movement, Psychoanalysis and later Surrealism. The second part is a practical guide exploring and explaining a plethora of automatic art-making techniques.
How to Masculine
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author(s): Haevn Aalbersberg
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Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025.
BA Fine Arts.
The research paper is meant to reflect on the Western masculinity standards of today’s society in a not so traditional way, truckspotting.
To be an outsider of the norm is sometimes hard. How to navigate through the linear when all you want to do is worm around and just be yourself. I would like to offer a guide on "how to masculine" through a queer/trans point of view. Searching for and through extreme forms of masculinity and exploring them from deep within. Hopefully finding out along the way what I find to be so fascinating about the masculine, and why it has always been such a big part of my existence.
You are Leaking: on vision, permeability, and the porous self through fiction and theory
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author(s): Nilsu Göçer
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Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025
BA Fine Arts
"You are leaking" tells the story of Iris, an artist caught in a surreal, psychological descent inside a shifting, oppressive studio space. The sterile white room, described as "ravenous" and alive, becomes a character: it breathes, warps, and seeps with liquid. As time fractures and the line between self and environment dissolves, Iris is consumed by disorientation.
The story reflects my longing to shed individualism like a skin, to melt into something vast and nameless. The longing to escape the boundaries of self, the ecstasy and terror of permeability, and the cyclical failure of transformation. My work dwells in that unstable space, where “I” frays into “we,” where memories forget their owners and bodies forget their borders.
