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Paper Person (last edited: 2023) author(s): Lukas Dovydėnas This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.

[School] Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague 2023 [Department] Fine Arts This research paper takes influences from lived experiences, theoretical works and works of art to craft a post-human story about living in the city of surveillance capitalism. I am pursuing artistic research by imagining a world where there is technology which broadcasts everything a person sees. I am using artistic research as a tool to exaggerate perceived world’s issues. Because I believe that through a combination of theory and storytelling we can make and subvert the narratives of contemporary society. To make myths for the world yet to come. The work concludes with a fictional interview between the main character of the story and me, followed by an interview of artificial intelligence.

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Soil Stories, Touching with your Eyes and Seeing with you Hands (last edited: 2023) author(s): Nalani Kailing Knauss connected to: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.

I excavate soil’s history using the lenses of photography, geology, etymology, and anthropology. As a visual storyteller, I engage with soil while digging deeper to address questions of human relationship to the natural world and the feeling of being held within the landscape. I use soil as a metaphor for my personal search for belonging. Can a visceral, human relationship to the earth beneath our feet help us in our fundamental search for connection? As I unearth humanity’s history, delving into all things soil, starting from an exploration of myths and indigenous beliefs, I start to reflect on my own relationship with the California landscape that I call home. I explore what it means to belong and reconnect. Through the physicality of foraging and making with clay, in combination with photographing rocks as my subjects I reflect on belonging as a human connection to place within nature. I write about the split and alienation humanity has gone though of viewing nature as something separate. The disconnection of the right side of the brain with its childlike playfulness, feeling, wondering, and meandering in comparison with modern life’s prioritization of the left brain with its over efficiency and logic. What would happen if we started to think about soil as a living body and even as a form of language? This substance that we deem inanimate and dirty, and which we mindlessly dump our waste onto, is the memory keeper of human history. Beneath the layers of substrate, I am curious as to what terminology we use and why. How are the words we use meaningful, and how do they impact our belief systems and values? Can we unlearn the notion that dirt is dirty? What do words say about other words? How can we redefine our language and in so doing change our belief systems which then affect the way we portray, represent, or photograph the natural world? Photographic language is also a vehicle for the communication of certain narratives, which in my work I use as documentation. Through photography, I engage in a sensual experience of earth in all its substantive expressions: skin, soil, dust, rock, water. Soil and photography share a similar language. When viewing photography or connecting with earth, the audience leaves with an impression, a trace, which then affects the viewer. As a visual storyteller, I strive to awaken a remembering of ancestral knowledge and remind people of their primal kinship with earth. Questions arise such as how do we engage with touch? What do we even sense in the landscape of our own body? What does this form of re-earthing and re-wording look like? Within a society that is fueled by consumerism and the all-important “I” as ego, can we, when relating to the natural landscape remember what it means to be collectively human in a symbiotic relationship with soil? Can we create a deeper relationship with something as simple as the ground beneath our feet? My research has been informed by many a author such as Ursula K. le Guin- The Carrier Basket Theory, Dark Ecology by Timothy Morton, Braiding Sweetgrass- Robin Wall Kimmerer Staying with the Trouble - Donna Haraway, Spell of the Sensuous David Abrum, Tim Ingold and the discourse surrounding Stadium General here at KABK

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Practicum Artium Online Exhibition (last edited: 2023) author(s): Emily Huurdeman, Liza Swaving connected to: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.

Digitale expositie Practicum Artium (proef versie) The coronavirus pandemic has suddenly closed schools, universities, museums and galleries. As we all wait for the current measures to be lifted, we are exploring new, digital ways to stay connected. This year’s Practicum Artium exhibition will take place on Research Catalogue, an online, collaborative workspace where art and academia meet. A very inspiring and relevant context for showcasing the works of 50 students? who developed their artistic skills in drawing, painting, graphic design and photography over the past 3 months. The arts can be a reflection on society and its times. It therefore does not come as a surprise that many students chose to comment and reflect on the Covid-19 pandemic in their final artistic works. The coronavirus has planted seeds of inspiration for some. For others, it’s mostly the dark energy and sadness of the pandemic that resonates in their work. Other themes are …. Viewing art online changes the experience. Some nuances might be lost in digital form, such as the daylight hitting a material surface or the scent of paint on a canvas. Other experiences will be added, such as the possibility to re-visit the exhibition space again and again and again at any moment and from any place you’d prefer. Please feel welcome to freely scroll, click, read, swipe and navigate your way through this online exhibition space, and enjoy the diverse works of these young artists!

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Potentiality of Sound in Matter (last edited: 2022) author(s): Justin Grooten, Kim Minji, Channa Boon, Elena Khurtova, Anne-Florence Neveu, Anne-Florence Neveu, Jeroen Meijer, Jeremi Biziuk connected to: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.

“All bodies, not merely “human” bodies, come to matter through the world’s iterative intra-activity; its performativity. This is true not only of the surface or contours of the body but also of the body in the fullness of its physicality, including the very “atoms” of its being. Bodies are not objects with inherent boundaries and properties; they are material-discursive phenomena. “Human” bodies are not inherently different from “non-human” ones. “ quote from 'Meeting the Universe Halfway' by Karen Barad ‘Investigating through making’ is at the core of the course 'Potentiality of Sound in Matter', that is produced and guided by Channa Boon and Elena Khurtova, for all departments of the Royal Academy in The Hague. It has lead up to a final presentation here on the Research Catalogue. The students have been investigating questions like: how does colour sound? What does my room has to say? How do intimacy and friction sound? What is the sound of darkness? How to communicate with a thinking forest? Sources of inspiration are the New Materialist philosophy (Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, Ursula Le Guin) students: Iona Fulton - Fine Art Justin Grooten - Photography Tugay (Adem) Kader - Fine Art Minji Kim - Art Science Jeroen Meijer - IMD Wies Mobach - IMD Anne-Florence Neveu - Art Science Niya Tsenkova - Fine Art Daniel Walton - Photography Robin Walvisch - Photography Yanbing Wu - Fine Art Farah Rahman - Art Science Jeremi Biziuk - Fine Art

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KABK Lectorate Art, Theory & Practice: Thesis Awards (last edited: 2022) author(s): Ega Huurdeman connected to: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.

Annually, theory teachers from various departments of the Royal Academy of Art nominate their department’s best thesis for the thesis award. An independent and annually changing jury decides on the winning thesis award. The jury consists of a chair, an artist or designer teaching at the academy and/or the previous winner of the thesis award and an external member.

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KABK Researching Assemblages (last edited: 2022) author(s): Mina Atanassova, Rio Drop, Eleni Kamma, Pum van de Koppel, Daniel Jacobsen, Niya Tsenkova, Shana De Villiers, Bo Deurloo, Marissa Memelink, Jeanne Rousselot, Dustin James, Yujia Wu connected to: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.

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