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  La Domenica (2025) author(s): Giovanni Pilato published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023 BA Fine Arts This Graduation Research Project is a script for a catholic Mass. It consists of two main parts: La Domenica and La Predica (translated from Italian: The Sunday and The Sermon). The text and design of La Domenica are based on the handout people receive at the start of the catholic Sunday Mass in Italy. In La Domenica you can find the scriptures of the day, the prayers to recite, some general information and relevant quotes for the day. In this first part I assembled some biblical and non-biblical texts together with pre-existing prayers and self-written prayers. The texts vary in topic such as the story of the creation, the passion of Christ, but also Notes on Camp. The content of those texts is then reflected upon in La Predica. It is therefore advisable to read La Domenica first, up until The Sermon, and continue with La Predica. After La Predica the reader can get back to La Domenica to finish the Mass. La Predica is the script for the sermon: A personal essay on the relationship between the Catholic traditions and Camp aesthetics. La Predica is a contemporary reflection on the scriptures which starts with the creation. This story then leads to art creation, matters of taste and homosexuality in Art. Homosexuality and erotica are then related to the scene of the passion of Christ, specifically to suffering and death of Christ as scenes for arousal. The theatricality of Catholic visual tradition is then analyzed through Susan Sontag’s Note’s on Camp. What follows is a comparison between queer visual culture, thus Camp, and Christian tradition.
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  It’s a Pussy Power Kind of Story : Dedicated to Liberating Female Pleasure (2025) author(s): Emma Grima published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Photography This is an academic opinionated feminist exploration, written from the point of view of a visual artist. I have investigated what has affected our female rights to pleasure, to then be able to conclude on how we can liberate female bodies and allow women to freely have power over their desires and pleasure, by understanding what their individual autonomies are. This exploration is written to shake off society's constructs and stigmas that have conditioned us by going into detail about the effects of such constructs and then to look forward to a positive future. Let us be free, let us be agent, let us question and discover ourselves for who we are as individuals.
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  Institutional Fallacy (2025) author(s): Yannis Androulakis published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Fine Arts Through this paper and while focusing both on the heritage and institutional attitudes of documenta, I attempted to underline the linkage of the institution to modernism and its neoliberal mode of being. I pursued the latter by highlighting the initial nationalistic and supranational format of documenta. Then and while using a comparative methodological attitude towards documenta and Greece’s “historico-political” context, the text addressed the institution’s inability to escape the power structures of its foundation, and thus its imposition to the Greek state. The former analysis was formed while deploying certain key-informations in regards to the diptych power/knowledge by Michel Foucault and philosophy of hospitality developed by Jacques Derrida. Therefore, the conducted research will take the form of a flexible archival format, as is usually the case within my artistic practice.
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  In the air we exist : on using play to survive (2025) author(s): Gaetan Langlois-Meurinne published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design In The Air We Exist is an exploration that questions if play can help us to survive better in the world we live in. Playing is often associated being being childish and a waste of time for adults, right? Entering adulthood, don’t we have no other choice than to stop playing? In any case, responsibilities and routines take away the last bit of free time we had. This thesis researches the universal phenomenon of play. More specifically on an activity that everyone has experienced as a child and that usually disappears in adulthood and which refers to an activity that is free, uncertain, without specific goal and leaves space for imaginaLon. I wonder if play can have a positive influence no matter the age of the person, as it comes along with essential benefits to the personal development. Instead of restricting it to a limited group of young people, I strongly believe in the positive impact it could have if we allowed it to expand to adults. Whichever age group, it can have a beneficial impact, maintaining human relationships and fuelling hope, as well as helping us when we face difficult and often complex situations. I honestly wonder about the reason for its absence and neglect in western society, as I believe it could partly be a solution for some contemporary problems. The thesis addresses the complex world, we live in. Being constantly confronted with productivity, progress and the desire to seek for control there is not much space for play. Further I research the origin, values and the psychological and sociological impact play can have on a person. The importance of play in childhood alongside its benefits and influence on a person growing older is being presented. Next to that, a selection of artists, all connected by play, demonstrate the fruitful addition it brings to their work. All these segments are inspirational elements for my graduation project where I intend to create a tool to reconnect us to play. The tool aims for a playful experience that simultaneously invites to reconsider the role of play in everyday life. Finally, it is an attempt to keep us young and in a state of constant curiosity and openness by learning how to improvise and accept failures as part of the game of life. And then to consider if playfulness can help us survive better in the world we live in.
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  Imagining the world through the lens of loser and hoping for a better future (2025) author(s): Anna Pierga published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  My thesis is an attempt to create a bridge between my artistic practice and theoretical research behind its themes and topics. I highlight imagination as a tool to recreate one’s world in order to survive a hostile, success-oriented and normative daily reality. The text is divided into three main sections. Each focusing consecutively on childhood, queerness and examples of imagination in fairy tales and artistic practices; all understood through the lens of failure. I look at childhood as a queer and highly creative universal experience of living on the edge of established social norms. I draw on queer writtings such as Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstram and Cruising Utopia: Then and There of Queer Futirity by José Esteban Muñoz in search of utopia and longing for a better future. In the final part of my thesis I refer to Ursula Le Guin’s essays on fantasy and science fiction, fairy tales and artistic practices. I explore various examples of failed heroes and the role of imagination in order to rewrite the present for a queerer future of more possibilities.
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  I Spy With My Little Eye : Speculative Image Making to Gain Vision Beyond the Ordinary Sight (2025) author(s): Sophie Allerding published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society This thesis deals with the questions what a speculative image is, what a speculative image-making practice could look like and to what extent speculative imagery can be a tool for future shaping. The responsibilities and possibilities of image makers are negotiated and three different tools for speculative image-making are presented.Different entry points into this world of thought are offered to the reader, through a manifesto and various appendices on practices of future predictions and tarot readings.
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