Research Catalogue

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• 1. Publications 2023 Maybe a description for yourself

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  Binnen Dansen with a magnifying glass (2024) author(s): Louise Noordam published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023 BA Textile and Fashion Binnen Dansen with a magnifying glass. A journey from within to find my real true self through eczema struggles, stress and societal pressure. This thesis researches the influence of society, trauma and stress on someone’s personality and authenticity and the implications it can bring to your health and well-being. As well as giving a possible solution to overcome and heal. This is done by analysing my personality and behaviour and researching the Dutch societal structure I grew up in. And researching the impact it has had on causing autoimmune eczema that I have suffered with for ten years. Theories from Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk and Sigmund Freud are there to explain and question the causes and influences, as well as teach their perspective. With this thesis, I would like you to know that you are not alone. This is to give hope and motivation to every single person that is struggling and suffering from an autoimmune disease, in particular autoimmune eczema. Or who feels like they are not living life as their most authentic self. This thesis can provide you with insights and knowledge on how to alleviate your pain and, like me, work towards a future free of disease, stress and trauma.
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  BITCHES, Beauty standards investigation through the lens of cosmetic surgery, hyperfemininity & self-branding (2024) author(s): Royal Academy of Art, The Hague published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023 BA Photography In deze research paper verken ik het hedendaagse schoonheidsideaal. Ik start mijn onderzoek vanuit een nieuwsgierigheid naar hoe cosmetische chirurgie een plek heeft in de wereld om ons heen, en in mijn eigen leven. Als ondergrond voor mijn onderzoek reageer ik op een aflevering van de podcast DAMN, HONEY waarin sociologe Giselinde Kuipers in gesprek gaat over haar research met betrekking tot het heersende schoonheidsideaal. Daarnaast reflecteer ik op persoonlijke ervaringen uit mijn jeugd en huidige leven. In de loop van het onderzoek verschuift mijn aandacht gedeeltelijk van cosmetische chirurgie naar het schoonheidsideaal en de complexiteit rondom ‘zien en gezien’ worden voor vrouwen(lichamen) in het publiekelijk domein. Naast deze theoretische verkenning plaats ik mijn gedachten in een visueel raamwerk dat bestaat uit relevante fotografie en veelal kritische documentaires over cosmetische chirurgie.
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• Archival Resonance (2024) author(s): Marco Dell' Abate published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  The thesis deals with the theme of cultural loss in Salento (South-East of Italy) by investigating 4 different contexts where loss is happening, and how elements of cultural heritage translate and degrade into the contemporary age: • Language, with an investigation of the ancient Grìko language, a tongue of lower Salento, in state of disappearing • The Olive Tree, once a cornerstone of Salentinian agrarian tradition, now subjected to a rapid decay due to the Xylella bacteria, and the political/social inability to deal with the problem • Dry-stone walls, a practice in process of being forgotten. This theme is used as a gateway to talk about embodied cognition, and the impossibility to translate a whole culture in a digital context • Taranta, once a practice of emotional re/expression, now disappeared in its entire- ty as a ritual and only existing as a memory
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  Après nous, le déluge. The Pyschological Influences of Social Status (2024) author(s): Anna-Elise Ghislaine Doorn published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023 BA Fine Arts A thesis about the psychological influence of social status on our behavior and way of acting in the West and how this is expressed within my family. A research on how our self-esteem works and what kind of identities we have. What role does clothing and consumption play as a symbol for status. And why do we suffer from status anxiety.
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  A Guide To Nether-Hell : A Journey Through Depiction & Experience From A Nether-Divergent Perspective (2024) author(s): Lorenzo Quint published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design I was born and raised in The Netherlands, a country that is seen and communicated as a rich and prosperous country where you can be yourself and over/underwhelm yourself in the lowlands paradise. But what if you don’t always feel like you belong in it? When you don’t feel like you fit the frame or archetype, it can feel like you go through hell. In my case, it’s the archetype of my neurodivergence (PDDNOS/ADHD) vs the neurotypical mindset. The Netherlands shares its low geological position with the Nether-Hell from Dante Alghieri’s Inferno. Starting from that position and looking at The Netherlands through that lens, my thesis is in a constant zigzag between hell on earth and hell in fiction but also targeting the archetypes like demons / sinners / the location of hell, the feeling of hell and the acceptance of hell. When you don’t fit in a frame that is shaped by a certain status quo, you seek comfort in the damned. The Damned are the poor, lame, sick and the blind. The reader is challenged to look at sins and taboos through a lens of politics, policy and pop culture. Who is the decision maker and why would one follow? into eternity. When it comes to the status quo, the question is stopped with the answer: “Because we have always done it like this.” He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
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  Place to Action! Art that Inteferes (2022) author(s): Thalia Hoffman, Yannick Schop, Lakisha Apostel, Maryam Touzani, Alicia Cotillas Vélez, Robin Whitehouse, Bødvar Hole, Miro Gutjahr, Žilvinas Baranauskas, Anne-Claire Flora Mackenzie, Gaetan Langlois-Meurinne connected to: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague published in: Research Catalogue, KC Research Portal
  The course Place to Action - Art that Interferes is motivated and inspired by places. More specifically: the histories, contexts, narratives, situations, circumstances and people’s interactions and intra-actions and relationships with locations, which form places. Lingering in places with attention, listening to them and experimenting the possible ways of movement within them. These attentive gazes of places will initiate interdisciplinary artistic actions and interventions that aim to explore and reflect the possibilities of art to interfere. Here on this exposition the group will share their findings and actions.
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