Exposition

Notes on how to be boringly surprised. Negativity, Affect, Intensity (2025)

Carles Hidalgo
Ega Huurdeman

About this exposition

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Photography The thesis seeks to analyze a type of negative reasoning that may arise during specific gay intimate encounters. It does so by relating it to absurdism, failure, rejection and the unimaginable. In order to get there, the paper focuses on the power of affects as incongruent impulses that can lead to unexpected situations. t also addresses the moments after this reasoning, when those intense impulses need a specific management. The research is also supported by an autofictional story that tries to question the inert and, in occasions, disappointing qualities of academic knowledge.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsintimacy, absurdism, sexuality, gay, queer failure, flat affects, boredom, Bachelor Photography
date05/10/2022
published21/05/2025
last modified21/05/2025
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationRoyal Academy of Art, The Hague,
copyrightCarles Hidalgo
licenseAll rights reserved
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1753701/1753700
published inRoyal Academy of Art, The Hague
portal issue0. Publications 2022
external linkhttps://www.instagram.com/carles.hidalgo/


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