Research Catalogue

By researching crematoria and graveyards I try to break the taboo surrounding grief and death. What are the elements of design at these places that could provide comfort? What are the stereotypes about death culture that prevents us from fully accepting what happens to us when we die?

Artist, actress and writer Nina Goedegebure conducts artistic research into the polyphony of a disease process at the Master Crossover Creativity @HKU, with two transdisciplinary projects; Fertility and 'Will You Carry Me?!' Starting from the question: How are we carried within a disease process? she investigates the effect of art during a disease process, and/or treatment. She is driven by the idea that in destruction lies creation. 'Through Research Catalogue I want to provide an open insight into this artistic process including my sources of inspiration, questions and finds.'

RESIDENCIAL DA BOAVISTA II No centro da cidade do Porto, pendurado na Avenida da Boavista e junto à barulhenta VCI, está um lugar onde quase nada acontece, o Foco. No Bairro Habitacional do Foco, neste bairro modernista, o tempo parece estar suspenso. Prédios podem ser construídos à sua volta, plenas mutações citadinas e o bairro ainda manteria a sua estética e ambiente. O bairro é como um corpo refastelado, com a sua cabeça pousada na avenida da Boavista e os pés sobre a VCI, sempre em contradição à movimentação e ruído constate da cidade envolvente. Os vizinhos encontram-se na entrada dos blocos, a senhora do 1.º esquerdo limpa a varanda, o porteiro vigia, solitário, o majestoso átrio. Entretanto, na urbe surgem, diariamente, novos movimentos, os metros descarregam milhares de pessoas, os citadinos saem à rua desenfreados na motivação de vivenciar um novo dia. Numa primeira fase, desenvolvemos este estudo da cidade e a sua relação com o bairro residencial colocando em foco os seus cidadãos e como os diferentes espaços são vivenciados, refletindo os seus movimentos. A cidade tece uma manta de retalhos. É na Boavista onde estes se juntam prolongando-se da cidade ao mar. Artefactos de várias épocas são unidos por uma linha invisível. O Bairro Habitacional do Foco, este bairro modernista, marca o meio desta Avenida, mudando o ambiente. A avenida comercial torna-se habitacional. O ruído torna-se em calma. A confusão citadina abre espaço a uma tranquilidade aparentemente suburbana. Numa segunda fase, uma nova promenade, com enfoque nesta relação recém-descoberta. Habitando o espaço do Bairro, entendemos que este é contaminado por figuras geométricas em contraponto à natureza.

There are good reasons to consider point of audition (POA) as a problematic term when writing about sound. This essay addresses the different challenges one meets when using the term and discusses different alternatives for future use of this terminology within the field of television sound. The motivation for rethinking the term is the analytical and descriptive problems raised when writing about recent trends in television sound in drama, sports, news, documentaries and other television genres. The argumentation refers to the flexible and creative uses of television sound today and discusses how various production examples can be better accounted for by refining the term point of audition. All in all, four categories of point of audition are suggested for analysis: observational, active, individual and personal POAs.

The Cloak of Longing has been involved in conference keynote, public and university pastoral occasions. At the heart of my research practice is a desire to liberate capacities of expressivity via a processual use intuitive material vitality. This contingent radical empiricism regards the communication model's need for pre-given therefore-ness as potentially occluding of capacities to work with matter flow – a characteristic of a cosmos of nonhuman agency inside which a performative intra-relational understanding emerges.

Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society In Silenced Womb Petra Kroon ( @fotosvanpetrakroon) examines the age-old taboo on menopause. What does it mean to be systematically silenced for centuries? What effect does it have on how you are represented? How you are treated? And how do you behave? She explores these questions from three perspectives: the medical world, society and photography. She investigates what this in/visibility looks like and analyses what it does to her and to her allies. Since she wants to lift this taboo on menopause, she also makes some suggestions for a different representation.