Research Catalogue

an international database for artistic research

• 2. Publications 2024 published in 2024
• 1. Publications 2023 Maybe a description for yourself
• 0. Publications 2022 Publications 2022

• How to Masculine (last edited: 2025) author(s): Haevn Aalbersberg This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025. BA Fine Arts. The research paper is meant to reflect on the Western masculinity standards of today’s society in a not so traditional way, truckspotting. To be an outsider of the norm is sometimes hard. How to navigate through the linear when all you want to do is worm around and just be yourself. I would like to offer a guide on "how to masculine" through a queer/trans point of view. Searching for and through extreme forms of masculinity and exploring them from deep within. Hopefully finding out along the way what I find to be so fascinating about the masculine, and why it has always been such a big part of my existence.
  open exposition comments (0)
• You are Leaking: on vision, permeability, and the porous self through fiction and theory (last edited: 2025) author(s): Nilsu Göçer This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025 BA Fine Arts "You are leaking" tells the story of Iris, an artist caught in a surreal, psychological descent inside a shifting, oppressive studio space. The sterile white room, described as "ravenous" and alive, becomes a character: it breathes, warps, and seeps with liquid. As time fractures and the line between self and environment dissolves, Iris is consumed by disorientation. The story reflects my longing to shed individualism like a skin, to melt into something vast and nameless. The longing to escape the boundaries of self, the ecstasy and terror of permeability, and the cyclical failure of transformation. My work dwells in that unstable space, where “I” frays into “we,” where memories forget their owners and bodies forget their borders.
  open exposition comments (0)
• We Live on the Razor's Edge. On Law and its Performativity (last edited: 2025) author(s): Raquel Coll i Juncosa This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023. Master Artistic Research This publication explores the performativity of law through fiction, language, and theatricality. It reflects on authorship, obedience, and the instability of meaning in legal discourse.
  open exposition comments (0)
• 
  Do Androids remember they once dreamed of Electric Sheep? (last edited: 2024) author(s): Shizhe Qian This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2024 BA Photography My research paper, Do Androids remember they once dreamed of Electric Sheep? investigates the interplay between artificial intelligence and human cognition, focusing on the theme of "dreams" as a metaphorical and literal framework for understanding large language models (LLMs). Starting with a personal reflection on the nature of knowledge, the research probes the philosophical question of what can truly be known, using the enigmatic functionality of LLMs like ChatGPT as a focal point. It challenges traditional views by comparing the often-unpredictable outputs of LLMs to the elusive and revealing nature of dreams.
  open exposition comments (0)
• introduction (last edited: 2024) author(s): Melania Trejo Mendez This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  introduction
  open exposition comments (0)
• Actions of an Architect in Malta (last edited: 2024) author(s): Mirco Azzopardi This exposition is in revision and its share status is: visible to all.
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023. Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE) This study solely addresses Malta, whereby it was after leaving the island that I felt a growing devotion and sense of patriotism toward what I had left behind. In its irony, choosing to leave the country to better it, as to broaden perspectives and break from the shackles of the norm, proves challenging. However, in shaping my professional career, how could I surround myself with warranted professionals within the built environment who advocate for better while playing imperative masquerading roles in formulating the worse? Exposed to a new Dutch environment, I was able to critically reflect on the typical Maltese streetscape, convinced that the architect can play a more significant role in pressing issues the country faces. Although I do not relate to the systems the Maltese architectural scene operates within, it became apparent that to have a valued perspective and say within the system, one must understand it, or at the least grasp its principal values. To better understand such complexities, I formally reached out to various agencies playing essential roles within this framework today, intrigued by their contradicting principles and perspectives. The insight gained through these interviews serves as an underpinning for arguments raised throughout the text. Therefore, it must be noted that the arguments raised address the current situation in Malta heading into the 2030s decade.
  open exposition comments (0)