Royal Academy of Art: Place
Royal Academy of Art: Place
The KABK ResearchLabs (Royal Academy of Art in The Hague) will interrogate the phenomenon Place. Goal is to understand the vocation of the place. A place isn't a mere edge but a boundary that marks where things begin to show up and gather meaning.
A place creates a horizon for our understanding, like a hearth gathering a family's life. In this way, we embrace and protect the earth and become part of a comprehensive totality. We recognise that humans are an integral part of the environment, and forgetting this can only lead to alienation and environmental disruption. Belonging to a place means to have an existential foothold, in a concrete and everyday sense.
The program provides a kaleidoscopic overview of the phenomenon place. On one end of the spectrum, we find a Modernity that is characterised by the homelessness of the Non-Place. This is the world of Soviet Plattenbau and the bleak life of a dysfunctional family.
On the other end, there is a plot of land that is grown and tended by the ancestors for generations in an effort to reconcile the limitations of existence. This plot of land offers a sense of belonging and a gathering of meaning that allows us to be truly present.
Programme
Flux (Nereus Pfafrode)
Ispočetka (Ines Kukrić)
..if the same absurdity was found to reappear over and over again, and another kind of absurdity also to reappear, then this was something which was not absolutely absurd; otherwise, it would not reappear. (Claude Levi Straus)
Ode to a faraway land (Kamilla Hadju)
Istone (Lourien Snoek)
Sanctification (Yasamin Zeinalizadeh & Anne-Marijn Veen)
Powder your face with sunshine (Bink ter Weijde)
Leaving the bird house (Babs Wolbert)
Detouched (Emilia Kaspar & Zep Stoffelen)
My odyssey (Loes Versteeg)
Could I do it? A woman in a wheelchair, alone, the world not my friend. Obstacles a certainty, yet still unknown. This journey, My Odyssey
Katabasis (Yasaman Alipour & Vera van der Duin)
A place that is no longer a place that I can call home (Maria Manatou)
Smooth city (Ari Rohde)
Ibiza (Tsitsi Sigauke)
Do you know what the colour green means? (Eliza Kania)
Dream sequence (Agniya Breits & Daria Yadrishchenskaya & Katya Yadrishchenskaya)
Self portrait (Téo Amédomé)
A poetic journey into the intricacies of the creative process through time and space, from artistic awakening to possible future. A VR-enhanced experience will be available after the screening.
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Production year
2026
Length
60 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Part of
ResearchLabs 2026
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