The Translated Landscape: Interpreting South Africa through Jewellery Praxis
Date
2020-07
Authors
Groenewald, Joani
van der Wal, Ernst
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Publisher
Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand
Abstract
Can a landscape function as a visual text that could, in turn, be translated through various multimodal practices? Through an account of Groenewald’s own creative practice, which translates landscape images into jewellery/sculptural pieces, this paper unpacks the complexities of translation and language within the memory politics of the South African landscape.
Description
Can a landscape function as a visual text that could, in turn, be translated through various multimodal practices? Through an account of Groenewald’s own creative practice, which translates landscape images into jewellery/sculptural pieces, this paper unpacks the complexities of translation and language within the memory politics of the South African landscape.
Keywords
artistic research, arts research, decolonisation, arts pedagogy,
Citation
Can a landscape function as a visual text that could, in turn, be translated through various multimodal practices? Through an account of Groenewald’s own creative practice, which translates landscape images into jewellery/sculptural pieces, this paper unpacks the complexities of translation and language within the memory politics of the South African landscape.