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Conversations with place: an autoethnographic exploration of art jewellery as translative practice in the Groot Drakenstein, South Africa
Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosh University, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132204 Conversations with place: an autoethnographic exploration of art jewellery as translative practice in the Groot Drakenstein, South Africa Groenewald, Joani Van der Wal, Ernst Willems, Bert Wuytens, Karen Terreblanche, Carine Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. Jewelry -- South Africa Jewelry making -- South Africa Place (Philosophy) in art South Africa -- Groot Drakenstein Personal narratives Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge Art -- Research -- Methodology Translating and interpreting in art -- Psychological aspects UCTD Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosh University, 2025. Groenewald, J. 2025. Conversations with Place: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Art Jewellery as Translative Practice in the Groot Drakenstein, South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/61f3c2d4-b6c7-4318-b598-6ba7d91acd20 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This practice-based study is situated at the intersection of art jewellery, translation studies, and critical conversations about land (particularly farmland) in the contemporary South African landscape. I use my art practice to explore the potential of art jewellery to act as a medium that can translate and embody the South African landscape. I draw from my experiences in the Groot Drakenstein area in the Western Cape where I currently reside, as well as the farm where I lived as a child in the Eastern Cape, to investigate how jewellery objects can act as meaningful markers of both place and identity and reveal the intricate connections between humans and their natural environment. I am particularly interested in the potential of translation to move beyond the parameters of language and text (and two-dimensional modes of representation, such as paintings or photographs) to the three-dimensional, sensorial and experiential. Translation studies are foundational in the context of this study, and I draw on texts by theorists Sherry Simon, Edwin Gentzler, Susan Bassnett and Kobus Marais to contextualise the current movement in translation studies that advocates for a diversified view of translation that is transdisciplinary, multimodal, intralingual and intersemiotic. In this regard, I contextualise the influence that translation in its various and diverse forms has on the way that places or landscapes are perceived. I provide an overview of the polemics surrounding land and ownership in South Africa whilst drawing on autoethnography to demonstrate a need for more diverse translations of the South African landscape. In this regard, I discuss the distinction between land as a commodity and place as something that is immersive, personal, and relational. I then move into a discussion of art jewellery as markers of place by investigating the work of jewellery artists Beth Legg and Patricia Domingues. Their work contextualises my own art practice, in which I produce jewellery pieces that stem from a bodily engagement with and translation of a particular place. I draw on the theories of Tim Ingold Laura Marks and Elizabeth Grosz to discuss art jewellery not only as the embodiment of a place but also as a medium that allows for the internalisation of place. This study comprises the realisation of a practical body of artwork and an accompanying thesis, which are interdependent and integrated, reflecting my research process and conceptual concerns. Through an enacted, practice-based research methodology, I promote active bodily and sensory engagement with place to produce my findings. I emphasise the importance of sensory experiences and advocate for a sensory-rich approach to scholarship that fosters an immersive and interconnected perspective on translation-through-making. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie praktykgebaseerde studie is geleë waar kunsjuweliersware, vertaalstudies en kritiese gesprekke oor grond (veral plaasgrond) in die hedendaagse Suid-Afrikaanse landskap ontmoet. Ek gebruik my kunspraktyk om die potensiaal van kunsjuweliersware as ʼn medium om die Suid-Afrikaanse landskap te vertaal en te beliggaam, te verken. Ek put uit my ervarings in die Groot Drakenstein-gebied van die Wes-Kaap, waar ek tans woon, asook die plaas in die Oos-Kaap waar ek as kind gewoon het, om te ondersoek hoe juweliersware- items as betekenisvolle merkers van plek en identiteit kan dien en die verwikkelde skakels tussen mense en hulle natuurlike omgewing kan onthul. Ek stel veral belang in die potensiaal van vertaling om verder as die parameters van taal en teks (en tweedimensionele voorstellingsmodusse soos skilderye of foto’s) te beweeg na die driedimensionele, sensoriese en ervaringsgerigte. Vertaalstudies is grondliggend in die konteks van hierdie studie en ek maak gebruik van tekste deur die teoretici Sherry Simon, Edwin Gentzler, Susan Bassnett en Kobus Marais om die huidige beweging in vertaalstudies, wat voorspraak maak vir ʼn gediversifiseerde siening van vertaling wat transdissiplinêr, multimodaal, intralinguisties en intersemioties is, te kontekstualiseer. In hierdie verband kontekstualiseer ek die invloed wat vertaling in sy verskillende en diverse vorms het op die manier waarop plekke of landskappe waargeneem word. Doctoral 2025-05-29T12:41:40Z 2025-05-29T12:41:40Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132204 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 210 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Jewelry -- South Africa Jewelry making -- South Africa Place (Philosophy) in art South Africa -- Groot Drakenstein Personal narratives Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge Art -- Research -- Methodology Translating and interpreting in art -- Psychological aspects UCTD Groenewald, Joani Conversations with place: an autoethnographic exploration of art jewellery as translative practice in the Groot Drakenstein, South Africa |
| title | Conversations with place: an autoethnographic exploration of art jewellery as translative practice in the Groot Drakenstein, South Africa |
| title_full | Conversations with place: an autoethnographic exploration of art jewellery as translative practice in the Groot Drakenstein, South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Conversations with place: an autoethnographic exploration of art jewellery as translative practice in the Groot Drakenstein, South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conversations with place: an autoethnographic exploration of art jewellery as translative practice in the Groot Drakenstein, South Africa |
| title_short | Conversations with place: an autoethnographic exploration of art jewellery as translative practice in the Groot Drakenstein, South Africa |
| title_sort | conversations with place an autoethnographic exploration of art jewellery as translative practice in the groot drakenstein south africa |
| topic | Jewelry -- South Africa Jewelry making -- South Africa Place (Philosophy) in art South Africa -- Groot Drakenstein Personal narratives Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge Art -- Research -- Methodology Translating and interpreting in art -- Psychological aspects UCTD |
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