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The sensuous geographies of slow art in practice: a counter-narrative to the accelerated tempo of contemporary living through art jewellery praxis
Thesis MA (VA)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132444 The sensuous geographies of slow art in practice: a counter-narrative to the accelerated tempo of contemporary living through art jewellery praxis Schoeman, Jane Groenewald, Joani Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Science. Dept. of Visual Arts. Jewelry -- South Africa Time -- Social aspects Art and society Place (Philosophy) in art Body image in art Aesthetics Senses and sensation in art Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in art Art -- Research -- Methodology UCTD Thesis MA (VA)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Schoeman, J. 2025. The sensuous geographies of slow art in practice: a counter-narrative to the accelerated tempo of contemporary living through art jewellery praxis. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/92af5fbc-eade-49c2-a039-4fad0f991622 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research project examines the value of slow and sensory artistic research practices as an alternative mode of exploring how the subjective cognition of time and sensory experiences can shape human perception. This is achieved through a new materialist approach to the ethical principles of slowness and sensory perception – accentuating the significance and influence of material entanglements, shaping an individual’s subjective ‘reality’; this approach to embodied perceptions aims to challenge traditional human-centred perspectives. In order to support this qualitative study, I employ an a/r/tographic research methodology that is informed by a combination of practical artistic- and textual research processes to explore and generate new understandings of time and the role of slow and sensory artistic processes. These practices are proposed in this research study as an alternative means to navigate the strains of the accelerated mode of contemporary living. The time doctrines, social values and discourses surrounding time in western-centric capitalist social structures, which portray time as purely objectively quantifiable, are critiqued and subverted in this research project as I integrate slow and sensory processes such as metalwork, ceramics, and weaving into my artistic practices. In this manner, I am purposefully engaging with innately time-consuming and physically engaging artistic processes to challenge these time doctrines, questioning what constitutes productivity by focusing on the meditative process of making rather than just the specific physical outcome of the artworks themselves. The objective of this study, however, is not to challenge the pressures and justifications driving the rapid pace of development within contemporary global political, economic, and societal structures. Instead, I utilise my artistic practice in this autoethnographic project, to study the principles of slowness in this active sensory investigation to analyse, interpret, and reflect on the materiality of bodily experiences, and the ambiguity of time. In this regard, I rely on timely meditative creative processes, to create interactions where I can slow down and immerse myself in investigational artistic practice, critically engaging with ideologies related to the complexities and embodied experience of time. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingsprojek ondersoek die waarde van stadige en sensoriese kunsnavorsingspraktyke as ʼn alternatiewe modus vir die verkenning van hoe die subjektiewe kognisie van tyd en sensoriese ervarings die menslike persepsie kan vorm. Dit word bereik deur ʼn materialistiese benadering tot die etiese beginsels van stadigheid en sensoriese persepsie – en beklemtoon dus die belangrikheid en invloed van die materiële vervlegtings waardeur ʼn individu se subjektiewe ‘werklikheid’ gevorm word. Hierdie benadering tot beliggaamde persepsies is daarop gemik om tradisionele mensgerigte perspektiewe uit te daag. Ter ondersteuning van hierdie kwalitatiewe studie, maak ek gebruik van ʼn a/r/tografiese navorsingsmetodologie wat onderlê word deur ʼn kombinasie van praktiese kuns- en tekstuele navorsingsprosesse om ʼn nuwe begrip van tyd en die rol van stadige en sensoriese kunsprosesse te verken en te genereer. Hierdie praktyke word in hierdie navorsingstudie voorgestel as ʼn alternatiewe manier om die spanning van die vinnige pas van die hedendaagse lewe te navigeer. Die tydleerstellings, maatskaplike waardes en diskoerse rondom tyd in westersgerigte kapitalistiese maatskaplike strukture, wat tyd as suiwer objektief kwantifiseerbaar uitbeeld, word in hierdie navorsingsprojek onder die loep geneem en omvergewerp, deur die integrasie van stadige en sensoriese prosesse soos metaalwerk, keramiek en weefwerk by my kunspraktyke. Op hierdie wyse gaan ek doelbewus met inherent tydrowende kunsprosesse om wat fisiese betrokkenheid verg, om hierdie tydleerstellings uit te daag en te bevraagteken wat produktiwiteit uitmaak, deur te fokus op die meditatiewe proses van maak, eerder as net die spesifieke fisiese uitkoms van die kunswerke self. Die doelwit van hierdie studie is egter nie om die druk en regverdigings wat die snelle tempo van ontwikkeling binne kontemporêre globale politieke, ekonomiese en maatskaplikte strukture aandryf, uit te daag nie. Ek wend eerder my kunspraktyk in hierdie outo-etnografiese projek aan om die beginsels van stadigheid in hierdie aktiewe sensoriese ondersoek te bestudeer ten einde die materialiteit van liggaamlike ervarings en die vaagheid van tyd te ontleed, te vertolk en daaroor te besin. In hierdie verband maak ek staat op tydige meditatiewe kreatiewe prosesse om interaksies te skep waar ek kan verlangsaam en my in ondersoekende kunspraktyk kan verdiep, terwyl ek krities omgaan met ideologieë wat verband hou met die kompleksiteite en beliggaamde ervaring van tyd. Masters 2025-06-09T06:15:28Z 2025-06-09T06:15:28Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132444 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 121 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Jewelry -- South Africa Time -- Social aspects Art and society Place (Philosophy) in art Body image in art Aesthetics Senses and sensation in art Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in art Art -- Research -- Methodology UCTD Schoeman, Jane The sensuous geographies of slow art in practice: a counter-narrative to the accelerated tempo of contemporary living through art jewellery praxis |
| title | The sensuous geographies of slow art in practice: a counter-narrative to the accelerated tempo of contemporary living through art jewellery praxis |
| title_full | The sensuous geographies of slow art in practice: a counter-narrative to the accelerated tempo of contemporary living through art jewellery praxis |
| title_fullStr | The sensuous geographies of slow art in practice: a counter-narrative to the accelerated tempo of contemporary living through art jewellery praxis |
| title_full_unstemmed | The sensuous geographies of slow art in practice: a counter-narrative to the accelerated tempo of contemporary living through art jewellery praxis |
| title_short | The sensuous geographies of slow art in practice: a counter-narrative to the accelerated tempo of contemporary living through art jewellery praxis |
| title_sort | sensuous geographies of slow art in practice a counter narrative to the accelerated tempo of contemporary living through art jewellery praxis |
| topic | Jewelry -- South Africa Time -- Social aspects Art and society Place (Philosophy) in art Body image in art Aesthetics Senses and sensation in art Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in art Art -- Research -- Methodology UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132444 |
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