A dissertation in fulfilment of the
Degree of Masters of Arts in Fine Arts (MAFA)
at the University of Witwatersrand
2014 / Catherine
Wood
describes
our
society
today
as
an
entanglement
between
languages,
time,
space,
intimacy,
drama
and
diversity
(Wood
2012:
10).
Ian
Chambers
affirms
that
the
notion
of
communicating
or
recounting
with
greater
multi-‐dimensionality,
enacting
or
displaying
more
than
one
perspective
at
the
same
time,
seems
to
better
facilitate
the
complexity
involved
in
communication
itself
(Chambers
2000:
25).
Interaction
in
today’s
context
is
therefore
a
complex
experience
that
can
position
many
modes
of
engagement
in
the
same
moment.
The
following
dissertation
explores
the
process
of
translating
more
than
one
visual
language
–
here,
painting
and
performance.
It
explores
how
the
interdisciplinary
nature
of
visual
languages
can
interpret
experience
as
multifaceted,
lending
greater
perspective
to
concepts,
issues
and
subject
matter.
Walter
Benjamin
suggests
that
this
is
only
possible
because
languages
“are
not
strangers
to
one
another,
but
are,
a
priori
and
apart
from
all
historical
relationships,
interrelated
in
what
they
want
to
express”
(Benjamin
1969:
72).
Benjamin’s
text
introduces
the
idea
of
translation
between
languages
as
a
mode,
a
natural
way
of
interaction.
I
will
use
his
concept
of
translation
to
explain
my
interest
in
the
conflation
between
painting
and
performance,
and
how
this
process
reflects
on
a
particular
experience
our
current
context.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/16974 |
| Date | 13 February 2015 |
| Creators | Osso, Tamara |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
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