Illusive objects: An investigation into the embodiment of memory through contemporary jewellery

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dc.contributor.advisorGroenewald, Joanien_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLandsberg, Lara Darylen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-22T10:37:08Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-29T09:23:33Z
dc.date.available2022-02-22T10:37:08Z
dc.date.available2022-04-29T09:23:33Z
dc.date.issued2022-04
dc.descriptionThesis MA (VA)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation encompasses an investigation into the multifaceted and open-ended nature of memory. I interrogate my childhood memories, situated in the context of my grandparents’ home, through re-interacting with the objects from within their home. I use their objects in my jewellery praxis, as a means of externalising my childhood memories but I also distort and fragment their objects as a means of commenting on the fragmented, fragile nature of memory. In this regard, my Ouma’s diagnosis of dementia is a pivotal aspect throughout this study. The fragmented and fragile nature of memory demonstrates its unstable and inconsistent nature. As such, my theoretical investigation and my practical body of work inform one another and unpack the various elements that influence and manipulate memory. In this regard, these elements prompt the reconstruction, imagining, fictionalisation, and selection of the past rather than a consistent representation of the past.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie word die veelvlakkige en onbepaalde aard van geheue ondersoek. Daar word verwys na die herinneringe wat ek uit my kinderjare koester – spesifiek dít wat ek rondom my grootouers se huis onthou. As deel van die proses om hierdie kosbare herinneringe van my kinderjare te eksternaliseer, herskep ek voorwerpe uit hulle huis in my juwelierspraktyk. Ek omvorm en fragmenteer hierdie gevonde voorwerpe uit my ouma se huis in my kreatiewe proses om sodoende kommentaar te lewer op die gefragmenteerde, verbeelde en brose aard van geheue. My ouma se diagnose met demensie was ’n belangrike katalisator vir hierdie studie. Die gefragmenteerde en brose aard van die geheue, soos ervaar word deur my ouma as demensie-lyer, demonstreer die onstabiele en verraderlike aard daarvan. My studie integreer teoretiese navorsing en kunspraktyk op verskeie vlakke. Daar is ’n wisselwerking tussen my praktiese werk en my teoretiese ondersoek wat gestalte vind in die verskillende elemente wat geheue beinvloed en manipuleer. Die elemente wat ek verken, fokus eerder op die rekonstruktiewe, verbeeldingryke, fiktiewe en selektiewe aard van geheue, as op ’n akkurate uitbeelding van die verlede.af_ZA
dc.description.versionMastersen_ZA
dc.format.extentxi, 138 pages : illustrationsen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124634
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subjectCollective memoryen_ZA
dc.subjectBody languageen_ZA
dc.subjectHuman body -- Symbiolic aspectsen_ZA
dc.subjectArt, Abstracten_ZA
dc.subjectAestheticsen_ZA
dc.subjectArt, Modern -- 21st centuryen_ZA
dc.subjectDementiaen_ZA
dc.subjectAlzheimer's disease
dc.titleIllusive objects: An investigation into the embodiment of memory through contemporary jewelleryen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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