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Maier, D 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1738-2001,
2025.
Shifting perspectives: applying intersemiotic translation to enable aspect seeing through unrepeating-repeats in a contemporary art practice.
PhD, Nottingham Trent University.
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Abstract
This Ph.D. explores how hand-drawn repetition, inspired by historical textile processes and transformed through intersemiotic translation, fosters embodied audience experiences that reveal new aspects of perception, understanding, and narrative. Undertaken as a retrospective Ph.D. by Creative Works, it examines six bodies of artworks created between 2014–2023. These works reimagine textile processes through intersemiotic translation, bridging drawing, writing, and site-specific practices to create transformative experiences.
This study explores textiles through intersemiotic translation as an active practice that transcends material boundaries, drawing on Roman Jakobson's (1959) theories and the experimental approaches expanded by Madeleine Campbell and Ricarda Vidal (2019). The research demonstrates textiles transformative potential by translating their processes into drawn textual forms, fostering nuanced, interdisciplinary dialogues. While textiles have widely been explored in cultural and material contexts, their capacity as agents of translation remains underexplored. This research addresses this limitation, offering new possibilities for understanding textiles as active participants in expanded forms of intersemiotic translations.
The creative practice developed the "unrepeating-repeat" framework, which uses iterative variations to disrupt repetition, fostering perceptual shifts and sustaining audience engagement. Specifically, the unrepeating-repeat facilitates "aspect seeing" by inviting viewers to uncover new perspectives through careful observation. Drawing on Ludwig Wittgenstein's concept of "seeing-as" (1953/2010), this method enables audiences to move between perspectives, fostering moments of discovery where the familiar transforms and differing perspectives emerge within the work.
The originality lies in the creative works' contribution to textile discourse through intersemiotic translation, while its significance emerges from the integration of the intersemiotic translation, aspect seeing, and the unrepeating-repeat into a cohesive framework for artistic creation. The approach expands the interpretive possibilities of textiles, fostering encounters that challenge perceptions, cultivate attention, and encourage critical engagement. By positioning the field of textile practice through the lens of intersemiotic translation, this research offers valuable insights for scholars and practitioners in fine art, textiles, and translation studies.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Creators: | Maier, D. |
| Contributors: | Name Role NTU ID ORCID |
| Date: | February 2025 |
| Rights: | The copyright in this work is held by the author. You may copy up to 5% of this work for private study, or personal, non-commercial research. Any re-use of the information contained within this document should be fully referenced, quoting the author, title, university, degree level and pagination. Queries or requests for any other use, or if a more substantial copy is required, should be directed to the author. |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Art and Design |
| Record created by: | Jeremy Silvester |
| Date Added: | 18 Jul 2025 12:29 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2025 12:29 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53985 |
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