Daniella Aguiar

Semiosis and intersemiotic translation

Abstract This paper explores Victoria Welbys fundamental assumption of meaning process (“semiosis” sensu Peirce) as translation, and some implications for the development of a general model of intersemiotic translation.

C. S. Peirce and Intersemiotic Translation

Intersemiotic translation (IT) was defined by Roman Jakobson (The Translation Studies Reader, Routledge, London, p. 114, 2000) as “transmutation of signs”—“an interpretation of verbal signs by means of signs of nonverbal sign systems.” Despite its theoretical relevance, and in spite of the frequency in which it is practiced, the phenomenon remains virtually unexplored in terms of conceptual modeling, especially from a semiotic perspective. Our approach is based on two premises: (i) IT is fundamentally a semiotic operation process (semiosis) and (ii) IT is a deeply iconic-dependent process. We exemplify our approach by means of literature to dance IT and we explore some implications for the development of a general model of IT.

From Gertrude Stein to Dance: Repetition and Time in Intersemiotic Translation

Gertrude Stein is considered one of the most radical literary experimentalists of twentieth-century literature. Here we focus on how repetition and time in Steins work are intersemiotically translated in two contemporary dance pieces, Always Now Slowly (2010, by Lars Dahl Pedersen) and,e [dez episódios sobre a prosa topovisual de gertrude stein] (2008, by João Queiroz, Daniella Aguiar, and Rita Aquino).

An Intersemiotic Translation of a Mobile Art Project to a Photographic Essay

VIA is a mobile art project (video-dance and computational music) semiotically translated to photographic media by means of formal constraints derived from selected properties of Rio de Janeiro’s predefined downtown routes. Under the constraints of street buildings and the morphology of the routes, questions regarding the influence of the bodily movements of the urban space led to the creation of a dance typology. This typology is related to pedestrians in the area and to the structure of the buildings spans where the performance happened. The dance movements captured in the videos were restricted and regulated by the physical environment and its main features. Here, an intersemiotic translation of a mobile art project to a photographic essay is presented and described. It strongly relates, and tentatively explores, both an artistic research praxis and a theoretical discussion. The essay explores an analogous semiotic effect from the VIA project on the photographic essay as a result of this investigation.

Sobre a tradução intersemiótica de gertrude Stein

Here we describe an experiment on intersemiotic translation [5.sobre.o.mesmo]. This dance piece translates a literary portrait by Gertrude Stein, “Orta or One Dancing”. It can be described as a creative “translation lab” exhibiting the results of independent translations by five dancers/choreographers, also by the composer and the architect. The main objective of this project was to make explicit the processes of Stein’s text recreation, when it comparatively exhibits different repertoires and strategies, on the same source.