One of the most amazing things about doing research is finding, along the way, selfless people who really want to help and suggest practitioners, texts or ideas. A project is a good project when people get interested and have opinions as it shows the general need for a piece of research to be carried out. [...]
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Talking about one’s research project, when it hasn’t even started properly is a very difficult thing. For the time being, I can only articulate the working title, arrived at after much thought and consultation:
‘Leading Astray: towards a practice-based methodology for the creation of objects of seduction in Fine Art’
Hopefully, this will suffice until I look [...]
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Laura Gonzalez is an artist and writer. Her practice encompasses drawing, photography and sculpture, and her work has been exhibited in the UK, Spain and Portugal. She has participated in numerous conferences, including Research into Practice (2008), College Arts Association and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (2007). When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx's footsteps with her camera, she lectures postgraduate students at the Glasgow School of Art.
She is currently immersed in an interdisciplinary project, which investigates psychoanalytic approaches to making and understanding objects of seduction within the fields of fine art, consumption studies and material culture. Her research includes an examination of parallels between artistic and analytic practices, a study of Manolo Blahnik's shoes as objects of desire, a disturbing encounter with Marcel Duchamp's last work, and the creation of a psychoanalytically inspired Discourse of the Artefact, a framework enabling the circulation of questions and answers through a relational approach to artworks. She seeks refuge and inspiration in psycho-geography, especially if it takes her to shopping centres, those mysterious places.