Laura Gonzalez

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Plan of Work

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No Pressure

I am submitting my application today if I can resist the temptation to proffread it for the 459th time. I am sure there are things I could do but my eyes won’t see anymore. With 2 part time jobs, a full time course, a social life and a few articles to write, I must let [...]

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Law of Desire

…necesitaba tenerte asi al precio que fuera……I needed to have you like this at whatever the price… Law of desire by Pedro Almodovar, 1986

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One Seduction Per Month

iPod / Philippe Starck’s Juicy Salif Gold, 2000 / Manolo Blahnik’s design for Ossie Clark, 1972 Asolut Vodka bottle / Marcel Duchamp’s La mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires, meme / Lego Post-it notes / Kevin Robert’s book Lovemarks, 2004 / Sueno amargo by Victoria Civera Hello Kitty / La ley del deseo, Pedro [...]

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Research Cult

It must be professional deformation or mental illness. Each time I have to present in front of an audience, about any subject whatsoever, I appear to be the only one who has written it down in grammatically correct text rather that bullet pointed keywords, the only one who has rehearsed and timed the talk, one [...]

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About Me

Laura Gonzalez is an artist and writer. Her recent practice encompasses film, dance, photography and text, and her work has been exhibited and published in the UK, Spain and Portugal. She has spoken at numerous conferences and events, including the Museum for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, the Medical Museum in Copenhagen, College Arts Association and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx’s footsteps with her camera, she lectures postgraduate students at the Glasgow School of Art.

Her doctoral project, completed in 2010, investigated psychoanalytic approaches to making and understanding objects of seduction, including 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 is currently immersed in an interdisciplinary project exploring knowledge and the body of the hysteric.