The more I read about him, the more puzzled I am by Marcel DuchampÄôs Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors Even). I get as far as understanding that it is a painting of a machine and that The Green Box is roughly its instruction manual. I also more or less understand [...]
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Jean Suquet with Digital Equipment France (Arnaud Gaudinat, Alain Antone, Thierry Haukingham), 1993
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Jean Suquet with Digital Equipment France (Arnaud Gaudinat, Alain Antone, Thierry Haukingham), 1993
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Dany NobusÄô session on psychoanalytic method was extraordinary.
I have been toying with the idea of using psychoanalysis as the core logic underpinning my research but couldnÄôt really articulate why I had unconsciously made this choice. My explanation was a shallow one: LacanÄôs objet petit a is related to seduction and desire in a way I [...]
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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.