The Glasgow School of Art have offered me the 0.6 Research Degrees Coordinator job, which I was delighted to accept. I will start on the week begining 18 July, after moving all the way up from London.
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The Glasgow School of Art have offered me the 0.6 Research Degrees Coordinator job, which I was delighted to accept. I will start on the week begining 18 July, after moving all the way up from London.
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Conference Abstract What could art learn from design, what might design learn from art? Some practice-based art doctorates. Beryl Graham, University of Sunderland, UK Aimed at artists and designers involved in Ph.D. research, this paper briefly outlines four examples of doctoral research projects at Sunderland University: Johnston’s glass Ph.D. involving materials research, Hogarth’s practice-led sculpture [...]
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For those of you who are Spanish or hispanophiles, I have uploaded translations of my writings on Sophie Calle and Julio Medem, published in The MindÄôs Construction. Great thanks go to Juan Martin Pinila, who helped me undertand the boundaries between the two languages and made shake off some of this provincial Spanglish. * Para [...]
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In January, I decided to chose 12 seductive objects and write an article about each one of them. My first choice was an obvious one, being an object adored by those who own it, desired by those who don’t. You can read all about it in the updated writings page.
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The most recent addition to the site is an essay on the photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper, which was originally published in Arttra. Read it in the writings section.
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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.