Also, this wonderful website. What has this project got to do with seduction?
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Also, this wonderful website. What has this project got to do with seduction?
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Miranda July‘s new film, Me and you and everyone we know is out in the UK. For those of you who don’t know her work, she is the excellent mind behind the Learning To Love You More web-art project. Its latest assignment is: Take a flash photo under your bed. Start creating.
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One of the troubles I am having in my research has to do with identifying contemporary seductive artworks. Vicky Civera’s Sue?ɬ±o Amargo has been the only piece secured in that position. However, having been thinking about for so long has also made it become a little bit of an obsession and I am conscious that [...]
Why a study of seduction, even if in the field of Fine Art, may have wider applications. Magnum 5 Senses Limited Editions Ad storyline: Sensual images of couple together appear among a montage of images to represent the 5 senses of touch, vision, sound, taste and aroma. Creative agency McCann Erickson Advertising LtdCreative Martyn Smith, [...]
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…on the Palestinian side of the barrier Israel is constructing in the West Bank. Marvellous.
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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.