Laura Gonzalez

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Note to Self

Also, this wonderful website. What has this project got to do with seduction?

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Art of a fine kind

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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Reconciling the Perfect Lovers

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 [...]

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Seduce Me

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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Banksy’s new work

…on the Palestinian side of the barrier Israel is constructing in the West Bank. Marvellous.

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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.