Marcel Duchamp, Etant donn?©s: 1¬? la chute d’eau / 2¬? le gas d’?©clairage, 1946-66
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Marcel Duchamp, Etant donn?©s: 1¬? la chute d’eau / 2¬? le gas d’?©clairage, 1946-66
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As you may begin to notice, the 2006 Artist of the Month competition is just an excuse for me to think and write about an artist every month. And, as such, there are no rules about who I may chose: they may be from any corner of the world, using any medium, old or new, [...]
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Even if it may sound predictable to Mr Evans, the best words for describing how I feel after reading his paper From Lacan to Darwin are saddened and shocked. You may remember from my First entry on Psychoanalysis that I thought his reference book, ‘Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis’, apart from being incredibly well written, [...]
With thanks to Al for the pictures and the introduction. The image of former Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, certainly feels like finding a palm tree in the desert. With her hair (which she had to demonstrate was real), her symetric face and her dress sense, she breaks the continuum of political / parlamentary life. [...]
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I find that, in order to read and understand psychoanalysis, one needs to dispense of normal processing modes and adopt a different way of understanding. The only other time when I have been faced with a similar intellectual proposition has been during my second attempt at reading JoyceÄôs Ulysses. Psychoanalysis works in associative ways, in [...]
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My desk, this morning My files My insipid attempts at undertanding Lacanian theory through explaining the Schemata to myself
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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.