Well, that is it until next September. I have completed the first phase of my analysis and it has given me a substantial amount of material to think about. Psychoanalysis is very different from what I initially thought. Not surprising, since, like art, it is a subject area where id?©es re?ßues are the norm. For [...]
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Character skeletons by Michael Paulus found in Dadanoias There is a strange reversibility in the purpose of his drawings, a cross purpose in trying to give a drawing (or cartoon) a human skeleton. A contradiction… I am not sure if I like it or if it is unbearably smug…
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I may be making flimsy connections here but yesterday, in that Alpha state we all go through before dropping to sleep, in that state of utter clarity and receptiveness, Francesca Woodman’s On being an angel came to my mind and supperimposed itself to Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even. (Oh God, that [...]
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I am reading Baudrillard’s The ecstasy of communication, by far the lightest of his books. I can say I am even enjoying it. While reading it, I can’t take this piece off my mind. This is my favourite 2006 Degree Show piece so far… Its mirrors, its nostalgia, its absence are inescapable… A riddle, a [...]
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When no one was looking, I loaded this page… Laura Gonzalez in the degree show…
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Naia del Castillo, Seductor. Photograph, Cibachrome, Edition 1/10, 103 cm x 103 cm, 2002. Artium Collection, Spain. Naia del Castillo, Cortejo. Photograph, Cibachrome, Edition 7/10, 100 cm x 76 cm, 2002. Artium Collection, Spain. Naia del Castillo, Corral. Photograph, Cibachrome, Edition 1/10, 87 cm x 100 cm, 2004. Artium Collection, Spain. Naia del Castillo, Corral. [...]
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This is excellent news! I suppose this means that, if I was in two minds about attending my third Biennale, Felix might have swayed the lever into the yes position.
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I want to paste this quote from the magnificent K-Punk journal because I suspect I am going to want to refer to it later: Deleuze proclaims that the ‘only enemy is two’. He understoods perfectly well that a split is involved but is unable to grant any ontological specificity to the concept of the split, [...]
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My analysis is beginning to go into that dark place we all have and feel scared to talk about. Transference, of course, is developing at the same time and I am beginning to feel a kind of tenderness for this man, similar to what one might feel for a father figure. This is enhanced by [...]
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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.