Laura Gonzalez

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29 Jun 2006

Drawing as a mode of enquiry

Betty Boo

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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2 Responses to “Drawing as a mode of enquiry”

  1. bridget said:

    Are you the artist who did BETTY BOOP and her skeleton?? I’d love a copy

  2. Laura Gonzalez said:

    Hi Bridget,

    Unfortunately, it is not me who did that drawing, but an artist named Michael Paulus. You may be able to get in touch with him through his website: http://michaelpaulus.com

    Good luck!

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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.