With thanks to the always excellent Manolo and his friends Susan and Nina for pointing this out. Sounds like something I will need to refer to! “Shoes: Innovations at Your Feet” Opens in USPTO Museum A new exhibit opened on July 13, 2006 in the Department of Commerce’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Museum. [...]
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Freud writes: It is well known that no way has yet been found to embed the convictions that are gained through analysis within any account of the analysis itself. Certainly nothing would be gained by providing exhaustive minutes of what took place during analytic sessions; moreover, the techniques of the treatment preclude the production of [...]
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From Apple Insider Apple: iPods built to last 4 years By Katie Marsal Published: 12:00 PM EST Apple Computer says its iPod digital music players are built to last four years and have a failure rate that is lower than other consumer electronics devices. Although there have been several accounts in which the iconic music [...]
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Iranzu Antona . “Las puntillas, los botones, los hilos, el pijama, la radio, el pa?±uelo…ahora los tengo yo”, 2006. Installation, textile structures
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These two drawings I made will appear in the Post It Exhibition: Happy is the bride and the sun shines on / The Mirror (or Poppy Red) 2 August to 3 September 2006 Atkinson Art Gallery Lord Street Southport ADMISSION FREE Opening times: Monday CLOSED Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 10am Äì 5pm Friday: 12 Äì 5pm [...]
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If Julio asked me to title his latest collage, I would call this one “Solipsism, or the view that the self is the only thing known to exist”. I like it. Especially since, like often happens with one’s images, I did not instantly recognise myself. Obviously I was not there Äìthis is what these images [...]
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I agree with Manolo. Crocs are certainly the opposite of seduction. Visually, they present an interesting juxtaposition: They share some elements of their proper function1 and the the colour. Other than that, the perception, for a viewer (or owner) looking for a seductive experience, couldn’t be different. The seductive experience is not a question of [...]
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Last night I deamt my partner left me for another woman. When he told me so, he said I was mere “drapery” in his life. Drapery (From Oxford English Dictionary Online) 1. Cloth or textile fabrics collectively. 2. a. The trade or business of a draper; the manufacture of cloth (obs.); now, the sale of [...]
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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.