It is quite difficult to come by artists that are truly seductive. Doing my usual “seduction + artist” search in Google, I came across a page that related Louise Bourgeois to a Brazilian artist named Nazareth Pacheco. I was stunned by her pieces. It is as if someone has taken the lead from Man Ray’s [...]
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Excellent material for my forthcoming article on shoes: Lee Glendinning (2006) Lust for shoes drives women to bin the bills. The Guardian, Thursday August 10, 2006 Shoes wield a Cinderella-like transformative power – you can go from demure to seductive in under 60 seconds.
I am standing in a space by a window with volets [shutters]. The word came to me only in French. In front of the is a horizontal space, like a low and wide windowsill. I am polishing a pair of small scissors. I recognise the scissors as they are those my mother has in her [...]
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This was brought to my attention by the excellent blogger Momus. Needless to say, it has taken Freud’s case studies out of the top of my wish list… Pink. The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture. Edited by Barbara Nemitz. Essays by Hideto Fuse, Karl Schawelka and Thomas von Taschitzki. Numerous contributing artists. Hatje [...]
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Channel 4′s Seduction School was peripherally interesting but the programme incurs in the same mistakes as any other TV programme on seduction. The presenters, who obviously are very conversant with seduction techniques, are trendy, beautiful and confident whereas the poor guinea pigs have traumas, physical issues and little or no experience. The aim of the [...]
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Surely there must be a difference between seductive and tasteless objects… Hello Kitty has defitenitely led her astray… Otherwise, why would anyone do this to a Ferrari? Is it just that what is seductive for her is not seductive for me? Does one’s perception change if one found out these pictures were photoshoped? This Mitsubishi, [...]
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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.