Laura Gonzalez

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14 Dec 2006

Sometimes, after analysis, I feel just like my objects

Email received today at 14:38:

Dear artist,

We would like to thank you again for contributing to Objects in Waiting and to GIFT. Over the six days that GIFT took place, 83 of the exhibits were given away to visitors; however, we regret that the object that you contributed was not one of these, as no suitable request was made for its use. Like the many unwanted gifts that linger in their packaging after Christmas day, the fate of your object remains as yet undecided.

If you would like to bestow the responsibility on to us, we will endeavour to resolve the matter in a way that befits the now very complex status of these objects. If you would prefer to be reunited with your object we can return it to you by post or in person.

Please consider this and let us know what you decide, and be assured that no action will take place unless we hear from you.

Best wishes,

P— and D—

www.sheffieldart.blogspot.com
www.objectsinwaiting.co.uk

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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.