Laura Gonzalez

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RF2 report

I have submitted a complete first draft of my confirmation report to my supervisors. I think I now walk 4 inches taller!

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New York report

So, New York was amazing. Despite the cold, the snow, the blizzard, the College Art Association conference was full to the brim and our paper went very well. I judge the outcome of papers by the questions asked at the end: there were tricky ones, there were engaging ones and there were ones which showed [...]

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Melanie Carvalho’s expedition

Some of my thoughts on Melanie Carvalho’s book Expedition have been published on
ART & RESEARCH, Volume 1. No. 1. Winter 2006/07, a new e-journal looking at research in contemporary art practice. Something much needed, in my opinion…

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The conference butterfly

I am getting really excited about going to New York. The College Art Association conference looks busy and interesting and, in a similar fashion than in the Biennale’s press days, lots extra seems to be going on. I think I will go to see the MFA show at Hunter College and perhaps I can [...]

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Louboutin… sigh

Shoes are one of those things I can’t resist. The inside signature, the hidden red on the heel throw shivers down my spine. What… who would I be if I wore these?
With many thanks to the Manolo, ever inspiring.

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The language of seduction

Just finished reading Tortajada, M (2004) Eric Rohmer and the mechanics of seduction. Studies in French Cinema, 4 (3). pp. 229-238. In this paper, she examines a category of seduction, which she calls seduction through ambiguity, by studying Eric Rohmer’s Conte d’automne. In passing, she mentions other methods of seduction which she discusses in her [...]

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Feminine seduction #2

Hannah Hoch

Kiki Smith
I am still surprised to find that this subject of feminine seduction has been so unconscious within my research. But the evidence is there! With the two new images above, let’s recap where we are at:
Pilar Albarracin, Iranzu Antona, Naia del Castillo, Vicky Civera, Sylvie Fleury, Hannah Hoch, Mary Kelly, Sharon Kivland, Cathy [...]

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About Me

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.