Laura Gonzalez

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11 Feb 2007

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 even convince my boss to get us tickets for the gala dinner. That would be nice. I am also strangely looking forward to the paper, even though I shouldn’t be, as I haven’t seen a finished version yet. I like speaking in public (says the Thespian in me). But the city is what interests me the most about the whole thing. Lucky me, I am going there twice this year! Pics and post on return.

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One Response to “The conference butterfly”

  1. Juan said:

    Qu» bien, qu» envidia, Nueva York!… Eager to see those pics. J

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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.