From my excellent trip to Berlin, I brought you the most beautiful piece of work I have seen in a long time… Look at the knife, the necklace, the transparent fabric… And there there is the look. What is that look saying? Ah, so much defiance… She will do it if you push her, you [...]
Read this entry | 5 Comments »
Rigorous Holes: Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Theory in Art and Performance Research. A conference on the use of Psychoanalytic Theory in Art and Performance for doctoral students, organised by The Research Centre at Wimbledon College of Art and the School of Social Sciences, Brunel University. The Red Room, Chelsea College of Art, Millbank 29 and 30 [...]
Read this entry | 3 Comments »
From the beautiful Locher’s collection and with a zillion thanks to Michael.
Read this entry | 3 Comments »
… from Susanna Hesselberg … from Melanie Pullen … from Sylvie Fleury … from Pilar Albarracin
Read this entry | No Comments »
So far we have: reflexivity and mystery and Object (a) and systems; screens and layers and me and not-me; the subject and the object and desire and the fetish; use value and exchange value and surplus and commodification; gaze and the fall of gaze and tripping and not quite seeing; things and wanting to posess [...]
Read this entry | No Comments »
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.