A very interesting course at Tate Modern. I would so love to have the resources to teach something like this: Led by Lucy Scholes and Richard Martin 10.30-16.00 on 5 June only 10.30-13.00 all the other sessions Combining film, literary and psychoanalytic theory, this six-week course explores the fascinating theoretical connections within the work of [...]
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La seduccion de los objetos / The seduction of objectsFarruggia, Nazario, CrecientePublisher: Embajada de Canada ISBN: 987-43-6600-1Size: 17,5 X 26 cm.Language: SpanishPages: 180
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Reviewing and adapting some of Guy Julier’s thoughts in his book on the Culture of Design:
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YesterdayÄôs BBC programme on attraction (part of the Secret of the Sexes Series) was very thought provoking. Through metrics followed by a series of experiments, scientists were trying to extrapolate the universal rules of attraction. They started working from the hypothesis that people with facial similarity would be attracted to each other. They measured a [...]
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Conference Abstract What could art learn from design, what might design learn from art? Some practice-based art doctorates. Beryl Graham, University of Sunderland, UK Aimed at artists and designers involved in Ph.D. research, this paper briefly outlines four examples of doctoral research projects at Sunderland University: Johnston’s glass Ph.D. involving materials research, Hogarth’s practice-led sculpture [...]
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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.