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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

Jamieson Webster serves as a torchbearer for a field out of popular favour Her practice, psychoanalysis, was last century’s therapeutic craze These days, we prefer to treat our mental ailments with gluten-free diets, astrology as self-help, mindfulness apps, and big pharma, the latter of which Webster, a Freudian with a private practice in New York City, elegantly critiqued in The New York Review of Books last year To commit, as psychoanalysis asks of you, to multiple sessions a week for an indeterminate period of treatment, is so uncontemporary, it’s due for a comeback If anyone can make that happen, it’s Webster, who is taking an on-the-ground approach to psychoanalytic advocacy, regularly publishing, lecturing, and performing in local academic, art, literary, and even fashion contexts   At the last New York Fashion Week, Webster, alongside philosopher Chiara Bottici and Professor of Visual Culture Melissa Ragona, performed a panel discussion inspired by Batsheva Hay’s modest dress as part of the designer’s Spring 2020 presentation For the occasion, Webster wore a flouncy powder pink Batsheva frock; risking infantilising femininity, the look rather reaffirmed the analyst’s – and female – authority Ten months earlier, Webster donned a white clinician’s coat, clipboard in hand, for the ‘immersive theatre’ performance Sick! The Psychoanalytic Field Hospital Led by Webster and philosophical investigator Todd Altschuler, alongside poet, lawyer and performance artist Vanessa Place, this ticketed event invited participants to subject themselves to a realistically-abusive fictitious mental hospital hosted in a former limousine garage At the end, the audience of some eighty-odd patients were applauded by the doctors for having survived, as the hospital transformed into a kitsch tiki-bar Valhalla The play was a launch for Webster’s second book, Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis (The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: On Unconscious Desire and Its Sublimation was her first) Webster has also co-authored Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine with Simon Critchley; Figure Out with Marcus Coelen; and has an essay in the John Currin: Men monograph   The cover of Conversion Disorder features a wisp of smoke on black, as if a

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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September 2011

Interview with Marnie Weber

Timothée Chaillou

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September 2011

Los Angeles-based artist Marnie Weber has spent her career weaving music, performance, collage, photography and performance together into her...

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February 2012

Sunday

Rachael Allen

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February 2012

Supermarket Warehouse This is the ornate layer: in the supermarket warehouse, boxed children’s gardens rocking on a fork-lift truck,...

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Issue No. 11

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Rob Halpern

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Issue No. 11

Obscene Intimacy My soldier was found unresponsive restrained In his cell death being due to blunt force injuries To...

 

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