N. Subotincic, Watching You From Across The Room, mixed media photo-collage and acrylic on canvas, 38” x 50”, 2012
- Friday, June 5, 2015
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
Natalija Subotincic writes, “For seven years she collected the bones of everything she ate, began reading Sigmund Freud, and eventually constructed a dining table. This talk will explore how her obsessions have merged with his, around that table, framed by the interpretation of a shrine to the women in his life that she discovered in his study. It will conclude with a short filmic speculation on the psychical constructions she has unearthed from within his founding spaces of Psychoanalysis.” In this performative lecture, Subotincic will examine the symbolism of material culture and the subconscious power of image for a feminist reading of the daily work environment of “the Father of Psychoanalysis."
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Natalija Subotincic is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. Her research and creative works explore relationships between the psyche and physical space, questioning how we construct, experience, and dwell within this territory. Her book, Never Speak With Your Mouth Full, conjoins her personal forays into collecting, an interpretation of Sigmund Freud’s Cabinet and an expansion to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in California.