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LCA & UWA
presents
LYNCH / LACAN
FROM SCREEN TO SYMPTOM
in Perth, Online & Recorded
Conference
Saturday 12 July, 2025
9:00am – 5:00pm AWST (UTC +8)
Screening
David Lynch’s
LOST HIGHWAY
Keynotes
Todd McGowan,
Russell Grigg,
Leon Brenner
and
Celeste Labaronnie
Lynch / Lacan: From Screen to Symptom was conference to commemorate the late American filmmaker and artist David Lynch, whose eclectic works such as Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway dazzled mainstream cinema audiences for nearly 50 years.
Hosted by the Lacan Circle of Australia and the University of Western Australia, the event brought together theorists from academic and clinical contexts to reflect on the director’s work, with particular reference to the psychic and social resonances which Lynch has left behind.
The conference featured:
Todd McGowan, Russell Grigg, Celeste Labaronnie & Leon Brenner,
and was followed by an evening screening of Lost Highway.
Full Program
Conference
Session I
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, UWA, Introduction
*Todd McGowan, UVM, ‘Envying Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks – The Return:
Episode 8 and the Fantasy of the Salvific Woman’
Session II
*Celeste Labaronnie, UNLP, ‘Taking a stance on dreams: Lacan with Lynch’
Russell Grigg, LCA, ‘What people get wrong about perversion in Blue Velvet’
Session III
Laurent Shervington, UWA, ‘The Suburban Lynch: Repetition in The Angriest Dog, Dumbland, and Blue Velvet’
Jonathan Redmond, LCA, ‘Mulholland Drive / Death Drive’
Session IV
Daniel Wiggins, Audio/Visual Homage to David Lynch
*Leon Brenner, laLAB, ‘Deformativity: the failed performance of the De-formed’
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, UWA, Concluding Discussion / Remarks
(* via Zoom)
Locations & Maps
The daytime conference will take place at the UWA Webb LT (Geography G.21)
The evening screening will take place at the The Backlot 21 Simpson St, West Perth WA 6005
Online Zoom details will be sent after registration. Recordings are available for one month after the conference.
For further information contact:
Tony Hughes-D’Aeth
Laurent Shervington
Jonathan Redmond
LYNCH / LACAN: From Screen to Symptom
Starts July 26!
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