Laura Carlson is a painter, situation maker and performance artist.  Carlson’s research considers sexually oriented businesses and corporeal discomfort and how they inform a dialogue on the commodification of the body as well as revealing issues of erotic autonomy, anxiety, and agency. Her intuitive narratives, coupled with her obsessive inquiries into systems of oppression, construct an artificial environment that reconsiders existing social relationships regarding consumerist attitudes towards women and the spatial discomfort of built environments. (Adapted from: http://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/post/90255559402/laura-carlson-artist).