Disordered Attention
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How technology and the politics of attention changed the way we look at art
The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance has changed. How are we expectedto engage with today''s diverse practice? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has itgiven way to browsing, skimming, and sampling?
Across four provocative and insightful essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice. Charting a critical path through the last three decades, Bishop pinpoints how spectatorship and visual literacy are evolving under the pressures of digital technology.
She explores how researched-based exhibitions have proliferated turning the artist into an investigator or archivist with mixed results. Spatial performance can now involve the artist, dancers, or even the audience as participants, often framed with Instagram in mind. The political event is not longer activated without an understanding of the media that will record and distribute it. The proliferation of works that use modernist architecture is noticeable; but has this become a shorthand for something else?
Disordered Attention is a vital survey of 21st century art, from one of the leading art thinkers ofour times.
The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance has changed. How are we expectedto engage with today''s diverse practice? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has itgiven way to browsing, skimming, and sampling?
Across four provocative and insightful essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice. Charting a critical path through the last three decades, Bishop pinpoints how spectatorship and visual literacy are evolving under the pressures of digital technology.
She explores how researched-based exhibitions have proliferated turning the artist into an investigator or archivist with mixed results. Spatial performance can now involve the artist, dancers, or even the audience as participants, often framed with Instagram in mind. The political event is not longer activated without an understanding of the media that will record and distribute it. The proliferation of works that use modernist architecture is noticeable; but has this become a shorthand for something else?
Disordered Attention is a vital survey of 21st century art, from one of the leading art thinkers ofour times.
