Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance

How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art

The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread out over thirty venues. There are endless artworks about mid-century architecture and design. How are we expected to engage with today's diverse practise? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has it given way to browsing, skimming, and sampling? Across four essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice - research-based installations, performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture - and their challenges to traditional modes of attention. Charting a critical path through the last three decades, Bishop pinpoints how spectatorship and visual literacy are evolving under the pressures of digital technology.

Auteur

Claire Bishop is a Professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Installation Art: A Critical History and the award winning, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship.

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How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art

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How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art

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Introduction: OS XXI, Disordering Attention

1 Research-Based Art: Information Overload
2 Performance Exhibitions: Black Box, White Cube, Grey Zone
3 Interventions: Seizing the Moment
4 Invocations: Contemporary Art Quotes Modernist Architecture

Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index