Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
The way 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.
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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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<div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small">Claire Bishop is a Professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include <span class="a-text-italic">Installation Art: A Critical History</span> and the award winning, <span class="a-text-italic">Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship</span>.</div>
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