Claire Bishop

Disordered Attention (eBook, ePUB)

How We Look at Art and Performance Today

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The reception of art and performance is changing. Smartphones and social media have troubled the old model of individual appreciation and close looking, giving rise to new forms of mediated perception, such as sampling, skimming and scrolling. Charting recent trends in contemporary practice - research-based installations, performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture - leading art critic Claire Bishop challenges the assumption that fully focused attention is automatically good and distraction necessarily bad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804292907
• Artikelnr.: 70442515

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

Today, the most contemporary art form could be called cancelism. Cancelism as an art historical genre reflects the global shift to populism, disinformation and polarization. Cancelism is anonymous, crowd based, ubiquitous, it privileges affect over analysis, it goes beyond traditional understandings of left and right. In her lucid analysis, Claire Bishop traces some of the historical developments that led to this situation: the futurist glorification of disruption, countercultural interventions based on the model of coup d´états, artivist decisionism - different threads through which disruption and transgression were consolidated as key modes of production from Silicon Valley to Pussy Riot. For anyone who wants to understand how art functions in the age of populism, Bishops book is an indispensable guide. Hito Steyerl, author of Duty Free Art