Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today - Claire Bishop collaboration make readers think

make readers think

From algorithmic composition to methods of resynthesis

bringing back to the fore the role of memory in capturing the kernel of an artistic time

the book concludes with two prose pieces that dwell on the concepts of “isthmus” and “drift

A sound has no legs to stand on Un son n'a pas des jambes sur lesquelles se tenir

Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today - Claire Bishop collaboration make readers thinkPRE ORDER 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 expected to engage with todays diverse practice? Is the old model of close looking still the ideal, or has it given way to browsing, skimming, and sampling? Across four provocative and insightful essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice.