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+++ Fully booked +++ Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
In cooperation with Texte zur Kunst, KW Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to host the launch of Claire Bishop's new book: Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today, published by Verso Books.
Image gallery
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Claire Bishop begins with a short talk on her reflections on the changing ways we encounter contemporary art and performance.
This is followed by a conversation between Bishop, Caroline Lillian Schopp (Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University) and Léon Kruijswijk (Curator, KW).
About Disordered Attention
Installations fill with archival documents. Dances extend for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are scattered across thirty locations. There are countless artworks about mid-century architecture and design.
How should people engage with the diverse practice of the present? Is the old principle of close observation still the ideal, or has it given way to browsing, skimming and sampling?
In four essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop highlights trends in contemporary art practice – research-based installations, performance exhibitions, interventions, and allusions to modernist architecture – and questions traditional forms of attention. She critically describes a path through the last three decades, showing how the viewer's gaze and visual ability are evolving under the influence of digital technology.
Claire Bishop is a professor in the PhD program in art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship Radical Museology, or, What's Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? and a book of conversations between herself and the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera
Caroline Lillian Schopp is an assistant professor of modern and contemporary art at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on performance and body art, art and the critique of violence, and feminist historiographies. Her forthcoming book, In-action: Viennese Actionism and the Passivities of Performance Art, argues for an approach to the history of performance art beyond the action paradigm.
Location: KW courtyard
Registration at reservation@kw-berlin.de
(IN ENGLISH)
Additional information
Meeting point: KW courtyard
Booking: Registration via reservation@kw-berlin.de
Dates
August 2024
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