Join in community as we read about and discuss art history, contemporary art, artists’ inspirations, and more. We're meeting to connect to our local arts community and discuss various topics related to art! Our first book will be Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop.
Please RSVP here if you plan on attending! Refreshments will be provided.
This won't be like other book clubs--whether or not you've read (or heard of) this book, we want you there! This book will be a starting point for discussion, but anyone with lived experience as an artist, art lover, or creator will be able to contribute to the conversation.
If you’d like to borrow or purchase the book beforehand, physical copies can be found at:
Hennepin County Libraries
Black Garnet Books - $26.95
Moon Palace Books - $26.95
Magers & Quinn - $24.26
More about the book:
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 expectedto engage with today's diverse practice? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has itgiven way to browsing, skimming, and sampling?
Across four provocative and insightful essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice. Charting a critical path through the last three decades, Bishop pinpoints how spectatorship and visual literacy are evolving under the pressures of digital technology.
She explores how researched-based exhibitions have proliferated turning the artist into an investigator or archivist with mixed results. Spatial performance can now involve the artist, dancers, or even the audience as participants, often framed with Instagram in mind. The political event is not longer activated without an understanding of the media that will record and distribute it. The proliferation of works that use modernist architecture is noticeable; but has this become a shorthand for something else?
Disordered Attention is a vital survey of 21st century art, from one of the leading art thinkers of our times.