Attention has become the hegemonic form of capital. The exponential emancipation of media production has been met by a larger regime of media consumption. Screens seep into every toilet break and private exchange. Concurrent with this landscape is the changing make-up of public space, visible in France and elsewhere as an emptying out through privatisation and surveillance.
At the heart of a site-specific installation rests a program broadcasting over a duet of screens. A real time collage of loose essays on the politics of attention. Paid, gifted, stolen, broken. Slices of life at high frame rate, text and voice memos, AI-regurgitated ads, piercing through the diverted design logic of today’s major platforms.
Pissoir (Pulse)
2min, recording of 2-channel live feed
This text has been a sort of mantra for a few years, always slightly mutable. What you hear and read is always the same text, but the images, audio samples and interface design may change at each cycle of the program.
So, above is merely an iteration of the two screens.
Pissoir (Red Dot 1, 2, 3 and Pulse)
2024
Presented as part of Panorama 26 at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains.
With the collaboration of Damien Baïs (programming), Raphaël Zucconi (Sound recording), Ssaliva (Original music), Ethan Assouline (French translation).