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 (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).