Attention Scores (2023)

3x 3D prints on cotton (0,84 x 2 m), 3D print on cotton (3 x 2 m), animation loop 1’30’’, 2x digital print on pcv (1 x 0,5 m), clay, crotcheted fabric, chains

installation view from the exhibition “Attention Scores”
The attention economy tries to maintain a constant level of anxiety. Notification bars flashing, constant FOMO. Remember when you had a fidget spinner? In 2017. On the sides of the screen I see ads - consistent with previous searches, with an algorithmic image of me, in a binary economy of bodies. The body, and with it its contexts, however, are absent. At the time of their appearance - fidget spinners were supposed to help neurodiverse people manage attention, act as stress relievers and aid focus. (At the same time, they remained a strangely satisfying pastime.) The toy’s formula, simple design and immediate functionality (or practical lack thereof) made it a target potentially everyx - they appeared in schools, corporate office buildings and offices. A few months later, spinners landed in cultural, as well as totally real, landfills. Seeing attention as the last resource we are capable of releasing, Jenny Odell suggests doing nothing - taking over our own attention, scaling it, choosing where to direct it ourselves. I don’t feel fatigue - I’ve turned off my receptors, I’m trying to keep up. I hide my gross fluids, spots, shapes. They do not rush, they have their own intentions. Uncontrolled - they inspire fear. How to join them, queer the algorithm, relax? I replace the category of fear with curiosity. I notice my own materiality - a common point with other existences. I extend time.


installation view from the exhibition “Attention Scores”


installation view from the exhibition “Attention Scores”


installation view from the exhibition “Contemporary Echoes: The Ones Who Wait”