Ecology of Attention is organized in five performance-exhibitions in Berlin and Prague in collaboration with Berlin-based and Czech artists, curators and theater makers.
Inspired by Yves Citton’s eponymous book, the project aims to open up a dialogue about the notion of attention in the digital age. Looking at attention not only as an individual act of selecting objects from environments, or as a premium commodity, but also as something that is collectively organized and valued. In five chapters, the Ecology of Attention series explores how the many definitions of attention – as a currency, a capacity, a filter, a spotlight, a moral responsibility – come together and what it means to claim it.
Ecology of Attention studies different methodologies of how to present live art while also functioning as a testing ground for the format of the performance-exhibition. To expand on the methodology, each event is conceptualized with curators and artists from different fields in a collaborative effort.