the world is a museum of obsessions https://t.co/OiQEmX8neR
Curation can be many things:
Curation is the creation of contextualized experiences.
Curation is expression.
Curation is storytelling.
Curation is educational.
Curation is perspective.
Curation is subjective.
As it should be.
As writer Jeffrey Kastner observed: “Attention to the world is the proper vocation not just of the artist but of anyone who imagines it as a place worthy of preservation.”
Rob Walker • The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
attention + curation = taste
We are formed by the structures of modern society to be insatiable consumers of an increasing range of commodified things and experiences and services. There is no art in this, because the tacit assumption that we must buy into along the way is that there is no limit to what we can consume.
L. M. Sacasas • The Art of Living
“an art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space”
The Battle for Attention
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention
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The Battle for Attention
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention
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to save, to add to our collection, the action both etches it a little deeper into our hearts and creates a context around the artifact itself, whether text, song, image, or video. The context is not just for ourselves but for other people, the knit-together, shared context of culture at large. That’s what Benjamin described when he wrote, “The phen
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