“It’s Okay, Don’t
Pay Attention”
(2013) performed
at California
College of Art,
San Francisco,
CA. Image still
from video documentation.
PS: Let’s move on to your engagement of the senses.
In “It’s Okay, Don’t Pay Attention,” you use audio
recordings to convey how vision is a deeply subjective experience. What we see, in other words, is
more or less what we want to see. Eventually, you
highlight the emergence of the default mode network, a set of brain regions that are active when
the brain is “at rest.” What do you think this reveals
about the individual’s concept of the “self ”? And
who is more in tune with it—the patrons at the
exhibit, who are hearing and seeing your work,
or you as the desensitized, ostensibly disembodied
spectacle in the piece?
ZM: For me, and I don’t surmise this