Praxis Artspace, 2021
Heyyy Baby…..
In the 1940’s “Lonesome Gal” Jean King purred across the Dayton, Ohio airwaves to thousands of devoted listeners; 80 years later millions of hours of role-playing “personal attention” videos populate the internet. (Personal Attention) explores a shared need, evident across decades, to feel as though someone is with us and that we are not only noticed, but welcomed. A tension exists between physical and digital, sensation and illusion. What do these brief, frictionless scenarios offer, and how much does it matter, if at all, that the intimacy is only imagined?
