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 - the suspension of disbelief and a moment of dissonance. What do these brief, frictionless scenarios offer, and how much does it matter, if at all, that the intimacy is only imagined?
