Boredom
https://www.cam.ac.uk/cammagazine/benefitsofboredom
Cam84 Magazine, Easter issue 2018 pp 5-29
July 4th
This article investigates the switch in social attitude to boredom with the ever increasing use of and demands made by the non-stop availability of social media. The article by Victoria James interviews Art History tutor Jennifer Roberts from Harvard University about appreciating art. Roberts sets her students the task of spending 3 hours with a single museum artwork to demonstrate that the investment of time allows insights into art that would otherwise not be noticed without spending that time.
Roberts says:
‘Spending time opposes the the general direction of western culture’
‘The faster the technology the more impatient we become’
With this in mind I reflect on the importance to me of spending time in the barn and spending time reflecting within my practice. I realise that I am making demands on my audience to invest time in looking at not much at all, and asking that they stay with the looped repeating moving image, the antithesis of the fast paced and ever stimulated culture.
