(Photo: Mathilda Khoo)
“You see, if you live by perception, as all artists must, then you sometimes have to wait for a long time for your mind to tell you the next step to take.”
“Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us.
It is something we do.”
“When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.”
Pauline Oliveros
“Style is analog. Style is a matter of perception.”
Kyle Beachy, The Most Fun Thing (2021)
“The artworks I’ve described so far could be thought of as training apparatuses for attention. By inviting us to perceive at different scales and tempos than we’re used to, they teach us not only how to sustain attention but how to move it back and forth between different registers.”
Jenny Odell, How To Do Nothing (2019)
“Experimentation, exploring, sound, and listening. To listen to backgrounds. You should always be listening to what is in the background, of whatever it is…I’m trying to round up the capacity of what the ear can perceive.”
“Essentially, seeing is—it’s not only here, but all the way around us. It’s like we’re within an envelope of our senses and we’re being fed information at every moment by all of our senses. That’s actually how we perceive. And at some point, if you take perception as a position, the idea of a frame looks like a highly stylized, learned logic. We’re addicted to it—so much so that in an instant, we can read things on a screen, we can immediately understand and even put emotion into it.”
“This magic trick and many others rest heavily on a quirky aspect of our mind, analogous to the grand illusion in being a dramatic and pervasive misperception of our own perception – but quite the opposite in terms of the direction of the misperception. Rather than being a case of sighted blindness, this is a case of unsighted vision.”
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