Joint attentional protocols can be performed publicly to draw attention to neglected objects

Evidence

Over the years, the members have developed a broad (and still incomplete) range of precise and ritualized rules which enable them to establish a certain JOINT ATTENTIONAL PROTOCOL for each individual performance: in this way, they play with the fact that our aesthetic attention is structured by temporalities, phases, attitudes, focusing and distancing modes which can be the subject of shared exercises. … Even if this is probably not their primary ambition, the members of The Order of the Third Bird illustrate the possibility of an ATTENTIONAL ACTIVISM in which one makes a conspicuous demonstration of one’s joint attention so as to draw collective attention to an unjustly ignored object. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to collective attention theory and the book’s overarching platform, plus the ADDENDUM on art/practice tensions. — connects to: An attentional experience can reveal whole swaths of familiar environment previously unheard — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 369
• SEED: Angle: attentional activism as a tactic — what would a modern ‘vigil’ for an ignored dataset or a neglected webpage look like?

Broader Connections

• An attentional experience can reveal whole swaths of familiar environment previously unheard #expands (0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 369