OPTIMAL BRAIN ROT STRATEGY GUIDE: A GUIDED PRACTICE is a performative meditation delivered one-on-one via FaceTime. Installed as a mounted phone on the gallery wall, this interactive piece invites visitors into a satirical wellness session that mirrors and critiques our digital behaviors. Upon engagement, the artist appears via FaceTime to guide participants through a pseudo-meditative practice that deliberately amplifies our worst online habits. This performance piece playfully examines digital addiction, attention fragmentation, and the paradoxical nature of contemporary ‘wellness’ culture, all while highlighting the absurdity of our relationship with technology.
The work was conceived in response to ‘Total Screen Time: Brain Rot,’ a one-night group exhibition curated by Aram Bartholl & Socrates Stamatatos, where artists present digital works through their personal devices mounted on gallery walls. The exhibition celebrates our collective digital consciousness and shared experience of ‘brain rot,’ transforming individual screen time into a communal art experience. In the spirit of the exhibition’s playful approach to our ‘terminally online’ existence, this guided practice turns digital distraction into a ceremonial art form, embracing rather than resisting our perpetual state of scattered attention.
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