Whether licking Louis Vuitton handbags or burying himself neck-high in a forest as people trample on his head, the works of fast-rising performance artist Ryan McNamara demand attention in a world whose powers of concentration are apparently in decline.
”Attention span is something that I’ve been thinking of a lot,” New York-based McNamara told AFP in an interview ahead of his first performance in Asia, in a week of frenzied gallery activity in Hong Kong as the city stages its second-ever Art Basel fair, which took place from May 15 to 18.