Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opens exhibition of works by Olafur Eliasson at the recently inaugurated Los Angeles location
(Artdaily.org)

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Olafur Eliasson: The speed of your attention , on view from September 15 through December 22, 2018. This is the first solo exhibition dedicated to Eliasson at the recently inaugurated Los Angeles location. The gallery has represented the internationally renowned artist in the United States since 1995. The phrase “the speed of your attention” was introduced to Eliasson by Joe Dumit, an anthropologist at UC Davis who conducted a movement experiment during a workshop at Eliasson’s Berlin studio this summer. Dumit learned the phrase from Nita Little—one of the pioneers of contact improvisation, a contemporary dance technique in which movements arise through contact between two or more dancers—in the form of the instruction to “move at the speed of your attention.” For more than two