At this open workshop, we will learn the basics of screenprinting and create our own upcycled SoRA merch. Bring whatever you want to revamp - old t-shirts, tote bags, or scrap paper - and we’ll provide various logos and our Attensity! Manifesto to mix and match into your one-of-a-kind design. 

We will begin by collectively reading and spending time with the Attensity! Manifesto, which is the crux of SoRA’s movement for attention liberation as well as our upcoming book, Attensity!. Then, we will consider our own personal connection to the different elements of the manifesto by composing our own screenprinted design of the images and text.

This workshop is open to participants with any and all levels of familiarity with printmaking. If you are only available for a portion of this event, we also welcome drop-in visitors to take advantage of the printing station. 

Limited blank totes will be provided for purchase!

Led by Francesca Barr, a teaching artist and writer from Massachusetts. She has led art programming at The People’s Forum, Penikese Island School, and other community organizations. 
@cesca.barr

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Celebrating the launch of Attensity!, the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA) holds a series of four participatory events where we will collectively create and test-drive vessels for human attention. Over the course of four weeks, four hosts will activate the Sanctuary Gallery in DUMBO with sound, film, objects and movement, and lecture performance. 

Is it possible to experience the precise moment when an object opens itself up as a vessel for human attention? In turn, how does the vessel beckon our belief in its efficacy? On January 29, artist Park Karo will attempt to unite belief and materiality through performative objects such as “thought emptying ceramics,” “cellular bread,” and “mirror reflecting sin,” which inspire audience-driven rituals where the independent reality of these objects encounter the thoughts and intentions released by audiences. The event begins with guided interactions with the objects which, by gestures of drawing, stacking, and burning, gradually alter and become altered by each participant’s inner life. We will conclude with Karo’s performance where her own body becomes a vessel for fictional symbols.

Image: Park Karo, Thought Emptying Pottery, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. 

About the artist

Korean-born artist Park Karo (New York, NY) investigates human systems of belief in the form of installation, painting, text, ceramics, video, music, performance, and tattoos. She is interested in the process where beliefs materialize in various knowledge systems from personal myths to science, and foregrounds the role of objects in orchestrating a relational, performative reality. She has exhibited at Subtitled, New York; SeMA Storage at Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Art Space Seogyeo, Seoul; Amado Art Space, Seoul; Alternate Space Loop, Seoul; Humor Garmgot, Seoul; and POST Gallery, Seoul. 

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Celebrating the launch of Attensity!, the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA) holds a series of four participatory events where we will collectively create and test-drive vessels for human attention. Over the course of four weeks, four hosts will activate the Sanctuary Gallery in DUMBO with sound, film, objects and movement, and lecture performance. 

In this participatory installation and performance, John Tsung & Leah Ogawa stretch the capacity of attention beyond individual beings and events to the inevitable web of karmic entanglements, manifesting as a site-specific installation which attendees will collectively weave and unravel. 

Image: Leah Ogawa and John Tsung, Divine Generations vol.02, 2023, courtesy of the artists and photographed by Chika Kobari

About the artists

John Tsung (New York, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and writer whose works explore migration and myth, particularly the concepts of transmigration and impermanence. Drawing on social practice and sound art, his works often involve emergent sounds and the creation of site-specific performance pieces, influenced by his Buddhist upbringing and classical training. Tsung’s installations and works have been performed in the US and Asia and featured in publications such as BOMB Magazine, Interview, and The New York Times. 

Leah Ogawa is an installation artist and puppeteer based in New York City. Raised in Yamanashi, Japan, Leah has worked with puppeteers, artists, and companies including The Metropolitan Opera, La MaMa, Dmitry Krymov, Phantom Limb, Dan Hurlin, Tom Lee, Nami Yamamoto, Loco 7, and others. She has performed across the US as well as at the Quay Branly in Paris and across Asia. Leah is a recipient of the Jim Henson Foundation’s workshop grant for her original piece, Growing Not Dying. Her recent work, Divine Generations with co-creator John Tsung, has been featured in the New York Times.

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Celebrating the launch of Attensity!, the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA) holds a series of four participatory events where we will collectively create and test-drive vessels for human attention. Over the course of four weeks, four hosts will activate the Sanctuary Gallery in DUMBO with sound, film, objects and movement, and lecture performance. 

This screening of a selection of Indigenous films, followed by an open discussion session, spotlights the radical attention adopted by makers and viewers of revolutionary film. We will explore techniques of filmmaking that subvert the passive gaze, and the capacity of screening/watching for catalyzing collective movement-making.

Image: Ruben Gamez, La Fórmula Secreta, 1965, Mexico. Still image.

About the artist

Emily Uruchima (New York, NY) is a Kichwa researcher born and raised on Lenapehoking territory, and currently a researcher at American Social History Project. Much of Emily’s current research and work revolves around uplifting Indigenous communities, which have historically been silenced in large public institutions. Since 2015, Emily has been organizing with Kichwa youth across Turtle Island working on language revitalization projects and moving image archiving and preservation work. 

This event continues on Saturday February 28 with a screening of Tercer Cine films by Ana BegoñaArmengod.

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Celebrating the launch of Attensity!, the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA) holds a series of four participatory events where we will collectively create and test-drive vessels for human attention. Over the course of four weeks, four hosts will activate the Sanctuary Gallery in DUMBO with sound, film, objects and movement, and lecture performance. 

On February 22, visual artist and educator Taeyoon Choi presents Cotton King and A.I. God, a lecture performance unpacking the hidden ties between the cotton industry and A.I. Taeyoon guides us through his research with a custom interactive tool and music, making accessible connections between vast temporal and spatial distances while conveying the complexity of relationships between big tech and invisible labor. We will move through the attentional paths created by his alternative historical map, navigating the shadows of technologies which may at first glance appear ahistorical. 

This performance debuted at Seoul National University in November 2025, and a related site-specific work is featured in the exhibition Technology of Relations at MASS MoCA, on view from February 21.

Image: Taeyoon Choi, Cotton King A.I. God, Acrylics on Canvas, 2025. Courtesy of the artist

About the artist

Taeyoon Choi (Detroit, MI) explores the poetics of science, technology, society, and human relations. He works with computer programming, drawing, and writing, oftentimes in collaboration with fellow artists, experts and community members. His projects, participatory workshops, performances, and installations were presented at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Van Alen Institute, M+ Museum and more. Choi co-founded the School for Poetic Computation and taught classes there until 2020. Currently, he teaches Digital Art at Wayne State University, and serves on the board of AFIELD, an international network of changemakers.

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Celebrating the launch of Attensity!, the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA) holds a series of four participatory events where we will collectively create and test-drive vessels for human attention. Over the course of four weeks, four hosts will activate the Sanctuary Gallery in DUMBO with sound, film, objects and movement, and lecture performance. 

This screening of a selection of Tercer Cine films, followed by an open discussion session, spotlights the radical attention adopted by makers and viewers of revolutionary film. We will explore techniques of filmmaking that subvert the passive gaze, and the capacity of screening/watching for catalyzing collective movement-making. 

Image: Ruben Gamez, La Fórmula Secreta, 1965, Mexico. Still image.

About the artist

Ana Begoña Armengod (Philadelphia, PA) is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist born in Mazatlán Sinaloa. Her art encompasses a wide range of mediums including film, illustration, writing, sculpture, installation, and sound. Her work is tied with nature and its death, as well as the small details that get lost in the bigger picture. Focused on accentuating the overlooked and unimportant, she gives magnitude to human reactions, history, emotion, and the environment while questioning how these things push us to evolve.