The School of Radical Attention will be IN RESIDENCY at the National Academy of Design from March 31st to April 25th, offering a slate of public programs on the study and practice of radical attention. In this series of hour-long workshops each inspired by a prominent pedagogical thinker, we bring their vision of FUTURE SCHOOLS to life through somatic practice and guided discussion.
Báyò Akómoláfé is a Nigerian-born philosopher-poet, author, public thinker and tenderly self-monikered “nerd” whose work sits at “the crossroads” of posthumanism, postactivism, animism and Yoruba cosmology. Elegantly rewilding language itself, Akómoláfé “cracks" open our notions of modernity, the anthropocene, colonialism, and decoloniality, wholly re-weaving the fabrics and foundations of our shared existence. In this workshop, excerpts from Selah will re-situate us among certain angles of these fractal, entangled inquiries, calling us into the “curdling middles” where we become critically re-arranged.
In our attention practice sessions, we use artifacts from the work of visionary thinkers and educators as an occasion for collective experiences of attention. No prior knowledge of Báyò Akómoláfé is necessary; all are welcome!