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 attempts to unite belief and materiality through performative objects such as “thought-emptying ceramics” and “mirror reflecting sin,” which inspire audience-driven rituals where the independent reality of these objects encounter the thoughts and intentions released by audiences. We will then collectively build a stone tower that rewilds the TV as a technological artifact, as the artist binds each “stone” - made of porcelain - with attendees by inscribing fictional symbols. Through gestures of drawing, stacking, and burning, these ritual objects will gradually alter and become altered by each participant’s inner life.
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.