This off-site workshop at Canal Projects hybridizes the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA)’s two core programs, Attention Labs and Sidewalk Studies, engaging attendees in somatic and text-based exercises that break away from conventional audience-art interactions. SoRA’s attentional practice situates touch as a form of knowledge, responding to the tactile and memory-ridden elements of Jakkai Siributr’s exhibition at the gallery and bridging it with the metaphorical “patchwork” of communities lining the Canal Street neighborhood. In addition to Resident Curator Haena Chu, we will be joined by Kathleen Quaintance, who has led two seminars on weaving at the school and will situate attendees’ experience of the exhibition within the critical history of weaving as a creative attentional method.
The workshop will take place at Canal Projects, 351 Canal Street, in the ground level gallery, which is accessed by a small flight of stairs or an ADA accessible lift. Please reach out to Canal Projects at us@canalprojects.org with any questions.