From left to right: Juno Tatarka, Eyes Toward Each Other (detail); Eleanor Furness, Your Attention Is For Sale (detail); Franco Leon, The stone is a seed (detail)

The Strother School of Radical Attention is pleased to present an exhibition of the three finalists of EYES UP!, the school’s first open call for artists: Eleanor Furness, Franco Leon, and Juno Tatarka. Paying homage to the history of posters, zines, and ephemera in movement politics, the open call invited visual inquiry on the school’s core mission of Attention Activism through the dynamics of reference, recontextualization, and circulation across reproducible media. Accordingly, the exhibition highlights each artist’s paths of attention alongside their final design, through menageries of their referential materials, in-progress sketches, and alternate versions. Of note are the artists’ inquiry on attention as conduits between physical and symbolic realities—and therefore, on the importance of synchronizing transhistorical critique on man made systems on the one hand, and immediate, embodied experiences of the “astonishing reality of things” on the other.

Alongside the three artists, selected designs by open call participants Caitlin Quintero Weaver, Etta Lund, Gloria Mungai, Marcela Mulholland, Kristilyn Waite, Seb Genikov, and Mark Fongheiser & Rahel Tebo will showcase the versatile convergences between movement politics and design in the current day. Visitors are encouraged to enjoy all designs in conversation with the school’s ongoing programs—and as integrated design elements heralding the variously-activated space as a “sanctuary of attention.”

Read full press release here.

Related Programs

• Thursday July 24, 6:30-8:30pm | Opening Reception REGISTER HERE

• Thursday July 31, 7:00-9:00pm | One-Day Screen Print Workshop with Francesca Barr. FULL
  

Contributors

Organized by the Strother School of Radical Attention

Artists: Eleanor Furness, Franco Leon, Juno Takarta

Advisory Committee: Daylon Orr, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, raya marie hazell

Art Programs Coordinator: Haena Chu 

Artists: Eleanor Furness, Franco Leon, Juno Takarta, Etta Lund, Marcela Mulholland, Caitlin Quintero Weaver, Etta Lund, Gloria Mungai, Marcela Mulholland, Kristilyn Waite.

Exhibition Committee:
Raya Hazell
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Joanna Fiduccia
Claudia Claremi