Weave In, Weave Out
Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA)
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 3–5pm
This workshop 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 site-specific attentional practice situates touch as a form of knowledge, responding to the tactile and memory-ridden elements of Siributr’s exhibition and bridging it with the metaphorical “patchwork” of communities lining the Canal Street neighborhood. In addition to SoRA’s 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.
Practical Information:
The screening will take place at Canal Projects, 351 Canal Street, in our ground level gallery, which is accessed by a small flight of stairs or an ADA accessible lift. Please reach out to us@canalprojects.org with any questions.
The Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA) is a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization dedicated to ATTENTION ACTIVISM: the movement to push back against the fracking of human attention by coercive digital technologies. We advance this mission through the STUDY and PRACTICE of radical attention: diverse forms of attention which resist commodification. In our seminar courses, experiential Attention Lab workshops, and other hybrid forms of group teaching and learning, we seek to deepen our shared understanding of attention’s relation to human flourishing.
Haena Chu is a Korean-born, New York-based contemporary art professional interested in alliances between pedagogy and the arts. She is the Resident Curator at SoRA, where she organizes exhibitions and public programs at its DUMBO space as well as collaborations with fellow cultural organizations.
Kathleen Quaintance is a PhD candidate in the history of art at Yale University and a practitioner and instructor of a range of textile techniques. She is interested in the histories of technology, modernism, Luddism, and artisanal knowledge.
