Care Processing Unit | Open Studio & Crafting Circle
CultureHub
47 Great Jones Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012
February 3, 2024
12–3pm ET
In-Person
Free / Donate
“Hi mom, I know you can’t get to your phone right now, but I wanted to introduce you to your granddaughter, Zel.”
Care Processing Unit (CPU) is an ongoing series of interactive quilts embedded with textile speakers, each one storing a tactile and sonic memory. It combines the intersecting legacies of quilting, computation, and gender to imagine alternate, embodied logics of remembering in a computationally pervasive era. By encoding data as both textile object and digital audio through conductive thread and electronics, the quilt positions the materiality of memory as central to configuring and reconfiguring meaning over time.
CultureHub Resident Artist Liza Stark shares a CPU quilt that unravels and knots themes of loss and motherhood, an attempt to piece herself back together after losing a mother while becoming one.
Join us for an open studio and crafting circle on Saturday from 12-3 pm. Listen to the quilt, chat with the artist, and embroider your own speaker from a zine. You can RSVP to join us at any time and stay as long as you like during the open studio.
Content warning: This event deals with themes of death and loss.
This project is supported within the CultureHub Residency program.