2 posts tagged “artist conversation”
On July 3rd Elsewhere happily hosted an interactive evening with
artist-in-residence Casey Droege (Check out her blog here:
http://caseydroege.vox.com/). Casey's work often deals with connection and engagement.
She seeks to move people toward communicating and sharing stories with one another. For her conversation she sought to coerce
people into interacting via object speed dating and dead pet
storytelling. With the help of our staff she created It Takes 2, a
dating show in which visitors were invited to select an object and
shape a narrative about it, or share a personal story connected with it
from there object pairs were created. The front window became Kitties in Heaven:
a venue for pet therapy. Here with the help of two of our other great
artists Claire and Derya, Casey collected stories from visitors about
their deceased pets and which dead celebrity they felt was caring for
their pet in the afterlife. From there an awesomely cheesy slide show
was created depicting the pets and celebs kicking it in heaven. Overall
the event was tremendous success with over 300 guests in the space.
On June 26th we hosted a
conversation with three phonically pleasing artists: Jeff, Angeles, and
Ernesto.
Ernesto's piece Ed's Thriller Angel is a kinetic sound
installation located in the much neglected back right corner of the third
floor. On the last Friday in June he toured over 80 guests through his
piece helping them to engage all of it’s musically facets.
Meanwhile in the front window Jeff (a returning resident from summer '06) and his partner/collaborator Angeles activated a musical bed of glass they spent their week at the space creating. The two discovered the collection of broken glasses, cups, and various other objects and decided to make a sound piece out of them. The result was a beautiful multi-colored, shimmering instrument that accompanied the evening rain perfectly.
