4 posts tagged “elsewhere artist collaborative”
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.
Sorry its been so long since an update, everyone!
Here is what is going on this weekend at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative!
FRIDAY AUGUST 15 from 8pm-11pm: Artist Conversations at Elsewhere
featuring Molly Anne Goldberg:
Join Molly, a visual artist from San
Francisco, CA for the opening of "Yours Truly" at Elsewhere Artist
Collaborative. Molly Anne Goldberg will host an evening of letters.
Molly is a visiting artist at Elsewhere, a living art museum and arts
production site sculpted from a former thrift store on South Elm.
Artist Conversations at Elsewhere feature a different artist or artist
group every Friday night at 8pm from June through September.
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SATURDAY August 2nd! 10am-1pm:: Urban Green Gardening
Come
Garden with Us. We are turning the alley behind the elsewhere museum
into an eco-park and community garden. We will be gardening every
saturday til the Fall.
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SATURDAY AUGUST 2nd at
2pm: Green Dialogues at Elsewhere featuring Jim Dees: Jim Dees is the
Environmental Sustainability Coordinator for Guilford College. Jim's
session, "How to Institutionalize Sustainability," will explore how a
to turn an institutional structure such as a university toward green
practices and sustainable architectures. Jim Dees is speaking as part
of Elsewhere's eight part series of NC-based eco-thinkers presenting
DIY environmental projects for urban living. The Green Dialogues are
part of Elsewhere's 2008 Community Arts Project, The Urban-Green
Campaign, which will also include the transformation of Elsewhere's
back alley into an eco-park and community garden called The Hanging
Gardens of Greensboro. Urban-Green is funded by The Future Fund of the
Community Foundation of Greensboro.
ALL of these events are FREE! Donations are great appreciated, it helps keep elsewhere up and running!
Hello all you lovely people!
We finally are going to be updating whats going on here at Elsewhere again VIA the Internet! Its going to be great.
I just want to greet all of you and say hello! HELLO! How are you? I'm pretty good. I hope you are having a fabulous day and/or evening.
I also also wanted to mention the links to the left of this post.
We have a myspace, a facebook, and a flickr.
We send out invites for all our events on myspace and facebook - so become friends with us so you can get the updates! Elsewhere has a flickr that we encourage our visitors to update with photos they take here visiting the museum.
To log in and upload your photos:
log in: elsewhere.elsewhere
password: toyboat
So please! If you come visit, upload your photos to Elsewhere's Flickr photostream!
The flickr also gets updated with the current documentarian's photos of the events that are happening here at elsewhere and put into sets - please look and enjoy!
So, keep on checking back every week for our updates about all the events that we have here!
Be well!
