Southern Constellations Convergence
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2018 Convergence
Registration opens September 2018
Join Elsewhere at the South Elm neighborhood public art installation, The Porch Project: Black Lunch Tables for a day full of public, inclusive conversations around the intersections of art, social justice, and politics.
As a culmination of the Southern Constellations Fellowship residency and a way to garner political excitement, this convergence is...
Southern Constellations Fellowship
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FELLOWSHIP
Southern Constellations (SOCO) is an annual, curated, fellowship program that explores experimental practices across a network of Southern artists.
The 6 selected SOCO Fellows are supported through a month-long residency, provided room and board in the historic museum, travel support, and $1000 artist honorariums to create new site-specific projects within Elsewhere. While working independently at Elsewhere, Fellows are featured in public events, expanded conversations,...
Southern Constellations
Southern Constellations (SoCo) is an annual, curated, program that explores experimental practices across a network of Southern artists and organizations. Every year SoCo offers a suite of programs that extend conversations across the state and region.
2018 | Extravaganza Fundraiser!
Join us for Elsewhere's 10th Annual Extravaganza on Nov. 10th! Dance your way through 3 floors of artworks, music, food, craft cocktails, & performances. Celebrate a fantastic season with the best fundraising art party in the world's only thrift store turned museum!
Doors open at 8pm! Buy tickets online now!
Every Dawn Jubilation Blues / The See Major Arcana
Ben Seretan (Brooklyn, NY)
Every Dawn Jubilation Blues (Dedicated to the Memory of Etta Baker)
June 2018. Performance series video documentation. 5 min 57 secs. Electric guitar, keyboard, microphone.
For Every Dawn, Seretan addressed each morning of his residency with an hour of public improvised singing and guitar performances from Elsewhere’s storefront theater, starting before the sun...
Nine out of Ten
Samantha Burns (Seminole, FL)
June 2018. Video documentation of performance series, Walking Is Still Honest. 8 min 44 secs. Museum collection plates and paper. Dimensions variable.
Burns’s work typically explores the fragility and balance of the mind and body connection, with a special focus on time surrounding sudden traumatic experiences or injuries.
Taking a different approach to the concept of...
Your Haint Blue is My Evil Eye: Making an Amulet
Hale Ekinci (Chicago, IL)
June 2018. Performance and process documentation. 5 min 7 secs. Museum collection fabric, polyfill, HD video with sound (music adapted from “Fork-Tailed Emerald” by Ben Seretan). Dimensions variable.
Your Haint Blue is My Evil Eye is an interactive fiber and video installation that explores personal relationships with material objects and cultural comparisons of...
Signalling Hello (Greensboro)
Andrea Vail, (Charlotte, NC)
June 2018. Performance documentation. Performance series, geo-tracking application, oil on glass, HD video. Dimensions variable.
Signalling Hello (Greensboro) is the first installment of a greeting initiative that collects genuine encounters with pedestrians and expands the experience of Elsewhere. This socially engaged project was informed by Vail’s daily practice of walking through Downtown Greensboro and greeting others...
Album Amicorum
Spencer Merolla (Brooklyn, NY)
May 2018. Installation. Collection doll hair, 36 frames, sconce, mirror, wood, acrylic. 8’x 8′ x 12′.
Album Amicorum is a storytelling, functional artifact: a bathroom installation that presents locks of hair from museum dolls in the style of a 19th-century friendship album.
Merolla’s body of work investigates the use of hair as a personal reliquary and token...
Lover’s-ear
Milla Toukkari (Helsinki, Finland)
May 2018. 4-part text on vellum, paper, vinyl on glass.
Lover’s-ear is a text series distributed through Downtown Greensboro and installed within the 3-floor museum that explores intimacy at a distance with the self, loved ones, and strange entities through distance and personal perspectives. Displayed at Elsewhere through bedroom love letters and window installations, Lover’s-ear asks audiences...
Staircase Score
Kimberly Lyle (Phoenix, AZ)
May 2018. Installation documentation. Museum collection wood and metal objects, programmed micro-controller board with audio. Dimensions variable.
Staircase Score transforms a functional, transitional space into an interactive sound installation composed of drawer-like sculptures.
The handles are an invitation to be held that mirrors the support and position of the adjacent handrail. When touched, each...
The Records Room, an Active Archive (after Personal Historical Society)
lydia see (Asheville, NC / Spartanburg, SC)
May 2018. Installation documentation. Instructions for archival process, cyanotypes, photographs, museum collection objects sourced from found room.
The Records Room is a functional installation that commemorates the tradition of collecting and organizing through Elsewhere’s past, present, and future. This “archive” transformed a repository room to house tangible records and archival materials.
In the Room, the...
