Yixuan Pan (Philadelphia, PA) Philadelphia Goes Elsewhere Fellowship. June 2019. HD video and audio of musical performance using museum collection and found objects; musical score. 3 min, 3 secs. An Orchestra at Elsewhere transforms the museum into a collaborative performance using items found within the public 1st floor as musical instruments. Visitors can re-enact this orchestra and...

Eva Wǒ (Philadelphia, PA) Philadelphia Goes Elsewhere Fellowship. June 2019. Community photo portrait series, inkjet prints on vinyl, miscellaneous museum collection objects; HD video. Dimensions variable. WELCOME is a celebration and statement of queer visibility, inviting in community members to establish the museum as a place of queer gathering and becoming. The multimedia installation takes the form...

Jesse Kudler (Philadelphia, PA) Philadelphia Goes Elsewhere Fellowship. June 2019. 2-channel HD sound installation.  2 mins,  41 secs. Voicing Elsewhere is a multi-channel audio installation that encapsulates a whole month within the artist residency, featuring the voices of the resident artists, interns, and staff living and working at the Living Museum. Rather than work primarily with objects...

Marie Alarcón (Philadelphia, PA) Philadelphia Goes Elsewhere Fellowship. June 2019. Museum collection textiles; acrylic, handmade appliqué. 120” x 36” in. Love You to Life is a banner fabricated out of museum collection that draws on cultures of protest and resistance, decorative folk arts as survival, and religious/spiritual traditions of honor and protection. Incorporated into the piece are...

Carolyn Gennari (Central Fall, RI) April 2019. HD video and audio, performance series featuring museum collection objects. 16 mins and 45 secs. Within Elsewhere, objects are constantly being revalued, reinterpreted, and reactivated within the museum’s walls. Unlike traditional museum collections, Elsewhere objects are recast in a variety of different roles and take on different lives at any given moment....

Erick Medel (Los Angeles, CA)  April 2019. Museum collection and found textiles. 49” x 52” in. El Coyote As A Protector was inspired by the artist’s body of work— in his current Homeland series, Medel explores themes related to Mexico-US border issues, migration, and American identity. This textile work uses humor to visualize the experience of an...

Parasol B (Chapel Hill, NC) April 2019. Bent circuits, noise generators, amplifiers; museum collection toys, books, past projects. 30” x 48” x 72” in. Parasol B modifies toys in the collection to make “better, weirder noises” by bending circuits or the teeth of music box mechanisms. She states: “Noise is freeing because it removes structural and technique constraints...

Cecilia Sweet-Coll (Los Angeles, CA)  April 2019. Index of artworks using museum collection past projects, wood, ribbon; writing. Dimensions variable. By Us For Us is a collection of conversations with other QTPOC (Queer and Trans People of Color) artists and works at Elsewhere and a celebration of the museum spaces by and for queer folks. The project...

Emerie Snyder (Brooklyn, NY) April 2019. Audio tour recorded on cassette tape; museum collection cassette player, fabric, modified wood frame. 13 min 45 secs. Dimensions variable. An object-led, participatory tour, This is Not a Museum Tour focuses on works of “Not Art” in the museum collection. Visitors are invited to experience a 14-minute tour, personally led by a friendly...

Furen Dai (Brookline, MA) April 2019. HD video and audio featuring museum collection letters. 18 mins 58 secs. Dear Mother, is a research project and film based on the personal letters from the museum’s archive room located on the third floor. During her two week residency, Dai developed this project using the letters received by original store...

Michelle Lisa Polissaint (Miami, FL) Southern Constellations Fellow. February 2019. Acrylic and concrete on museum collection chairs and miscellaneous items. Dimensions variable. Dine nan Nwa is a series of site-specific sculptures that invites viewers to sit at the table with two immigrants: the artists’ parents. Polissaint states: “I felt pulled to North Carolina by several people and relationships...