Mixed, Lonnie Holley (Birmingham, Alabama) Southern Constellations Fellow. December 2018. Installation view. Acrylic, museum collection garments, mannequins, and miscellaneous items. Dimensions variable. Much like his body of work extending over four decades, Holley’s compositions are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. The curated objects already imbued with cultural metaphors, including a blue-faced mannequin and baby...

  SHAN WALLACE (Baltimore, Maryland)  Southern Constellations Fellow. October 2018. Installation view. Museum collection mannequins, wire mesh, and found objects; spray paint; photographs. Dimensions variable. How do we remember? How do mourning and rituals look culturally? How does adaptation to marginalization and social exclusion influence one’s role in accessing memories, and their capacity to mourn? What does that look...

OVERVIEW SCHEDULE REGISTER PARTNERS PARKING PAST EVENTS OVERVIEW 2018 Convergence Registration is now Open! Join Elsewhere Saturday, January 12th from 10 am – 5 pm for our convergence, a day of community, art, and connectivity. The event is in conjunction with an exhibition at NC A&T State University as part of our annual suite of programs offered through Southern Constellations (SoCo). For this year’s summit,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...