Thing Tank
June 9-11
@ Elsewhere Museum
606 South Elm Street
Greensboro, NC
Thing Tank is a weekend retreat into a world of things. A select group of scholars and artists are invited for a weekend residency at Elsewhere’s museum, exploring the social, historical, political, and material consciousness of things in an at-hand, immersive environment.
Thing Tank is funded in part by the North Carolina Humanities Council.
Partner Organizations:
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- North Carolina Humanities Council
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- Cabinet Magazine
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- Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNCG
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- Object Cultures Project at Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
Elsewhere / Where Else.
Saturday, May 13th, 6 – 7:30 pm
300 Nevins St (between Union and Sackett Streets)
Brooklyn, NY
Scholars discussed Elsewhere’s “things” in the context of contemporary art, new materialism, theories of assemblage, re-assemblage, and the problem of ephemerality on May 13th, 2017. The evening celebrated Elsewhere’s 15th birthday by thinking about the future of things for a thrift-store turned museum. The evening was a collaboration between Elsewhere, Dr. Bill Brown, and friends, and co-presented by Cabinet Magazine.
Panel:
- Bill Brown | U.Chicago
- W. J. T. Mitchell | U.Chicago
- John Plotz | Brandeis U.
- Sarah Wasserman | U.Delaware
- David Alworth | Harvard
- Bradin Cormack | Princeton
- Emily Apter | NYU
- George Scheer | Elsewhere Co-Founder + Director
This event was free and open to all publics.
