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 Participants:
- Bill Brown (U. Chicago),
- John Plotz (Brandeis U.),
- Sarah Wasserman (U. Delaware),
- David Alworth (Harvard),
- Jenny Marketou (Artist),
- Pedro Lasch (Duke Social Practice Lab),
- Emily Stamey (Weatherspoon Art Museum),
- John Bowles (UNC Chapel Hill),
- Gregory Grieve (UNC Greensboro),
- Andrew Saulters (Unicorn Press),
- Anna Wallace (Artist),
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Heather Richardson Hayton (Guilford College),
- George Scheer (Elsewhere Co-Founder + Director),
- Emily Ensminger (Elsewhere Program Curator)
RSVP to our Objects Over Cocktails: a Public Happy Hour!
Thing Tank is a collaboration between Cabinet Magazine, the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNCG, and Elsewhere.
Thing Tank is made possible by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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.
Thing Tank is made possible by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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
