September 21, 2011 – October 25, 2011
website | tiny lady one dollar dot com
zine | tiny lady one dollar
miles set out to spend 24 hours in the dark and 12 hours in the daylight, he started out in a crawl space under the stairs in the tech lab, and then spent the next day outside until dusk. this experiment was inspired by the book. subsequently he made a zine about his experience during this time. September...
This Place Projects is a creative and curatorial experiment supporting and exploring location-based artmaking. Using this loose framework as an opportunity to collaborate, Miles Mattison and Nicole Lavelle created a series of works at Elsewhere that ranged from public events, publications, photographs, workshops and performances. In particular Lavelle explored the reach and scope of graphic...
September 14, 2011 – October 11, 2011
collaborators: Nicola Winstanley, Visitors to Elsewhere
places: 1st Floor, 606
The Curator Creator is a game designed to establish catagories for uncatagorized collection objects installed near the Department Store in 606. It was designed and produced by Nicola Winstanley, an animator and scenic artist from Stoke-on-Trent, UK. She was struck by...
September 14, 2011 – October 11, 2011
collaborators: Najva Sol, Leslie Kelman, Erica Curry, Ted Blumenthal + Mae
places: 1st Floor, 3rd Floor
Somewhere Elsewhere is a collection of video works by Najva Sol that explore installations on the museum’s third floor. Sol asked staff and residents of Greensboro to re-interpret existing spaces as the setting for small vignettes...
September 7, 2011 – September 27, 2011
collaborators: Lauren McCarthy
places: 1st Floor, Collaboratory
The Relation Station is a series of interactive two person games invented by our fall 2011 resident Lauren McCarthy. She used doll parts, lamp shades, masks and other sundries from the collection to create a situation where participants have to work with one another physically to...
September 7, 2011 – September 27, 2011
collaborators: Lauren McCarthy
places: 1st Floor, Collaboratory
lauren transforms two lampshades by using different masks and faces and turns them into rotating hats giving the wearers the option of easily changing their appearance.
September 7, 2011 – September 27, 2011
collaborators: Lauren McCarthy
places: 1st Floor, Collaboratory
lauren uses a corner of the collaboratory and creates the “relation station” a wall of interactive pieces that investigate identity, interaction, and physical contact. with “take a moment” she uses a fan that opens between two participants who are conversing and interrupts them by creating a...
September 7, 2011 – September 27, 2011
collaborators: Andy Sturdevant
places: 1st Floor, Natural History
Hard Catalog is a series of twelve narratives about pieces of the collection coupled with illustrations of them mounted to wood panels. Andy centered his research of the material world of Elsewhere on a dimension of objecthood that, prior to his arrival, was rarely considered...
August 24, 2011 – September 20, 2011
collaborators: Tiny Circus, Sam Hoolihan, Christopher Kennedy, Lucia Carroll
places: 1st Floor, Collaboratory
The History of Dust is a short animation created by our friends Tiny Circus from Grinnell, Iowa. While here they produced the animation and experimented with several of our dolls and toys in order to create characters for a proposed series of...
Super Wheely Ball is a newly invented game of strength, strategy and teamsmanship brought to us by Ben Garthus. Ben works with game design and play. His is a practice that challenges the routine of pedestrian life. While here he created a game using a wheelchair and some crutches. August 24 – September 13.
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