vision

mission

Elsewhere is a non-profit organization exploring creative collaboration. Through its living museum, innovative residency program, educational initiatives, and projects and events led by the etc. collective, Elsewhere connects people and things.

collaborative

Elsewhere explores “collaborative” as a creative model wherein individuals pursue particular visions by building from a shared collection of materials upon, within, and amongst others’ works. By using the collection and arrangement of objects as the common basis for creation, creators express critique and creative practice through their interactions and intersections. Collaboration occurs with others through reciprocity towards things, environments, histories, and as a positioning towards configurations that accept new responses, conditions, and scenarios. Elsewhere’s museum explores and exhibits the conjunctions of permanence and transformation, intention and accident, the everyday and the exceptional.

performance, process, practice

Elsewhere is an ongoing, unfolding story of life as an art form. We explore the slippages of ourselves as characters in our own lives as an ongoing performance to us and others. We remain open to being visible, being read, considered, interpreted, imbued with meanings we didn’t intend. We see ideas through their enactivity. We are all collaborating on curating this process, wherein we follow tributaries, trajectories, caverns, methods, experiments, that express our wonder and agency in an ongoing unfolding of this story of making something becoming.

collection

The collection (or “set”) of objects at Elsewhere forms a limit within which infinitely derivable contexts, works, and arrangements are demonstrated and performed. Here, antique objects and art objects, neither sacred, coexist in a transforming installation that creates constellations of materials, processes, and products. The internal circulation of things enables Elsewhere to approach creative practice as a basis for communication and response. Layered orders provide the conditions of possibility for shifting legibilities that discover symbiotic productions at the juncture of object as event. Organization becomes a means for ordering and tracing the trajectories of an evolving community.

environment

Elsewhere’s commitment to site-specific works, actions, and ideas establishes an ethos of consideration, incorporation, generosity, and manifestation. We investigate this microcosm as a means for exploring the interaction between the particular and the general. We are interested in how contexts define logics and paradigms, and in how we can operate responsively to and within those contexts and frameworks. We are deeply invested in place-making as a practice. Within an environment of at-hand resources, notions and concepts are always within reach, driven by the proximate and reconsidered in action.