Elsewhere Orientation Packet 2011 by chris kennedy

orientation packet 2011

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contents 1 Elsewhere Cityzenship Brochure an introduction to elsewhere

Mission

Elsewhere is a living museum in a former thrift store. 606 South Elm Street Greensboro, NC 27406 (336) 549 - 5555 www.elsewhereelsewhere.org

Elsewhere instigates creative collaborations through things. Our living museum, created from the contents and architectures of a former thrift store, platforms site-specific creative projects, an international arts residency program, and collaborative education and research. We utilize a process-based practice to respond to cultural surplus, exchange stories, reorient learning, and invent new ways of enacting art in everyday and extraordinary contexts.

visit us

Wednesday - Saturday 1pm-10pm Museum + Event Admission only $1 tours $10 (group rates available) To schedule your Tour Guide call (336) 549-5555

1937 Joe and Sylvia Gray import depression era furniture from NYC stockhouses, repairing and selling the secondhand wares at 607 South Elm Street in downtown Greensboro 1939 The Furniture company expands, moving across the street to 606 and 608 South Elm Street as Carolina Sales Co. 1945 After WWII, Carolina Sales transitions to an army surplus store and catalog sales company, selling repaired wares to Boy Scout troops and hospitals across the country. The second floor of the building operates as a boarding house, and the third a large warehouse for mending surplus.

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vision

Elsewhere constructs a more collaborative world through resourceful art practices and connective actions. Our living museum and projects create exampless for artistic possibilities for civic participation, cultural production, and aesthetic experience.

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who we are

Elsewherians include a fulltime staff of 2 dirctors+co-founders, 4 curators, 4 apprentices, high school and college interns, a board of directors, a national advisory board, an ever-expanding network of artists across the globe, members, and creative participants.

1955 Joe dies unexpectedly, leaving Sylvia with three children to raise. Sylvia buys textile cast-offs--the end of bolts of upholstry fabric from local mills, second hand womens wear, and heaps of finishing ribbons. The boarding house and warehouse are dissolved. 1975 Sylvia expands her inventory to general thrift, shopping and collecting daily. Her collection surpasses shelves to become piles, heaps, mountains. 1980 David Gray, Sylvia’s son, produces a series of injection molding designs and a line of fine glass and metal furniture fashioned for national brands. 1997 Sylvia runs the store until the day before she passes away. The store is boarded up filled to the brink with objects and materials, without destination or foreseeable future.

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2003 George Scheer, Sylvia’s grandson, and a group of writers and artists rediscover the space, declare nothing for sale, and start reorganizing the materials to build a space for creative collaboration across media.

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Travel & Transport

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Greensboro is located in the central part of North Carolina, three hours from the ocean and three hours from the mountains, approximately 68 miles west of Raleigh and 82 miles northeast of Charlotte, at the intersection of major interstate highways I-85 and I-40. Elsewhere is in the South Elm neighborhood, just a few blocks south of central downtown Greensboro. Please email residencies@elsewhereelsewhere.org at least one week prior to your arrival with full travel information.

2004 They declare the space a living museum, organize an artist residency program to bring artists from across the globe to the site, and become a 501(c)3 non-profit. 2005 35 artists per year make works in the museum, while public projects help downtown Greensboro evolve into a creative space to live, work, and play.

d riVE If you have a car, we recommend that you bring it with you to Greensboro. Street Parking is typically a piece of cake. Greensboro is an auto-oriented city, so you will have much more flexibility for resource acquisition and side trips if your car is handy.

2011 Elsewhere is a living, interactive work in progress that flourishes with national support, hundreds of volunteers, and layered artistic visions.

FlY The closest airport to us is

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Piedmont Triad International (GSO), a 15 minute drive from Elsewhere (the GO ELSEWHERE taxi is $5). If you are coming from afar, it is probably more cost effective to fly into Raleigh / Durham International (RDU), an 80-minute drive away (the GO ELSEWHERE taxi is $35). We will happily provide rides to and from your flight, just let us know in plenty of time.

While packing your belongings, please keep in mind that even though you will be at Elsewhere for a while, space amongst the millions of things is at a premium. You will probably be happy with less as you live amongst the multitudes. =

trAi n Greensboro’s rail depot is

only a few blocks from Elsewhere and Amtrak offers trains connecting to major U.S. cities daily. We can pick you up. No charge.

Sturdy shoes / work boots =

YMCA KIT: Towel(s), Combination lock, shower flops, Swimsuit [if you like the pool],

BUs There is a Greyhound Station

here in Greensboro, as well as other towns near-by. If you are coming from New York City, there is a $30 Chinatown bus that travels overnight to Greensboro daily. (http://www.skyexpressbus.com/)

CLOTHING Spring & Fall (cold): Come prepared for all sorts of weather, because it can take a bit of time before the cold NC winter kicks into spring. Bring warm layers, sweaters, long underwears. Summer (hot hot hot): cool cotton, jeans are too hot ) keep in mind we have a giant giant wardrobe full of wearables

backpack for biking to and fro =

CAMP BATHKIT Toiletries [please bring a small sized bag or container for storage in public bathroom] Allergy medication/ Air purifying device [if you have problems with dust]

TECHNOLOGY Computer (we have wireless, and please bring your own personal computer if you have one) Digital camera / video camera

Mini speakers and boom boxes are enjoyed Any special art supplies, tools, or technology that you’ll need to make your work. Be aware that your shared room is also your only private storage studio. CAMPING Flashlight or headlamp (just in case the apocalypse comes early) Bed Blankets or sleeping bag (only if convenient)

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an introduction to elsewhere

Mission

Elsewhere is a living museum in a former thrift store. 606 South Elm Street Greensboro, NC 27406 (336) 549 - 5555 www.elsewhereelsewhere.org

vision

visit us

Wednesday - Saturday 1pm-10pm Museum + Event Admission only $1 tours $10 (group rates available) To schedule your Tour Guide call (336) 549-5555

who we are

1955 Joe dies unexpectedly, leaving Sylvia with three children to raise. Sylvia buys textile cast-offs--the end of bolts of upholstry fabric from local mills, second hand womens wear, and heaps of finishing ribbons. The boarding house and warehouse are dissolved. 1975 Sylvia expands her inventory to general thrift, shopping and collecting daily. Her collection surpasses shelves to become piles, heaps, mountains. 1980 David Gray, Sylviaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son, produces a series of injection molding designs and a line of fine glass and metal furniture fashioned for national brands. 1997 Sylvia runs the store until the day before she passes away. The store is boarded up filled to the brink with objects and materials, without destination or foreseeable future.

2003 George Scheer, Sylviaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandson, and a group of writers and artists rediscover the space, declare nothing for sale, and start reorganizing the materials to build a space for creative collaboration across media. 2004 They declare the space a living museum, organize an artist residency program to bring artists from across the globe to the site, and become a 501(c)3 non-profit. 2005 35 artists per year make works in the museum, while public projects help downtown Greensboro evolve into a creative space to live, work, and play. 2011 Elsewhere is a living, interactive work in progress that flourishes with national support, hundreds of volunteers, and layered artistic visions.

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M USEU M (open WED-SAT 1-10pm) Elswhere’s living museum features a 58-year collection of thrift in endless transformation. Visitors are invited to touch, play, and engage the collection and interact with artists and projects in process. tours + TEA ($10 or free with membership) story the living installation for groups large and small. RESI D EN CY Elsewhere invites 35 local, national, and international artists per year to create new projects with and within Elsewhere’s site, collection, and community. Visual artists, musicians scholars, and creators of all kinds perform investigations, create projects, and host exchanges with audiences in downtown Greensboro and across the globe. EDUCATION Elsewhere hosts education programs for children of all ages. We offer internships for college and high schoolers, educational tours, playful workshops, and creative retreats. Our artists are available for classroom visits, lectures, and conversations. Elsewhere’s interactive archive of cultural surplus provides a platform for ongoing explorations of collaborative process and creative practice. ELSEWH ERE ELSEWH ERE Elsewhere takes Elsewhere Elsewhere through interactive art works, commissions, project partnerships, and services to institutions and venues worldwide through its. expanding network of artists: ETC. (Elsewhere Tenured Collaborators). SPECIAL PROJ ECTS Each year, Elsewhere special projects advance our living museum and deepen our engagement with local communities.

2011 SPRING KITCHEN projects featuring J

Morgan Puett of Mildred’s Lane.

SUMMER STOREFRONT THEATER opens

with puppeteer Laurencio Ruiz.

FALL FUNDRAISER Extravaganza.

Events o pen h o use | 1st Fridays, 8pm-10pm Featuring new work by visiting artists. Livi n g roo m LECTU RES | 2nd Fridays , 8pm-10pm Presenting mini-lectures organized by a guest curator. PLAY CITY | 3rd Fridays, 8pm-10pm Improvising Elsewhere as an urban metropolis. D I N N ER party | 4th Fridays, 8pm-10pm Hosting flavorful events by guest artists and chefs. ($10 members, $20 non-members) playsh o ps | Saturdays, 2pm-4pm Exploring new ways to learn, create and imagine. SCREEN I N GS | Saturdays, 9pm-10pm Showing films and episodes, homemade and replayed.

Community participation Elsewhere inspires, beautifies, and excites creative connections in our downtown neighborhood, state, and region through public projects. You can contribute to Elsewhere’s evolution as a volunteer, intern or docent. Please join us as a collaborator!

services Elsewhere offers its magical museum for special events, weddings, parties, movie shoots, and corporate retreats. We also provide consulting for public art projects, object rentals for business members, creative production support, and re-arrangement services.

$upport Elsewhere is a 501(c)3 non-profit supported through national, state and local grants, private contributions, commissions, services, and friends like you. Help us instigate creative collaborations in downtown Greensboro and around the world with your kind (tax-deductible) $upport. Elsewhere is funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The North Carolina Arts Council, The NC Humanities Council, and the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro.

co ntact General | someone@elsewhereelsewhere.org Tours | museum@elsewhereelsewhere.org Education | education@elsewhereelsewhere.org Press | news@elsewhereelsewhere.org

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An Application for Cityzenship in the

elsewhere commonwealth

Fill out the passport application below to secure your membership.

become a cityzen:

support, participate, collaborate Free 3-floor tour for you and a friend Ongoing sewing, kitchen, and garden access $10 Dinner Parties ($20/value) Discount tickets to the Extravaganza 20% off items in the Elsewhere Artifactuary

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Donate $100+ and recieve a treasury of experiences for your generosity including studio visits with artists, collectible artifacts, late night tours with exquisite spirits, and an invitation to the Fortune Tellers Tribunal.

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$20 - Cityzenship $60 - Household Cityzenship $100, $250, $500, $1000, or $5000 - Trustee of Good Fortune

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Enjoy countless opportunities for creative connection with innovative global artists and creative Greensborians within a wonderful world of things. Your passport can be used for events, happenings, and access to the museum whenever we are open and much more.

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passport application

1. Basic info:

name(s):

phone:

address: email:

2. Artistic Intersts performance/theater

music

dance

video/film

sculpture/painting

puppeteering

drawing

mapping

writing

cooking

sewing

education

research

carpentry

photography

3. Events of interest: (circle one

4. How would you like to

or more)

connect? (circle one or more)

art openings

lectures

emails phone

facebook

city

dinners

twitter

blog

playshops

screenings

6. What skills can you share? 7. What do you want to learn? 8. Are there communities you think we should connect with?

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5. How would you like to participate? (circle one or more) volunteer

docent

intern

art residency

playshops

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cooking

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r $60 household

Become a Trustee of Good Fortune r $100 r $250 r $500 r $1000 r $5000 Credit card No.

Exp. Date

Please make checks payable to Elsewhere Inc. or donate online: http://elsewhereelsewhere.org/about/contribute/

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Travel & Transport

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Greensboro is located in the

central part of North Carolina, three hours from the ocean and three hours from the mountains, approximately 68 miles west of Raleigh and 82 miles northeast of Charlotte, at the intersection of major interstate highways I-85 and I-40. Elsewhere is in the South Elm neighborhood, just a few blocks south of central downtown Greensboro. Please email residencies@elsewhereelsewhere.org at least one week prior to your arrival with full travel information. DRIVE If you have a car, we recommend that you bring it with you to Greensboro. Street Parking is typically a piece of cake. Greensboro is an auto-oriented city, so you will have much more flexibility for resource acquisition and side trips if your car is handy.

FLY The closest airport to us is

TRAIN Greensboroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rail depot is

only a few blocks from Elsewhere and Amtrak offers trains connecting to major U.S. cities daily. We can pick you up. No charge.

Sturdy shoes / work boots =

YMCA KIT: Towel(s), Combination lock, shower flops, Swimsuit [if you like the pool],

BUS There is a Greyhound Station

here in Greensboro, as well as other towns near-by. If you are coming from New York City, there is a $30 Chinatown bus that travels overnight to Greensboro daily. (http://www.skyexpressbus.com/)

backpack for biking to and fro =

CAMP BATHKIT Toiletries [please bring a small sized bag or container for storage in public bathroom] Allergy medication/ Air purifying device [if you have problems with dust]

TECHNOLOGY Computer (we have wireless, and please bring your own personal computer if you have one) Digital camera / video camera

Mini speakers and boom boxes are enjoyed Any special art supplies, tools, or technology that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need to make your work. Be aware that your shared room is also your only private storage studio. CAMPING Flashlight or headlamp (just in case the apocalypse comes early) Bed Blankets or sleeping bag (only if convenient)

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Camping

conditions Elsewhere is a rugged collaborative environment designed as a

confrontation and experiment with everyday living and working. Campers are expected to participate fully in collaborative care for our collective commons. INDOOR CAM PIN G

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Shorter term visitors (1 week or less) recieve campsites on the 1st floor that must be vacated by 10AM each morning. Longterm visitors (1 week or more) are provided 2nd floor campsites in converted (not renovated) 1950s boarding house. The rooms are on the second floor of Elsewhere, which is open to the public via tour and special event. You will share a room with one other Elsewherian and bedrolls will be provided. Some rooms do not have windows in them, but we do our best to circulate lights and breezes.

Elsewhere is a 24 hour studio. We are not zoned for living or occupancy, which is why we camp in the museum. It is your job to maintain your indoor campsite at the highest level of artistic quality at all times. Please ensure you are comfortable with this arrangement.

Bikes are available for your use, including a six person beach bike surrey.

DUST AND DIRT Elsewhere is a dusty and dirty old store that we work hard to keep extremely clean and organized with everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help. Our vaccuum warriors work to keep the dust down to a very manageable level, but we fight an ongoing battle with dirt, dust, and crumbling stuff. If you have asthma or allergies, please evaluate potential discomfort when considering the Elsehwere experience. Our site is not a white walled, stateof-the-art building but a responsive, evolving old architecture that is growing increasingly hospitable under our shared stewardship, maintenance, upfit, and care.

PREVENTION Please make sure that you have had a tetanus shot within the last 10 years. You never know where old rusty objects linger. Also, please please please ensure that you do not bring bed bugs into our environment.

LAU NDRY

There are several Laundromats nearby, but none are walkable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; laundry trips will be organized every other week for those without cars.

COLLECTIVE CO M M ONS

All overnighters at Elsewhere are expected to participate in cooking and cleaning chores. We cleanup thoroughly after each meal and every preparation. Be ready to participate TEM PERATU RES in a Tuesday morning brunch and two hour mandatory museum beautification North Carolina winters can be cold (10am-1pm). Food is $5/day. and summers can be extremely hot and humid. We have no AC or heat. VISITORS Please make sure you are comfortable adjusting to a variety of temperatures. Long-term campers are welcome to host over-night visitors from 1-3 nights. All SHOWERS overnight visitors are encouraged to become members of Elsewhere. Visitors There is one public bathroom for the are expected to participate in various downstairs museum and one private projects and daily chores, and must shower and bathroom for campers contribute for food. No pets or children (completed May 1, 2011), and one please. bathroom for the museum downstairs. Long-term campers are provided YMCA access to shower, sauna, gym, and pool one walkable, bikable mile away from Elsewhere with your stay.

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Where is Elsewhere?

Elsewhere always there and here, here and there, somewhere. Elsewhere is a paradox, an illusion, possibility. Herein lies the experiment...this place proposes a re-arrangement of things--our assumptions, diversions, responses, timings, visions--a re-arrangement of our objects and our selves. Welcome to another place. Elsewhere on South Elm Street, in Greensboro, set in a former store containing Sylviaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vast collection of things. Elsewhere is a museum and a home. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a life on display, intimate life, unusual life, sometimes

impossible life, an utter fantasy living squarely within the really real. So too, Elsewhere is inbetween this and that...youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see what we mean when you get here. As you will come to know, a careful calibration of intention and chance, order and chaos, sanity and madness, public and private, reorients our most basic presumptions about mind and matter, things and meaning, suggestion and referent, process and practice, and the whole ecological systems of art, ideas, life, what it is to be human, after all, as in, to keep a history alive as you invent new ones.

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context 1. U n iverse

4. South

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been hurtling through this world for eons, expanding, while our purpose remains undecided. The big bang was a great work of art.

Here we treasure things just a bit more, invest a magical faith in their future. There is copious compiling of antiques, surplus, junk in attics, basements, yards, on porches and in stores. People are searching for connection, redefinition. The south is a sunny, dark literature of long sentences...

2. Globe The world is a constellation of things. From wonders to monuments, intricate treasures to everyday vestiges, things are tools, functions, forms, memories, symbols, and devices. They are reflections of our actions, operations, & style. Meanwhile, leftovers from eras, detritus of systems, pillaged knowledge and residues -- some preserved in reliquaries, some in the earth and soil, some in store, things hold the places of things that came before and will also come to pass. All is interpretable, a sign of a larger system. Nowhere is neutral. As the western global economy nears collapse, the art market gleefully cradles its own objecthood. As a reaching, blindfolded phoenix, it presents mumified objects as representations for the struggles of our shared purpose. Instead we draw from public interests to invent designed solutions for the common good.

3. America An American aesthetic of the new obliterates histories traceable through old things. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve produced ceaselessly, developing excess and surplus as a standard. On one hand, we duplicate and re-produce images of our similarities: sunday circus, tide, bananas, coppertone, keebler. In those surplus capital objects worn by the world, things contain childhood fantasies, dreams, desires, invented needs, and fractured stories. In this abundance, there are other possible economies of use: potential, resource, play, interaction, convergence.

5. Greensbo ro A town inches its way towards becoming a city. As the century turns again, basic needs are once again realized without the automobile--re-humanizing the stroll. In re-condensing, we advance a concern for rehabilitating architecture, preserving communities of inhabitants, and exploring history should be of utmost priority. At the Woolworthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s down the street, sit down for equivalence...

6. Neighborhood he south elm district of downtown Greensboro on the other side of the tracks is a family of shopkeepers, residents, and passer-bys who keep watch over the block and and look out for one another. The typical misadventures in an extraordinarily ordinary town happen regularly. Neighbors support neighbors.

7. Elsewhere Realize a place to experiment with praxis--or ideas in action. Find somewhere to rethink, repurpose, recreate, reimagine, realize, reinstill, rectify, amplify, pretend, process, experiment. Live in a thing-tank for material concepts, change habits of inhabitance. Elsewhere is a collaborative fiction, a story of the times played with others. Everything can

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culture 1. Collab oration Elsewhere explores and embraces collaboration. Collaboration is a working with, working through, and working upon. Collaboration happens not only from person to person, but with things, over time. It requires only more than one thing present, and begins from those two presences, or millions of presences colliding. At that point, said collaborators remain open at their most fundamental level. They are oriented to the gift (as in giving ourselves away), in the presumption of an initial generosity. This position towards care for the other (animal, vegetable, mineral, plastic, wood, or any other composite) enables listening, issues attention and demonstrates the ultimate respect for the time-space at hand. Include the past. Evolve the present. Enact a future.

2. Envi ro n m ent An environment of refuse becomes an ecology of things. Weather patterns develop, things rise and fall as the tides, there are winds and waves. There is no distance, separation, space for metaphors; the place absorbs the art as the art makes the place. Patterns and propositions compose atmospheres. Each place is a geography, history, resource, an aggregation and a sensibility. Adapting to conditions and reconstructing our actions, we transform our presumptions, assumptions and habits. We till, tend to, cultivate these places. We see our responsibility towards what things can be. Surroundings are beautiful. Help them echo. .

3. Resources Resources are limited. We acknowledge their restrictions. We incorporate parameters as possibilities. There are infinite combinations and potentials within our limits through re-arrangement. How can we re-purpose what we have already? How can we activate what is close, immediate, at-hand, available, and possible? How can we share? Never underestimate technology, technicalities, technique. Consider how art works, materiality as meaning.

4. Virtua l - Globa l Elsewhereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection of the 58-years of cultural surplus is a puzzle, game, and hyper-archive limited by unusual material constraints. This inventory becomes virtual in its alternative closed system, while possibilities for specific local productions emerge from global perspectives applied to a particular, peculiar set. This expresses the physical metaphysically and materially, by nature.

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5. Play Even at our most serious, the world is a stage, its things a set, and its furniture a philosophy. Play frees our escapes. While we are a social body, a communing entity, connections to others happen through work and play. Working and playing meet in doing, as to live is to communicate, exchange, participate, which is to story, as a matter of fact and fiction, as a creation and re-enactment. When we act together, life is transmitted, valued is sensed and dispersed. By doing together I learn your way--I see your action, I learn your â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;herenessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, I absorb your consistencies. By playing together, I learn to play attention to what is embedded within us as a reconstruction and reinvention.

6. Approach We draw from what is within us, parts and pieces of culture. Experience building upon, collaboration, responsive ideas. Hear things speaking.Take other perspectives, try them on. The intrepid traveler is curious, open, gentle, brave, persistent, kind, patient, believing. inclusive, reciprocal, generous in object and spirit, careful, open, functional, resolute, neighborly, conscious, and conscientious. Seek iterations and generations. To pass along is to transform, which is to awaken again and again to what is before us.

7. Research Knowledge is coming to know what things are becoming. Our research is: Investigatory, Navigatory, Archaeological, Haptical, Invenstoryesque, Anthropomorphological, Catalogicical, Farcical, Re-searching, Experimental, Re-Collective, Herstorical, Fascinating, Traipsing, Reminding, Remainding, Metaphysiological, Whetherous, Infra-departmental, Thingtank, Transisting, Illuminating, Playful, Ever After.

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customs 1. Rules

2. Routines

SAFETY

The safety of the building and its contents is a shared lookout responsibility. Be full of care! Look out! Protect our space, its resources, your and our possessions. If you see something that looks hazardous or needs fixing, please alert staff immediately. Notify someone is there is unsafe activities present. Wear goggles, hard-hats, dust-masks, gloves, sturdy shoes as appropriate and necessary. Listen to your gut if you feel like something is wrong with a visitor, participant, or situation. Tell someone you trust immediately. You are ultimately responsible for your own personal safety, security, and comfort.

SECU RITY

Elsewhere is a public environment. People will walk in off of the street and through alley doors, looking to snatch up your beautiful Macintosh computer and ruin your Elsewhere experience. For these reasons, your personal equipment and valuables should be kept locked both upstairs and downstairs at all times. We cannot emphasize enough how important it is to never leave your valuables unattended, just as you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t at a cafe or public library. Lock it up well or keep things on your person. Elsewhere is not responsible for your personal equipment.

FI RE

Familiarize yourself with the location of fire extinguishers upon arrival. Absolutely NO FIRE of any kind within Elsewhere (no candles, incense, or flicking of lighters). There is no smoking allowed in the building. No smoking on the upstairs fire escape. Electric fires are the enemy. Lights and lamps should be on only when in immediate use in accordance with eco-ethics. All extension cords must be secured immediately when in use. Absolutely no ad-hoc or fabric lampshades.

Lo w Time

Because our space is live/work, we have quieter hours: Sunday to Thursday 11pm-8am and FridaySaturday 12:30pm-9am. Our team and crew operates TuesdaySaturday from 10am through dinner. On Sunday and Monday, while staff + team are present as comrades living in the space, they are not available for project support.

Kitchen

During your time at Elsewhere, you will participate community houspitality. This includes cooking for the at least once a week, group cleaning-up every night after dinner, one or two museum chores, and attending our weekly house brunch and museum spruce (Tuesday 10am - 1pm). The kitchen commons is a public park and must be kept perfectly clean, so be precisely attentive after preparing meals throughout the day - dishes, counters, tables.

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4. Relations WITH YOU RSELF

3. habits DO EASY Make life easier for you and others by leaving a wake of a museum exhibit as you move about. By collecting your belongings and nearly arranging the world around you, you perform an easy stride with the world about you, operating in harmony with the movement of things. HABITATS You live in a museum. Exhibit a clean desk, process space, and living quarters throughout your stay. Advance integrity by leaving spaces and places better than you found them.

collections

Wardrobe Clothing is available for wear to suite ongoing museum fashions. To keep happy garmets, neatly return all items to hangers, shelves, and drawers immediately. After wear, wash clothing and facilitate the repair of items that require any attention. Be careful not to spill, extend, or abuse materials. For adjustments, consult with the house tailor. Never leave a messy closet. If you steal clothing items, their ghosts will haunt you indeterminately.

TOOLS & TECH NOLOGY

It begins as a relation with yourself that presumes that you are many, that you are multiple, that you are your own friend, that you are endlessly improving and being remade. Everything you do works towards your integrity, your pride and dedication to what you put forth from yourselves.

WITH OTH ERS

Openness and inclusivity are particularly important positions for our organizational ethos. This means forthwriteness, openness, and engagment with publics as a performance of yourself and your ideas. You should wear your public presence, make new friends, very very regularly. This also means being conscienscious to include new people in the conversation, reaching out through generosity and hospitality to new participants and guests. Instead of presuming and judging, create spaces for open and honest exchanges that become conversational landscapes. You realize everyone is traversing with you. People are buildings. Art is politics. You are a public work.

LIBRARY We boast an extensive library of vintage information. You will need to check-out all books and return them to the library or explore periodicals with care.