On Being Elsewhere

A pocket in Greensboro, North Carolina: two tracks come together at a crossing, going where/coming from…I don't know. It's southern here with some BBQ on the horizon. Old signs and antiques…Beer in the alley…And Famed Cheerwine soda, sold across the street, that I have yet to try. I keep thinking of lakes and swimming. While, at the Y they talk of God.

Welcome to Elsewhere: a place defined more by STUFF than by location. Dense with objects, Elsewhere represents an event horizon of consumables produced between 1930 and 1997, which, amazingly, have been rescued in the wake of new trends. Clothes, ribbons, games, books, toys, lamps, fabric, pictures, and odds n’ ends, create a space, dense with nostalgia and history-- riddled in the present.

Sleeping in rocket sheets on the second floor of a dusty warehouse, I play a game of productivity....moving one thing from a place to another, calling it by some other name. Portraits and charades turn over. Artists move in and out of the room.

From July 5 to July 13, 2007, Jennifer Schmidt spent a week in Greensboro, NC at the Elsewhere Artist Collaborative . Hosted by George Scheer and Stephanie Sherman, she lived and worked amongst Elsewherians: Kelly Monico, David Dotson, Cynthia Brinich-Langloi, Art Codex, and the ghost of Monique Besten.

Elsewhere Artist Collaborative
http://www.elsewhereelsewhere.org

Article in Big Red and Shiny Art Journal
http://www.bigredandshiny.com

JS Exit Interview by George Scheer and Stephanie Sherman
Interview Part 1
Interview Part 2
Interview Part 3
Interview Part 4
Interview Part 5
Interview Part 6
Interview Part 7

Jennifer's Blog
http://www.jenniferschmidt.vox.com

Whilst Elsewhere.....

Sound Recordings
Sound Space 1
Sound Space 2
Sound Space 3
Sound Space 4
Sound Space 5
Sound Space 6

Jennifer's Projects
Psychedelic Swatch 2007
Elsewhere 2007
Falling Water 2007

Special Thanks:
Caroline Strimbeck
Eliza Wicks-Frank
Saralee Gallien
Jarema Osofsky