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Vexations collaborative with John Foy Piano a Quiet Success

Last weekend Elsewhere hosted Vexations, a communal musical experience in conjunction with South Elm's John Foy Piano restoration.  Vexations was a recreation of John Cage's 1963 performance of Erik Satie's 1893 score; a piece of music one-page long that was played in 840 repetitions for nearly 24 hours.  To complete the recreation Elsewhere allowed visitors to sign in and out of the performance and be refunded a nickel for every twenty-minutes that they listened.

The event officially began with a opening reception at 7 pm Friday night at John Foy piano, and the performance kicked-off at about 8:30 pm on the 608 side of Elsewhere.  Performers played mostly on an antique 19th century Steinway grand piano, though accompaniment was provided on kazoo, cello, and toy piano at different points through the night.

The experience for those of us who stayed most or all of the night was just as the title suggests.  The music is arduously slow and difficult to understand in any intellectual way.  Despite the high volume of guests the mood in 608 was subdued, and sitting to listen for any significant length of time produced a feeling of concentration that was simultaneously overwhelming and difficult to grasp.  The notes and chords lost meaning the same way that a word does when one repeats it many times.  Just say 'piano' a couple hundred times and imagine everyone in the room feeling the same confounded perplexity as you.

For guests that needed a nap a bed was provided, they could sleep and their image was projected beside the piano in a recreation of Andy Warhol's film Sleep (another component of Cage's 1963 performance.)

At 8:20 Saturday night John Foy played the 840th repetition, sat for a moment of contemplation, then closed the piano lid and silently walked away.  We all sat stunned for just a moment before the applause broke out.  Surprisingly, many of the players and guests felt a loss after the music ended, though Vexations provides no melody you could hum on the way home.

I'd like to thank all the volunteers and performer's who pulled together to make a piece of music that no single person can possibly play into a reality.  John Foy Piano can be found here.

After-words @ Elsewhere ---- April 3rd, 8-11pm

After-words is a collaborative group art show hosted by Elsewhere's Etc. Collective and participating Elsewhere artist-in-residence.After-words extends the concept of Elsewhere's Messages show, an exhibit of works hosted at the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, to Elsewhere's living museum set within a former thrift store. 

Artists will present an interactive environment of artworks in sound, sculpture, installation, works on paper, performance and video.  After-words explores a post-communication era where visual languages yield a new arrangement of sounds, symbols, visions, illusions, and ideas. 

If Messages is a show about a variety of frameworks for interpreting, reading into, and making meaning through the materials and communications in everyday life, then After-Words creates an atmosphere where that fractured meaning founds new modes for conversation, play, and exchange in the communication process. 

Over 20 artists will feature new works in the show, hosted at Elsewhere from 8-11pm. 

this first week of September at elsewhere

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5th from 8pm to 11pm

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Conversations at Elsewhere featuring Alex Wolkowicz:
Join Alex, a visual artist from Liverpool, UK for the
opening of "Plink Plink" at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative.
Alex will host an evening of windchimes. Alex is a visiting
artist at Elsewhere, a living art museum and arts production
site sculpted from a former thrift store on South Elm.

Artist Conversations at Elsewhere feature a different artist
or artist group every Friday night at 8pm from June through
September.

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6th at 10am
Join us Saturday morning from 10am-1pm for URBAN GREEN. Come Garden with Us. We are turning the alley behind the elsewhere museum into an eco-park and community garden. We will be gardening every Saturday til the Fall.

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6th at 2pm
Green Dialogue at Elsewhere featuring Sue Edelburg. HOW TO: Join a Vericult. Sue Edelburg is speaking as part of Elsewhere's eight part series of NC-based eco-thinkers presenting DIY environmental projects for urban living. The Green Dialogues are part of Elsewhere's 2008 Community Arts Project, The Urban-Green Campaign, which will also include the transformation of Elsewhere's back alley into an eco-park and community garden called The Hanging Gardens of Greensboro. Urban-Green is funded by The Future Fund of the Community Foundation of Greensboro.

ALL of these events are FREE! Donations are greatly appreciated.

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Guerra de la Paz at Elsewhere

FRIDAY AUGUST 22nd from 8pm-11pm

RADIO FM goes live with a conversation on creative collaboration with Guerra de la Paz and Elsewhere's directors

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LIKE A GLOVE

Dress up with us to participate in the creation of a collaborative photo-flipbook of Elsewhere's vintage clothing collection with NY-based photographer Shalin Scupham.

See his work so far at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsewhereelsewhere/

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SATURDAY August 23rd! 10am-1pm: Urban Green Gardening
Come Garden with Us. We are turning the alley behind the elsewhere museum into an eco-park and community garden. We will be gardening every Saturday til the Fall.

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MONDAY August 25th! 4pm at the WEATHERSPOON ART MUSEUM ARTIST TALK
by Guerra de la Paz at the Weatherspoon Museum on the UNCG campus.

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WEDNESDAY August 27th! 6:30-9:30pm SNEAK PEEK EVENING
with Alain & Neraldo of Guerra de la Paz. Elsewhere members will enjoy a sneak peek preview while savoring sangria and delectable desserts.  Live music in the garden.  New members welcome. Please RSVP.

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FRIDAY August 29th! 8-11pm OPENING CELEBRATION
of new work by Guerra de la Paz featuring DJ Tim Trouble, swirling neon rainbows, and treats by Earthfare.

Check out our new collaborative blog: gdlpiselsewhere.vox.com

We hope to see you soon.

The Elsewherians.

This coming weekend @ Elsewhere!

Sorry its been so long since an update, everyone!

Here is what is going on this weekend at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative!

FRIDAY AUGUST 15 from 8pm-11pm: Artist Conversations at Elsewhere featuring Molly Anne Goldberg: Join Molly, a visual artist from San Francisco, CA for the opening of "Yours Truly" at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative. Molly Anne Goldberg will host an evening of letters. Molly is a visiting artist at Elsewhere, a living art museum and arts production site sculpted from a former thrift store on South Elm. Artist Conversations at Elsewhere feature a different artist or artist group every Friday night at 8pm from June through September.

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SATURDAY August 2nd! 10am-1pm:: Urban Green Gardening
Come Garden with Us. We are turning the alley behind the elsewhere museum into an eco-park and community garden. We will be gardening every saturday til the Fall.
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SATURDAY AUGUST 2nd at 2pm: Green Dialogues at Elsewhere featuring Jim Dees: Jim Dees is the Environmental Sustainability Coordinator for Guilford College. Jim's session, "How to Institutionalize Sustainability," will explore how a to turn an institutional structure such as a university toward green practices and sustainable architectures. Jim Dees is speaking as part of Elsewhere's eight part series of NC-based eco-thinkers presenting DIY environmental projects for urban living. The Green Dialogues are part of Elsewhere's 2008 Community Arts Project, The Urban-Green Campaign, which will also include the transformation of Elsewhere's back alley into an eco-park and community garden called The Hanging Gardens of Greensboro. Urban-Green is funded by The Future Fund of the Community Foundation of Greensboro.

ALL of these events are FREE! Donations are great appreciated, it helps keep elsewhere up and running!

This weekend at Elsewhere!

This weekend of July 25th:::

FRIDAY JULY 25, 8pm to 11pm: Artist  Conversations at Elsewhere featuring Laurencio Ruiz, a visual artist from State College, PA. for the opening of "Give me a Hand!...Why me?" at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative. Laurencio  Ruiz will host and evening of puppetry, slide show, and video. Ruiz is a visiting artist at Elsewhere, a living art museum and arts production site sculpted from a former thrift store on South Elm. Artist Conversations at Elsewhere feature a different artist or artist group every Friday night at 8pm from June though September 606 South Elm St. downtown Greensboro.  336.549.5555  www.elsewhereelsewhere.org

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SATURDAY JULY 26th- 10am-1pm:: Urban Green Gardening
Come Garden with Us. We are turning the alley behind the elsewhere museum into an eco-park and community garden. We will be gardening every saturday til the Fall.

** All of our events are FREE, but we very much appreciate DONATIONS to keep Elsewhere up and running!**

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elsewhere artist collaborative
606 + 608 South Elm St.
Downtown Greensboro, NC
336-549-5555
www.elsewhereelsewhere.org 

Hello World!

Hello all you lovely people!

We finally are going to be updating whats going on here at Elsewhere again VIA the Internet! Its going to be great.

I just want to greet all of you and say hello! HELLO! How are you? I'm pretty good. I hope you are having a fabulous day and/or evening.

I also also wanted to mention the links to the left of this post.
 We have a myspace, a facebook, and a flickr.
We send out invites for all our events on myspace and facebook - so become friends with us so you can get the updates! Elsewhere has a flickr that we encourage our visitors to update with photos they take here visiting the museum.
To log in and upload your photos:
log in: elsewhere.elsewhere
password: toyboat
So please! If you come visit, upload your photos to Elsewhere's Flickr photostream!
The flickr also gets updated with the current documentarian's photos of the events that are happening here at elsewhere and put into sets - please look and enjoy!

So, keep on checking back every week for our updates about all the events that we have here!

Be well!