20 Dec 2013

Elsewhere | Call for Residency Applications

Elsewhere Living Museum and Experimental Residency Program

CALL FOR RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS

Elsewhere, a living museum set in a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro, NC, is accepting applications for 2014 residencies. Artists are invited to create using the museum's immense 58-year collection of cultural and material surplus for site-specific projects that interpret and contribute to Elsewhere's concepts, collections, and communities. Installation, sculpture, textile, sound, video, performance and kitchen artists, musicians, urban agriculturalists, homesteaders, curators, scholars, arts administrators, system-thinkers and game-makers crossing interdisciplinary boundaries are encouraged to apply.

Elsewhere's three-story museum offers an evolving environment of living installations, public studios, and materials that provides an experimental context for investigating material culture, re-thinking process and practice, and developing new collaborative approaches. Elsewhere is an active participant in the vitalization of its emerging downtown neighborhood, and an exceptional place for rethinking things in everyday and extraordinary life.

We welcome applications from individuals and collaborative teams working across media, fields, disciplines, and administrations. Goelsewhere.org/residencies for more information.

Residency Logistics:
Applications are due by January 10, 2014
Residencies are 2 - 6 weeks and 4 weeks is ideal time frame.
Apply online goelsewhere.org/residencies.


RETREATS
Creative Retreats offer immersive encounters with contemporary site-specific art practice, storytelling, resourcefulness, flexibility, creativity, adaptation, and community-based creative practice in Elsewhere's one-of-a-kind world of collaborative production. Elsewhere's environment of art and everyday objects invokes responses through an open field of creative learning through living, doing, and exchanging that builds group connectivity, communication, and collaboration.

Retreats are open to students, collectives, organizations, community and learning groups across disciplines and interests. Day-long, weekend, and week-long adventures for groups are available.

For more info and to schedule a retreat visit goelsewhere.org/retreats.


INTERNSHIPS
Internships at Elsewhere offer students and graduates across disciplines and interests exceptional experiences with learning in action. Interns support the non-profit's organizational, artistic, and community based projects that maintain and advance the living museum. Elsewhere introduces interns to a litany of collaborative skills in artful life and purposive art. We welcome applications from smart, dedicated, helpful visionaries interested in helping Elsewhere's staff, curators, and artists build a more professional, creative world.

Internship Logistics:
Internship Periods: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
Spring Applications are due by February 1, 2014
Internships are 10 - 12 weeks and 20 - 40 hours on-site per week.
Departments: Communications, Houspatality, Building, Production, Operations, Education.
Apply online at goelsewhere.org/internships.


DOCUMENTARY FELLOWSHIP
The documentarian works with the communications curator to capture, produce, disseminate, and archive all aspects of the living museum programming including artist residencies, events, and collection.

Fellowship Logistics:
9-Month Paid Fellowship Position (March - November)
Video / Photo / Audio / Tech / Web / People skills
$500 / month stipend with optional room and board.

To apply send letter of interest and CV to news@goelsewhere.org by January 25, 2014.