Amber PB
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
September 3, 2008 - October 9, 2008 as a resident
June 4, 2009 - September 22, 2009 as a producer
website | realm of reject dot com
Amber Phelps Bondaroff is a spatial navigator, a semionaut and a situationalist. Crafted environments act as backdrop for the observation of interactions between audience and objects. Enforcing certain elements of aesthetic and spatial control, the audience acts as participant and subject within the work. Amber arrived Elsewhere in the fall of 2008, and spent more time than anticipated, documenting, recording and viewing from above, as well as constructing the Elsewhere Confessatorium. In 2009 she returned South Elm Street as a re-visiting SWAP artist, in consideration of Elsewhere’s “Systems and Signs.”Interested in musical interludes, facial accessories, alimentary re-contextualization, the invention of new words and phrases, pata-physics, mapping and archiving, alliterations, polar exploration, and all things sweet, Amber is the co- founder of multidisciplinary enterprise, The Realm of Reject (www.realmofreject.com) She received a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax in 2006 and currently resides in Montreal, Canada.Born on Treaty 7 lands, (Calgary, Alberta,) Amber lived and travelled to many places around the continent and around the globe, before settling in Saskatchewan in 2012. She was a resident artist at Elsewhere in 2008 and 2009. She is the founder of the NoDS project (Network of Domestic Spaces) a reticulum of artist residency spaces situated in people’s homes and co-artistic director of Swamp Fest - a music and arts festival in Regina. She received an MFA in Intermedia Arts from the University of Regina, in 2014 and a BFA in interdisciplinary fine arts from NSCAD University, Halifax in 2007.
Amber is currently the Programming Director at Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre.
More of Amber's work here: www.amberpb.com
Douglas Kelley
Douglas Kelley is a New York City artist, writer, commentator, and consummate talking TV head, philosopher and a connoisseur of esoteric history as regards American political or electoral events. A prolific documentarian he was also an Elsewhere artist-in-residence in the fall of 2008 where he co-hosted with George Sheer the 2008 election between Barack Obama and that other guy, the loser. He also is a well-known critic, arch art essayist, a freelance curator and a promoter of artists with an interest in politics. Personally he predicts a tighter closer race than that between George W. Bush and Albert Gore in the year 2000 and expects the election to end up in the courts."
Residency Fall 2008; Political Party 2012
Alex Wolkowitcz
Liverpool, England
August 7, 2008 - September 16, 2008
website | studio wolcowicz dot com
Alexandra Wolkowicz is a Polish/German photography and artist currently doing a residency in Liverpool. Her work explores themes about our relationship with the world and how we share it with each other and living things. Essentially tactile and documentary, her work springs from her experience with photography, performance, theatre and the creation of unique representations of places, things and histories which move her. She works with still and moving imagery, often with the addition of sound. Her intervention with things and situations found is to alter, adjust, and reconstruct the familiar in order to create moving, thought-provoking and poetic representations. Her working practice is often collaborative and multidisciplinary, choosing to select media appropriate to the aesthetics and content of a particular piece. She has traveled widely and has worked with artists and in residencies in Europe, North America and Asia.
Molly Goldberg
San Francisco, CA
July 24, 2008 - August 19, 2008
Molly Goldberg and collaborator Mary Rothlisberger met elsewhere. Somewhere between the this and the that, the here and the there, the dear and the from, they built a landscape of friendship– a series of sites for shared belonging. Through the construction of temporary, moveable dwellings and gathering spaces, through storytelling amd music making, they explore questions of community, interdependence, migration, home and inbetweenness. Their collaborations merge in the passions of a dedicated community organizer and an inspiring teacher and friend-maker: making homes and crossing lines, dotting eyes, singing for supper, and setting a place at the table for every good idea. Together they made a project called Elsewhere Book Project, which is undocumented.
Laurencio Carlos Ruiz
State College, PA
July 10, 2008 – August 12, 2008
June 14, 2011 - July 3, 2011
The fifth of six children, he grew up in a traditional working-class Catholic family, and his education was in public schools. As a visual and performance artist, as a puppeteer, designer, and photographer, he is coming back into the international eye with his new Action Figure Drama.Ruiz received his B.A. in Graphic Design from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (Mexico City, 1992) and a M.F.A. in Scenic Design from Penn State University (2001). A free-lance artists and designer, and professor of Theatre and Integrative Arts at Penn State University Altoona, he resides with the love of his life Roselyn in State College PA, since 1996.
Travis Janssen
Tempe, Arizona
June 5, 2008 - July 8, 2008
website | travis janssen dot com
Travis Janssen received an MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University in 2007 and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2000. His creative practice focuses on printmaking while extending into the mediums of video and installation. Janssen is also engaged with collaborative processes and cross-disciplinary investigation, having collaborated with a variety of individuals on a diverse range of projects including prints and documentary videos. The exploration of perception and reflection within conscious and unconscious viewing experiences is a common thread throughout his work, often distilling events within the human condition. To this end, it is his implicit goal that viewers develop recognition of intriguing phenomena and further understanding about the visual world. Over the last five years he has shown work in over seventy exhibitions across the United States and venues in New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Claire van der Plas
Claire van der Plas (Sylva, NC)
“I currently live in Alamosa CO where I am the chair of the Art Department at Adams State University. I have taught in New Zealand, Singapore and North Carolina before moving to Colorado. While primarily a painter I also work in other media including installation, performance and collaborative art when the opportunity arises. I have exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States.”
Residency: April 1, 2008 - June 16, 2008
During her residency, Clair created the Totally Nice Travel Agency and helped organize Elsewhere’s participation in Greensboro’s annual Fun Fourth Parade and Festival in 2009. That year, Clair organized a project of mail art of Elsewhere alumni (ETC’s) in New Zealand called “Elsewhen Meanwise Otherwhere” and its exhibition in Greensboro in 2009 called “Messages.”
