Nestor Armando Gil / Born in the deep south of North Florida, Nestor Armando Gil now comes to us from Pennsylvania where his family remains while Nestor is Elsewhere. Operating at the crossroads of sculpture, performance, and new media practices, Nestor produces installations, situations, and events that explore ideas of journey, borders, and interactivity. A graduate of UNC Chapel Hill's MFA program in studio art, Nestor has shown work widely, observing his own motto, "I make and I do, and as an artist I make do."

Kieran Morris is a musician and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He received a B.A. in Literature from Bard College in 2008. His creative interest in sound draws on a variety of worldly folk traditions, ritual song, noise, and electronic music. He has been performing and releasing albums as Young Rites since 2011.Kieran is gradually developing an understanding of applied electronics as integral to his independent study of analog synthesis. He aspires to a degree of technological literacy that will enhance his capacity to design interesting circuits for musical application. He periodically composes in collaboration with artists of various disciplines. His productions are forever concerned with questions of value, utility, and privilege.

Kari Marboe and Erin Johnson met at University of California, Berkeley’s MFA program and began collaborating in 2011. Their practice involves crafting artworks of site-specific storytelling through research and response. Their time at Elsewhere marks their first residency together.

Kari Marboe received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded the Eisner Award for Art, in 2012 and her BFA, with honors, from California College of the Arts in 2008. Marboe is allergic to pineapple, does not feel comfortable with objects being kept in differently scaled versions of that same object (gingerbread houses constructed in houses), and prayed to a higher being during her youth for large feet which resulted in the size ten women's shoe she wears today.

Erin Johnson is currently a MFA candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received the Eisner Award in Art in 2012. Johnson curated a ballet-line dancing system as a youth, and while donning a cowboy hat, bandana, denim shorts, and ballet shoes, performed these strange hybrids at county fairs, church talent shows, and barbecues. Her artistic objectives and systems of research remain the same today.

Emilio Rojas was born in Mexico City. He is interdisciplinary artist, yoga teacher and translator working primarily in performance, video, installation, movement and sculpture. His works explore the relationship between the artist and his audience, interacting and exchanging roles. The intrinsic relation with the body has been both his subject matter and medium. Exploring the mental and physical limits of his being, Emilio reevaluates language, gender, activism, tradition, ritual, displacement, migration and sexuality.

Guadalupe Martinez lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she obtained a BFA from the National University of Arts in 2008. Her work investigates the relationship between individual and landscape as a platform to explore the borderland between Self and Other. Personal narratives function as the framework to access themes that speak of (mis)communication, displacement, failure and desire. Her main focus is to look for possible ways to develop work that integrally combines three-dimensionality, site-specificity, and performance art.

Laura is an Interdisciplinary Artist. She creates experimental narratives through multiple mediums, including: installation art, film/video, sculpture, sound, photography, theatre, textile arts, architecture, and works on paper. Through the marriage of concept and craft, she explores the many facets of collective memory. As she perceives innate connectivity and relationships between environments, human behavior, and discourse, Laura creates artwork that expresses how we perceive the external world and its relation to our inner monologues.With a passion for travel and experience in other cultures, and a belief that we exist in a global art community, Laura seeks international experience, exposure, and to connect with other art communities and foster relationships.

Laura MacAulay is a visual artist based in Montreal, Canada. Her favorite media are drawing, fibres, installation, and her own body. Some of her favorite things are kids’ books and the kid detectives who inhabit them, and she likes to approach art-making as a sleuth trying to uncover a mystery. Since finishing her degree in fine arts two years ago, she has embroidered made-up zoological creatures, performed in an experimental folk choir, hawked desserts of her own creation, and administered many a temporary tattoo. She has also been practicing African dance for the past six years, translating her love of rhythm, pattern, and space into a corporeal form.

Meghan Macdonald is a Toronto, Canada-based artist working primarily in textiles. Most recently she has used embroidery and collage to re-imagine the domestic objects of a reclusive millionaire. Yard sales and abandoned places are a source of inspiration and materials for her art, and treasures for her online vintage shop. A recent graduate of the interdisciplinary BFA program at NSCAD University, she also holds an advanced honors diploma in textiles from the Sheridan College department of Crafts & Design. She is interested in exploring themes of collecting, memory and the found object.These collaborators met in 2011 while artists-in-residence at The Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design.

At Elsewhere, they will be busy documenting the imagined histories of certain choice artifacts from the museum's collection.

Martyna Szczesna is an artist and photographer living and working in Brooklyn. She received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Fine Art. Exploring entropy, memory and longing, her work constructs fractured landscapes that deal with notions of place and cultural identity using photography, collage and sculpture. Her photographs run the gamut from documentary and portraiture (pirate utopias and alternate economies) to the ephemeral and textural. Her dimensional collage work mines the formal aspects of photography to probe its abstract qualities. In addition to working with Casera Era, she regularly collaborates with TradeSchool teaching photography classes.

Lauren Frances Moore lives and works in the greater Washington, DC area where she is currently working towards her MFA in Sculpture at the University of Maryland, College Park on a full graduate teaching assistantship. In 2011, she graduated from the Honors College at the College of Charleston with a BA in Studio Art as well as a BS in Business Administration. In the summer of 2010, Lauren received an Intern Artist Fellowship for a residency at Franconia Sculpture Park, in Schafer, MN, and this summer she is thrilled to participate in residencies at Elsewhere Living Museum, in Greensboro, NC, and the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, VT.When it comes to creative habit, Lauren endeavors to work in what she likes to call the “realm of or” – a liminal space, an in-between. A blurry place where distinctions collide and coalesce. Where things are almost, but not quite. Perhaps, but not really. Or is a place of comfortable tension, familiar ambiguity, and reluctant desire. Flesh, as both material and metaphor, is the common denominator of Lauren’s studio practice. As she dissects and constructs, she responds to the intricacies and oddities of our bodies’ largest organ.

Elliott P. Montgomery uses designed artifacts and experiences to raise questions about impact responsibility. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London (Design Interactions - 2011) and at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. (Industrial Design - 2003). He has worked with start-ups, non-profits, design consultancies and government agencies.

Andrea Avery is a visual artist living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Avery received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking, as well as her Bachelor of Science in Art Education degree, from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Avery completed her Master of Arts degree through the Peck School of the Arts, as well as receiving a Museum Studies Certification through Anthropology, in 2011 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).  She received the Anderson Ranch Presidential Scholarship Award (2009), UW-Milwaukee Anderson Ranch Scholarship (2009), and the Layton Travel Grant (2009). Her active exhibition record includes shows in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Scotland, England, South Korea and Thailand. Avery just completed her Master of Fine Arts degree (2012) at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently the gallery manager and curator at UWM’s Union Art Gallery and the Community Arts Coordinator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Capp Larsen lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Larsen's a screen printer and instructor who especially enjoys creating art with youth. She is also a member of Books Beyond Bars, a library program with women in prison, and helps to publish their works of poetry, writing, and art. Much of her own artistic work focuses on the themes of distance, communication, place, cities, mapping and urban planning. She hopes to engage critically and creatively with her surroundings and is constantly seeking fuel for the fire in order to keep up the fight. She's happiest walking with her dog in the woods and diving off things into water.

Paula Damasceno is a movie maker with expertise in documentaries. Since 2003 she has been working around the world with history, politics and culture. Her last independent work was "Mnemocine Tijuana", a short movie which explores the traditional movie theatre workers' memories in Tijuana city, Mexico. She is now at Elsewhere making a video project about the memories of the Carolina Theatre and their relation with the city of Greensboro's memories.

Katrina Neumann was born 1985 in Fullerton, California and grew up in Ashburn, Virginia. Neumann received her BFA from SUNY Purchase College with a minor in art history focused in 19th Century to Contemporary American and European Art. Neumann is a recent MFA Graduate of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Studio Art and Research. Katrina Neumann has received a number of awards and recognition including The Karsh Prize in Photography, SMFA President's Research Award, and the Montague International Travel Grant. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and her curatorial work has been reviewed in ArtNews.

The Hollow Earth Society is a cabal of aesthetic scientists, writers, artists, paraphysicians, and philosophers who create fake science in order to open up new discourses about real science. Recent works include the books Suspicious Anatomy and Suspicious Zoology, group art shows RETROFUTUROLOGY and The Pop-Up Museum of the Gowanus Canal, and many salons on the intersection of art, science, and bullshit, including the Para-Academia & Theory Fiction series with The Public School New York and the Body As Funhouse Mirror with The Cornelia Café. http://hollowearthsociety.com // twitter.com/hollowearths

Stephen Aubrey is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, dramaturg, lecturer, storyteller, and recovering medievalist. His writing has appeared in Publishing Genius, Commonweal, The Brooklyn Review, Pomp & Circumstance, Forté, and The Outlet. He is the co-writer and editor of The Hollow Earth Society’s Suspicious Anatomy and Suspicious Zoology. He is also a co-founder and the resident dramaturg and playwright of The Assembly Theater Company. His plays have been produced at The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, The Flea Theater, The Collapsable Hole, The Brick Theater, Symphony Space, the Abingdon Theater Complex, UNDER St Marks, The Philly Fringe, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where his original play, We Can’t Reach You, Hartford, was nominated for a 2006 Fringe First Award. He has an MFA from Brooklyn College where he received the Himan Brown Prize and the Ross Feld Writing Award and a BA with Honors from the College of Letters at Wesleyan University. He inexplicably holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Hollow Earth Society and is currently an instructor of English at Brooklyn College.

Wythe Marschal is a writer interested in how technologies influence eroticism, religiosity, and other areas of human culture. He believes that weird science will ultimately make "real" science more ethical (and funnier!). With artist Ethan Gould, Wythe is the founder of the Hollow Earth Society, LLC, and a member of Observatory, an art-and-science gallery/events space in Brooklyn. With The Public School New York, the Society organizes an ongoing series of free classes on Para-Academia & Theory Fiction. For Elsewhere, the Society and collaborating producer Kamomi Solidum recently organized Post-Space, a virtual para-academic conference. With Gould, Wythe is the creator of Suspicious Anatomy, an illustrated book of evil neuroscience, and Suspicious Zoology, a children's book of patently false animal science. Wythe's Surreal fiction and criticism have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and elsewhere. By day, Wythe writes advertisements for money. On weekends, Wythe teaches Brooklyn College students about writing, biopunk, Deleuze, Lovecraft, and so forth.

Elsewhere Project / Post-Space Conference

Primary Flight is a collaborative curatorial organization dedicated to the production of site-specific, street level and indoor, murals and installations. Since its inception in 2007, Primary Flight has brought together more than 150 of the world’s most influential artists to install their bodies of work live in the streets of Wynwood, the Design District and greater Miami-Dade. Launching Primary Projects at 4141 NE Second Avenue, Suite 104 in December 2010, Primary Flight uses its 4,000-square-foot space as an art lab, giving professional established and emerging artists the opportunity to redefine the context in which their work is experienced.

Elsewhere Project / Greenway Mural

Bill Lusk grew up as a hybrid southerner/mid-westerner who always got in trouble with his mother for staring. Otherʼs lives fascinated him, hence, he became a photographer of people. Later, when he studied sculpture he focused on the formal aspects of visual expression; space, line, balance, etc. Combining this language and concepts involving otherʼs personal progressions of time and their connections or junctures en route emerged as a consistent theme in all aspects of his work. His focus on the post-production of imagery is a mnemonic that one is not viewing photo-documentations of events but, rather, one possible frame of reference for real events.

Lusk was educated as a fine artist at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He works on commercial assignments, commissioned portraiture, print sales, educational workshops and book projects. Lusk divides his time between New York and North Carolina with his wife, Fran and his family.

I’m Giada, an artist now living in Seattle. I was born in Vicenza, a little town in between the Alps and Venice. My artistic education/training began at about the age of 14 when I started high school. The next step into the world of Art was through University at the “Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia,” an ancient institution funded in 1750. After graduation, I moved to Hong Kong where I lived for almost three years. My arrival in Seattle had a big influence on my design and technique: perfecting, sharpening and cleaning them.My work involves different media, researching on optical illusion, symbolism and the primitive gesture. Lately I’ve been focusing on two almost 3 dimensional collages, telling stories and playing with different materials. The subject always varies according to the message or vice versa; they generate in symbiosis with the process. I never know what the work is going to look like until it's finished.

Louise Barry is an artist who works in drawing and mixed media installation, usually creating work based on found images and text. She has been awarded residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space and Artists Alliance in New York, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC, and the Contemporary Artists Center in Troy, NY. She is also the recipient of a BRIC Media Arts Fellowship and has exhibited her work in venues throughout the Northeast US, including Cuchifritos Gallery in New York, the Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, SouthOrange, NJ, the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, NY, and Proteus Gowanus, Rabbitholestudio and The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn. Louise Barry received a BA from Smith College in 2004 and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University in 2006. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, and grew up in Northwest Pennsylvania.