I am a worker in the field of Performing Arts (initiator, director, coach, performer, producer, designer) with a background in movement theatre and devised theatre. Projects are often context driven, and strive for trans-disciplinarity and trans-culturality; depending on the work, I collaborate with professionals and/or amateurs from different backgrounds and disciplines. I also currently teach at ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands.

I am interested in the absurd that lies in the tragic and the beauty hidden in the banal. I attempt to approach the indefinable very precisely in the hope of touching people through that which we do not completely understand but can feel. Inevitability and necessity in the making is essential.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Van Hinte created Slow Dance.

Kirsten Southwell is an artist and designer native to Huntersville, NC and based in Chicago, IL. By day, she works as a designer for the Art Institute of Chicago. By night, she is a textile artist, lapidary, gem faceter, and a modern girl who likes to talk about her feelings. Her work is centered around introspection and vulnerability, sharing her life experience in ways that range from melodramatic to scientific. Kirsten earned her Bachelors in Graphic Design from North Carolina State University (2012) and has previously been an artist-in-residence at Epicenter (2016).

During her residency at Elsewhere, Southwell created Emotional Exercises for the Trumpet and An Invitation That Might Break.

Lía García ‘La Novia Sirena’ (Mexico, 1989) is a poet and performance artist. Her actions take form of affective encounters in public spaces, where a pedagogical and radical tenderness takes place through the caress, touch, and the voice, echoing the fissures in a system that hides and annihilates trans women’s lives. Lia transforms the performative act into an intimate scar, one of justice and memory for dissident bodies.

Lia was a Southern Constellations Fellow in 2017 and returned to build upon her residency project for a special residency in 2021.

Alex Lacey is a bum-poet from Rock Hill, South Carolina who is telling stories through various mediums including photography, videography, and poetry. Growing up around artists, musicians, and storytellers alike created an interest in documenting individual's stories and how they fit into the larger context of society. While studying for a degree in Tele-Productions Technology, he worked for a visual storytelling company in Charlotte, North Carolina. Alex enjoys running, making short films, and drinking excessive amounts of coffee.

Bit of a creator, liar, or some would say a story teller. Aspiring good human and proper collector of yr trash. Art-O-pologist, archivist, poet, collaborator. She is just really into slushies and movies and wants to collaborate w/ you. Leave her a voicemail w/ secrets, lies, or experiences (773) 888-1630 or fill her inbox w/ recordings or voicemails you have forgotten to delete (gloriag.studio@gmail.com)

Sarah Grace Faulk is an artist, writer, and art historian based in Seattle, WA. She received her BA from the University of Washington in 2017, specializing in contemporary art history & the comparative history of ideas. By manipulating form in writing, social media, and affect, she attempts to seek out/make room for the ineffable. Her work primarily concerns geography, embodiment, community, the archive, and language - including the violences, utility, and possibilities for resistance in all of these things.

Susan Hendley is a visual artist, who has spent the majority of her life roaming the Carolinas. She has a BFA in Studio Art concentrating in ceramics and sculpture, and a BA in Art History. Susan creates (mostly) functional ceramic objects, and has worked for various studios and maker spaces in the southeast. In her spare time she enjoys pretending she can sing well, picking plants and flowers, and thinking about rap air horns and good karaoke songs (even though she has never sung karaoke).

Amy is a painter, community organizer, and secular humanist from Indianapolis, Indiana. She has spent the past 9 months wandering about the US sleeping in strange places. Amy received her BFA in Painting from Herron School of Art and Design in 2015.

Rimona Law thinks the sink is keeping secrets and the pipes are spreading rumors. A scrappy plumber, rookie mechanic, and optimistic carpenter, she makes interactive sculptures that investigate hidden intimacies of water, place, and the body. Reimagining objects and architectures, she seeks to trace lines of material culpability and connection. Law joins Elsewhere as recent graduate of Whitman College, where she earned a BA in Environmental Studies-Art. Over the next three months, you’ll be sure to find her toying and tinkering, gleefully lost in the sea of Sylvia’s collection.

During her residency with Elsewhere Goes To Madison at Reckon Holler in 2018, Law created What's Under That Rock?

While at Elsewhere in 2017, Law was the on-site Production Intern.

April Camlin is a textile artist, percussionist, and ventriloquist born and raised in Baltimore. She is honored to have lived a very strange life thus far. She has toured the globe with music and performance projects and shown visual work both nationally and internationally. Her practices are an attempt to probe the subconscious mind and subvert the embedded forces of capitalism in whatever small way she can. She recently quit her job to focus on her creative practices and hopes to never go back.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Camlin created To Climb the Mountain.

Gina Alexandra Denton is a visual artist based in Baltimore, MD. Her sculptural practice is rooted in intuitive play, and her material index spans several craft based media, including fiber and ceramics. Viewing art making as a form of intuitive cosmology, Gina creates work that explores the concept of space, both internal and external, micro and Marco. Her interactive, modular, "playable" sculptures aim to cast the viewer in the role of the mystical child who, upon encountering foreign objects, see only potential playthings, and through exploratory play, deepen their understanding of context and empathy.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Denton created Big Girl Wanna Play Too.

Hamida Khatri is an artist, writer, curator, arts educator, community activist, and a creative arts therapist, raised in Karachi, Pakistan, and living in Baltimore, U.S. She works in a variety of mediums, from figurative drawings, to photography, to sculptural puppets, to animation. She holds an MFA in Community Arts and a Certificate in Teaching from the Maryland Institute College of Art (U.S.), Certificate in Humanistic Counseling (U.K.), and an MBA in Marketing (Pakistan). Her personal work embodies the spirit of feminist ideologies and seeks to document the uncharted memories of domesticated women, within patriarchal societies. As the Founder and Director of 'Creative Therapy Platform — A Voluntary Travel-Community Project, she helps transform space into healthy communal place where meditative art-making is practiced.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Khatri created City of Scraps.

Antonio McAfee’s work addresses the complexity of representation. Through appropriating and manipulating portraits, he engages in prescribed views of individuals and rework images to provide an alternate - more layered image and concept of the people depicted. His photographs oscillate between formal considerations (modifying appearances and prints) and imaginary potential (establishing new back stories and roles) for the portraits.

During his residency at Elsewhere, McAfee created The Break in the Game.

Beau Vasseur is a new media artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. His work has been shown at Big Law Country Club in Brooklyn, NY, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA, Terrault Contemporary in Baltimore, MD, and the Borscht Film Festival in Miami, FL. His mediums include film and immersive installation. By harnessing the power of conspiracy documentaries, advertising, and architecture, his work attempts to shed light on the detrimental effects of unfeasible expectations set by first world ambitions. These explorations are inspired by real life immersive sets such as Las Vegas, Dubai, and Disney world, and scrutinize architecture as a means to convey progress, human achievement, and utopian aspirations.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Vasseur created Department No. 1.

william cordova's work attempts to reconcile ideas of displacement and transition through the use of alchemy, ephemeral residue and vernacular architecture that continually shifts and shapes what could be described as our contemporary situation.During his residency at Elsewhere, Cordova created untitled: or obsneerg y las cronicas marcianas.

Rontherin Ratliff is known for creating textural assemblages and sculptural work that examines contemporary society. In 2009, Works and Process at the Guggenheim NYC commissioned the set installation for the production of Peter and the Wolf of which Ratliff lead the artistic direction and co-creation.

In 2010 Ratliff exhibited at Diverse Works in Houston Texas and in 2012 the Arts Council of New Orleans commissioned a site-specific art installation for The Norman Mayer Branch Library. Ratliff has exhibited at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery at Coastal Carolina University SC and was selected for the Joan Mitchell Foundations Artist In Residence Program in New Orleans in 2014. He was a collaborating artist for the nationally acclaimed street art installation ExhibitBe New Orleans.In 2015, the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator and NPN/VAN awarded Ratliff with an artist residency in Miami, FL. His commitment to his practice lead him co-found Level Artist Collective with local artist of color living in New Orleans. In 2016 Ratliff exhibited at Governors Island New York, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA and was a recipient of the Adeline Edwards Founders Award along with a Blights Out artist fellowship. In 2017 Ratliff exhibited at Xavier University Gallery at Xavier University and Carroll Gallery at Tulane University in New Orleans and was invited to the Netherlands where he created an outdoor installation in response to the 1717 charismas flood.During his residency at Elsewhere, Ratliff created Rosa No. 7 Yellow Independence.

Yatta is a Houston-born digi-poet, artist, and musician currently based in New York. Using incantations born of loop pedal drones, folk acoustics, and ecstatic beats, they alchemize and creolize jazz standards with Krio cries. Past performances, readings, and workshops have taken place at healing spaces, farms, backyards, festivals, galleries, museums, conferences and universities all over. They are currently seeking a circus group and a glass sphere in the sky.

Zeelie Brown is a visual artist and cellist who through sound, textiles, and installations depth charges wells of Afro-Atlantic dynamism to conjure up works which provoke a sense of environmental and cultural shift. Her work meditates black freedom in the 21st century, and the renegotiation of the parasitic networks of power and privilege weft into the global, colonial world order. She was born in San Antonio and was raised between there and Pollard, Alabama. She graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Africana Studies (Fine Arts) which they used to open their heart and soul to jazz, philosophy, and other great arts of the black world.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Brown created Fear No Joy.

Ash Smith is a director, designer and new media artist who grew up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina. Ash incorporates strategies of play and speculation to solve problems, re-imagine systems and build worlds—to create interactive stories, mixed reality experiences, simulations and prototypes of the future. Data, science and/or humor may be used to tell stories for film, stage, and improvisation that may blur the distinction between art & life, fact & fiction, and nature & technology—a liminal space—that considers how myth and history modulate a present reality while simultaneously engendering future dreams. Ash is interested in the dreaming collective and how these virtual shared spaces may bleed into the real and shape our co-existence. Ash also plays music in a few bands and loves to parallel park.

During 2017 their residency at Elsewhere, Smith created 11½ Spells for Our Future Selves. In 2019 Ash was the resident artist for the 2019 Rural Residency in Appalachia and created Southern Devices//Appalachian Futures.

Saba Taj is a Southern Muslim artist and activist based in Durham NC. Heavily inspired by Islamic stories and speculative fiction, Saba uses mixed media practices to illustrate the liminalities of diasporic identity through the creation of hybridized femme-monsters. Taj remixes cultural references from her South Asian, American, Muslim, and queer identities, and explores themes of diaspora, inherited trauma and apocalypse.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Taj created Interstellar Uber/Negotiations with God.