10 Minutes | Will Owen

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Photo Credit: Sophia Schultz

10 Minutes, Will Owen (Queens, NY & Philadelphia, PA)

February 2017. Collection broken glass, wood.

Photo credit: Guido Villalba Portel

Photo credit: Guido Villalba Portel

A visitor interacts with 10 Minutes. Photo credit: Guido Villalba Portel

Will Owen’s two projects, Singing Sink and 10 Minutes, revolve around the cyclical needs of living.10 Minutes is an hourglass made from broken collection glass. The form was created by Winston-Salem glass blowing studio Olio and sand made from crushed collection glass using rudimentary handmade tools. Set at 10 minute increments, it tracks time for Elsewhere's various administrative and event functions such as the weekly House Meeting and Power Hour Clean. In a living museum where projects are created from the collection material and then those projects are sometimes remade into even more projects, 10 Minutes represents this process in linear timekeeping device.Both pieces were presented at the public first Friday opening entitled "Time Sensitive." During which, Owen asked audience members for activities that could be done in 10-mins increments such as "shave someone else's legs" and "sign up to volunteer at somewhere meaningful to you." 

Sand Making

Olio Studios Glass Blowing

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Will Owen
Will Owen

Originally from Waynesville, North Carolina, Will splits his time in both Philadelphia and New York City. He is currently an artist-in-residence with Flux Factory in Queens, NY and a curator at Little Berlin gallery in Philadelphia, PA. Will works mainly with Sound, Installation Design, and Food in interactive ways. Will grew his hair long and has been having second thoughts ever since and has had the honor of participating in many great projects including: Black Mountain College Museum Re: Happening '14, Baltimore AltScape with Open Space Gallery '14, Copenhagen Art Week '15, Århus Art Weekend '15, MATA Interval '15, & ALT CPH Copenhagen Alternative Art Fair '16. He has shown art work at varying venues from the Museum of the Moving Image to a burned out, abandoned BP gas station. He sometimes works collaboratively with a lot of amazing folks across many genres including: Matthias Borello, Sally Szwed, Jung In Jung, Molly Haslund, Billy Dee, Amaryah Armstrong, Lena Hawkins, Walker Tufts, Suze B, Alex Nathanson, Nadia Botello, Nathan Philips, Raphael Alexandre, Richard "YoVinyl" Nathaniel, The Median Movement, Siph Pristed, Hsiao-Jou Tang, Julieta Triangular, and many more incredible people he is lucky to know and work with.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Owen created Singing Sink and 10 Minutes.

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