Chasing Freedom | Chris Cloud

Residency
Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency
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For his residency project, Chris Cloud sought to challenge the idea of the museum as a closed system, by stealthily bringing in a set of new toys from area thrift stores to free them from consumer servitude. Led by Cabbage Patch Kid, Harriet Toyman, these toys travelled a network of secret routes and safe houses over the course of a week to their new home at the museum. The project, playfully evoking Greensboro’s historic role in the underground railroad and gently questions the logic of Elsewhere’s closed system, where no new things are meant to come in or out.

Chris created a hashtag and small blog for folks to follow along.

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Chris Cloud
Chris Cloud

Artist, Curator, and Culture Maker, Chris Cloud (b. 1983) is a fixture in Minneapolis’s creative milieu. Cloud has made collaboration and experimentation major components of his practice. He was the co-founder of MPLS.TV, an online Do-It-Together video network and MPLSzine, a submissions-based digital publication. Cloud exhibited work in June 2015 for "Last Year On The Internet" in Chicago, IL at Ordinary Projects as part of the collaborative Negative Jam with Former Elsewhere Resident Lea Devon Sorrentino and "SLOVV" as a part of the group exhibition "Brilliance: Made Here" in Minneapolis, MN, which was organized by Former Elsewhere Resident Joan Vorderbruggen. Cloud concentrates his practice on conceptual interdisciplinary projects that may include video, installation, performance, and mixed media and typically combine medium-hearted humor and irony.

Chris created Chasing Freedom during his time at Elsewhere.

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