July 2, 2009 - July 3, 2009
Dating our objects and communing with deceased pets. Amber Phelps Bondaroff, Casey Droege, Claire Cronin, Derya Hanife Altan
Santa Monica, CA
May 18, 2011 - May 26, 2011
website | claire cronin dot com
Claire was born in Santa Monica, California in the eighties. She makes drawings, paintings, psychic performances, and songs.
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
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
June 18, 2009 - July 21, 2009 as a resident
website | cuts like hanife dot com
Derya Hanife Altan (b. 1982, Worcester, MA) used to design clothes and page layouts; now she makes sculptures and diagrams. Sometimes she makes baskets. Her great great great great great grandparents on both sides were nomads of the Central Asian Steppe. This explains a lot, like the lilapsophobia (tornadoes) and her having lived all over. Currently, as she finishes her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Derya lives in Michigan.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 4, 2009 - July 7, 2009
website | casey what dot com
blog | casey droege dot com
website | spoke punchers dot com
Casey Droege's parents were both artists and made it clear to her that she should go into computers. She is now living and working as an artist in Pittsburgh, Pa. You can find her sprucing up her new home, teaching, or selling her wares at spokepunchers.com.
