What would it mean to be radically open? 2022’s annual Radical Seder is open-ended this year. with the help of our friend the folklorist, Gabrielle Berlinger, who will be helping us connect this theme with Passover traditions, radical texts, and Elsewhere artworks.

Anyone, including passersby, can walk through our wide-open front stage windows and participate. We will also visit with those of you who join from home via Zoom and ask you to participate in a number of playful ways in your own space.

Sukkot is a weeklong Jewish festival celebrating harvest and the shelters built with it.

Children and adults are invited to decorate and gather in our Sukkah in the Elsewhere garden!

The Temporary Photographic Archive Office (TPAO) proposes new archival methods for the Elsewhere Museum. The TPAO collects, scans, and shares photographic ephemera from the Elsewhere library—Polaroids, postcards, 4x6” prints, etc. By caring for these objects through digitization, archiving, and dissemination, the TPAO justifies more permanent, interactive methods of conservation for the Museum (permanence being a relative term). At the surface, the TPAO scanned, organized, and digitally shared photographic prints. On a deeper level, the TPAO chose to subvert the Museum’s pre-existing curatorial philosophy. This is to say that the Museum has previously taken an ambivalent approach to their collection, simultaneously enforcing strict rules regarding the former thrift store objects while allowing artist creations to degrade. The TPAO shifts that focus from out-of-circulation consumer products to human interactions—both human-to-human and human-to-object. The TPAO revises the Elsewhere story or rather reinterprets their history as people-centric.