Jordan Wason (Brooklyn, NYC) | October 2021

Installation of musical chairs, fabric, rocking horses, exercise bike, lamps, magazines, speakers, organ, piezo pickups, CRT T.V., laser etched signage; Happening series; Video ad series; Digital music recordings

The Waiting Room - 15ft x 12ft installation The Waiting Room Auditions - 9 video ad series, approx. 11min total runtime Musical Chairs - 6.5in x 4.5in laser engraved wood panel Rocking Horse - 6.7 x 4.5 laser engraved wood panel Mirror 1 (Musical Chairs) - _ x _ laser engraved mirror Mirror 2 (Rocking Horse) - _ x _ laser engraved mirror Mirror 3 (Cowboy Kid Chair) - _ x _ laser engraved mirror Mirror 4 (Twin Chairs) - _ x _ laser engraved mirror

Seeing that there was a Bureau of Illumination at Elsewhere, Jordan decided that there must also be a waiting room, as there is always waiting involved in any bureaucratic process. In a waiting room there is typically music, seating, and frustration. In this waiting room there are un-upholstered musical chairs, rolls of fabric, and instruments. The room and the objects themselves are put into a state of waiting for completion. Visitors are provided with the materials to work and create while waiting, in a process that both alleviates their frustration and saves the bureau a lot of money. Throughout the process Jordan wrote typewritten letters to the Bureau next door, which record the evolution of the room and its excavation-

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.