Thing Tank
Greensboro | "Thing Tank"
June 9-11 @ Elsewhere Museum
606 South Elm Street
Greensboro, NC
Thing Tank is a weekend retreat into a world of things. A select group of scholars and artists are invited for a weekend residency at Elsewhere’s museum, exploring the social, historical, political, and material consciousness of things in an at-hand, immersive environment.
Thing Tank Participants:
Bill Brown (U. Chicago),
John Plotz (Brandeis U.),
Sarah Wasserman (U. Delaware),
David Alworth (Harvard),
Jenny Marketou (Artist),
Pedro Lasch (Duke Social Practice Lab),
Emily Stamey (Weatherspoon Art Museum),
John Bowles (UNC Chapel Hill),
Gregory Grieve (UNC Greensboro),
Andrew Saulters (Unicorn Press),
Anna Wallace (Artist),
Heather Richardson Hayton (Guilford College),
George Scheer (Elsewhere Co-Founder + Director),
Emily Ensminger (Elsewhere Program Curator)
NYC Elsewhere | “Where Else”
This event was free and open to all publics.
Saturday, May 13th, 6 – 7:30 pm
300 Nevins St (between Union and Sackett Streets)
Brooklyn, NY
Scholars discussed Elsewhere’s “things” in the context of contemporary art, new materialism, theories of assemblage, re-assemblage, and the problem of ephemerality on May 13th, 2017. The evening celebrated Elsewhere’s 15th birthday by thinking about the future of things for a thrift-store turned museum. The evening was a collaboration between Elsewhere, Dr. Bill Brown, and friends, and co-presented by Cabinet Magazine.
Panel:
Bill Brown | U.Chicago
W. J. T. Mitchell | U.Chicago
John Plotz | Brandeis U.
Sarah Wasserman | U.Delaware
David Alworth | Harvard
Bradin Cormack | Princeton
Emily Apter | NYU
George Scheer | Elsewhere Co-Founder + Director
This event was free and open to all publics.
Thing Tank is made possible by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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