![]() ![]() ![]() one thing I have to admit though is that that storefront has always deeply confused and disturbed me. an inspiration for art, maybe, but then anything could be. all the meetings and classes and mutual intellectual masturbation in the world can't remake the history of that store into anything resembling art any more than the abandoned hulk of a forgotten accident is sculpture. a loneliness surrounds the building and always has. and nothing unifying about insisting the emperor's junk room is a museum. there's nothing alive about a store where nothing is for sale. and it's not a living monument as described. to one who was a witness to the tail end of that process, the neglect, the inactivity, the hoarding you could see without going in, the assumed emotional disturbance, it seems more a monument to a troubled and troubling history. Elsewhere is a living art museum with a residency and collaborative education programs. As described on their website, Elsewhere is a museum. but this store doesn't seem to have become what it is in an effort to inspire or create art. In February 2018, I had the opportunity to be in residence for a month at Elsewhere in Greensboro, NC. The Quiet Place The New Normal We are glad to offer you the best possible view of our facility and procedures so that your visitors will feel like a king. if you're an artist then everything inspires expression, I suppose. Near and Elsewhere 2019 Movie is another amazing movie released just right these two weeks ago and has made its impact on the box office by being on top of the most pirated Movie List. anything can be an object to consider and a thing from which to derive artistic inspiration. and yet art has the power to speak honestly about common human experience and to unite us. the passage of time is a funny thing enough time passes and new people reinvent and revise your memories out from under you and you wonder if there is an impossible divide between each person's subjective experience maybe we're hopelessly separated. now you have to go around the corner to remember the way it was when it was ours and normal people didn't go there. Register or Buy Tickets, Price information. Event starts on Saturday, 2 July 2022 and happening at Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC. and that was years ago and things change and so now the block has been reborn and there are expensive restaurants and a club or two. Blues Groove House Dance Party Hosted By Piedmont Blues Preservation Society. in my memory it's always quiet and rainy there, and yet they are warm and loving memories and I always go back. was walking elm st before it was safe and when this "art" project was just an eyesore that somehow managed all by itself to bring down a block of mostly vacant and crumbling store fronts on the wrong side of the tracks from a languishing downtown. It priviledges extroversion, material and practice-based inquiry, play and pretend. ![]()
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