New work by Grace Baxter for sale on the Hollow Earth Society store: Jewelry from the center of the Earth
Check it out! >> But hurry—there are only a few items currently for sale, and each is unique.
Angels, Animals and Cyborgs: Visions of Human Enhancement at the Cornelia Street Cafe
Angels, Animals and Cyborgs: Visions of Human Enhancement at the Cornelia Street Cafe An illustrated lecture by Salvador Olguín ***IN MANHATTAN at The Cornelia Street Cafe as part of the HUMAN+ series*** Date: Sunday, July 22 Time: 6 PM Admission: $10, includes one drink Presented by the Hollow Earth Society, originally presented by Morbid Anatomy [...]
Proteus Gowanus annual benefit: NOMAD MIXER
The annual Proteus Gowanus benefit is coming up soon. Buy a ticket! Deetz: Nomad Mixer Saturday, June 2, 7–10 PM As our Migration year draws to a close we invite you to celebrate the things we’ve seen, how far we’ve come and where we’re going next. Image by Atty Gell A Party to Benefit Proteus Gowanus! [...]
Art from the Mailbox: Jon De Simone’s “Matchstick Anomaly”
When two matchstick heads are fused together they form a delicate wishbone shape. A manufacturing anomaly such as this will occur rarely and might even be less common than a four-leaf clover in a clover patch. In a sense, coming upon fused matchsticks makes one lucky. For Special Delivery 2010, Jon De Simone was intrigued [...]
Sigils & Signs at Observatory
We’re proud to belatedly announce Sigils & Signs, a new show curated by our good friend and colleague Pam Grossman, at Observatory. Sigils & Signs is a group show of artworks featuring magical symbols. The show will be up through Sunday, June 17, 2012. The show is gorgeous. If you’re in Brooklyn between now and mid-June, [...]
Elsewhen Flyer: “Your Guide to Enjoying (Read: Surviving) the Library of the Future”
Download this informative, printer-friendly, grayscale, 8.5″ x 11″ manual TODAY! >> We are so into library science right now. Word up to all my librarians. Raise your horn-rimmed glasses proudly, ladies. And dudes (Andrew). You guys are seriously smart and in-tune with both the internet and the Common Reader. You have shown us, in our [...]
Elsewhen: The Hollow Earth Society at Elsewhere
—being a report of our work for Elsewhen at the Elsewhere Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. As part of this unusual residency, we’ve generated stories, videos, classes, happenings, and even a new para-academic conference: The Longest Story Ever Told – Saturday, April 21, 2012/ongoing – Almost as soon as we arrived in the Greensboro of 2012, we helped [...]
Guest Writer Audrey Tran on Art: Jason Martin’s sound work for “Special Delivery”
Special Delivery began in 2010 as a New York based mail art project involving artist friends, who were sharing photos, drawings, letters, and sculptural multiples through the mail. Art from the Mailbox is a series of blog posts that reflect on the individual pieces received from Special Delivery. The series originally appeared on thefanzine.com’s blog, [...]
Ludovico D’Amore
Hollow Earth Society member and frequent Observatory alumnus Ted Enik reviews strange, new books for us: Cultural critic Mark Dery’s new collection of essays, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts The Ludovico Technique is a form of compulsory deprogramming featured in both the book and film A Clockwork Orange. It consists of forcing a patient [...]
Elsewhen: The Story of the Living Library
As part of the Hollow Earth Society’s time here at Elsewhere—inhabiting a library, workshopping the notion of library/museum/site of education—we’ve developed an Elsewhen Tumblr to showcase our fictions and other responses to the books in the Living Library. Read our stories; share them; write your own! We will be posting titles periodically that still need [...]
Kulturpark
Our friends at Elsewhere have been up to some very cool work in Germany. Check out their new project, Kulturkpark: In the Treptower Park forest in East Berlin, along the Spreeriver, there is an abandoned amusement park. The park, originally called Kulturpark Plänterwald, was built in 1969 by the GDR and was a rare site [...]
The Congress For Curious Peoples 2012
Our friends Joanna Ebenstein and Aaron Beebe are yet again producing a faboulous Congress For Curious Peoples, April 13-22 at Coney Island USA. Here are all the details: Presented by Morbid Anatomy Library and Coney Island USA, the 2012 Congress of Curious Peoples is a 10-day series of lectures, performances, and a 2-day symposium devoted to [...]
Post-Space
Post-Space Conference at the Elsewhere Collaborative Virtual Para-Academic Conference on the Future of the Physical presented by the Hollow Earth Society, Kamomi Solidum, and Elsewhere GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA What is the future of the museum, the library, the university? All these spaces are changing rapidly thanks to the technologies of tele—of distance. With Kamomi Solidum [...]
