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 [...]
Announcing Elsewhen
We’re headed back to North Carolina in mid-April for a month-long residency all about time travel, libraries, and the future of space. Stay tuned!
The Pop-Up Museum… Go see it!
THE POP-UP MUSEUM of the Gowanus Canal Curated by the Hollow Earth Society and Radio Transmission Ark March 3 – April 22, 2012 Progress Party showcasing the evolved work of the Pop-Up Museum: 8:00 PM, Friday April, 6th. See our inspirations on Tumblr >> Say hello on Twitter >> A museum’s mission involves the categorization, preservation, and contextualization [...]
Observatory’s Lunar-Themed 3rd Anniversary Fundraiser Party
Come celebrate with us, and help support your favorite interdisciplinarian art, science, & occult event space. Saturday, February 18th • 8pm Admission: $20 Check out our art show, Lunation: Art on the Moon, and then trip out to a Moon Phantasmagoria show by VJ Fuzzy Bastard. We’ll also be screening episodes from the Midnight Archive, a show [...]
Our Next Observatory Show: LUNATION!
LUNATION: Art on the Moon Observatory’s first group-curated show • January 7 – February 26, 2012 Opening Party: Saturday, January 7th, 7–10 PM, FREE Artists and scientists have always been attracted to the moon… Our closest celestial neighbor, the earth’s little sister, the moon creates the tides and illuminates the woods at night. For centuries, [...]
The Society Goeth… Elsewhere
Elsewhere is a fantastic “living museum” in Greensboro, North Carolina, that Ethan and I have been invited to work with next spring. We recently went down to check it out, and here are just a few iPhone images (hopefully Ethan will supply much better photos soon) of the constantly morphing gallery-museum-organism that is Elsewhere. The [...]
