Responding to the Ghost Ship fire and attempted political interventions in North Carolina, Elsewhere founder George Scheer considers how alternative spaces thrive in emerging cultural economies and how we can work together more critically and collectively.
An experiment in education and community in the spirit of Black Mountain College.
The Asheville Darkroom is a 501c3 non-profit organization offering education, programming, and facilities available for public use.
In May 2015, REVOLVE opened to the public with two newly renovated spaces that are home to a gallery, a studio, and a teaching/think tank space.
window is a site-specific, minimalist exhibition space envisioned as a platform for contemporary image makers who engage with issues of re-production and re-presentation within their practice.
There are lots of glowing write-ups of Elsewhere as a living museum, as an artist residency, and as a thrift store where nothing is for sale, but here I aim to highlight its use of play to imagine a new politic, and the complex alternative economy and micro-utopian social experiment that have resulted.
During a three week residency this Fall, Carrie Schneider interviewed George Scheer, co-founder and co-director of Elsewhere, for this extensive profile. Look out for a companion essay on Elsewhere to be posted shortly.