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.
The 9/50 Summit organized by the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Seed Space and Elsewhere, featured 18 artist-run spaces, presenters and projects from throughout the Southeast.
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.