Monday, November 12
6:30-8:00 pm
Lee Hall, Room 100, Art Department
Clemson University
George Scheer is co-founder and Executive Director of Elsewhere, a living museum and artist residency set inside a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro. Since 2003, Elsewhere has been transforming the three story former-store and its massive 58-year inventory of material and cultural surplus amassed by George's grandmother, Sylvia Gray. Elsewhere offers a unique site for artists from around the world to create site-specific works with and within a set of material resources that engage local publics. Elsewhere's museum is open Wednesday-Saturday from 1-10pm, it hosts weekly events, programs, and artist talks that welcome new forms of creative engagement between Greensboro publics and global contemporary artists.
As a writer and artist, George creates at the intersections of art and social change, performance and the conditions of possibility. He runs a button currency system in a play city, was part of a team building an upside-down row boat on a frozen lake in Minneapolis and one of the curators of Kulturpark, a 5 year public research project in an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin. George is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication and Performance Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, and holds an MA in Critical Theory and Visual Culture from Duke University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in Political Communications. His current research explores the emerging political economy for art in economic and civic development.
For more information on Elsewhere, please go to: http://www.goelsewhere.org/.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
