Hồng-Ân Trương
Hồng-Ân Trương lives and works in North Carolina and New York. Her interdisciplinary projects examine structures of time, memory, and the production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and collective narratives, and histories that span cultural and national borders.Her work has been shown at the International Center for Photography, Art in General, Smack Mellon, and The Kitchen among others. In 2013 she was recipient of an Art Matters Grant, a Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, and a Socrates Sculpture Park EAF. She was an artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2015. She was a studio art fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program and is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
She is currently working on To Preserve, Destroy.
Xi Jie Ng (Salty)
Xi Jie makes intimate encounters for a noisy world. She works across mediums like film, performance, installation, social practice and writing. She is interested in eccentric personal histories; everyday possibilities; the abyss of aging; the modern role of Clown (often Pierrot); silence and the universe. Based in Singapore, she invents little cosmic experiences for the real and imagined lives of humans.
Salty created Energy is Always Conserved, Never Created or Destroyed during her time here.
Blair Bogin
Blair Bogin generates documentary-based hybrids of writing, performance, photo and video that measure facts about identity confusion, privacy, and love against its lesser quantifiable absurdities. Her work is characterized by collaboration, gift giving and interactions that allow people to relate on an equal plane of play and storytelling.
Blair created Non-Stop King Ratduring her time here.
Chris Cloud
Artist, Curator, and Culture Maker, Chris Cloud (b. 1983) is a fixture in Minneapolis’s creative milieu. Cloud has made collaboration and experimentation major components of his practice. He was the co-founder of MPLS.TV, an online Do-It-Together video network and MPLSzine, a submissions-based digital publication. Cloud exhibited work in June 2015 for "Last Year On The Internet" in Chicago, IL at Ordinary Projects as part of the collaborative Negative Jam with Former Elsewhere Resident Lea Devon Sorrentino and "SLOVV" as a part of the group exhibition "Brilliance: Made Here" in Minneapolis, MN, which was organized by Former Elsewhere Resident Joan Vorderbruggen. Cloud concentrates his practice on conceptual interdisciplinary projects that may include video, installation, performance, and mixed media and typically combine medium-hearted humor and irony.
Chris created Chasing Freedom during his time at Elsewhere.
George Jenne
George Jenne was born in Richmond, Virginia to a father who, at age ten, watched HIS father, Herb, a cold war spy, buckle the back brace that curled his spine as a disguise on the days that he left their German flat to insinuate himself into tense exchanges behind the iron curtain. A generation later, Herb, retired from espionage, secretly watched George sculpt his likeness in green clay, over the only armature he could find: a busty female mannequin, painted silver. The uncanny qualities of that facsimile brought George to Jim Henson’s Creature shop in Hollywood where, as a plebe,he was expected to watch all manner of abject videotapes under the gaze of an eight foot tall Big Bird, during lunch. He escaped California for New York, where he made movie props by day and exhibited art by night in spaces such as Exit Art, PS122 and Freight+Volume, trekking weekly to teach at his alma mater, the Rhode Island School of Design. George currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he creates video, sculpture and prose for the sake of fakery, transgression, and a story well told.
George created Two Bizarre and Unexplained Deaths during his residency.
Chloë Bass
Chloë Bass (Brooklyn, NY) focuses on the co-creation of performances, situations, installations, and publications, all dedicated to deep questioning of the everyday. Her current project, The Book of Everyday Instruction (2015 – 2017), is an investigation into one-on-one social interaction.