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Click below to listen to the audio component of Elsewhere.
"I'm staring at a satellite photo of western Texas. I bought an acre of land there while at work. The deed came in the mail from a guy in Florida with only approximate coordinates. I'm not sure exactly where it is. I was told it was empty. The auction listing had a photo of beautiful horses with grassland small in the background. I didn't buy horses. An asterisk noted the photo was not taken there, but elsewhere.
I see green blobs.
I see dark blobs.
That's probably a road.
I don't know what that is.
I think about this a lot."
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Elsewhere was installed at Ne'a House of Beauty as part of Sisyphus Office, an exhibition in Houston, Texas. Please see below for a description of the exhibition:
SISYPHUS OFFICE
Alex Clausen, David Fullarton, Alice Shaw, David Keating, Elysa Lozano, Joe McKay, Brion Nuda Rosch, Susan O’Malley, Ryan Thayer, Lindsey White
organized by Jonn Herschend
Based out of Skydive, the artists involved in the project are collaborating with businesses and offices around Houston in order to centralize art as an integral and necessary distraction in our day to day life.
The artists and offices involved in Sisyphus Office are working physically and conceptually with the notions of existentialism, romantic capitalism*, artistic romanticism and deadpan slapstickism as a means to examine and probe the artifice that keeps us clinging to reality and distracted from the void.
Sisyphus Office is about punching the clock, and then punching it again…but harder the second time. It’s about Laurel and Hardy helping out in a business. It’s also about transcending the mundane through the beauty and absurdity of distraction and repetition, like watching paper being fed into a printer, or waiting for a file to upload. It’s the comedy in the tragedy of the day to day… and then waking up again to do the same thing all over again the next morning.
In August 2009, Sisyphus Office moved into the Comtemporary Art Musuem in Houston as part of the No Zoning exhibition.
For more inofrmation, please go to: theskydive.org
To see video tours of the work, please go here.
"I'm staring at a satellite photo of western Texas. I bought an acre of land there while at work. The deed came in the mail from a guy in Florida with only approximate coordinates. I'm not sure exactly where it is. I was told it was empty. The auction listing had a photo of beautiful horses with grassland small in the background. I didn't buy horses. An asterisk noted the photo was not taken there, but elsewhere.
I see green blobs.
I see dark blobs.
That's probably a road.
I don't know what that is.
I think about this a lot."
* * * * *
Elsewhere was installed at Ne'a House of Beauty as part of Sisyphus Office, an exhibition in Houston, Texas. Please see below for a description of the exhibition:
SISYPHUS OFFICE
Alex Clausen, David Fullarton, Alice Shaw, David Keating, Elysa Lozano, Joe McKay, Brion Nuda Rosch, Susan O’Malley, Ryan Thayer, Lindsey White
organized by Jonn Herschend
Based out of Skydive, the artists involved in the project are collaborating with businesses and offices around Houston in order to centralize art as an integral and necessary distraction in our day to day life.
The artists and offices involved in Sisyphus Office are working physically and conceptually with the notions of existentialism, romantic capitalism*, artistic romanticism and deadpan slapstickism as a means to examine and probe the artifice that keeps us clinging to reality and distracted from the void.
Sisyphus Office is about punching the clock, and then punching it again…but harder the second time. It’s about Laurel and Hardy helping out in a business. It’s also about transcending the mundane through the beauty and absurdity of distraction and repetition, like watching paper being fed into a printer, or waiting for a file to upload. It’s the comedy in the tragedy of the day to day… and then waking up again to do the same thing all over again the next morning.
In August 2009, Sisyphus Office moved into the Comtemporary Art Musuem in Houston as part of the No Zoning exhibition.
For more inofrmation, please go to: theskydive.org
To see video tours of the work, please go here.