PARTNERS
PARTNERSHIP IS NOT A LOGO. IT IS WORK HELD IN COMMON.
ELSEHERE works with artist-led organizations, studios, cultural institutions, festivals, venues, and independent collectives across different cities and cultural contexts.
We approach partnership as a working relationship: grounded in a shared question, clearly defined responsibilities, and a commitment to what can be developed together over time.
NEW YORK / LONDON / BERLIN / SHANGHAI / BEIJING / SHENZHEN
ART /
RESEARCH /
PRODUCTION /
PUBLIC LIFE
The organizations below form part of ELSEHERE’s current network of artistic, cultural, and production relationships.
The index records who they are and where they work. Specific collaboration records should be added only when the project, responsibilities, dates, and public outcomes have been confirmed by both parties.
RELATIONSHIPS TAKE
DIFFERENT FORMS.
Not every partner enters through the same program, and not every collaboration should produce the same outcome.A relationship may begin with an artist, a site, a work, a research question, or an institutional need.
FROM RELATIONSHIP TO PUBLIC FORM.
A partner list indicates affiliation. A collaboration record shows what the relationship actually made possible.Each confirmed record should identify four things:
04
CONTRIBUTION
The responsibilities, knowledge, access, labor, resources, or production support held by each party.
03
CONTEXT
The location, timeframe, artistic question, audience, and institutional conditions surrounding the work.
02
LANGUAGE
The work, program, residency, publication, or initiative developed through the relationship.
01
OUTCOME
What was developed, presented, documented, published, learned, or carried into a subsequent context.
WHAT WAS MADE TOGETHER MATTERS MORE THAN WHO APPEARS BESIDE WHOM.
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE.
CROSS-BORDER MOVEMENT.
International collaboration is not created by placing names from different countries on the same page.It requires local knowledge, translation, cultural context, realistic production structures, and people who can remain in the relationship after the first introduction.
New York and wider United States relationships across artists, independent organizations, public programs, movement practice, and institutional development.
London and Berlin relationships across performance, independent practice, production, research, and international exchange.
Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and wider regional relationships across performance, moving image, animation, technology, production, and interdisciplinary practice.
BILINGUAL COMMUNICATION / CROSS-CONTEXT PRODUCTION / LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
WHAT WE ASK OF A PARTNERSHIP.
CONTEXT / NOT EXTRACTION
We take time to understand the artistic, cultural, institutional, and community context in which the work is being developed.
RECIPROCITY / NOT ACCESS ALONE
A partnership should not treat artists, communities, locations, or cultural knowledge as resources to be accessed without meaningful return.
WRITTEN SCOPE / NOT ASSUMPTION
Responsibilities, decision rights, credits, timelines, financial terms, image rights, and public communication should be confirmed in writing.
CONTINUITY / NOT SYMBOLIC ASSOCIATION
We are more interested in relationships capable of producing meaningful next steps than in affiliations that exist only for appearance.
BEGIN WITH THE CONTEXT.
We welcome conversations with museums, universities, festivals, venues, foundations, residency spaces, artist-led organizations, studios, collectives, and independent cultural practitioners.
You do not need to arrive with a finished proposal. Begin by telling us:
01 / WHO YOU ARE
Your organization, role, location, and the communities or fields with which you work.
02 / WHAT YOU ARE DEVELOPING
The program, project, research question, presentation, residency, publication, or partnership you are considering.
03 / WHY ELSEHERE
The artistic, editorial, geographic, or institutional connection you see between the proposal and our work.
04 / SITE OR AUDIENCE
Where the work may take place, whom it is intended to reach, and what local context needs to be understood.
05 / TIMELINE
The current stage of the project and any relevant planning, funding, production, or presentation dates.
06 / BUDGET STATUS
Whether resources are confirmed, under development, connected to an application, or not yet determined.
Partnerships are organizational relationships. Individual staff, editors, producers, and advisors are listed separately.