An Atlas of Elsewhere

The exhibition reads as one archive, not twenty separate projects: a set of positions on the world you're about to enter, each placed in relation to the others.

It opens on the evening of Day 20, Friday 18 December, and stays open on Saturday 19 December, in the studio's usual exhibition space. Take-down times will be confirmed. To be confirmed

Each identity has one zone. Every zone holds the same five things, so a visitor learns to read them once and can then move through the whole atlas.

• Height. Hang work with its centre about 145–150 cm from the floor. Labels and the QR code sit beside the work, around 130–140 cm.
• Order. Decide what a visitor meets first. Usually the artefact draws them in, and the card and manifesto tell them who is speaking.
• Room to stand. Leave space in front of the work for two or three people, and clear sight of the label.

The atlas places all twenty identities on one shared map: where each one stands, and which conditions connect them.

1. Day 16 · your coordinates.

   Each identity is given a position on the atlas from its displacement: the place, time, language, role or scale it speaks from.

2. Day 18 · your entry.

   Submit the entry below. Name two other identities whose conditions touch yours.

3. Day 19 · assembly.

   The atlas is assembled together, as a wall, a table or a plotted map, and the connections are drawn.

Identity: [name]
Coordinates: [the coordinate that moved] · [where exactly it stands]
Condition: [in one line]
Position: [one sentence the identity would sign]
Connected to: [identity] because [shared condition]
              [identity] because [shared condition]
Zone: [number on the floor plan]

The atlas's physical form is decided with the cohort in Week 4. To be confirmed

Day 15, due by 3:30. One page: what is shown in your zone, and how.

# Exhibition proposal · [identity name]

## What's shown
- Artefact: [medium, size, how many pieces]
- Identity card, manifesto, label, QR code
- Anything else: [screen, test pieces, process images: only if they earn their place]

## How it's shown
- Wall, plinth or table: [ ]
- Hanging or mounting: [pins, clips, frame, shelf: to agree with the facilitator]
- Space needed: [width × height, or floor area]
- Light: [anything the work needs, or must avoid]

## Reading order
[What a visitor meets first, second, third, and why.]

## Sketch
[A photo of a hand-drawn elevation of the zone: exhibition/zone-sketch.jpg]

Day 18. The gallery layout is fixed on the floor plan together, so neighbouring zones talk to each other.

• Group by connection, not by medium. Identities that share a condition can sit near each other, the way the atlas links them.
• Mind the machines' needs. Resin objects need plinths and light; prints and plots need wall; anything with a screen needs power.
• Leave a route. A visitor should be able to walk the whole atlas without doubling back.

Day 19, Thursday 17 December. The whole day, and every zone checked by 3:30.

1. 9:30
   Walkthrough of the floor plan.

   Zones marked out; tools, fixings and plinths shared out.

2. 10:00–12:30
   Hang the hero works and set out the zones.

   Work first, then card, manifesto, label and QR code.

3. 1:15–2:15
   Assemble the Collective Atlas.

   Everyone together; connections drawn.

4. 2:15–3:00
   Lighting and technical tests.

   Scan every QR code under the exhibition light.

5. 3:00–3:30
   Check against the list.

   Each zone ticked off below, then photographed.