A Portable Sanctuary
Out of Intangible Adorations came Elsewhere — not as a sequel, but as a distillation. It carries the DNA of all previous works but is designed for travel, sustainability, and with an ever-growing accessibility menu.
Where Intangible Adorations depended on performers, Elsewhere operates autonomously. It is a world one can enter alone or with a small group. Museum artifacts and Mama Dada's celluloid films provide history; the portal opens through sound, light, deep vibration, and spatial gesture — no performers, only a friendly Portal Host as guide.
Visually, Elsewhere retains the Weimar sensibility of the Dada lineage — expressionist shadows, glitching silhouettes, silent-film elegance. It's an immersive environment of absurdity and quiet rebellion, a place that asks: what if care could be an art form?
"Elsewhere is both artwork and training ground — a living syllabus for creative accessibility."
Access Poetics
Elsewhere is designed to adapt to a growing menu of physical, mental, and sensory needs. The visitor chooses their level of participation: sitting quietly, playing the electric Theremin instrument, or light-painting with the projection. The installation becomes a responsive organism, capable of shrinking or expanding to meet the visitor's capacity.
The upcoming touring version exists in modular form — small enough to be in a group art show and ship in a few crates, yet expansive enough to alter a large gallery or hall of empty offices. Every time traveller becomes part of the Elsewhere Community and receives an old-fashioned clock charm on a ribbon — a time-travel artifact to carry back to everyday life.
Coda — Art Saves My Life Every Day
Born with an invisible connective tissue disorder — Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) — the artist lives with severe limitations: pain, exhaustion, spasming, and regular cognitive dropout. The Dada cosmology is the architecture of that survival. Through film, projection, performance, taste, scent, and deep vibration, Wegner continually lifts the veil between self and story, between our world and elsewhere.
The universes described here are open systems — collaborative, accessible, and ever-expanding. They exist so that others may enter, learn, and build new rituals of attention. Each light flicker, each scent, each mirrored surface — is an invitation: step gently, breathe slowly, and allow yourself to be changed.