Soap Factory Hosting Art(ists) On The Verge

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) The Soap Factory has been pushing artistic boundaries as an art gallery in the St. Anthony Main neighborhood in Minneapolis for the past 25 years.

True to form, their new exhibit Art(ists) on the Verge 5 is a program that features five Minnesota artists and their non-traditional installations.

Art(ists) on the Verge is interactive. It brings audiences together directly with artists, Soap Factory program manager Lillian Enger said. And it also allows artists to use the Soap Factory space, which is a very large gallery space, and our network and support structure for working with artists.

Emily Stovers installation General Delivery spans the space, and speaks to the way we communicate as a society. Visitors write a postcard to anyone past, present or future, then drop it into a bin that digitizes it. Another part of the installation has visitors dressing in cloaks, looking for scan-able boxes to reveal the messages.

Its about the physical movement of information through space, whether its actually mailing a postcard or an email the new ways we are sending information as we enter the digital era.

Alison Hiltners project Survival Tactics is jellyfish-like tendrils hanging from the ceiling that buzz and move, and even appear to live.

Theyre all sort of dancing with each other and communicating through the vibrations of the boards, which all have a different acoustic capacities, Hiltner said.

Peter Sowinskis Autonomous makes you the artist. People create whatever they want and it will be represented on a screen by, as Sowinski said, videos that Ive shot of actual still lives.

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Soap Factory Hosting Art(ists) On The Verge