Collaborators Amber Ginsburg and Joe Madrigal discuss the progress of their FLO(we){u}R project, hosted at the Soap Factory.

Music: 'Blimp' by James Beaudreau

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Featured artist Anthony Tran discusses his piece 'Wireless', part of the Art(ists) on the Verge 3 Exhibition at the Soap Factory

Music: The Simulation Hypothesis by Revolution Void

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Featured artist Michael Hoyt discusses his piece, part of the Art(ists) On The Verge Exhibition at the Soap Factory.

Music: The Simulation Hypothesis by Revolution Void

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Featured artist Caly McMorrow discusses her piece Status Update, part of the Art(ists) On the Verge 3 exhibtion.

Music: The Simulation Hypothesis by Revolution Void

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Featured Artist Aaron Westre discusses his City Fight piece, featured in the current AOV3 Exhibition.

Music: The Simulation Hypothesis by Revolution Void

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Collaborators Amber Ginsburg and Joe Madrigal discuss their upcoming FLO(we){u}R project that will be hosted by the Soap Factory.

Music: 'Blimp' by James Beaudreau

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Soap Factory Director Ben Heywood outlines the year's exhibiton program.

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A look back and a look forward with the Director Ben Heywood and Board Chair Ryan Kronzer.

Discussed are the long history of both the Soap Factory's organization and building, past shows and revitalization efforts the Soap Factory has planned for the near and distant future.

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Curator Tom Rose discusses featured artist Guo Gai's work in the Three Artists exhibition at the Soap Fatcory.

Guo Gai is a photographer, curator, critic and conceptual artist based in Beijing. As a sculptor, he has produced solo exhibitions at Central Fine Arts Institute Gallery (1995) and China Art Gallery (1990). Now in the his 50s he is an artist who, trained in the socialist realism, has lived through the extremes of communism to today’s China, an experiment in authoritarian capitalism. Guo Gai’s photography, with staged images using his own props, family and friends, draws on Chinese culture. Images and characters are abstracted from the opera, traditional theater, socialist realism, missionary Christianity, and then assembled into tableaux that, through this manipulated, mashed-up imagery, explicitly expose the corruption and emptiness at the heart of the new China. At The Soap Factory his photographs will be exhibited at the scale of advertising hoardings or patriotic banners. The photographs will be accompanied by an specially composed choral work, entitled Lament , listing the natural and economic disasters of the last decade in China.

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Featured artist Meng Tang discusses the issues surrounding and feeding into her pieces in the Three Artists exhibition.

First exhibited as part of her MFA Thesis exhibition at the Nash Gallery in 2010, Meng Tang’s Impression: Babel will be represented in expanded form in Gallery 2 at The Soap Factory. In an enclosed room, eight voices speak in eight languages (English, Spanish, French, Hmong, Japanese, Farsi, Chinese and Arabic) a series of oppositional truisms that are simultaneously profound and meaningless, political and personal -- at the same time that they can be understood and remain obscure. The voices are spoken by figures, simply dressed projected into a black void. Meng both takes from the inspirational internationalism of her alma mater, and of her own life, as a Chinese woman living in Minnesota. However, instead of future where we will all live as one, she posits a world where all communication, both the political and the personal only further increases our confusion and isolation.

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Music: 'The Sun is Scheduled to come out Tomorrow' by Chris Zabriskie