June 15, 2013, Saturday - Resonating Bodies Opening Reception at The Soap Factory

Time: 7:00pm-11:00pm

Location: The Soap Factory, 518 Second St. SE

The Soap Factory Presents: Resonating Bodies

Opening reception: June 15th, Exhibition Runs: June 15 - August 11, 2013

A group exhibition featuring new work by 6 American sculptors, curated by Shannon Stratton.

Featured artists: Sara Black & Jillian Soto, Ben Fain, Conrad Freiburg, Kelly Kaczynski, Judith Leemann
 
Listen to a Soapcast interview with curator Shannon Stratton.
  
“A body of work that offers something for others to share is a resonating body that makes the voices of many others resound.” – Jan Verwoert
 
How does sculpture, a practice always situated at the boundaries of spectacle, architecture, installation, monument, landscape and machine make sense of itself as a multivalent ‘platform’ whose defining features are continually re-evaluated and re-defined? Participatory and relational practices, collaboratives, platformist practices, conceptual curatorial work and artist as facilitator or organizer are lines that intersect and blur as performative, interactive and multi-vocal practices become the norm in contemporary art practice. Resonating Bodies, an exhibition of work by 6 American sculptors, takes up the condition of contemporary sculpture under the influence of these conditions for practice, ultimately proposing the spectrum of ways sculpture operates as performative.