The Soap Factory Presents COMMON ROOM, THE SACRED SPACES TOUR
The Sacred Space Tour explores our relation to the idea of the sacred in our daily lives-both concrete and symbolic. This bus tour will stop at various locations, looking at public, intrapersonal, and internal sacred spaces, investigating how they operate, and their impacts on us and our city. What is sacredness? Where is it housed? What does it do? How do we access it? These are some of the underpinning questions spurring this journey.
TIME:
Wednesday, August 16th at 6:00PM
STARTING LOCATION:
The Soap Factory
514 2nd St. SE
Minneapolis, Mn 55414
This is a bus tour, participants will meet at The Soap Factory and then continue to the other tour locations by bus.
View Facebook event here.
About Common Room
Common Room is a series of artist-led tours of Twin Cities sites, with each tour themed around a specific concept that the group uses as a lens to explore facets of the urban geography - in the past, these themes have included cats, alleys, skyways, fishing, freeway construction, weather, community kitchens, personal memory, and many more. Common Room is the work by Sergio Vucci and Andy Sturdevant, along with a rotating lineup of contributors. Now in its eighth year, is using the occasion of the Rethinking Public Spaces project to expand the scope of its' programming for this summer to travel beyond The Soap Factory, and various neighborhoods of the Twin Cities by foot, bicycle and bus. Common Room's themes in 2017 include silence, sacredness, islands, neighborhood music, and more.
About the Artists Sergio Vucci is a Minneapolis-based artist. He is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his work focuses primarily on engaging his surroundings outside of gallery spaces and on relational interactions, co-authoring ephemeral creative experiences with participants in response to place.
Andy Sturdevant is an artist and writer living in Minneapolis. He is the author of two books of nonfiction, and his artistic projects have been exhibited at venues in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle and elsewhere.
Other Upcoming Tours Island Tour
August 23rd
August 30th
About Here & There
Common Room is one of several public projects being presented by The Soap Factory as a part of Here & There. Here & There is The Soap Factory's out-of-building programming during 2017 while the building undergoes renovation. Here & There includes a residency exchange program with Kultivera in Trånas, Sweden and Rethinking Public Spaces, public projects that will take place directly outside of The Soap Factory and around the state of Minnesota including locations such as; Rochester, Willmar, and Brainerd.
About The Soap Factory
The Soap Factory is a laboratory for artistic experimentation and innovation, dedicated to supporting artists and engaging audiences through the production and presentation of contemporary art in a unique and historic environment. Based in the historic National Purity Soap Factory in downtown Minneapolis, The Soap Factory is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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