Artsourcing: An International Consortium of Outsourcing Artists

Offering an artistic take on the corporate practice of outsourcing, the collective of curators/artists behind this exhibition (including Douglas Padilla, Xavier Tavera, and Alexa Horochowski) commissioned help from south of the border in making the works on view. As part of Padilla’s installation on a faux business called “Ameri-Art Industries,” there’s a photographic “org-chart” made up of portraits of workers in Minneapolis, San Diego, and Tijuana (again, the task of snapping these shots was outsourced). Also on view is a cart laden with hand-crafted souvenir tchotckes made from seashells, horsetail hairs, naturally dyed wool, and, perhaps most impressive, El Zorzal Criollo (pictured here), a piece made of steel, auto body-paint, air-bag hydraulics, plus a kick-ass stereo and subwoofer. In short, it’s a bed-like platform that wants to be a low-rider, one that gives those lounging on it quite a ride. 520 2nd St. S.E., Minneapolis; 612-623-9176; www.soapfactory.org