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Images: Sylvia Matas, Lunar Seas from A Reversal of WInds, 2018 + Blinkers Holiday Sale + New Plug In Editions + Prairie Art Book Fair + NYABF + Sale + Hours .
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Sylvia Matas A Reversal of Winds, Bookwork Launch and Signing, 1-3pm December 15, 2018

**Off-site location: Blinkers, 520 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3A 0X8*** As part of Blinkers Holiday Sale, 12-5pm

On Saturday, December 15 at 1pm, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents the launch of Sylvia Matas’s new bookwork A Reversal of Windsat Blinkers Holiday Sale.* We hope you take this opportunity to meet the artist, and bring home an ethereal work of visual poetics.

A Reversal of Winds brings together images and texts that point to unrealized futures and residue of past worlds that co-exist within the present. The existence of people is peripheral. They enter the book indirectly through traces they’ve left: a path in the snow, billows of smoke, the remains of built environments…

Sylvia Matas is an interdisciplinary artist from Winnipeg, Canada whose work is characterized by an inquiry into the grey area between reality and perception, through an exploration of unexplained phenomena, our relationship with nature, and altered experiences of time and space. She received a Masters of Fine Arts from the Chelsea College in London, England (2008). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues in Winnipeg such as The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gallery 1C03, Lantern, Lisa Kehler Art + Projects; and in Canada and abroad at the Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON; Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary; Útúrdúr, Reykjavik; the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, MKG127, Toronto and Mercer Union, Toronto. Her work is currently on view at Plug In ICA as part of Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs.

* Hosted at Blinkers at 520 Hargrave Street, the holiday sale will showcase the work of local artists and organizations. Books, totes, merch and prints from Plug In ICA’s Bookshop will be available from 12 to 5pm and Matas will be in attendance from 1 to 3pm to launch and sign copies of A Reversal of Winds.

A Reversal of Winds
Sylvia Matas, 2018
6.125 x 7.25 in | 20 pages | perfect bound
$20

Plug In ICA participating in
Blinkers Holiday Sale
December 15, 2018 | 12-5pm
520 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3A 0X8

Image: Sylvia Matas, Lunar Seas from A Reversal of Winds, 2018.

Related exhibit:

Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs

A Note from the Bookshop:

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s Bookshop brought several projects to fruition in 2018. Significantly we organized and hosted the first Prairie Art Book Fair in September, launched three unique publications (launching two new series), brought Plug In Editions and local publications to the New York Art Book Fair, organized book signings and increased our selection of titles in the shop. We strengthened bonds with other organizations, added to our curated library collection and continue to expand our program with publications related to our exhibitions.

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New Plug In Editions:

Exhibition Notes: Entering the Landscape

Exhibition Notes: Entering the Landscape, marks the first in a series of publications proposed as quick compilations, and archival gestures that capture the exhibition and publication as part of the research process and not its end goal. This publication is linked to the exhibition Entering the Landscape presented at Plug In ICA in the fall of 2017 featuring the work of Pia Arke, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Jaime Black, Lori Blondeau, A.K. Burns, The Ephemerals, Melissa General, Rebecca Horn, Katherine Hubbard, Maria Hupfield, Simone Jones, Tau Lewis, Amy Malbeuf, Meryl McMaster, Ana Mendieta, Natalie Purschwitz, Dominique Rey, Jamie Ross, Xaviera Simmons, Ming Wong and Alize Zorlutuna.

Edited by Sarah Nesbitt and Jenifer Papararo

Essays by Sarah Nesbitt, Jenifer Papararo, and Sherry Farrell-Racette

Published by Plug In Editions

Design by Mariah Meawasige

Softback

76 pages

1 artist insert

8.5 x 11 inches

ISBN: 978-1-927385-48-7

For more information or to purchase a copy: https://shop.plugin.org/collections/plug-in-editions/products/exhibition-notes-entering-the-landscape

The Invention and Conclusion of the Eye by Toril Johannessen

Fillip and Plug In ICA launched The Invention and Conclusion of the Eye by Toril Johannessen. This publication is part of Fillip’s Supplement series and is a manuscript for an audio play by Toril Johannessen presented as part STAGES: Drawing the Curtain produced by Plug In ICA, 2017.

14 × 21 cm

36 pages, Saddle Stitched

ISBN: 978-1-927354-34-6

Published in English, Norwegian, and French.

First Edition (2018)

Published by Fillip in collaboration with Plug In Editions

Edition: 1,000

For more information or to purchase a copy: https://shop.plugin.org/collections/plug-in-editions/products/the-invention-and-conclusion-of-the-eye-toril-johannessen-supplement-3

Skeena Reece: Entitled

The embodiment of a typical native-ness is transformed into caricature in Entitled, 2017, a painting for which Reece commissioned the west coast painter and illustrator Collin Elder to portray her as cliche. She further propagates this prolific image as she turns it into a mass-produced poster available for purchase in the gallery’s shop.

Skeena Reece

Entitled, 2017

Poster of commissioned painting by Collin Elder

Edition of 200

24.75 x 39 in

For more information or to purchase a copy: https://shop.plugin.org/products/skeena-reece-entitled-1

Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool):

Magazines by artists in Canada during the 1990s

Edited by Kegan McFadden • Published by Plug In Editions (Winnipeg) with Publication Studio (Vancouver) • Translation provided by Artexte (Montreal) • Foreword by Gwen L. Allen • Introduction by Jenifer Papararo • Insert by Cube. Undertaken as an extension of the research process and as an archival document for the exhibition, Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool) the publication acts as a historical look at magazines by artists in Canada that were established and terminated in the 1990s.

Softback

200 pages

1 Color poster insert

16.3 cm x 22.9cm

ISBN: 978-1-927385-48-7

For more information or to purchase a copy: https://shop.plugin.org/products/yesterday-was-once-tomorrow-or-a-brick-is-a-tool-magazines-by-artists-in-canada-during-the-1990s

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New to the shop and more:

Fillip publications

Aruna Dsouza - Whitewalling: Art, Race and Protest in 3 Acts
Owen Toews -Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg

Momus: Art Return to Art Criticism Vol. 1

The Third Rail backissues

I don’t get it: The work of Aleesa Cohen

Theaster Gates - How to Build a House Museum

Sameer Farooq - The Museum of Found Objects

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Prairie Art Book Fair:

The inaugural Prairie Art Book Fair was presented by Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in our gallery spaces from September 7-9, 2018. Dedicated to exhibiting the diverse and accomplished work of Prairie-based art publishers and booksellers and strengthening the local community of art book publishers, Plug In ICA set this initiative in motion as a means to acknowledge the critical relationship between contemporary art and publishing with a regional focus on the Prairies. Free and open to the public, the weekend included book launches, readings, collaborative art projects, talks and showcased publications from 30 publishers, artists and galleries ranging from catalogues, artist editions, fiction, poetry, criticism and periodicals.

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to all the exhibitors who joined us for the inaugural Prairie Art Book Fair. We are pleased to acknowledge the generous support of Paula Mitchell and Arnold Leventhal for this book fair. Thank You!

For more info: https://plugin.org/exhibitions/announcing-the-inaugural-prairie-art-book-fair/

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NY Art Book Fair:

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art exhibited Plug In Editions and other local publications to nearly 40,000 visitors at the New York Art Book Fair in at MoMA PS1, from September from September 20-23, 2018.

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Year end sale:

For the rest of 2018, enjoy an extra twenty percent off Plug In Editions, Walter Scott totes, Plug In T-shirts and Stages notebooks.

• Visitors get 20% off Plug In produced merchandise

• Members get 40% off Plug In produced merchandise

To shop online use code: Discount2018

**current members please email erin@plugin.org for special membership code

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Holiday Hours:

The gallery and shop will be closed December 24-26 and will reopen December 27-30 for the last chance to see Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs.

The office will be closed December 24, 2018 - January 1, 2019, re-opening on January 2 to regular hours from Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm.

Installation hours:

The bookshop and exhibition spaces will be closed from December 31, 2018 - January 21, 2019 while we prepare for our next exhibition That ends that matter by Toronto based artist Jean-Paul Kelly. To visit the bookshop and library during installation, please call 204-942-1043 to make an appointment or ring the doorbell during office hours (Monday-Friday 10am to 5pm).

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For more information on Plug In ICA’s Book Shop or Research Library please contact Erin Josephson-Laidlaw, Bookstore Manger: erin@plugin.org

Visit our Online shop

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Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art recognizes we are on Treaty One Territory, the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Métis, Cree, Dakota and Oji-Cree Nations.

In general and as always, we thank the artists we work with, our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle. You make a difference!

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We could not operate without their continued financial investment and lobbying efforts.

Plug In ICA relies on community support to remain free and accessible to all. Enable us to continue presenting excellent programs! Please consider becoming a member of Plug In ICA and a donor at https://plugin.org/support or by contacting Angela Forget, Operations Coordinator: angela@plugin.org

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