Plug In ICA

Artist Talk by Tsēmā Igharas
2021-09-18 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | 87 Higgins Ave, 87 Higgins Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Tailings Pool | Pool Party
2021-09-17 19:00 - 23:00 | 87 Higgins Ave, 87 Higgins Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
To celebrate the launch of Tailings Pool by Tsēmā Igharas, Plug In ICA will host a Pool Party on Friday, September 17 from 7 to 11 pm at 87 Higgins Ave. Poolside performances will take place throughout the evening. Guests are invited to arrive in beachside attire.

Tailings Pool: A temporary public artwork by Tsēmā Igharas
2021-09-17 06:00 - 2021-10-03 17:00 | 87 Higgins Ave, 87 Higgins Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s STAGES biennial 2021 is pleased to present:
Tailings Pool
A temporary public art project by Tsēmā Igharas
September 17 – October 3, 2021
Offsite at 87 Higgins Ave, Winnipeg, MB

When Veins Meet Like Rivers; ᑲᑎᓐᓂᖅ / okhížata / maadawaan, featuring asinnajaq, Kite & Dayna Danger
2021-08-21 08:00 - 2021-12-17 17:00 | Manitoba
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is honoured to announce When Veins Meet Like Rivers; ᑲᑎᓐᓂᖅ / okhížata / maadawaan an exhibition featuring asinnajaq, Kite and Dayna Danger, which will take place in our galleries from August 21 until December 17, 2021.
Submit. Resist. Care. Heal.
Sharing and being transparent was the starting point of the work and always offering what felt true. Traditionalists might balk at the lack of formal evidence, but the silence was the language of trust the 4 of us worked in. The ability to reveal, hold, know and create while being in remote orbit. Constant care and consideration.
– Allison Yearwood, Executive Director of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art

Artist Talk | Lori Blondeau in discussion with Franchesca Hebert-Spence
2021-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Online Event
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present:
Artist Talk | Lori Blondeau in discussion with Franchesca Hebert-Spence

July 17, 2021 | 7 pm
Live streamed at www.plugin.org

Please join us on Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 7 pm for a conversation between Lori Blondeau and Franchesca Hebert-Spence as they discuss Blondeau’s accomplished artistic practice and her exhibition I’m Not Your Kinda Princess currently on display at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. The event will be live streamed on www.plugin.org and will include a question and answer period moderated by Plug In ICA’s Executive Director, Allison Yearwood.
Lori Blondeau is Cree/Saulteaux/Métis from Saskatchewan. Since the 1990s, Blondeau’s artistic practice in the fields of performance, photography and installation, along with her curatorial work and activities as co-founder and Executive Director of the Indigenous art collective TRIBE, has proved decisive to the ever-increasing centrality of Indigenous art and knowledge production in Canada. With her performances, which include Are You My Mother? (2000), Sisters (2002) and States of Grace (2007) and photographic work, including COSMOSQUAW (1996), Lonely Surfer Squaw (1997) and Asinîy Iskwew (2016), Blondeau’s practice, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with fellow Visual artists including Visual Artists James Luna, Rebecca Belmore, Shelly Niro and Adrian Stimson, demonstrates a clarity of focus which is remarkable for its precision, humour and strength. Her photographic and installation work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Windsor (Ontario), Kelowna Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton) and Remai Modern (Saskatoon) among numerous others. Her performance pieces have been showcased at Nuit Blanche (Saskatoon and Winnipeg), VIVO (Vancouver), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) and the 2007 Venice Biennial. Blondeau has participated in panel discussions and given lectures at the AGO, the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon), the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa Fe) and the 2020 Sydney Biennale. Since 2018, Blondeau is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Art at the University of Manitoba School of Art; sat on the Advisory Panel for the Canada Council, Visual Arts program and served as a member of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective. Blondeau was a recipient of the 2021 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Franchesca Hebert-Spence is Anishinaabe and her grandmother Marion Ida Spence was from Sagkeeng First Nation, on Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hebert-Spence is an independent curator and writer whose engagement with her community is directly informed by kinship and it’s responsibilities. The foundation for this practice sprung from Ishkabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg, Brandon University Visual and Aboriginal Arts program. She previously served as an Adjunct Curator, Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Alberta, and a Curatorial Assistant within the Indigenous Art Department at the National Gallery of Canada. She is a currently a PhD student in Cultural Mediations (Visual Culture) at Carleton University, and is a Fellow on the Morrisseau Project under Dr. Carmen Robertson.

Acknowledgments
We are on Treaty 1 Territory. Plug In ICA is located on the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.
Lori Blondeau: I’m Not Your Kinda Princess was curated by Nasrin Himada. The exhibition is open by appointment and runs until July 31, 2021.
Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to the artists we work with, our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. We acknowledge the sustaining support of our Director’s Circle. You all make a difference.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, 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, and enable us to continue to present excellent programs. Please consider becoming a member of Plug In ICA and a donor at https://plugin.org/support or by contacting Angela Forget at angela@plugin.org.
For more information on public programming and exhibitions contact Luther Konadu at luther@plugin.org.
For general information, please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043

Exhibition: Lori Blondeau | I'm Not Your Kinda Princess
2021-03-11 12:00 - 2021-07-31 17:00 | Manitoba

Exhibition: Sovereign Intimacies
2020-09-26 12:00 - 2020-12-20 17:00 | Manitoba

Exhibition: of سندباد and sandbox by Gelare Khoshgozaran
2020-09-26 12:00 - 2020-12-20 17:00 | Manitoba

Plug In ICA Annual General Meeting
2020-09-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Manitoba

May There Always Be Sunshine (The Wind And The Void) | Artist Talk by Kandis Friesen
2020-08-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
Please join us on August 18th at 6PM CT for May There Always Be Sunshine (The Wind And The Void), an online artist talk by Kandis Friesen.
Link to Live Stream
The flag says this, this motto, like a state greeting card to the child on the event of every sunrise of each year. The epic is always dawning, and we arise to its awakening, follow in its flow. This is the ghost we are surrounded by – this sunshine, the wind, and the void.
Working with text between language, image, and object, Kandis Friesen presents an artist lecture on construction and collage, moving along paths of making and thinking that reside on the edges, in movements and movement, in exiled and exhilarated states. Drawing on the practices of unofficial artists in her extended family, the work of Moscow conceptualist and other Soviet artists, and the use of grafting and montage in a range of other practices, Friesen will speak about installation, virtuality, and diaspora. Her research and methods work in parallel with such practices, where citation becomes a kind of collective literature, a writing-into the world. This is a work of constant translation and transposition, where the replica and the copy, the echo and the choir develop as central modes. Such a relay brings together histories not yet written, art works not yet named, and monuments and memories not yet formed: resistant to the solid and committed to dispersal. This commitment is a diasporic site-specificity – the connected dispersal as site – allowing ideas, objects, actions and texts to remain contiguous across expansive realms.
There is a secret, and I don’t let on. I’m ready for the knowing. It is about balance, poise, and waiting. I know there is an inside and an outside, the entrance vague but understood. The untethered is the ethos here, tethered only to other untethered, so that the choir’s voice is both the ship and the sail.

Kandis Friesen’s work is anchored in diasporic language, dispersed translations, and disintegrating archival forms. Often circulating as video, sculpture, installation, and writing, her compositions build from architectural, material, and spectral inhabitations of exile, amplifying minute and myriad histories at once. Her work has been exhibited and screened at LUX (London, UK), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, US), Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago, US), TRUCK Contemporary (Calgary, CA), Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, CA), FIFA (Montreal, CA), WNDX (Winnipeg, CA), MIX NYC (NYC, US), Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens, GR), and Jihlava International Film Festival (Jihlava, CZ), among others. She has received grants and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, CALQ, the Images Festival Steamwhistle Award (with Nahed Mansour, 2012), Best Canadian Work at WNDX (2018), and the Brucebo Art Foundation Travel Research Grant (2019). Her video works are distributed by Groupe Intervention Vidéo in Montreal.
All public programming is free and open to the public.

Associated Programming
Artist Talk by Catherine Opie | Thursday, July 23, 2020 | 6PM CT
Co-presentation with Centre for Research in Cultural Studies University of Winnipeg (CRiCS), MAWA, and the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation.

Solo Exhibition | The Modernist by Catherine Opie | June 10 – August 22, 2020
Solo Exhibition | The Cedar, The Birch, Our Hands At Full-Mast, Behind The After by Kandis Friesen | June 10 – August 22, 2020

Artist Talk by Catherine Opie
2020-07-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
Plug In ICA would like to extend a warm welcome to join us on Thursday, July 23 at 6PM CT for an online Artist Talk by Catherine Opie.
The talk will begin with a screening of Opie’s The Modernist after which Opie will discuss her career from the early 1990s until today focusing on her most recent works, The Modernist (2017) & Swamps and Political Collages (2019). The talk will be followed by a Q+A moderated by Jenifer Papararo.
Link to Live Stream

Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, OH in 1961 and received her B.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute and a M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts. Since 2001, she has been a professor of photography at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide. Selected solo exhibitions include Keeping an Eye on the World, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2017); 700 Nimes Road, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles (2016); Portraits, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Portraits and Landscapes, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2015); Empty and Full, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2011); Figure and Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2010); American Photographer, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2006); and Skyways and Icehouses, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2002); among others.
Opie has received numerous awards, including the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Medal (2016); Julius Shulman Excellence in Photography Award (2013); Women’s Caucus for Art: President’s Award for Lifetime Achievement (2009); United States Artists Fellowship (2006); Larry Aldrich Award (2004); Washington University Freund Fellowship (1999); and the Citibank Private Bank Emerging Artist Award (1997).
Work by the artist is included in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; among others.
She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
All public programming is free and open to the public.

Associated Programming
May There Always Be Sunshine (The Wind And The Void) | Artist Talk by Kandis Friesen | Tuesday, August 18, 2020 | 6PM CT
Solo Exhibition | The Modernist by Catherine Opie | June 10 – August 22, 2020
Solo Exhibition | The Cedar, The Birch, Our Hands At Full-Mast, Behind The After by Kandis Friesen | June 10 – August 22, 2020
This artist talk is presented in conjunction with Catherine Opie’s solo exhibition at Plug In ICA on view from June 10 – August 22, 2020. The artist talk is a co-presentation with Centre for Research in Cultural Studies at the University of Winnipeg (CRiCS), Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), and Winnipeg Architecture Foundation.

Catherine Opie: The Modernist & Kandis Friesen: The Cedar, The Birch, Our Hands At Full-Mast, Behind The After
2020-06-10 13:00 - 2020-08-22 17:00 | Manitoba
Open by appointment June 10 – August 22, 2020. Appointments are available Wednesday – Saturday from 1-4pm, please contact info@plugin.org or 204-942-1043 to schedule your visit.
Solo Exhibition | The Modernist by Catherine Opie | June 10 – August 22, 2020

Solo Exhibition | The Cedar, The Birch, Our Hands At Full-Mast, Behind The After by Kandis Friesen | June 10 – August 22, 2020

Hyphen-Labs: NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism
2020-01-24 - 2020-03-22 | Manitoba

Chen Zhe: Towards Evenings
2020-01-24 - 2020-03-22 | Manitoba

Galleries and shop closed between exhibitions
2019-12-30 - 2020-01-23 | Manitoba
Our galleries and shop will be closed during installation

Holiday Closure
2019-12-23 - 2019-12-26 | Manitoba
Plug In will be closed December 24, 25, 26

Hannah Black Keynote Address
2019-12-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Prominent artist, writer and critic, Hannah Black studied English Literature at Cambridge University before completing an MFA in Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She then participated in Whitney’s Independent Study program. Black has published two books, Life (2017), in collaboration with Juliana Huxtable, and Dark Pool Party (2016). Along with Ciarán Finlayson, and Tobi Haslett, Black was the co-author of the seminal article in Artforum, “The Teargas Biennial.” She has screened and shown in exhibitions across Europe and the United States most recently at Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art; Sharjah Biennial 14; Performance Space New York; Real Fine Arts, New York; Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Chisenhale Gallery, London UK; mumok, Vienna; Arcadia Missa, Paris; and New Museum Theatre, New York.
On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 7pm, Plug In ICA is excited to present a lecture by Hannah Black as part of Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops.

Soft Nails ~ ♥[ASMR] Kleincomputer Robotron KC87 ♥ | A Video Screening by Nadja Buttendorf
2019-12-06 - 2020-03-06 | Manitoba
Plug In ICA is screening Soft Nails ~ ♥[ASMR] Kleincomputer Robotron KC87 ♥ by Nadja Buttendorf in our Breezeway as part of Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops. The video will be on display until March 6, 2020.
The KC stands for Kleincomputer, in English, literally small computer. Released in 1987 in the GDR by VEB Robotron-Meßelektronik”Otto Schön” Dresden. Originally, the KC 87 was intended as a home computer (HC) for private households. Due to a lack of resources, however, the KC87 was only in use as an educational computer in educational institutions.
ASMR, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, is a net cultural form of physical stimulation through whispering and soft sounds that has developed and spread on the largest online platform YouTube. The listeners and viewers find the tingling on the skin, triggered by those very soft noises, very pleasant. The sight of bent fingernails, on the other hand, is often perceived as unpleasant. In Soft Nails, artificial fingernails made of silicone reinforce the viewer’s reaction. The typical noises of ASMR videos are complemented by this visually irritating stimulus.
Throughout the video, Buttendorf whispers the information about the KC87. In most ASMR videos only current high-tech utensils appear to evoke tingles. In Soft Nails, Buttendorf deliberately uses high-tech from the GDR and transforms it into a pop cultural format. This video work is a satellite project for the web series Robotron – a tech opera.

Morehshin Allahyari Lecture
2019-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Morehshin Allahyari (b. 1985 in Tehran, Iran) is a media artist, activist, educator, and curator who uses computer modeling, 3D scanning and digital fabrication techniques to explore the intersection of art and activism. Inspired by concepts of collective archiving, memory, and cultural contradiction, Allahyari’s 3D printed sculptures and videos challenge social and gender norms. She is developing a new body of work on digital colonialism and ‘re-figuring’ as a feminist and decolonialist practice, titled She Who Sees the Unknown. Researching female monsters, jinn and dark goddesses of Middle-Eastern origin, Allahyari devises narratives through practices of magic and poetic-speculative storytelling, re-appropriation of traditional mythologies, collaging, meshing, scanning, and archiving.
On Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 7pm, Plug In ICA is excited to present a lecture by Morehshin Allahyari as part of Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops.

Ali Shamas Qadeer Lecture
2019-12-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Ali Shamas Qadeer is a designer and educator based in Toronto. He works in web, print, and web and print. After completing a BA in philosophy and religious studies at McGill University, he developed an independent design practice in New York City before returning to school to complete an MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. His work focuses on algorithmic formmaking, unorthodox toolmaking, and the disciplinary and economic structures that design practices buttress. After returning to Canada in 2014, Ali joined the faculty of OCADU where he is an Assistant Professor in the graphic and industrial design programs. In his teaching practice, Ali champions a critical approach that always refracts through a practice of formalism and making.
On Monday, December 2, 2019 at 7pm, Plug In ICA is excited to present a lecture by Ali Shamas Qadeer as part of Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops.

Ali Shamas Qadeer Workshop
2019-12-02 - 2019-12-06 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Ali Shamas Qadeer is a designer and educator based in Toronto. He works in web, print, and web and print. After completing a BA in philosophy and religious studies at McGill University, he developed an independent design practice in New York City before returning to school to complete an MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. His work focuses on algorithmic formmaking, unorthodox toolmaking, and the disciplinary and economic structures that design practices buttress. After returning to Canada in 2014, Ali joined the faculty of OCADU where he is an Assistant Professor in the graphic and industrial design programs. In his teaching practice, Ali champions a critical approach that always refracts through a practice of formalism and making.
From Monday, December 2 – Friday, December 6, 2019 Ali Shamas Qadeer will be hosting a workshop as part of Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops.

IM4 Media Lab Presentation
2019-11-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
On Friday, November 22, 2019 at 6pm, Plug In ICA presents a lecture by IM4 Media Labs as part of Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops.
Labour of Love or LOL, takes the “public course” as a platform for engagement, this program highlights the various ways in which the digital is interrogated, explored, celebrated, pushed to its limit, reworked, re-invented by artists, scholars, curators, writers and others. The course encompasses a full array of events, delving into such topics as coding, circuit bending, VR, AI and AR, gaming, scanning, and 3D printing. Divided into two streams, a lecture and screening series, and workshops, Labour of Love at its most general examines the relationship between the economics of labour and the digital arts as it contends with the conditions of racial capitalism. As a research platform, we aim to build an understanding of the digital by presenting artists who invent new trajectories through various technologies.

IM4 Media Lab Workshop
2019-11-22 10:00 - 2019-11-23 16:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
The workshop is a comprehensive 2-day Intro to VR/AR/360 video workshop that empowers Indigenous students (ages 16-24) with the tools, knowledge, and skills required to create their own live action immersive experiences. It will showcase how Indigenous media creators have used and embraced VR/AR/360 video. Throughout the two days, the instructor will provide a clear understanding to the VR/360 filmmaking process offering tools, knowledge, and on-hand experience to enable students with the skills to create their own VR/360 video project using the new technologies.

Code, Corals, Capitalism and Curls | A lecture by Carmen Aguilar y Wedge of Hyphen-Labs
2019-11-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 8pm, Plug In ICA presents a lecture by Carmen Aguilar y Wedge of Hyphen-Labs as part of Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops. Code, Corals, Capitalism and Curls will look at an international approach to tackling issues of the planet, marginalization, power structures, omnipresent technologies, and the end of sleep through capitalism.

ARP presents a public discussion between BlackLife authors Rinaldo Walcott & Idil Abdillahi
2019-11-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Lecture by Suzanne Kite | November 7 | 7pm
2019-11-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Manitoba
Plug In ICA presents a lecture by Kite aka Suzanne Kite as part of “Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts”, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops focused on digital economies of labour in the arts.
Labour of Love or LOL, takes the “public course” as a platform for engagement, this program highlights the various ways in which the digital is interrogated, explored, celebrated, pushed to its limit, reworked, re-invented by artists, scholars, curators, writers and others. The course encompasses a full array of events, delving into such topics as coding, circuit bending, VR, AI and AR, gaming, scanning, and 3D printing. Divided into two streams, a lecture and screening series, and workshops, Labour of Love at its most general examines the relationship between the economics of labour and the digital arts as it contends with the conditions of racial capitalism. As a research platform, we aim to build an understanding of the digital by presenting artists who invent new trajectories through various technologies.

Screening | Videos by Hannah Black
2019-10-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Manitoba
On Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 7pm, Plug In ICA presents a screening of videos by Hannah Black to launch Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops focused on digital economies of labour in the arts. Black’s videos highlight the nuance of critical thought, text and prose as they enter the landscape of dream-like excursions that tell of a future-past, or one of an apocalypse to come. As the inaugural event of Labour of Love, Black’s video art grounds us in the use of the digital as a way to experience the possibilities of image-making as tools that guide us toward another imaginary, potent feminist expressions, and poetic timescapes. Black will be joining us in person at Plug In ICA for a keynote address on December 12th, marking the closing event of Labour of Love.

More, Less, About the Same | A Video Screening by Alyssa Bornn
2019-10-17 - 2019-11-17 | Manitoba
From October 17 to November 17, 2019, Plug In ICA is screening More, Less, About the Same (2019) by Alyssa Bornn in our Breezeway as part of Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops focused on digital economies of labour in the arts. Bornn’s video is a compilation of notebook fragments approximating a confession or the act of confiding of some things about pet death, mothers, houses, monotony, relationships, and/or photography. More, Less, About the Same is written and sequenced on the Videonics Titlemaker 2000. Bornn uses a piece equipment designed to subtitle video input as both a machine for writing as well as a way to animate text and images. Rather than a textual accompaniment to visual input, the artist’s texts are the visual input.

Labour of Love: Digital Economies in the Arts
2019-10-17 - 2019-12-17 | Manitoba
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents Labour of Love or LOL, a series of lectures, screenings, and workshops focused on digital economies of labour in the arts. Taking on the “public course” as a platform for engagement, this program highlights the various ways in which the digital is interrogated, explored, celebrated, pushed to its limit, reworked, re-invented by artists, scholars, curators, writers and others. The course encompasses a full array of events, delving into such topics as coding, circuitbending, VR, AI and AR, gaming, scanning, and 3D printing. Divided into two streams, a lecture and screening series, and workshops, Labour of Love at its most general examines the relationship between the economics of labour and the digital arts as it contends with the conditions of racial capitalism. As a research platform, we aim to build an understanding of the digital by presenting artists who invent new trajectories through various technologies.

Cam Scott: ROMANS/SNOWMARE launch & reading
2019-10-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Plug In ICA and ARP Books present a launch and reading of Cam Scott’s ROMANS/SNOWMARE
