Skeena Reece: Sweetgrass and Honey
Skeena Reece is best-known for her critically penetrating and humourous performances, in which she portrays a range of personas that are often driven by the potential of a raw exchange with audiences. For her solo exhibition Sweetgrass and Honey, she builds […]
International Call for Applications: Summer Institute Session I • DIS: “Thumbs that Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network”
International Call for Applications: Summer Institute Session I • DIS: “Thumbs that Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network” March 5, 2018 – 6pm Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is honoured to announce two exciting opportunities for our 2018 Summer […]
International Call for Applications: Summer Institute Session II • BUSH gallery “Site/ation”
International Call for Applications: Summer Institute Session II • BUSH gallery “Site/ation” March 10, 2018 Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is honoured to announce two exciting opportunities for our 2018 Summer Institute post-graduate research program. Session I, June 25 – July 6, 2018: “Thumbs […]
EXPERIMENTAL CONVERSATION AND SEMI-ACCIDENTAL PERFORMANCE | A Respondent Series Workshop by Ray Fenwick
EXPERIMENTAL CONVERSATION AND SEMI-ACCIDENTAL PERFORMANCE | A Respondent Series Workshop by Ray Fenwick Thursday, March 15, 2018 – 7pm Every conversation is an experiment — and some conversations are more experimental than others. Some conversations are like performances, or games, or music, […]
Przemek Pyszczek: Białystok
Przemek Pyszczek: Białystok March 29, 2018 to June 10, 2018 Powder-coated colours of steel-poles shape a centralized geometric form inBiałystok – Przemek Pyszczek’s first solo exhibition in Canada. Heavily influenced by the architectural and civic structures from his birth town […]
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Shit-Baby and The Crumpled Giraffe
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Shit-Baby and The Crumpled Giraffe March 29, 2018 to June 10, 2018 Shit-Baby and the Crumpled Giraffe is an exquisite display of Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa’s characteristic penchant towards humor, abjection, and performance as he transforms bodily action into object […]
Respondent Series Talk with Art City’s Directors, Eddie Ayoub and Josh Ruth | Wednesday, May 23, 2018 • 7pm
As part of our ongoing Respondent Series, on Wednesday, May 23, 7pm Art City Directors, Eddie Ayoub and Josh Ruth will speak about the history and mandate of Art City, one of Canada’s most dynamic and exciting community art centres.
Visita guiada en español con Francesca Carella Arfinengo
Visita guiada en español con Francesca Carella Arfinengo Sábado, 26 de Mayo | 15h El día sábado19 de Mayo a las 3pm, la artista Francesca Carella Arfinengo brindará un tour guiado de las exposiciones individuales de Przemek Psyzczek, artista de […]
Plug In ICA Hosts: Canadian Art Spring Issue Launch Party
On Saturday, June 9th Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art will host a launch party for Canadian Art's Summer Issue. The issue takes on the act of translation as its primary focus and includes a special cover commission by Caroline […]
Exhibition: DIS, Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network
In this iteration of Thumbs That Type and Swipe at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, seven images (from an enlarged and isolated mosquito to a close up of a ‘thumbs up’) are placed in light boxes commonly fabricated for advertising — selling you a pesticide or a national symbol? But of course you are in a gallery within an exhibition and this assemblage of seemingly incongruous images is selected by DIS who use the propaganda of nations and promotional material of markets to chop off heads.