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Curatorial Tour of Skeena Reece: Sweetgrass and Honey with Jenifer Papararo
2018-02-24 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
Curatorial Tour of Skeena Reece: Sweetgrass and Honey with Jenifer Papararo

February 24, 2018 – 3pm
Plug In ICA | 460 Portage Ave, Winnipeg MB

On Saturday, February 24 at 3pm, Jenifer Papararo, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s Executive Director and curator of Skeena Reece: Sweetgrass and Honey will give a guided tour of the exhibition.

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 on her lexicon of characters at times ramping up the clichés and emboldening stereo-types while sincerely trying to unearth their origins and stonewall their continued perpetuation. From Stockholm Syndrome to Indian Princesses, Reece uses various subjects in building a new lens with which to examine her personal history within a rereading of the displacement and continued disregard of Indigenous people in North America.
Sweetgrass and Honey is a survey of sorts, recontextualizing some of Reece’s earlier works, showing out-takes from a 2005 video An Indian Guide: Self Preservation and animating the photo shoot from We Still Know, 2007. Even the exhibition title is pulled from her debut folk music album released in 2011. This revisiting is in constant motion as a series of exposes, demonstrating Reece’s artistic processes as well as sharpening the focus on her layered but direct subject; her process being one of structured improvisation and intimate collaboration. And her subject formed by the outlines of the long, reoccurring and transmuting effects of colonization while effacing racial stereotypes used to relegate Indigenous culture into the past.
Skeena Reece is a Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist based on the West Coast of British Columbia. She has garnered national and international attention most notably for Raven: On the Colonial Fleet (2010) her bold installation and performance work presented as part of the celebrated group exhibition Beat Nation. Her multidisciplinary practice includes performance art, spoken word, humor, “sacred clowning,” writing, singing, songwriting, video and visual art. She studied media arts at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and was the recipient of the British Columbia award for Excellence in the Arts (2012) and The Viva Award (2014). For her work on Savage (2010)in collaboration with Lisa Jackson, Reece won a Genie Award for Best Short Film, Golden Sheaf Award for Best Multicultural Film, ReelWorld Outstanding Canadian Short Film, Leo Awards for Best Actress and Best Editing. She participated in the 17th Sydney Biennale, Australia. Recent exhibitions include, The Sacred Clown & Other Strangers (2015) a solo exhibition of her performance costumes and documentation at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Winnipeg and Moss at Oboro Gallery, Montreal (2017). An iteration of Sweetgrass and Honey will travel to the Comox Valley Art Gallery.

Parts of Sweetgrass and Honey were produced in collaboration with Oboro, Montreal and exhibited as part of the exhibition Moss.

Plug In ICA gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We extend gratitude to our Director’s Circle, valued members and dedicated volunteers.

Related exhibit:
Skeena Reece: Sweetgrass and Honey

Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth | Youth Guided Tour • Screening and Discussion
2018-02-17 14:00 - 16:00
Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth | Youth Guided Tour • Screening and Discussion

Saturday, February 17, 2018 – 2pm
1, Plug In ICA | 460 Portage Ave

Plug In ICA Presents:
Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth
Tour • Screening and Discussion • Free!
Saturday, February 17 | 2-3:30pm
Youth Guided Tour: 2pm
Screening & Discussion: 3pm

On Saturday, February 17, 2018 discover our current exhibition, Skeena Reece: Sweetgrass and Honey through the interpretive lens of five youth.
Starting at 2pm, participants of the fourth edition of our Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth [IIY] program, Elia Ruiz-Fuertes-Holt, Andriy Kramar, Omid Moterassed, Crista Ordonez and Youth Mentor, Niko Lapierre will offer our first ever guided youth tour, before presenting a short interpretive video produced by them in collaboration with Plug In ICA, Just TV and the Broadway Neighborhood Center.
The screening offers a visual reflection of the youth’s collective and individual experience of Sweetgrass and Honey, and marks the culmination of an intensive four weeks of meeting, working, and thinking together about the exhibition; and about video as an interpretive mode. For this iteration of the program, participants had the opportunity to see the work as it was being installed, and speak directly with Reece about her process, and intentions.
The youth tour will begin at 2pm, followed a short reception. The screening and panel discussion with IIY participants is moderated by Assistant Curator Sarah Nesbitt, and will begin at 3pm. Everyone welcome! Snacks and refreshments will be served.

Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth is designed for youth ages 16 to 24. The program reverses a pre-existing interpretive model used within arts institutions that often produce short videos as educational devices. These often include interviews with artists or curators, images of artworks and installation shots; they often reference artists’ biographies, previous artworks, and at times, glimpse into artists’ studios. These videos are usually presented online or within the gallery or museum in close proximity to the artworks, and tend to place an emphasis on the artist’s and institution’s intention over the experience of the viewer.
The “Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth” program inversely begins with the youth’s experience of the artwork, challenging conventional models of art interpretation by overturning basic roles of authority and authorship.

For more information about this and other education programs, please contact Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043.
We give special thanks to Just TV for their dedicated and expert partnership.

Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. You make a difference.
We gratefully acknowledge the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org

Related exhibit:
Skeena Reece: Sweetgrass and Honey

Good Evening Native America! Live with Darryl Nepinak
2018-02-15 19:00 - 20:00
Good Evening Native America! Live with Darryl Nepinak

February 15, 2018 – 7pm to 8pm

Thursday, February 15th at 7pm. FREE! Everyone Welcome!
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is excited to host a live, in house presentation of Good Evening Native America! Live with Darryl Nepinak. On Thursday, February 15 at 7pm, join us for this rare and much anticipated live appearance.
Bask in the brilliance of our current exhibition Sweetgrass and Honey by Skeena Reece while Nepinak banters with special celebrity guests, not including Gord and Lorrie Steeves and Senator Lynn Beyak. This is one night you do not want to miss!
Tickets are free, but make sure to arrive on time. This is sure to be a sold out event.

Darryl Nepinak is a Winnipeg-based writer, film maker, committed youth mentor and educator, occasional curator and performer. Addressing the social structures of racism, Nepinak is unapologetic, absurd and precise. Primarily known for his edgy, satirical videos, Nepinak was introduced to filmmaking at the Aboriginal Broadcasting Training Initiative in 2005 where he produced his first short, Last of the Nepinaks, 2005. Since then his work has been shown nationally and internationally including screenings at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg; The Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; Dawson City Film Festival; the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), New York; the Berlinale International Film Festival, Berlin; Wairoa Maori Film Festival, New Zealand. ImagineNative Film and media Arts festival commissioned Zwei Indianer Aus Winnipeg in 2008, a satire that uses the song by German musician Marika Kilius. Nepinak has also worked with APTN and the National Film Board.

Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. You make a difference.
We sincerely thank the RBC Foundation for the direct support of our Summer Institutes.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts New Chapter Fund, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program.
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: angela@plugin.org

Skeena Reece: Sweetgrass and Honey
2018-01-26 - 2018-03-18
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 on her lexicon of characters at times ramping up the clichés and emboldening stereo-types while sincerely trying to unearth their origins and stonewall their continued perpetuation. From Stockholm Syndrome to Indian Princesses, Reece uses various subjects in building a new lens with which to examine her personal history within a rereading of the displacement and continued disregard of Indigenous people in North America.
Sweetgrass and Honey is a survey of sorts, recontextualizing some of Reece’s earlier works, showing out-takes from a 2005 video An Indian Guide: Self Preservation and animating the photo shoot from We Still Know, 2007. Even the exhibition title is pulled from her debut folk music album released in 2011. This revisiting is in constant motion as a series of exposes, demonstrating Reece’s artistic processes as well as sharpening the focus on her layered but direct subject; her process being one of structured improvisation and intimate collaboration. And her subject formed by the outlines of the long, reoccurring and transmuting effects of colonization while effacing racial stereotypes used to relegate Indigenous culture into the past.
Reece often works within a narrative structure she devises to invisibly pulse under the surface of the work she produces. For We Still Know, Reece imagines a moment in the past, set in the 50s and 60s when young native men just graduating from residential schools were entering city life, looking stylish, moving with confidence and optimism, free and unencumbered. Reece posits and attempts to capture this moment, depicting a time of transition encapsulated by potential. This is an experience she imagines as her father’s, and one she knows could have only been fleeting – before the effects of racism and past traumas surfaced, at times expressing themselves in self-destructive and violent ways. But this moment of power no matter how real or sustained, is important for Reece to express as an illustration of strength and survival. This resolute and hopeful moment is the establishing shot for Sweetgrass and Honey, determining a resilient image that should linger steadfast as other narratives and exposures unfold throughout the exhibition.
The out-takes from An Indian Guide: Self Preservation express a struggle of identification, where understandings of indigeneity come into conflict with day to day experiences. At one point in the filming, Reece, who is behind the camera, asks each of the three actors how they would respond to being called a typical native man. This draws out the performers who address the multiplicity of what that description might mean as well as leads them to identify the derogatory inference of being called ‘typical’ anything. 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 using the clichéd aesthetic devices common to paintings of the glorified Native Maiden, but her portrait sits in stark contrast to the romanticism of the Indigenous female, as she invites the voyeur to gaze upon her self-aware smirk with an air brushed double chin. Reece’s portrait has her dressed in a feather cape, posed stoically in the center of a barrage of wilderness signifiers from the wolf to the grizzly bear, but she asked for a bored wolf, a dumb spirit bear, a contentious totem pole made in the US in Haida style made by non-Haida cravers and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics inukshuk logo in a nauseating mash up of cultural clichés. She is presented as a pervasive image of the Native Indian in her natural habitat, but skewed in parody. She is an absurd dream and flawed vision of the past. Reece exacerbates this relegation to the past, by placing velvet stanchions in front of the painting as if it was in the historical section of a major museum. She further propagates this prolific image as she turns it into a mass-produced poster available for purchase in the gallery’s shop.
The past is an ever-present and fraught subject in Sweetgrass and Honey– one that Reece is constantly pushing back at and pulling into current times. In the photographic series, Un-Entitled, 2017, Reece wears “herstory” on her body. She invited the artist Gord Hill, a deeply politically charged writer and activist who is a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation, to illustrate aspects of colonial occupation and its destructive force, which Reece placed on her body as tattoos. Pictured on her skin are line drawings of men ready for battle. A conquistador, an Oka stand off with a Canadian soldier and an Indigenous warrior are part of her flesh. As if rising from the historic depths of battle there is also an illustration of mother and child that on the artist’s skin endure into the present, inviting viewers as caregivers to question why violence is perpetuated. Reece’s Moss Bag, 2015/17 renders this parental relation even clearer as she frees a relic from the confines of museological display. She has made an adult sized moss bag and cradleboard traditionally used as part of child rearing to carry newborns until they could walk. The sculpture, hangs on the wall like an over-sized and kitsch crucifix – a reference that shows the sacrifice of motherhood while also locating it as a place for healing and contemplation.
This unsettled encounter between past and present is part of We Are All One, which she first produced in response to Tsimshian Treasures an exhibition of Tsimshian ceremonial masks and objects at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) in 2007. Reece commissioned Vancouver-based artist Nathalee Paolinelli to paint a series of child-like black and white water-colours of some of the objects represented as artifacts in the exhibition. The humble depiction of the objects’ has an ethereal quality that reflects meaning that cannot be found in the objects themselves, but instead resonates as a cultural practice. Reece’s representations are an act of reclamation, and an acknowledgement that value is situated within the people and culture who made them and continues to produce them. A re-commissioned series of these water-colours are scattered around the exhibition as stickers on the walls. They are presented in Sweetgrass and Honey as disposable cheap renditions, again undermining their value as objects – now presented as artifacts which in MOA’s exhibition catalogue suggests were originally acquired by Reverend Robert J. Dundas as gifts or purchased for little in the mid to late 1800s, and were last auctioned off in the early 2000s by Sotherby’s for over $20,000 each, breaking records for these types of objects sold at auction. But this monetary value is not where their worth lies.
This economic schism is brought to the fore in Access Denied, a site-specific work that challenges the racialized capitalism of The Hudson’s Bay’s origins in the fur-trade. One of the company’s early flagship stores sits across the street from Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art and can be viewed through the windows of one of the institute’s gallery’s. Reece blocks the view by stacking burlap sacs from floor to ceiling. From the street, the gallery appears to be a storehouse tightly stocked full of goods. The filled room mockingly sits in opposition to The Bay in acknowledgement of Reece’s awareness of the past, and how deeply disturbing is this knowledge. This particular branch of the department store has closed three of its massive floors, amalgamating into two floors. Even with the merging of departments, the store feels barren and on the edge of closure. But Access Denied is a bluff. Once at the interior entrance to the gallery, the viewer can see that the room’s fullness is staged; it is a façade. In actuality, the gallery’s windows are only lined with stuffed sacs that sit in front of a prop wall. Even with the illusion broken, Reece denies visitors access to the gallery space. The ‘goods’ (sacs filled with air) are inaccessible – just out of reach, annunciating an economic rift that is still felt in Indigenous communities who continue to be systemically denied access to the benefits of our country including accurate historical accounting for the disabling injustices of then and now.
Reece’s challenge to historic oppression and cultural genocide is a gesture that carries consequence in that it posits a future to come. InThe Mountain Goat, a Gitksan myth, village people are punished for their poor treatment of mountain goats who they killed or harmed cruelly without reason for food. There are deadly consequences for their brutal and unreasoned actions because retribution from the mountain goats is inevitable. In cultural contrast, the mountain goats sees animals as equals to the villagers, whose moral and physical high ground implies that cruelty is dealt with swiftly and totally as they bring a mountain crashing down on the village. The new work Stekyawden Syndrome, a large-scale mural done in collaboration with Northwest Coast, Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations’ artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett, frames this myth within a psychological trauma that leaves captives overly sympathetic with their capturers. Reece has diagnosed Indigenous people as having Stockholm Syndrome, but this blinding condition is breaking as reprisals must be discussed.
Curated by Jenifer Papararo
Skeena Reece is a Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist based on the West Coast of British Columbia. She has garnered national and international attention most notably for Raven: On the Colonial Fleet (2010) her bold installation and performance work presented as part of the celebrated group exhibition Beat Nation. Her multidisciplinary practice includes performance art, spoken word, humor, “sacred clowning,” writing, singing, songwriting, video and visual art. She studied media arts at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and was the recipient of the British Columbia award for Excellence in the Arts (2012) and The Viva Award (2014). For her work on Savage (2010)in collaboration with Lisa Jackson, Reece won a Genie Award for Best Short Film, Golden Sheaf Award for Best Multicultural Film, ReelWorld Outstanding Canadian Short Film, Leo Awards for Best Actress and Best Editing. She participated in the 17th Sydney Biennale, Australia. Recent exhibitions include, The Sacred Clown & Other Strangers (2015) a solo exhibition of her performance costumes and documentation at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Winnipeg and Moss at Oboro Gallery, Montreal (2017). An iteration of Sweetgrass and Honey will travel to the Comox Valley Art Gallery.

Respondent Series | Artist Talk with Bracken Hanuse Corlett
2018-01-20 14:00 - 16:00
Programmed as part of our winter solo exhibition Sweetgrass and Honey by Skeena Reece, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is extremely pleased to present interdisciplinary artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett, who will present an artist talk as part of our ongoing Respondent Series on Saturday, January 20 at 2pm.
For Sweetgrass and Honey, Corlett has been commissioned by Reece to paint a new mural, Stekyawden Syndrome, 2018. Created in collaboration with Reece, the mural reinterprets a Gitksan myth, The Mountain Goat, in which village people are punished for their poor treatment of mountain goats who they kill or harm cruelly without reason. For the mural, Corlett and Reece frame this myth within a psychological trauma (Stockholm Syndrome) that leaves captives overly sympathetic with their capturers. Contextualized within the frame of the exhibition, Corlett will give an introduction and overview of his most recent works, and upcoming projects, with insight into what drives him as an Indigenous person, writer and artist.
Working in a breadth of forms and media, including mural painting, animation, and VJing, for this talk, Corlett will speak about the mural at Plug In ICA, as well as his large-scale public art projects, such as Listening. On. Waking Terrain, 2017, a recent commission from the city of Vancouver; his animation Ghost Food, 2017; and SEE Monsters, an audio-visual collaboration with his cousin Dean Hunt.
Bracken Hanuse Corlett is an interdisciplinary artist who hails from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations, currently based in Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast. With formal training in theatre and performance, Northwest Coast art, and visual arts, Corlett’s work is a hybrid that incorporates Northwest Coast aesthetics and symbols, and fuses painting and drawing with digital media, audio-visual performance, animation and narration. He is a graduate of the En’owkin Centre of Indigenous Art, Penticton and has a B.F.A. from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver. He studied Northwest Coast carving, art and design with the acclaimed Heiltsuk artist Bradley Hunt, and his sons Shawn Hunt and Dean Hunt. In 2014 he was awarded the BC Creative Achievement Award for Aboriginal Art, and in 2017 he received a large-scale public art commission for the City of Vancouver, and the Vancouver Mural Festival. His work has been exhibited widely, including at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver; Museum of Anthropology (MOA), Vancouver; Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; and the ImagineNative and Toronto Film Festivals, Toronto. His work Electricity Blanket Protoype 004, 2017 is currently included in the exhibition INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

This artist talk is programmed in conjunction with Skeena Reece: Sweetgrass and Honey | January 19 – March 18, 2018.
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 19 | 7-11pm * artists in attendance
Performance:
Skeena Reece Looks Like a Suicide | Friday, January 19 | 7pm
Respondent Series artist talk:
Bracken Hanuse Corlett | Saturday January 20 | 2pm

Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth screening and panel discussion
Saturday, February 10 | 2pm
Respondent Series performance:
Darryl Nepinak | Thursday, February 15 | 7pm

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 Sweetgrass and Honey, she builds on her lexicon of characters at times ramping up the clichés and emboldening stereo-types while sincerely trying to unearth their origins and stonewall their continued perpetuation. From Stockholm Syndrome to Indian Princesses, Reece uses various subjects in building a new lens with which to examine her personal history within a rereading of the displacement and continued disregard of indigenous people in North America.
Sweetgrass and Honey is a concatenation of works from a photographic series to mass-produced posters. This exhibition will feature several newly commissioned works, including a specific installation that challenges the racist history of the Hudson’s Bay, which sits across the street from Plug In. As well she will create a mural that offers a psychological look at the relationship between captor and captive; and another artwork that visualizes the ghosts in our history – buried in the land we occupy. Many of the artworks presented in this solo exhibition were produced in collaboration with other artists who Reece ignites as producers and translators.
Skeena Reece is a Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist based on the West Coast of British Columbia. She has garnered national and international attention most notably for Raven: On the Colonial Fleet (2010) her bold installation and performance work presented as part of the celebrated group exhibition Beat Nation. Her multidisciplinary practice includes performance art, spoken word, humor, “sacred clowning,” writing, singing, songwriting, video and visual art. She studied media arts at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and was the recipient of the British Columbia award for Excellence in the Arts (2012) and The Viva Award (2014). For her work on Savage (2010)in collaboration with Lisa Jackson, Reece won a Genie Award for Best Short Film, Golden Sheaf Award for Best Multicultural Film, ReelWorld Outstanding Canadian Short Film, Leo Awards for Best Actress and Best Editing. She participated in the 17th Sydney Biennale, Australia. Recent exhibitions include, The Sacred Clown & Other Strangers (2015) a solo exhibition of her performance costumes and documentation at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Winnipeg and Moss at Oboro Gallery, Montreal (2017). An iteration of Sweet Grass and Honey will travel to the Comox Valley Art Gallery.

Parts of Sweetgrass and Honey were produced in collaboration with Oboro, Montreal exhibited as part of the exhibition Moss.
Plug In ICA gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We extend gratitude to our Director’s Circle, valued members and dedicated volunteers.

All public programming is FREE and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our artists, generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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/supportor by contacting Angela Forget: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by telephone at (204) 942-1043.

Related exhibit:
Skeena Reece: Sweetgrass and Honey

Curatorial Tour of Entering the Landscape with Jenifer Papararo
2017-12-09 15:00 - 16:00
On Saturday, December 9th at 3pm, Jenifer Papararo, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s Executive Director and co-curator of Entering the Landscape will give a guided tour of the exhibition.

Entering the Landscape
Pia Arke (1958-2007 Greenland and Denmark) • Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory (Iqaluit) • Jaime Black (Winnipeg) • Lori Blondeau (Saskatoon) • A.K. Burns (New York) • The Ephemerals (Winnipeg) • Melissa General (Toronto) • Rebecca Horn (Berlin) • Katherine Hubbard (New York, USA) • Maria Hupfield (New York) • Simone Jones (Toronto) • Tau Lewis (Toronto) • Amy Malbeuf (Rich Lake Alberta) • Meryl McMaster (Ottawa) • Ana Mendieta (Cuba) • Natalie Purschwitz (Vancouver) • Dominique Rey (Winnipeg), • Jamie Ross (Montreal) • Xaviera Simmons (New York) • Ming Wong (Berlin) • Alize Zorlutuna (Toronto)
Entering the Landscape
October 1 to December 31, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday September 30 | 8pm to 1am
Panel Discussion: Saturday september 30 | 1pm to 3pm
Entering the Landscape is a contemplative group exhibition featuring twenty-one artists from Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Berlin. Working in film and video, photography, sculpture, and performance these artists represent a breadth of politicized contemporary and iconic historical works that place the female or queer body in the landscape. Bringing together artworks that conceptually and aesthetically overlap, this exhibition identifies and considers a persistent motif in contemporary art. (full text and list of works below)
– Curated by Jenifer Papararo and Sarah Nesbitt
For curatorial texts and list of works see: https://plugin.org/exhibitions/2017/entering-landscape
Related exhibit:
Entering the Landscape

Screening of After Birth, 2017 by The Ephemerals with discussion moderated by Jenifer Papararo
2017-11-23 19:00 - 21:00
November 23, 2017

Plug In ICA | 460 Portage Ave, Winnipeg MB

As part of the exhibition Entering the Landscape, Plug In ICA presents After Birth, an inter-generational journey to return to a ceremonial custom of burying the ‘after birth.’ Elder Mary Courchene narrates in Anishnaabegmowin the meaning of this gesture, to create a way of the good life for the next generation and to give back to the earth what was created in order to give life. Together these women and their kids walk the land and affirm their intergenerational knowledge and active presence in ancestral memories and matrilineal leadership. This new video work is just over five minutes long and will be followed by a moderated discussion concerning the artists’ process, collaboration, and the exhibition thematic of gendered bodies in the land.
The Ephemerals are a collective of Indigenous women, Jaimie Isaac, Niki Little and Jenny Western. They are interested in curatorial practice and creative based research in film and performance. The collective was established to function as an outlet to foster and motivate artistic production both within their individual practices as well as to engage collaborative projects that revolve around Indigenous contemporary art. Our focus is on Indigenous culture with a political and social context responding to contemporary issues. They draw inspiration from our combined curatorial multidisciplinary art practices, family and mixed cultural backgrounds. The collective’s projects are fueled by collaborative interventions and ephemeral affairs in order to push the boundaries of perceived Indigeneity. They have exhibited at 1C03, Winnipeg; ImageNATIVE, Toronto; the Art Gallery of the University of Manitoba, and Plug In ICA. Their work has been featured in an issue of Parameter Press, Winnipeg and were longlisted for the Sobey Art Awards.

This screening is part of the group exhibition Entering the Landscape(October 1 to December 31, 2017)
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 • Alize Zorlutuna
Entering the Landscape is a contemplative group exhibition curated by Jenifer Papararo and Sarah Nesbitt featuring twenty-one artists from Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Berlin. Working in film and video, photography, sculpture, and performance these artists represent a breadth of politicized contemporary and iconic historical works that place the female or queer body in the landscape. Bringing together artworks that conceptually and aesthetically overlap, this exhibition identifies and considers a persistent motif in contemporary art.
All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

Guided tours | tournée guidée en français
Curatorial Tour with Jenifer Papararo | Saturday, December 09, 3pm
Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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/supportor by contacting Angela Forget: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by telephone at (204) 942-1043.
Related exhibit:
Entering the Landscape

Respondent Series | An Artist Talk by Lori Blondeau
2017-11-16 19:00 - 20:30
Please join us for a talk by cherished artist, Lori Blondeau on Thursday, November 16 at 7pm. In conjunction with our current exhibition Entering the Landscape, we present this talk by an artist known for her astute use of pop cultural aesthetics paired with searing political commentary and cultural parody.
As a prominent artist, and founding member of the collective TRIBE, Blondeau’s impact on the artistic production and discourse in Canada is enduring. This talk will offer an in depth look at her work, which often looks at the influence of popular media and culture on Indigenous self-identity, self-image, and self-definition.
Blondeau’s work focuses on the impact of colonization on Indigenous women. The Lonely Surfer Squaw, currently on display for Entering the Landscape, is part of a larger body of work that deconstructs racist pop-cultural images – specifically the ‘Indian princess’ and ‘Squaw’. To this end, Blondeau creates absurd hybrid characters placed in classic poses, referencing mainstream pin-up or cover girls. This work interrupts the constructed stereotype of Indigenous women and refers to the damages of colonialism and the ironic pleasures of displacement and resistance.
Lori Blondeau is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance and photography. She is Cree/Saulteaux/Metis from Saskatchewan, her mother is Cree/Saulteaux from George Gordon First Nation, located in Treaty 4, and her late father was Metis from Lebret, Saskatchewan. Blondeau holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. In addition to her extensive exhibition history, Blondeau is co-founder of the Indigenous artist collective, TRIBE, and has sat on the Advisory Panel for Visual Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts. Blondeau has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally including the Banff Centre; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Open Space, Victoria; FOFA, Montreal. In 2007, Blondeau was part of the Requickening project with artist Shelly Niro at the Venice Biennale and recently had a solo exhibition at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery, Winnipeg.

This talk is programmed in conjunction with Entering the Landscape (October 1 to December 31, 2017)
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 • Alize Zorlutuna
Entering the Landscape is a contemplative group exhibition featuring twenty-one artists from Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Berlin. Working in film and video, photography, sculpture, and performance these artists represent a breadth of politicized contemporary and iconic historical works that place the female or queer body in the landscape. Bringing together artworks that conceptually and aesthetically overlap, this exhibition identifies and considers a persistent motif in contemporary art.

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

UPCOMING ASSOCIATED PROGRAMMING
Premier screening of After Birth, 2017 by The Ephemerals with discussion moderated by Jenifer Papararo | Thursday, November 23, 7pm

Upcoming Guided tours | tournée guidée en français

Curatorial Tour with Jenifer Papararo | Saturday, December 09, 3pm

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by telephone at (204) 942-1043.

Related exhibit:
Entering the Landscape

Joint Curatorial Tour and discussion of Entering the Landscape curated by Jenifer Papararo and Sarah Nesbitt; and INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE curated by Jaimie Isaac and Julie Nagam
2017-11-14 16:30 - 19:00
4:15-5pm • Tour at The Winnipeg Art Gallery, INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE
5:15-6pm • Tour at Plug In ICA, Entering the Landscape
6pm • Discussion at Plug In ICA
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art |1-460 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada

This joint tour and discussion will focus on the curatorial methods and processes engaged by the curators of Entering the Landscape andInsurgence/Resurgence. All Welcome.
Entering the Landscape
OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 2017
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage Avenue

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 • Alize Zorlutuna

Entering the Landscape is a contemplative group exhibition featuring twenty-one artists from Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Berlin. Working in film and video, photography, sculpture, and performance these artists represent a breadth of politicized contemporary and iconic historical works that place the female or queer body in the landscape. Bringing together artworks that conceptually and aesthetically overlap, this exhibition identifies and considers a persistent motif in contemporary art.
INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 TO APRIL 22, 2018
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Boulevard
Barry Ace • KC Adams • Joi T. Arcand • Dee Barsy • Scott Benesiinaabandan • Jordan Bennett • Heather Campbell • Bruno Canadien • Hannah Claus • Dana Claxton • Dayna Danger • Earthline Tattoo Collective • Bracken Hanuse Corlett • Tsema Igharas • Ursula Johnson • Casey Koyczan • Kenneth Lavallee • Duane Linklater • Tanya Lukin Linklater • Amy Malbeuf • Kent Monkman • Caroline Monnet • Tiffany Shaw-Collinge • Frank Shebageget • Amanda Strong • Joseph Tisiga • Couzyn van Heuvelen • Isabella Weetaluktuk • Linus Woods
INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE brings together 29 emerging-to-established Indigenous artists who are pushing boundaries with their work. The collection considers political insurgency and cultural resurgence to radically shift our understanding of Canada, now and in the future. Working in a variety of media, the artists focus on Indigenous intergenerational cultural knowledge within land based practices, gender, traditional aesthetics, language revitalization, interconnected kinships, identity, and material culture.INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE is the WAG’s largest-ever exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art and includes 12 new commissions from artists across Canadian territories and nations. Feel the pulse of today through tufting, tattooing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, sound, beading, media, and performance.
All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

UPCOMING ASSOCIATED PROGRAMMING
Respondent Series talk with Lori Blondeau
Thursday, November 16, 7pm
Premier screening of After Birth, 2017 by The Ephemerals with discussion moderated by Jenifer Papararo
Thursday, November 23, 7pm
Upcoming Guided tours
Curatorial Tour with Jenifer Papararo
Saturday, December 09, 3pm

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by telephone at (204) 942-1043.
Related exhibit:
Entering the Landscape

Gala & Art Auction After Party with JD Samson
2017-11-04 23:00 - 2017-11-05 03:00
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art Annual Gala and Art Auction
After Party wth JD Samson!
Venue: The Bay, 450 Portage Ave, Winnipeg (Vaughan Street entrance)
Following our annual gala and art auction, Plug In ICA will be holding an after party from 11pm-3am. Gala attendees are invited to stay and dance the night away as a new wave of guests join the party. We are thrilled to announce that we will be bringing in JD Samson (of Le Tigre, MEN) from Brooklyn, NY to play a DJ set in the Bay Basement. JD Samson is best known as leader of the band MEN and for being one- third of the electronic-feminist-punk band and performance project, Le Tigre. For more than a decade JD’s career as a musician, producer and DJ has landed her at the intersection of the music, art, activism, and fashion. During that time she has toured the world, produced songs for Grammy Award winning artists, written for publications such as Huffington Post, Talkhouse, and Creative Time Review, created multi media artwork, hosted documentary programs for VICE, and engaged in direct support with a wide-range of progressive social and political causes.
After Party ticket: $45 each or 2 for $80 (limited time offer)
Ticket price includes a complimentary glass of chamagne and tasty delights provided by Forth and Eva’s Gelato
* the after party is included in the regular gala ticket price
For tickets:
1) Call Plug In ICA during ofﬁce or gallery hours at (204) 942-1043
2) Visit the Plug In ICA Art Book Shop during gallery hours at 460 Portage Avenue 3) Purchase tickets online at https://shop.plugin.org/collections/plug-in-ica-gala-2017/products/gala-after-party-ticket
3) Buy tickets in person at Music Trader (97 Osborne St) and Into the Music (245 McDermot Ave)
For media inquiries please contact our gala coordinator: Amelia Laidlaw at gala@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043.

Related exhibit:
Plug In ICA 2017 Gala & Art Auction plus After Party

SAVE THE DATE | Plug In ICA 2017 Art Auction & Gala
2017-11-04 19:00 - 22:00
SAVE THE DATE
Plug In ICA 2017
Art Auction and Gala

November 4th, 2017
7pm
The Bay Basement | 450 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
Tickets • $200
VIP Table of 10 • $3000
Post Gala Party (after 11pm) • $45
Special Musical Guests announced soon!

This year’s Gala will take place Saturday, November 04, 2017 at 7pm in the expansive and dramatic space of The Bay Basement. With your help, we are hoping to make our 2017 Gala our most successful fundraiser to date.
We have an incredible list of artists who have generously donated artworks and have amazing culinary partners.
The proceeds you help raise will keep us FREE and accessible to all. Your contributions go directly towards programming, ensuring Plug In ICA continues to provide world-class exhibitions, events, lectures, online projects and education programs that remain free to all.
Please join us for this pinnacle event.
Purchase tickets, make a donation or support a sponsorship here ->https://shop.plugin.org/collections/plug-in-ica-gala-2017
#plugingala17

Art Auction Artists
Abbas Akhavan • Juan Ortiz Apuy • Graham Asmundson • Kristina Banera • Charline Bataille • Nadia Belerique • Scott Benesiinabandan • Irene Bindi • Valerie Blass • Annie Briard • Patrick Cruz • The Ephemerals • Erica Eryes • Dayna Danger • FASTWÜRMS • Ray Fenwick • Kandis Friesen • Kara Hamilton • Frederico Herrero • Instant Coffee • Toril Johannessen • Ursula Johnson • Wanda Koop • Lise Latreille • Chloe Lum (Seripop) • Ursula Mayer • Divya Mehra • Katrina Mendoza • Bernie Miller • Natalie Putschwitz • Andrea Roberts • Andreas Rutkauskas • Fred Sandback • Suzie Smith • Krista Belle Stewart • Tereza Tacic • Ron Tran • Collin Zipp

PRESENTING SPONSOR
Montrose Winnipeg Inc.
CHAMPAGNE SPONSOR
Tony Mitousis – CGM Engineering
GALA HOST COMMITTEE
Co-chairs: David Carr & Silvester Komlodi
Leanne Akman, Tracy Bowman, Zia Hameed, Angela Forget, Erin Josephson-Laidlaw, Joe Kalturnyk, Sotirios Kotoulas, Shana Menkis, Tony Mitousis, Jenifer Papararo, Karine Pelletier, Sarah Secter and Marlene Stern

Clay Figure Building Workshops with Artist Jaime Black
2017-10-23 17:30 - 19:30
Meet at Plug In ICA – 460 Portage Avenue • Workshop at Studio 393 • 393 Portage Avenue, in the skywalk between Portage Place and The Bay

Programmed in conjunction with our current exhibition Entering the Landscape, artist Jaime Black will facilitate clay figure-building workshops on Monday, October 23 and Wednesday, October 25 from 5:30-8:30pm. The programing on both evenings will begin at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art with a short tour of Entering the Landscape. From there, we will move to Gallery 393 where Jaime will introduce the workshop, and teach participants a basic hand-building technique to sculpt the clay. Please join us for one or both sessions.
Building on Black’s persistent interest in land-based practices, this workshop derives from the premise that the land mutually shapes and is shaped by us. Taking clay as material also draws connections on a wider global scale, recognizing its uses worldwide for utilitarian and spiritual purposes. Drawing out these references, Black facilitates an opportunity for a tangible and embodied relationship to the land.
All materials and tools will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring their creations home with them after the workshop.

Jaime Black is a Winnipeg-based multidisciplinary artist of mixed Anishnaabe/Cree and European descent using installation, photography and performance to examine themes of gender, identity, place and resistance. As an active member of the Winnipeg arts community, Black has developed arts education curriculum for Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, was an active board member for Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), and filed the role of Education Coordinator at Martha Street Print Studio. As an artist, Black has shown widely throughout Canada. Her well-known piece, The REDress Project is on permanent display at the Human Rights Museum, and has become a nationally recognized symbol of the struggle and response to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. She was recently the artist in residence for the department of gender studies at the University of Toronto where she produced We Are the Land. In the spring of 2017, Black exhibited work for Traces at Urban Shaman, and in the fall of 2017, Shards at Gallery 1c03. Black was recently invited to be a facilitator for the prominent Kaha:wi Dance Theatre Creation Lab.
These workshop are generously supported by Studio 393 and programmed in conjunction with Entering the Landscape (October 1 to December 31, 2017) 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 • Alize Zorlutuna Entering the Landscape is a contemplative group exhibition featuring twenty-one artists from Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Berlin. Working in film and video, photography, sculpture, and performance these artists represent a breadth of politicized contemporary and iconic historical works that place the female or queer body in the landscape. Bringing together artworks that conceptually and aesthetically overlap, this exhibition identifies and considers a persistent motif in contemporary art.

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

ASSOCIATED PROGRAMMING
Respondent Series talk with Lori Blondeau | Thursday, November 16, 7pm
Premier screening of After Birth, 2017 by The Ephermerals with discussion moderated by Jenifer Papararo | Thursday, November 23, 7pm
Guided tours | tournée guidée en français
Curatorial Tour with Sarah Nesbitt | Saturday, October 21, 3pm
Tournée guidée en française avec Janelle Tougas | samedi 28 Octobre, 15h
Curatorial Tour with Jenifer Papararo | Saturday, December 09, 3pm

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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/supportor by contacting Angela Forget: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by telephone at (204) 942-1043.

Related exhibit:
Entering the Landscape

Curatorial Tours - Entering the Landscape
2017-10-21 15:00 - 2017-12-31 15:00
Guided tours | tournée guidée en français
Curatorial Tour with Sarah Nesbitt | Saturday, October 21, 3pm
Tournée guidée en française avec Janelle Tougas | Le samedi 28 Octobre, 15h
Joint Curatorial Tour of Insurgence/Resurgence and Entering the Landscape followed by discussion with curators Julie Nagam, Jaimie Isaac, Jenifer Papararo, and Sarah Nesbitt | Tuesday, November 19 4:15-5pm, tour at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and 5:15-6pm tour at Plug In ICA, 6pm discussion at Plug In ICA.
Curatorial Tour with Jenifer Papararo | Saturday, December 09, 3pm

Entering the Landscape
Pia Arke (1958-2007 Greenland and Denmark) • Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory (Iqaluit) • Jaime Black (Winnipeg) • Lori Blondeau (Saskatoon) • A.K. Burns (New York) • The Ephemerals (Winnipeg) • Melissa General (Toronto) • Rebecca Horn (Berlin) • Katherine Hubbard (New York, USA) • Maria Hupfield (New York) • Simone Jones (Toronto) • Tau Lewis (Toronto) • Amy Malbeuf (Rich Lake Alberta) • Meryl McMaster (Ottawa) • Ana Mendieta (Cuba) • Natalie Purschwitz (Vancouver) • Dominique Rey (Winnipeg), • Jamie Ross (Montreal) • Xaviera Simmons (New York) • Ming Wong (Berlin) • Alize Zorlutuna (Toronto)
Entering the Landscape
October 1 to December 31, 2017
Respondent Series talk with Lori Blondeau | Thursday, November 16, 7pm
Premier of After Birth, 2017 by The Ephemerals, discussion moderated by Jenifer Papararo | Thursday, November 23, 7pm
Entering the Landscape, a contemplative group exhibition featuring twenty-one artists from Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Berlin. Working in film and video, photography, sculpture, and performance these artists represent a breadth of politicized contemporary and iconic historical works that place the female or queer body in the landscape. Bringing together artworks that conceptually and aesthetically overlap, this exhibition identifies and considers a persistent motif in contemporary art.
– Curated by Jenifer Papararo and Sarah Nesbitt

Related exhibit:
Entering the Landscape

Respondent Series | A Talk with Sherry Farrell Racette | From Colonialism to Visual Sovereignty: Indigenous Bodies and the Camera
2017-10-17 19:00 - 21:00
In response to our current exhibition Entering the Landscape, on Tuesday, October 17th at 7pm, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents “From Colonialism to Visual Sovereignty: Indigenous Bodies and the Camera” by beloved scholar, artist and educator, Sherry Farrell Racette as part of our Respondent Series.
Considering the extensive representation of Indigenous women employing video or photography in Entering the Landscape, Racette will contextualize the impact of these technologies historically and their contemporary uses. She will speak to the fraught history of visual representation as an early tool of colonization, with particular focus on lens-based media. Recognizing its contemporary use as an apparatus of resistance and reclamation, Racette will trace a trajectory that sees a transition from the camera as a colonial instrument used to fetishize, and sexualize Indigenous peoples, to its empowered use by Indigenous women beginning in the mid-twentieth century. Coming full circle, Racette posits the camera as “now enable[ing] powerful acts of the imaginary to affirm our stories, reclaim our sovereign bodies and assert our enduring relationship to land”.
Sherry Farrell Racette is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist. As a researcher, educator, writer and artist, Racette’s influence on advancing Indigenous art histories in the Canadian context has been profound. She is interested in Indigenous understandings and uses of archival practices, material culture, and photography. In addition to authoring several books, Racette’s essays appear in numerous scholarly publications including, Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies (2016), The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada (2012), and Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism (2011). As an artist, Racette works in a range of media, with a particular affection for beading. In 2012, she notably collaborated with Urban Shaman Gallery to bring the traveling exhibition Walking with our Sisters, a community arts project honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women, to Winnipeg. In 2016-2017, she was the inaugural resident “Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow” at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto and is currently teaching at the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance at the University of Regina.

This talk is programmed in conjunction with Entering the Landscape (October 1 to December 31, 2017)
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 • Alize Zorlutuna

Entering the Landscape is a contemplative group exhibition featuring twenty-one artists from Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Berlin. Working in film and video, photography, sculpture, and performance these artists represent a breadth of politicized contemporary and iconic historical works that place the female or queer body in the landscape. Bringing together artworks that conceptually and aesthetically overlap, this exhibition identifies and considers a persistent motif in contemporary art.

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

ASSOCIATED PROGRAMMING
Clay Figure Building Workshop with Jaime Black | Monday, October 23, 5:30-8:30pm
Clay Figure Building Workshop with Jaime Black | Wednesday October 25, 5:30-8:30pm
Respondent Series talk with Lori Blondeau | Thursday, November 16, 7pm
Premier screening of After Birth, 2017 by The Ephermerals with discussion moderated by Jenifer Papararo | Thursday, November 23, 7pm
Guided tours | tournée guidée en français
Curatorial Tour with Sarah Nesbitt | Saturday, October 21, 3pm
Tournée guidée en française avec Janelle Tougas | samedi 28 Octobre, 15h
Curatorial Tour with Jenifer Papararo | Saturday, December 09, 3pm

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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/supportor by contacting Angela Forget: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by telephone at (204) 942-1043.

Related exhibit:
Entering the Landscape

Entering the Landscape Panel Discussion
2017-09-30 13:00 - 15:00
Pia Arke (1958-2007 Greenland and Denmark) • Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory (Iqaluit) • Jaime Black (Winnipeg) • Lori Blondeau (Saskatoon) • A.K. Burns (New York) • The Ephemerals (Winnipeg) • Melissa General (Toronto) • Rebecca Horn (Berlin) • Katherine Hubbard (New York, USA) • Maria Hupfield (New York) • Simone Jones (Toronto) • Tau Lewis (Toronto) • Amy Malbeuf (Rich Lake Alberta) • Meryl McMaster (Ottawa) • Ana Mendieta (Cuba) • Natalie Purschwitz (Vancouver) • Dominique Rey (Winnipeg), • Jamie Ross (Montreal) • Xaviera Simmons (New York) • Ming Wong (Berlin) • Alize Zorlutuna (Toronto)
Entering the Landscape
October 1 to December 31, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday September 30 | 8pm to 1am
Panel Discussion: Saturday september 30 | 1pm to 3pm
In conjunction with the opening events for our fall exhibition Entering the Landscape, we will host a panel discussion on Saturday, September 30 at 1pm. Artists Jaime Black, Tau Lewis, Jamie Ross, Dominique Rey and Xaviera Simmons will present a short introduction to their work, followed by a brief discussion moderated by Curators Jenifer Papararo and Sarah Nesbitt.
For more information about the exhibition:
https://plugin.org/exhibitions/2017/entering-landscape

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

Related exhibit:
Entering the Landscape

A.K. Burns: A Slow Rearrangement of Desires
2017-09-25 19:00 - 21:00
September 25, 2017 – 7pm
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art

In anticipation of our fall exhibition Entering the Landscape, opening on September 30th, 2017, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is extremely pleased to present an artist talk with Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist and educator, A.K. Burns.
On Monday, September 25th at 7pm, Burns will speak about her current project, Negative Space. For her talk titled ‘A Slow Rearrangement of Desires’ Burns will unravel the links between her recent body of work and camping in Utah, new materialism, access to resources and disdain for speed and newness, the current political apocalypse, collaboration, and previous projects. This interweaving of land and body follows many of the same lines of inquiry as Leave No Trace, the sound and text-based installation that Burns will present as her contribution to Entering the Landscape.

A. K. Burns uses video, sculpture and installation to querie the socio-political constructs that give form and meaning to contemporary notions of the body. Her current project, Negative Space is a cycle of five video installations that take speculative fiction as a point of departure. Burns is a prolific artist, respected thinker and educator and was recently selected as the artist in residence at the New Museum (spring 2017). Her work has been exhibited internationally with shows at the New Museum, NY; the Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Sculpture Center, NY; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. Burns was a 2016-17 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and a recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital Foundation Visual Arts Award. Burns currently teaches at Hunter College Graduate Department of Art & Art History, and in the Sculpture Department at NYU Steinhardt.

This talk is programmed in conjunction with Entering the Landscape
(October 1 to December 31, 2017)
Opening Reception: Saturday September 30 | 8pm to 1am
Panel Discussion: Saturday september 30 | 1pm to 3pm

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 • Alize Zorlutuna

Entering the Landscape is a contemplative group exhibition featuring twenty-one artists from Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Berlin. Working in film and video, photography, sculpture, and performance these artists represent a breadth of politicized contemporary and iconic historical works that place the female or queer body in the landscape. Bringing together artworks that conceptually and aesthetically overlap, this exhibition identifies and considers a persistent motif in contemporary art.

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.orgor by telephone at (204) 942-1043.

Related exhibit:
Entering the Landscape

Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth - Screening and Discussion [STAGES: Drawing the Curtain]
2017-09-20 19:00 - 20:30
Reception: 7-8pm; Screening and discussion: 8-8:30pm.

On Wednesday, September 20, from 7-10pm, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art will present a short screening and panel with the participants of our third session of Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth program (IIY). For this screening IIY participants Briand Assogbague, Jand Avila, Tuva Bergstrom, Renier Dumadag, Niko Lapierre, Bernal Delos Santos, Joel Jae Serrano, as well as our youth mentor, Giddeon Kitsa will present a short interpretive video produced by them in collaboration with Plug In ICA, Just TV and the Broadway Neighborhood Center. The resulting video is a visual reflection of the youth’s collective and individual experience of the offsite public art exhibition STAGES: Drawing the Curtain featuring nine artists from England, Scotland, Norway, Costa Rica and across Canada, including: Abbas Akhavan (Toronto), Pablo Bronstein (London, UK, Erica Eyres (Glasgow), Toril Johannessen (Tromsø, Norway), Kara Hamilton (Toronto), Federico Herrero (San José, Costa Rica), Divya Mehra (Winnipeg), Krista Belle Stewart (Vancouver), Ron Tran (Vancouver). For this iteration, participants had the opportunity to experience the works in-situ, attend performances, and speak directly with several of the artists about their process and intentions.
The evening will commence with a casual reception from 7-8pm, followed by a screening and panel discussion with IIY participants moderated by Sarah Nesbitt. This will take place from 8-8:30pm. Everyone welcome!
Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth is designed for youth ages 16 to 24. The program reverses a pre-existing interpretive model used within arts institutions that often produce short videos as educational devices. These often include interviews with artists or curators, images of artworks and installation shots; they often reference artists’ biographies, previous artworks, and at times, glimpse into artists’ studios. These videos are usually presented online or within the gallery or museum in close proximity to the artworks, and tend to place an emphasis on the artist’s and institution’s intention over the experience of the viewer.
The “Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth” program inversely begins with the youth’s experience of the artwork, challenging conventional models of art interpretation by overturning basic roles of authority and authorship.
The next session will begin in January 2018, looking at Skeena Reece’s solo exhibition Sweetgrass and Honey. To apply to the IIY program, or for more information about this and other education programs, please contact Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org. For general information please contact:info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043.

This program is sponsored in part by Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance. We thank Just TV for their dedicated and expert partnership.
Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. You make a difference.
We gratefully acknowledge the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org

Related exhibit:
STAGES: Drawing the Curtain

STAGES: Drawing the Curtain - Divya Mehra - Cruise Night
2017-09-03 21:00 - 22:00
STAGES: Drawing the Curtain • Cruise Night

September 3, 2017 – 9pm to 10pm

Flea Whiskey – 601 Erin St, Winnipeg, MB R3G 2W1

Join us on Sunday, September 3, 2017 from 9-10pm in the parking lot of Flea Whiskey pool hall (corner of Erin & Portage St.) to watch Divya Mehra’s work for STAGES: Drawing the Curtain – Nobody pray for me, the road to hell is paved with good intentions (Mapping Identity: The Challenges of Immigrant Culture) as it drives by on cruise night.
Bring a lawn chair, and a big gulp! Look for the Plug In van!

Related exhibit:
STAGES: Drawing the Curtain

Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth Summer Edition
2017-08-16 00:00 - 2017-09-20 00:00
Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth
August 16 to September 20, 2017
Plug In ICA – 460 Portage Avenue • Just TV @ The Broadway Neighbourhood Centre – 185 Young Street • Public locations in Winnipeg

Beginning on August 16th, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art will offer the third edition of “Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth.” The central premise of this program is to create a platform for youth to be introduced and exposed to contemporary art, artists, curators and art educators while developing skills related to art education, communications, journalism and videography. A second function of the program is to introduce the contemporary art milieu to the perspectives and interpretive modes of Youth. For this session the youth will be present at all stages of the exhibition from installation to opening, with opportunities to meet and interview the artists and staff.
Designed for youth ages 16 to 24. The program reverses a pre-existing interpretive model used within arts institutions who often produce short videos as educational devices. These videos often include interviews with artists or curators, images of artworks and installation shots; they often reference artists’ biographies, previous artworks, and at times, glimpse into artists’ studios. These videos are usually presented online or within the gallery or museum in close proximity to the artworks, and tend to place an emphasis on the artist’s and institution’s intention over the experience of the viewer.
The “Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth” program inversely begins with the youth’s experience of the artwork, challenging conventional models of art interpretation by overturning basic roles of authority and authorship. In partnership with Just TV, groups of 4-6 youth work in collaboration to produce a short video that will speak about their experience and interpretations of the artwork presented at Plug In ICA. This session will look at the exhibition Stages: Drawing the Curtain and will run for 5 weeks (10 sessions) each Wednesday and Saturday. For the summer session we will have some flexibility in terms of days/times to accommodate travel plans, etc.
For examples of video’s produced previously see: https://vimeo.com/218706778 & https://vimeo.com/210661133
For more information or to participate or to register as a participant, please fill out the registration form attatched and email it to sarah@plugin.org.
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art would like to thank Payworks, Wawanesa Mutual Insurance and RBC Foundation for the support of these Learning programs.

Related exhibit:
STAGES: Drawing the Curtain

File Download:
Interpreting Youth Registration Form

Open Studio for Wendy Book Club
2017-08-03 16:00 - 19:00
On Thursday, August 3, 2017 from 4-8pm, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art hosts one day of open studios in celebration of the productive Wendy Book Club, the second session of our Summer Institute research program facilitated by beloved artist, writer and performer, Walter Scott and diversely talented curator and artist Niki Little. For this event we have the honor of presenting work in process from fourteen thoughtful participants who have come from a range of disciplines, backgrounds and locations within Canada to study for three weeks under the careful guidance of Scott and Little.
Using Scott’s graphic novels, Wendy, 2014and Wendy’s Revenge, 2016 as a point of departure participants have engaged in activities reflective of the concerns of their fictional characters including yoga and astrological readings while thinking through satire as a strategy for self-reflection and cultural critique, marginalized narratives, and the subjectivities of artist, queer, non-artist, Indigenous, etc. Through a series of workshops with Scott and invited guests Maya Ben David, Becca Taylor, and Tau Lewis; an Indigenous art focused bike tour with Little, and public discussions, participants have been engaged in critical dialogue informing previously existing bodies of work and spurring new ones.
Join us for this opportunity to extend discussions, which have been incubating within the Institute, and conclude this wonderful three weeks of immersion. Some screenings and participant projects will run continuously through the duration of the evening, which begins at 4pm. A short program of performances will begin at 7pm concluding the evenings program. Cash bar will be open, everyone is welcome.
Participants of the Wendy Book Club Summer Institute, Session II with Walter Scott and Niki Little:
Joi T. Arcand • Alex Ateah • Madeline Bogoch • Viola Chen 陈宜晴 • Kristiane Church • Kelly Campbell • Dayna Danger • Jillian Groening • Whess Harman • Emma Mayer • Mariana Muñoz Gomez • Pooja Sen • Sarah Stewart • Tanis Worme
For More information on Scott and Little and the Summer Institute, Session II, see: https://plugin.org/node/1250
All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!
Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org
Related exhibit:
Walter Scott, Blinky Is Reading | June 12- September 04, 2017

Magic In Limitation • Artist Talk with Tau Lewis
2017-08-02 19:00 - 20:30
Self-taught artist Tau Lewis constructs sculptural portraits using found materials and objects sourced from urban and rural landscapes. She connects these acts of repurposing and collecting with diasporic experience and Black bodies. Her portraits are recuperative gestures that counter persistent tendencies to erase or peripheralize Black artists and narratives within Canadian art and history.
On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 7pm, Lewis will give an artist talk titled “Magic in Limitation” presented in conjunction with Wendy Book Club – session two of our 2017 Summer Institute research program, lead by Walter Scott and Niki Little.
Interested in the generative nature of thinking creatively about the material and financial realities of producing work, Lewis has found new freedom and possibility in using only materials she can source for free – scraps, found objects or leftovers. Working from this premise, that magic can be found in limitation, Lewis will introduce Winnipeg to her practice drawing out the connections between her material choices and the thematic concerns of her work such as: Black identity, adaptation and survival; identity politics; diasporic bodies and the environment; and self preservation and healing.
In addition to participating in the Wendy Book Club, Lewis’s work will be exhibited at Plug In ICA for the fall exhibition, Entering the Landscape opening September 30, 2017.
Tau Lewis is a Jamaican-Canadian artist living and working in Toronto, Ontario. A self-taught sculptor, Lewis combines natural and synthetic materials to create simulations of living things with careful consideration of the history and symbolism of her materials. Lewis has exhibited in Canada and the USA at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the New Museum, New York, and Night Gallery, Los Angeles. She has received support from Toronto Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council. Recent and forthcoming exhibition sites include: Oakville Galleries, COOPER COLE, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, and Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada.

Upcoming Wendy Book Club Programming:
Thursday, August 2, 2017 | 7pm
Summer Institute Open Studios
All our programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

The Summer Institute is an international post-graduate research program for professional artists working in all disciplines and media. In 2017 Plug In ICA hosts two sessions of the Institute, both emphasizing writing as an expanded field incorporating elements of critical confession, reflection and artistry. For the second session, July 17 to August 4, participants work with writer, artist and editor, Walter Scott and artist and curator, Niki Little with special guests Tau Lewis, Becca Taylor, and Maya Ben David.
Each session invites participants who wish to work independently or collaboratively based on their own interests and projects and includes opportunities to work in a peer-to-peer environment through group activities planned during the session. A number of guest artists, curators and theorists will visit the Summer Institute for lectures and studio visits.

The participants in the Wendy Book Club, Summer Institute Session II include:
Joi T. Arcand • Alex Ateah • Madeline Bogoch • Viola Chen 陈宜晴 • Kristiane Church • Kelly Campbell • Dayna Danger • Jillian Groening • Whess Harman • Emma Mayer • Mariana Muñoz Gomez • Pooja Sen • Sarah Stewart • Tanis Worme
For More information on the Wendy Book Club Summer Institute, Session II, see: https://plugin.org/node/1250

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org

Related exhibit:
Walter Scott, Blinky Is Reading | June 12- September 04, 2017

Curator talk by Becca Taylor of Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective
2017-07-31 10:00 - 11:30
Ociciwan is an inanimate Plains Cree noun relating to currents and rivers, translated to mean, “The current comes from there”. For Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, the incorporation of this noun into their name explicitly references the North Saskatchewan River – an important passageway that transported people, ideas and materials to Edmonton from the west. The multiplicity of meaning connoted by the term conveys an energetic engagement with Indigenous contemporary culture as that which is simultaneously grounded in the past while projecting into the future.
Edmonton-based Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective has quickly gained recognition in Canada, launching their curatorial debut with Scene Report, with Wendy by Walter Scott in September of 2015. A collective with five core members and two program coordinators, they have commissioned public artworks, curated exhibitions in museums and galleries, facilitated a youth program, and hosted a writing workshop. Most recently Ociciwan collaborated with Postcommodity and Alex Waterman to create in memoriam, an ambitious project that “investigat(es) the connections between musical forms and constructs of historicization…whom and how we memorialize individuals and inscribe their legacies.”
On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 10am, artist and curator Becca Taylor will give a curatorial talk on behalf of Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, programmed in conjunction with Wendy Book Club – session two of our 2017 Summer Institute research program, lead by Walter Scott and Niki Little. As a core member of the collective, Taylor will speak specifically about their mandate to support Indigenous contemporary art which includes advocating for innovative and experimental creative practices, youth outreach and research. Taylor will survey the collective’s work to date, reflecting on the curatorial process including the role of collaboration and partnership building; and the experience of working in a vast array of spaces ranging from art galleries to libraries to City Hall; in an architecture firm, and on a billboard.
Becca Taylor is a multi-disciplinary artist, youth worker and independent curator of Cree, Scottish and Irish descent. Her practice involves investigations of Indigenous community building and Indigenous feminisms through various media including video, text and installation. In 2015, Taylor was the Aboriginal Curator-in-residence at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art gallery, awarded through the Canada Council for the Arts. As part of her residency she curated Traces in the summer of 2017. Taylor just recently completed the Indigenous Curatorial Research Practicum at the Banff Centre, where she curated A light left on in 2016.
This talk is programmed in conjunction with Session II of our Summer Institute research program, Wendy Book Club, co-facilitated by Walter Scott and Niki Little. Everyone welcome!
Upcoming public programming for Wendy Book Club includes:
Wednesday, August 2 | 7pm
Artist talk with Tau Lewis
Thursday, August 3 | TBD
Open Studio

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!
The Summer Institute is an international post-graduate research program for professional artists working in all disciplines and media. In 2017 Plug In ICA hosts two sessions of the Institute, both emphasizing writing as an expanded field incorporating elements of critical confession, reflection and artistry. For the second session, July 17 to August 4, participants work with writer, artist and editor, Walter Scott and artist and curator, Niki Little with special guests Tau Lewis, Becca Taylor, and Maya Ben David.
Each session invites participants who wish to work independently or collaboratively based on their own interests and projects and includes opportunities to work in a peer-to-peer environment through group activities planned during the session. A number of guest artists, curators and theorists will visit the Summer Institute for lectures and studio visits.
The participants in the Wendy Book Club, Summer Institute Session II include:
Joi T. Arcand • Alex Ateah • Madeline Bogoch • Viola Chen 陈宜晴 • Kristiane Church • Kelly Campbell • Dayna Danger • Jillian Groening • Whess Harman • Emma Mayer • Mariana Muñoz Gomez • Pooja Sen • Sarah Stewart • Tanis Worme
For More information on the Wendy Book Club Summer Institute, Session II, see: https://plugin.org/node/1250
Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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/supportor by contacting Angela Forget: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org

Related exhibit:
Walter Scott, Blinky Is Reading | June 12- September 04, 2017

Coming of age as a 'fake nerd' • Artist Talk with Maya Ben David
2017-07-25 19:00 - 20:30
Maya Ben David embodies characters and anthropomorphizes inanimate objects, such as airplanes and other machines. She constructs and interacts with alternate universes, largely through the Interne and videos, but also live performance. Negotiating this online presence within her art practice, Ben David reflexively addresses the complex commingling of agency and misogyny online platforms engender.
On Tuesday, July 25th at 7pm, Ben David will present a public artist talk and screening, marking the second public presentation programmed in conjunction with Wendy Book Club – session two of our 2017 Summer Institute research program, lead by Walter Scott and Niki Little. Ben David will familiarize Winnipeg with her practice, emphasizing the underpinnings of her work with personas and character development, addressing the limitations and freedoms of persona performativity on the Internet. She will introduce and expand on the concept of vore – “the desire to consume or be consumed by a fictional character”- as a tool for coping with anxiety. In drawing out the complexity of this social practice, Ben David will deconstruct the underlying misogynist culture present in many online forums such as 9gag, Reddit and furry/anthro fandoms — with specific interest in the “fake nerd girl”, a term used to delegitimize women’s claim to “nerd content”.
As part of this unique performative presentation, Ben David will also screen a recent short film titled Anthro Baseball (2017).
Maya Ben David (MBD) is a Toronto based video performance Jewish-Iranian Anthro Plane. Ben David creates worlds and characters that explore concepts such as anthropomorphism, cosplay and performative personas. Ben David’s characters origin stories are established via video performance and are performed continuously through her online presence. Her characters inhabit alternate universes but also interact with each other and already established nostalgic universes such as Pokemon and Spider-Man. In addition to this, Ben David is also a character know as “MBD” who feuds with the many manifestations of herself and the art world. Most infamously, MBD is known for inciting online feuds with other artists such as Jon Rafman and Ajay Kurian. Ben David received her BFA from the University of Guelph, studied abroad at Hochschule für Künste Bremen, University of the Arts Bremen, Germany, and at Nanjing University of the Arts in Nanjing China. She has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in Canada, the USA and Europe. This talk and screening is programmed in conjunction with Session II of our Summer Institute research program, Wendy Book Club, co-facilitated by Walter Scott and Niki Little. The talk will be followed by a small reception and the chance to mingle with Summer Institute participants and faculty. Cash bar will be open. Everyone welcome!
Other public programming for Wendy Book Club includes:
Monday, July 31 | 10am
Curatorial talk with Becca Taylor
Wednesday, August 2 | 7pm
Artist talk with Tau Lewis
Friday, August 4 | TBD
Open Studio

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

The Summer Institute is an international post-graduate research program for professional artists working in all disciplines and media. In 2017 Plug In ICA hosts two sessions of the Institute, both emphasizing writing as an expanded field incorporating elements of critical confession, reflection and artistry. For the second session, July 17 to August 4, participants work with writer, artist and editor, Walter Scott and artist and curator, Niki Little with special guests Tau Lewis, Becca Taylor, and Maya Ben David.
Each session invites participants who wish to work independently or collaboratively based on their own interests and projects and includes opportunities to work in a peer-to-peer environment through group activities planned during the session. A number of guest artists, curators and theorists will visit the Summer Institute for lectures and studio visits.
The participants in the Wendy Book Club, Summer Institute Session II include:
Joi T. Arcand • Alex Ateah • Madeline Bogoch • Viola Chen 陈宜晴 • Kristiane Church • Kelly Campbell • Dayna Danger • Jillian Groening • Whess Harman • Emma Mayer • Mariana Muñoz Gomez • Pooja Sen • Sarah Stewart • Tanis Worme
For More information on the Wendy Book Club Summer Institute, Session II, see: https://plugin.org/node/1250

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org

Related exhibit:
Walter Scott, Blinky Is Reading | June 12- September 04, 2017

Walter Scott • Wendy’s Revenge Performance with Niki Little
2017-07-21 19:00 - 20:30
*Watch the video of the performance here!

Launching our public programming for Wendy Book Club, the second session of our 2017 Summer Institute, Walter Scott will perform Wendy’s Revenge on Friday, July 21 at 7pm. For this presentation, Scott will introduce Winnipeg to Xendy, an alter ego of Wendy. Wendy is the central character in Scott’s graphic novels, sculptures, drawings and Blinky Is Reading, the installation currently occupying the span of windows that make up Plug In ICA’s street front gallery.
In a series of serious and satirical gestures Xendy embarks on a mystical intergalactic journey. In her misadventures, she travels through space and encounters psychedelic landscapes where she meets curators and takes nefarious advice from naturopaths as she struggles to find a cure for the mysterious abdominal pain that ails her.
Wendy’s Revenge is a two-person performance featuring voice, image and sound. This performance lecture style was developed by Scott as a way to address the format of the artist talk. For this iteration, Niki Little will co-present with Scott.
This special presentation is programmed in conjunction with Session II of our Summer Institute research program, Wendy Book Club, co-facilitated by Scott and Little. The performance will be followed by a small reception and the chance to mingle with Summer Institute participants and faculty. Cash bar will be open. Everyone welcome!
Other public programming for Wendy Book Club includes:
Tuesday, July 25 | 7pm Artist talk with Maya Ben David
Monday, July 31 | 10am Curatorial talk with Becca Taylor
Wednesday, August 2 | 7pm Artist talk with Tau Lewis
Friday, August 4 | TBD Open Studio

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

The Summer Institute is an international post-graduate research program for professional artists working in all disciplines and media. In 2017 Plug In ICA hosts two sessions of the Institute, both emphasizing writing as an expanded field incorporating elements of critical confession, reflection and artistry. For the second session, July 17 to August 4, participants work with writer, artist and editor, Walter Scott and artist and curator, Niki Little with special guests Tau Lewis, Becca Taylor, and Maya Ben David.
Each session invites participants who wish to work independently or collaboratively based on their own interests and projects and includes opportunities to work in a peer-to-peer environment through group activities planned during the session. A number of guest artists, curators and theorists will visit the Summer Institute for lectures and studio visits.
The participants in the Wendy Book Club, Summer Institute Session II include:
Joi T. Arcand • Alex Ateah • Madeline Bogoch • Viola Chen 陈宜晴 • Kristiane Church • Kelly Campbell • Dayna Danger • Jillian Groening • Whess Harman • Emma Mayer • Mariana Muñoz Gomez • Pooja Sen • Sarah Stewart • Tanis Worme
For More information on the Wendy Book Club Summer Institute, Session II, including faculty and participant bios see: https://plugin.org/node/1250

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org

Related exhibit:
Walter Scott, Blinky Is Reading | June 12- September 04, 2017

Summer Institute II: Wendy Book Club with Walter Scott & Niki Little | Public Events
2017-07-14 10:00 - 2017-08-04 16:00
For the July 2017 session of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s Summer Institute, Walter Scott and Niki Little co-facilitate the Wendy Book Club from July 14 to August 4, 2017. Taking Wendy (2014) and Wendy’s Revenge (2016) as their point of departure, they will use these texts to investigate satire as a strategy for self-reflection and cultural critique, marginalized narratives, and the subjectivities of artist, queer, non-artist, Indigenous, etc. Perceptions of the public and private world of the artist and representations of the art world will be discussed and “dispelled” through Wendy’s perspective.
While moving conceptually through the books, participants will also engage in a constellation of activities reflective of the concerns of their fictional characters. This may take the form of yoga, meditation exercises, and the exploration of esoteric practices such as tarot reading. Throughout the three weeks, “The Wendy Book Club” will take up the specific formal elements that comprise the graphic novel, expanding knowledge about comics and comic making. Scott and Little will additionally invite guest artists, and speakers with specific Indigenous-related knowledge, while also allowing ample studio time to reflect on the understandings generated as a group.

Public events:

Friday, July 21 | 7pm
Wendy’s Revenge Performance by Walter Scott
Tuesday, July 25 | 7pm
Coming of Age as a “Fake Nerd”
Artist talk with Maya Ben David
Monday, July 31 | 10am
Curatorial talk with Becca Taylor
Wednesday, August 2 | 7pm
Artist talk with Tau Lewis
*More info to come
Thursday, August 3 |4-8pm
Open Studio
*More info to come

For more information, including participant bios see: https://plugin.org/node/1250

Related exhibit:
Walter Scott, Blinky Is Reading | June 12- September 04, 2017

Open Studio for Summer Institute Session I with Chris Kraus
2017-06-29 16:00 - 21:00
Doors open at 4pm • Screening of
Gravity and Grace, 1996 at 4:30pm • Performances at 7pm
Participants of the Summer Institute, Session I with Chris Kraus:
Kristina Banera • Fabiola Carranza • Maegan Hill-Carroll • Daniel Colussi • Roewan Crowe • Erica Eryes • Esmé Hogeveen • Letch Kinloch• Soyoung Kwon • Chloë Lum • Kegan McFadden • Ralph Pritchard • Jasmine Reimer • Jacquelyn Ross • Faith Wilson.
This Thursday, June 29th, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art hosts one day of open studios and a wrap party in celebration of the thoughtful work produced by the first session of our Summer Institute research program, facilitated by the unparalleled writer, critic, artist and publisher, Chris Kraus. For this event we have the honor of presenting work in process from fifteen talented participants who have come from a vast range of disciplines, backgrounds and geographical locations to study for three weeks under the careful guidance of Kraus. In addition to presenting the work of such an exciting roster of writers and artists, we are happy to announce that we will be screening Gravity and Grace, 1996, an experimental film by Kraus. Screening at 4:30pm.
Engaged in regular writing workshops with Kraus and invited guests Robert Dewhurst and Natasha Stagg, film screenings and public discussions, participants have been engaged in critical dialogue informing previously existing bodies of work, or spurring new ones. Join us for this opportunity to extend discussions, which have been incubating within the Institute, and conclude this wonderful three weeks of immersion. Some screenings and participant projects will run continuously through the duration of the evening, which begins at 4pm. Screening of Gravity and Grace will happen at 4:30pm. A short program of performances and readings will begin at 7pm on the rooftop patio, and a chapbook produced by the participants will be available for sale while supplies last.
For More information on Chris Kraus and the Summer Institute, Session I, see: https://plugin.org/node/1248

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org

Stages Speaker Series: Artist Talk with Erica Eyres
2017-06-27 19:00 - 21:00
Former Globe Cinema, 3rd floor, Portage Place Shopping Centre, 393 Portage Ave, Winnipeg
Plug In ICA is pleased to present a talk by Glasgow based artist Erica Eyres, who is the 8th speaker in our 2017 Stages Speaker Series. This series is held off-site at the former Globe Cinema in Portage Place Mall, Winnipeg.
Erica Eyres’ artistic production is defined by an admirable proficiency in a range of media including drawing, film, and most recently ceramics. Thwarting her refined skills, she embraces awkwardness and humour that has a lo-fi aesthetic. Autbiography is often the subject of her work, which she obscures through costuming, narration and role reversals. She is influenced by the social and artistic milieu of Winnipeg, where Eyres was born and regularly returns to from her current home in Glasgow.
Eyres mines visual references from the surrealism of daily life and the aesthetic of TV, Eyres is interested in failure, and misaligned characters. Her drawings often play on sexuality and fantasy that is always slightly unsettled. In a similar mode her work with ceramics draws on everyday objects such as candles, insects, food or body parts, which operate as stand-alone objects that are decontextualized or estranged. Eyres graduated with an MFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2004. She has had solo exhibitions at CCA, Glasgow and the Kunsthaus, Erfurt, with selected group exhibitions including PS1, New York; Plug In ICA, Winnipeg; and The Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland. Recent exhibitions include The Vegetable Store, part of Glasgow International 2016; Holidays in the Future, at Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Winnipeg (2015); and Biography Channel, ASC Gallery, London (2014). Upcoming projects include a solo exhibition at Queen’s Park Railway Club, Glasgow (2017). She is currently doing her PhD in Fine Art at Northumbria University.
This artist talk with Erica Eyres is part of Stages Speaker Series, which is offered in anticipation of Stages: Drawing the Curtain, a constellation of temporary public artworks to be launched in August 2017. This large-scale public art project asks artists to locate a site within the city of Winnipeg from which to contemplate the stage – its function as a platform; its meaning as a point of attention; and its physical design. Directed by their individual interests and material preferences, the artists will build sculptural ‘stages’ ranging in shape and form, connected as platforms for audiences to occupy, physically engage with and contemplate.
In keeping with the drive of Stages to bring art beyond our walls, all talks for Stages Speaker Series will be held at an off-site location. This presentation will be held at the former Globe Cinema, 3rd floor, Portage Place Shopping Centre, 393 Portage Ave, Winnipeg.
*Artists for Stages: Drawing the Curtain include: Abbas Akhavan (Toronto), Pablo Bronstein (London, UK), Erica Eyres (Glasgow, UK/ Winnipeg), Kara Hamilton (Toronto), Federico Herrero (San José, Costa Rica), Toril Johannessen (Tromsø, Norway), Divya Mehra (Winnipeg), Krista Belle Stewart (Vancouver) and Ron Tran (Vancouver).
**A selection of the Stages Speaker Series presentations are now online at https://plugin.org/videos
Stages Speaker Series and Stages: Drawing the Curtain are made possible through the Canada Council for the Arts New Chapter Program.
Our community partners include Alliance Française Manitoba, Alpha Masonry, Alt Hotel, Cityplace Mall (Triovest), CKUW, Edison Properties, Fillip, Portage Place Shopping Centre, Urbanink and Winnipeg Tourism.

Related exhibit:
STAGES: Drawing the Curtain

Co-presented by Also As Well Too and Plug In ICA’s Summer Institute: News from Afar by Jeanne Randolph
2017-06-26 14:00 - 15:00
Also As Well Too, in partnership with Plug In ICA’s Summer Institute, are tickled to present “News from Afar” by Jeanne Randolph as the next engagement in the response series There’s Something I Want to Tell You.
Jeanne Randolph will present a slide lecture on the topic of topics. Not the mother of all topics — it is just that topics can be a topic. Randolph guarantees that she will not channel Gertrude Stein, nor will she lapse into improvised nonsense. Nor has she rehearsed or presented or written any on this topic (of topics) before. Randolph is under the impression that topics need self-conscious (you and Jeanne, not the topics themselves) reflection.
Jeanne Randolph has been writing and performing for Canadian contemporary visual arts since 1980. Five books of her collected writings have been published since 1991. Her fourth book Ethics of Luxury: materialism and imagination[2007] and her latest book Shopping Cart Pantheism[2015] addressed consumerist visual culture. Images in Randolph’s books and writings are often selected from a massive collection of photographs she has taken. She has been awarded many national and provincial grants, as well as facilitated numerous art residencies.

This is programed in relation to Also As Too Well’s public program and is presented within the frame of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s Summer Institute, an international post-graduate research program for professional artists working in all disciplines and media. In 2017 Plug In ICA hosts two sessions of the Institute, both emphasizing writing as an expanded field incorporating elements of critical confession, reflection and artistry. For the first session, June 13-June 29, 2017, participants will work with renowned writer, artist and editor, Chris Kraus with guests Natasha Stagg and Robert Dewhurst.
The participants in the Summer Institute, Session I include:
Kristina Banera • Fabiola Carranza • Maegan Hill-Carroll • Daniel Colussi • Roewan Crowe • Erica Eyres • Esmé Hogeveen • Letch Kinloch• Sooyoung Kwon • Chloë Lum • Kegan McFadden • Ralph Pritchard • Jasmine Reimer • Jacquelyn Ross • Faith Wilson.
For More information on Chris Kraus and the Summer Institute, Session I, see: https://plugin.org/node/1248

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org

Public Reading with Chris Kraus
2017-06-21 19:00 - 20:30
With abundant enthusiasm Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents a public reading with the unparalleled writer, publisher, editor and artist, Chris Kraus. Her proliﬁc and accumulated work has had a lasting inﬂuence on how art is perceived and discussed.
This public reading is programmed in conjunction the first session of our 2017 Summer Institute for which Kraus is the lead faculty. For her presentation, Kraus will read from After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography. Kraus previously presented from this text at Plug In ICA in 2015 when it was still a work-in-progress, and now offers a privileged preview of the writing in its final stages, before it becomes available to the public on August 25th, 2017.
As novelist and critic, Kraus is recognized for her lucid, playful and provoking ﬁrst-person ﬁction narratives, which frequently blur theory, ﬁction, autobiography, and criticism. In her writing on contemporary art, she has explored boredom, poetry, privatized prisons, community art, corporate philanthropy, vertically integrated manufacturing, and discarded utopias, revealing the surprising persistence of micro-cultures.
Chris Kraus’ publications, praised for their intelligence, vulnerability and voracity, include: I Love Dick, Torpor, Aliens and Anorexia, Summer of Hate, Where Art Belongs, Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, and Kelly Lake Store. Her monograph, “Lost Properties,” was written as part of Semiotexte’s pamphlet series for the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Kraus is the co-director of the acclaimed press Semiotext(e), where in 1990 she launched the imprint Native Agents, which introduced radical forms of writing by women writers. Native Agents has published the work of inﬂuential writers such as Penny Arcade, Fanny Howe, Ann Rower and Eileen Myles. She teaches in the Media Studies program at the European Graduate School.

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

This is programed in relation to the Summer Institute, an international post-graduate research program for professional artists working in all disciplines and media. In 2017 Plug In ICA hosts two sessions of the Institute, both emphasizing writing as an expanded field incorporating elements of critical confession, reflection and artistry. For the first session, June 13-June 29, 2017, participants will work with renowned writer, artist and editor, Chris Kraus with guests Natasha Stagg and Robert Dewhurst.
The participants in the Summer Institute, Session I include:
Kristina Banera • Fabiola Carranza • Maegan Hill-Carroll • Daniel Colussi • Roewan Crowe • Erica Eryes • Esmé Hogeveen • Letch Kinloch• Soyoung Kwon • Chloë Lum • Kegan McFadden • Ralph Pritchard • Jasmine Reimer • Jacquelyn Ross • Faith Wilson.
For More information on Chris Kraus and the Summer Institute, Session I, see: https://plugin.org/node/1248

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org
For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org

Screening of Green Fog, 2017 | Directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson
2017-06-20 19:00 - 21:30
On Tuesday, June 20th, 2017 Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present a special screening of Green Fog, directed by Winnipeg cult favorite, Guy Maddin in collaboration with directors Even Johnson and Galen Johnson.
Green Fog, 2017is an adaptation/remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO, created entirely from previously shot footage repurposed from 96 Hollywood studio films shot on location in San Francisco over the last century. The film was commissioned from the San Francisco International Film Festival for its 60th anniversary and premiered in San Francisco on April 16th of this year. The presentation at Plug In ICA marks the films third screening internationally.
This special screening is programmed in conjunction with session one of our Summer Institute research program lead by Chris Kraus. The directors will be present at the screening and available for a question and answer period.

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome!

The Summer Institute is an international post-graduate research program for professional artists working in all disciplines and media. In 2017 Plug In ICA hosts two sessions of the Institute, both emphasizing writing as an expanded field incorporating elements of critical confession, reflection and artistry. For the first session, June 13-June 29, 2017, participants will work with renowned writer, artist and editor, Chris Kraus with guests Natasha Stagg and Robert Dewhurst.
Each session invites participants who wish to work independently or collaboratively based on their own interests and projects and includes opportunities to work in a peer-to-peer environment through group activities planned during the session. A number of guest artists, curators and theorists will visit the Summer Institute for lectures and studio visits.
The participants in the Summer Institute, Session I include:
Kristina Banera • Fabiola Carranza • Maegan Hill-Carroll • Daniel Colussi • Roewan Crowe • Erica Eryes • Esmé Hogeveen • Letch Kinloch• Soyoung Kwon • Chloë Lum • Kegan McFadden • Ralph Pritchard • Jasmine Reimer • Jacquelyn Ross • Faith Wilson.
For More information on Chris Kraus and the Summer Institute, Session I, see: https://plugin.org/node/1248

Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We thank the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their support of our 2016 and 2017 program, as well as Payworks and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs.
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: angela@plugin.org

For media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org
