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 […]

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 […]

*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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Interpreting  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 […]

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 […]

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 Youth program (IIY). For this screening IIY participants […]