With great enthusiasm Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is honoured to host the inimitable writer, critic and publisher Chris Kraus as principal faculty for Session I of our 2017 Summer Institute research program (June 13-29). For the inaugural public […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]