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SUMMARY:Bushed Theories: ReMatriation of Images and Performativity | Artist Talk by Jeneen Frei Njootli
DESCRIPTION:* Please note that due to unforseen circumstances\, there has been a time change. The talk is now at 2pm instead of 3pm. Sorry for the inconvenience.* \nThis Saturday\, April 1\, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents an artist talk by Jeneen Frei Njootli. As an emerging interdisciplinary artist Frei Njootli is known for her performative sound pieces\, sparse sculptural forms\, community engagement and material sensitivity. \nFor this talk\, she will introduce us to her practice and forthcoming project for LandMarks2017. She will speak to the consumption of the northern landscape\, Indigenous bodies\, and their labour in visual culture as an ongoing set of problematics and politics that her work engages with. \nFrei Njootli is an interdisciplinary artist of the Vuntut Gwitchin self-governing Nation\, whose home community is in Old Crow\, Yukon. Her practice takes a critical approach to the materials she uses\, which often reflect her investigations of the history of trade and intercultural exchange with a particular focus on “Bush Theory.” This term defines a way of navigating relationships to colonial power from a knowledge situated in the Arctic. Frei Njootli is co-creator of the ReMatriate Collective\, a community located primarily on social media dedicated to Indigenous womxn’s self-determination. Her advocacy in this field is evident throughout her practice\, unfolding in her work as a cultural tattoo practitioner and facilitator of skill sharing workshops. \nJeneen Frei Njootli received her BFA from Emily Carr University\, and is currently pursuing her MFA on unceded Musqueam territory at the University of British Columbia. Her work is gaining national recognition with exhibitions at the Macaulay & Co Fine Arts\, Vancouver; the Vancouver Art Gallery; Trinity Square Video\, Toronto; Art Mur\, Montreal; and the Ottawa Art Gallery. In 2016\, she won the William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists from the Hnatyshyn Foundation. She is currently featured in the exhibition wnoondwaamin: we hear them at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba\, Brandon where she will have a solo exhibition in September 2017. \nThis artist talk is presented in partnership with the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. \n\nPlug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors\, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle. \nWe 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. \nPlug 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 \n\nFor media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043 \nFor general information please contact: info@plugin.org. For media inquiries please contact Sarah Nesbitt: sarah@plugin.org.
URL:https://plugin.org/event/bushed-theories-rematriation-of-images-and-performativity-artist-talk-by-jeneen-frei-njootli/
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SUMMARY:Reminder | Call for Applications | Deadline Extended for Summer Institutes I. Chris Kraus (June) and II. Wendy Book Club | Walter Scott & Niki LIttle (July) | New Deadline: March 27\, 4pm
DESCRIPTION:Summer Institute I: June 13 – 29\, 2017 | Faculty: Chris Kraus with Natasha Stagg and Robert Dewhurst  \nSummer Institute II – The Wendy Book Club: July 14 – August 4\, 2017  | Faculty: Walter Scott and Niki Little \nPlug In Institute of Contemporary Art • 1-460 Portage Avenue\, Winnipeg\, Manitoba\, Canada • 204 942-1043 • info@plugin.org \nFor our 2017 editions of the Summer Institute\, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s post-graduate research program\, we announce two distinct opportunities. For three weeks in June\, participants will work with renowned writer\, artist and editor\, Chris Kraus with guests Natasha Staggand Robert Dewhurst. For the second session in July\, artist\, writer and performer\, Walter Scott and local curator and artist Niki Little will co-facilitate The Wendy Book Club. These two research-based programs take up writing as an expanded field incorporating elements of critical confession\, reflection and artistry. \n\nSummer Institute I: June 13 – 29\, 2017\nChris Kraus with special guests Natasha Stagg and Robert Dewhurst\nPlug In Institute of Contemporary Art is honoured to announce Chris Kraus as faculty for our June 2017 Summer Institute. Kraus\, a respected writer\, critic\, artist\, and editor\, has had lasting influence on how art is perceived and discussed. 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\, Kraus has explored boredom\, poetry\, privatized prisons\, community art\, corporate philanthropy\, vertically integrated manufacturing\, and discarded utopias\, revealing the surprising persistence of micro-cultures. \nFor this session of Summer Institute\, Kraus will lead a group of participants in a conversation grounded in writing that will range from everyone’s ongoing work to the city of Winnipeg. Activities will likely include the production of a short video\, a dance/movement class\, city walks and guest screenings and lectures. As a gathering of relative strangers\, the participants will produce individual work influenced by each other’s proximity. The workshop is open to visual artists of all kinds as well as writers\, critics and scholars. \nWriters Natasha Stagg and Robert Dewhurst will join the session. Natasha Stagg was the editor for V Magazine and has most notably published Surveys a novel with Semiotext(e) in March of 2016. She has written for Texte Zur Kunst\, Dis Magazine and Kaleidoscope. She received her MFA from the University of Arizona. Robert Dewhurst is currently based in Los Angles\, having received his PHd from SUNY Buffalo in English. He is a poet and the publisher of the chapbook imprint Scary Topiary Press and was the publisher of Wild Orchids Journal. \nChris 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. \n\nSummer Institute II: July 14 – August 4\, 2017\nThe Wendy Book Club\, with Walter Scott and Niki Little\nFor the July 2017 session of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s Summer Institute\, we are pleased to announce Walter Scott and Niki Little as co-faculty. Scott is an emerging artist\, performer\, writer and graphic novelist\, well-known for his beloved graphic novels Wendy which follows the fictional narrative of a young woman living in an urban centre\, whose dreams of contemporary art stardom are perpetually derailed by the temptations of punk music\, drugs\, alcohol\, parties\, and boys. Little is a Winnipeg-based curator and artist who leads from a feminist and indigenous position to create contexts where untold histories find voices and new futures can be posited. Little is known for her important work with the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC)\, as a founding member of the celebrated Indigenous collective\, The Ephemerals\, and her thoughtful curatorial and artistic projects. \nWorking together Little and Scott\, will facilitate “The Wendy Book Club” over a period of three weeks 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.   \nWhile 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. \nWalter Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working across writing\, video\, performance and sculpture. In 2011\, while living in Montréal\, he began the comic book series\, Wendy\, exploring the narrative of a fictional young woman living in an urban centre who aspires to global success and art stardom but whose dreams are perpetually derailed. Wendy has been featured in Modern Painters\, Canadian Art\, Mousse Magazine\, and Art in America. Recent Exhibitions include the 2016 Montreal Biennale\, Le Grand Balcon\, Musée d’art contemporain; Big Toe\, Giant Steps at Occidental Temporary\, Paris; andAmbivalent Pleasures: Vancouver Special\, Vancouver Art Gallery. \nNiki Little | Wabiska Maengun is an artist\, observer\, curator\, arts administrator and a founding member of The Ephemerals. She is of Cree/English descent from Garden Hill First Nation based in Winnipeg. Her interests lay in artistic and curatorial strategies that investigate cultural consumerism\, Indigenous women and feminism\, cultural skill-based strategies\, and diaspora with a hint of ambivalence. Little is the Director for the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition and in 2016 curated three group exhibitionsenendaman | anminigook\, aceartinc; Lᒫ | Māmāow\, Wall-to-Wall Festival; andMELT\, Sputnik Architecture. \n\nEach session of the Summer Institute invites participants who wish to work independently or collaboratively\, based upon their own interests and projects and includes opportunities to work in a collaborative peer-to-peer environment through group activities\, planned during the session. \nDeadline for Summer Institute I and II EXTENDED: March 27th\, 4pm central time. Please fill out the attached application form for the session you prefer (I or II) and email it along with all supporting materials to Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org. \nFees: Tuition is $300. Participants are responsible for their accommodation and travel. \n\nPlug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors\, valued members and dedicated volunteers. You are making a difference. \nWe 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 Investors Group and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs. \nPlug 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 \nFor more information on this and our other education programs\, contact Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043. \n 
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SUMMARY:Co-Production and Coalescence in Fred Sandback's Sculpture | A Respondent Talk by Edward Vazquez
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 24\, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present a talk with art history scholar Edward Vazquez\, author of Aspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculpture (summer 2017)\, his forthcoming book. \nIn response to the current exhibition at Plug In ICA\, Fred Sandback\, A Sampling of Works\, Vazquez will provide a broad overview of the artist’s sculptural practice. He will pay particular attention to the situational stakes of Sandback’s work\, where early objects and text-based experiments offer a way to contextualize and otherwise situate the yarn work for which he is best known. Looking at the generative moment of Sandback’s sculptural turn in relation to conceptual art\, Vazquez will also take up the installation and reception of Sandback’s permanent installation at Dia:Beacon\, New York as a summary and introduction to Sandback’s oeuvre and the last work he installed himself before passing in 2003. \nEdward Vazquez is known for his work in the area of post-1945 sculpture\, with a particular interest in minimalism\, post-minimalism\, and its reception in the Americas and Europe. Vazquez received his MA in Humanities at the University of Chicago and his PhD in Art and Art History at Stanford University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Middlebury College in Vermont.  Vazquez’s book\, Aspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculpture\, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press\, Summer\, 2017 \nThis exhibition and related programs are generously sponsored by Michael Nesbitt. \n\nPlug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors\, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle. \nWe 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. \nPlug 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 \n\nFor media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043\nFor general information please contact: info@plugin.org. For media inquiries please contact Sarah Nesbitt: sarah@plugin.org.
URL:https://plugin.org/event/co-production-and-coalescence-in-fred-sandbacks-sculpture-a-respondent-talk-by-edward-vazquez/
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SUMMARY:Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents: Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth\, Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, March 22nd\, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present a short screening and panel with the participants of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s inaugural Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth program. \nFor this screening Birehanu Bishaw\, Victor Ilunga\, Brandon McPherson and Tessa Stewart will present a short interpretive video produced by them in collaboration with Plug In ICA\, Just TV and the Broadway Neighborhood center. The video is a visual reflection of the youth’s collective and individual experience of the two exhibitions currently on display at Plug In ICA: Angie Keefer’s FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL and Fred Sandback’s Sampling of Works\, as well as aspects of Plug In ICA’s permanent collection and architectural space. The evening begins with a casual reception at 4:30pm\, followed by a screening and panel at 5:30pm. Everyone welcome. \nInterpreting [Interrupting] Youth is 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. \nThe “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. \n\nNext session begins April 8th\, 2017. 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. \nPlug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors\, valued members\, and dedicated volunteers. You make a difference. \nWe 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 Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs. \nPlug 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 \n\nRelated exhibits: \nFred Sandback\, A Sampling of Works\nAngie Keefer\, FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL
URL:https://plugin.org/event/plug-in-institute-of-contemporary-art-presents-interpreting-interrupting-youth-screening-and-discussion/
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SUMMARY:Plug In ICA and the Stages Speaker Series Presents: Seraphine\, Seraphine\, A film by and discussion with Krista Belle Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Unit 73\, CityPlace Mall\, 333 St Mary Ave\, Winnipeg \nLink to talk https://vimeo.com/210434446 \nOn Saturday\, March 18th\, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present a screening of Seraphine\, Seraphine by Vancouver-based artist Krista Belle Stewart with a discussion to follow. This event marks the premiere presentation of Stewart’s 2014 film in Winnipeg. Using two channels\, Seraphine\, Seraphine moves between two temporal moments joined by a central figure\, Stewart’s mother\, Seraphine Stewart. In this presentation a 1967 docu-drama aired by the CBC conveying the story of the first Indigenous public health nurse in British Columbia is situated alongside excerpts of personal testimonial taken in Vancouver by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2013. \nThe constructed relationship between the films resonates with Stewart’s practice\, which regularly makes precise and meaningful use of archival material and relies on juxtaposition to expose colonial erasure and foreground Indigenous identity. This screening comes at a poignant moment\, in the wake of recent public remarks by Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak who spoke lamentingly about the absence of a celebratory attitude towards the “kindly and well-intentioned men and women and their descendants” who worked in residential schools. Stewart often draws from her family’s history to address social and political perspectives that have and continue to conceal the direct suppression of Indigenous cultures. \nKrista Belle Stewart is known for her ability to draw out the complexities of archival material that allow for both intimacy\, coincidence\, and an atemporal meeting of histories across time. Working with video\, photography\, design\, ephemera and textiles\, Stewart straddles the gaps between personal and institutional histories through transparent mediation. Her work has been exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Presentation House Gallery\, North Vancouver; Contemporary Art Gallery\, Vancouver; Mercer Union\, Toronto; and the Esker Foundation\, Calgary. Stewart holds an MFA from Bard College\, New York. She is a member of the Upper Nicola Band of the Okanagan Nation and is currently based in Vancouver\, BC. \n\nThis presentation and discussion with Krista Belle Stewart is part of a series of talks featuring artists from Canada and the world. The series is offered in anticipation of Stages: Drawing the Curtain\, a constellation of site-specific 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.  \nIn 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: Unit 73\, CityPlace Mall\, 333 St Mary Ave\, Winnipeg\, MB R3C 4A5. \n*Artists for Stages: Drawing the Curtain include: Abbas Akhavan (Toronto)\, Pablo Bronstein (London\, UK)\, FASTWÜRMS (Toronto)\, Toril Johannessen (Tromsø\, Norway)\, Kara Hamilton (Toronto)\, Frederico Herrero (San José\, Costa Rica)\, Divya Mehra (Winnipeg)\, and Krista Belle Stewart (Vancouver). \n\nStages Speaker Series and Stages: Drawing the Curtain are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts through its New Chapter Program. \nOur community partners include Winnipeg Tourism\, Alliance Française Manitoba\, Urban Ink Design\, CityPlace Mall (Triovest) and Fillip Publishers. Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors\, valued members\, and dedicated volunteers. You make a difference. \nWe 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\, as well as Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs. \nPlug 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\nFor more information on this and our other education programs\, contact Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043 \n\nRelated exhibit:\nSTAGES: Drawing the Curtain
URL:https://plugin.org/event/plug-in-ica-and-the-stages-speaker-series-presents-seraphine-seraphine-a-film-by-and-discussion-with-krista-belle-stewart/
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SUMMARY:Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art Presents: The Unmanageable Artist\, A Respondent Talk by Howie Chen
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, March 16th\, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents a respondent talk with New York based artist\, writer\, educator and curator\, Howie Chen. Chen’s background in economics conjoins with a visual acuity resulting in a unique critical perspective towards the production and dissemination of art. For this talk\, Chen will take up managerial technologies in Western democratic societies as they have been shaped by increased demand for autonomy and a creative life. As a template for self-sufficiency\, the ‘unmanageable’ artist now faces a critical crisis of contradictions and precarity. Using Managerialism as a backdrop\, he will examine current dissonance within art discourse and its relation to the rise of neoliberalism and reactionary politics today. \nAs a respondent\, Chen’s poetic\, critical and interdisciplinary methodology resonates with Keefer’s treatment of class\, interest in the visual language of marketing\, exploitation of public trust\, and abstracted circulation of information addressed in her solo exhibition\, FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL currently on display at Plug In. \nHowie Chen is a New York–based curator engaged in collaborative art production and research. His curatorial and institutional work experience includes the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA PS1 (New York). He is a founder of Dispatch\, a NYC curatorial production office and JEQU\, a research project to assess how sociological and cultural economic approaches to art world debates can augment artistic critique. In 2003\, with artist Mika Tajima\, he formed New Humans\, a moniker for collaborations with musicians\, artists and designers that was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and has more recently undertaken projects at SFMOMA (San Francisco) and South London Gallery.  Writings include IRL (Primary Information) and Transformers(Badlands Unlimited). Chen was recently the Jane Farver Memorial curator in residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). \n\nThe exhibition FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL by Angie Keefer is generously sponsored by Video Pool and William F. White International Inc.\, Winnipeg. \n\nPlug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors\, valued members and dedicated volunteers. \nWe 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 Investors Group and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs. \nPlug 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 \n\nFor media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043\nFor general information please contact: info@plugin.org. 
URL:https://plugin.org/event/plug-in-institute-of-contemporary-art-presents-the-unmanageable-artist-a-respondent-talk-by-howie-chen/
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SUMMARY:Stages Speaker Series: Artist Talk by Kara Hamilton
DESCRIPTION:Kara Hamilton\nWHEN IS A PLATFORM A STAGE?\nThursday\, March 9\, 2017 | 7:00pm \n\nLink to talk https://vimeo.com/210326434 \nOn Thursday\, March 9 at 7pm\, Plug In ICA presents an artist talk by Toronto-based\, multi-media artist\, Kara Hamilton. Activating the history of set design\, architecture\, and craft\, Hamilton’s exhibitions often perform like stages with object characters. For her talk at Plug In ICA\, WHEN IS A PLATFORM A STAGE?\, Hamilton will lead us through an inquiry that takes up the stage as author and architectural form\, incorporating aspects of her practice and her ongoing fascination with the performative nature of materials. Thinking in comparative terms\, Hamilton sets up the dialectic: If the stage is the architecture of an audience and a platform is the architecture of congregation; do musicians perform or lead? And actors? What can be said of the objects? \nKara Hamilton’s work integrates objects of various materials\, including brass\, marble\, and glass. Building prototypes that actively respond to their context\, or props that may be potential collaborations\, Hamilton’s exhibitions have been described as dioramic in structure\, allowing viewers to move through the work\, transformed into supporting characters to the objects that lead. Hamilton received her Bachelor in Architecture from the University of British Colombia\, and her MFA in sculpture from Yale. She has shown extensively in North America and Europe at venues including Salon 94\, New York; EFA Project Space\, New York; Kate Werble Gallery\, New York; Siegel House\, Marfa\, Texas; Taut and Tame\, Berlin; G Gallery\, Toronto; and Tatar Gallery\, Toronto. She is represented by Salon 94. Hamilton with Kari Cwynar form the curatorial team of Kunstverein Toronto. \n\nOver the next three months\, Plug In ICA will present a series of talks featuring artists from Canada and the world. The series is offered in anticipation of Stages: Drawing the Curtain\, a constellation of site-specific 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. \nThe Stages Speaker Series commences with Norwegian artist\, Toril Johannessen\, known for captivating installations that incorporate scientific methods\, materials and language to poetic ends; and Toronto-based artist\, Kara Hamilton\, who questions object-subject relations in her dioramic installations. \nIn 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: Unit 73\, CityPlace Mall\, 333 St Mary Ave\, Winnipeg\, MB R3C 4A5. \nArtists for Stages: Drawing the Curtain include: Abbas Akhavan (Toronto)\, Pablo Bronstein (London\, UK)\, FASTWÜRMS (Toronto)\, Toril Johannessen (Tromsø\, Norway)\, Kara Hamilton (Toronto)\, Federico Herrero (San José\, Costa Rica)\, Divya Mehra (Winnipeg)\, and Krista Belle Stewart (Vancouver). \n\nStages Speaker Series and Stages: Drawing the Curtain are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts through its New Chapter Program.\nOur community partners include Winnipeg Tourism\, Alliance Française Manitoba\, Urban Ink Design\, CityPlace Mall (Triovest) and Fillip Publishers. \n\nPlug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors\, valued members\, and dedicated volunteers. You make a difference. \nWe 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\, as well as Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs. \nPlug In ICA relies on community support to remain free and accessible to all\, and enable us to continue to present excellent programs.\nPlease consider becoming a member of Plug In ICA and a donor at https://plugin.org/support or by contacting Angela Forget: angela@plugin.org \nFor more information on this and our other education programs\, contact Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org.\nFor general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043 \n\nRelated exhibit: \nSTAGES: Drawing the Curtain
URL:https://plugin.org/event/stages-speaker-series-artist-talk-by-kara-hamilton/
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SUMMARY:Stages Speaker Series: Artist Talk by Toril Johannessen
DESCRIPTION:Link to talk https://vimeo.com/210273398 \nAs part of our Stages Speaker Series\, on Monday\, March 6 at 7pm\, Plug In ICA presents an artist talk by Norwegian artist\, Toril Johannessen. Working in a range of media including photography\, text\, drawing\, and installation\, Johannessen’s practice verges on the scientific. From the collection of Icelandic Spar to an Aurora from the equator\, she focuses her research on perception\, often building disorienting installations. For her talk\, Johannessen will give an introduction to her work with specific emphasis on the ongoing project\,Unlearning Optical Illusions (I)\, (II)\, and (III]. \nToril Johannessen’s practice engages methods and source material from the domains of science. Thematically\, her work spans a wide range of interests\, from visual perception to linguistics; impossible energy cycles; alternative methods for time measurement; optical illusions and spatial disorientation. By combining scientific fact and the history of science with her own investigations\, she applies a critical and subjective view of the impact of modern science on the production of knowledge. She received her MA from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design. In addition\, she studied at Mountain School of Art\, and took part in the artist-in-residence program at WIELS\, Brussels. She has exhibited widely\, at venues and biennales including dOCUMENTA 13; the Istanbul Biennial; deAppel\, Amsterdam; Witte de With\, Rotterdam; the Kunsthalle Wien\, Vienna; Hasselblad Center\, Gothenburg; and Palais de Tokyo\, Paris. \n\nOver the next three months\, Plug In ICA will present a series of talks featuring artists from Canada and the world. The series is offered in anticipation ofStages: Drawing the Curtain\, a constellation of site-specific 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. \nThe Stages Speaker Series commences with Norgwegian artist\, Toril Johannessen\, known for captivating installations that incorporate scientific methods\, materials and language to poetic ends; and Toronto-based artist\, Kara Hamilton\, who questions object-subject relations in her dioramic installations. \nIn keeping with the drive of Stages to bring art beyond our walls\, all talks forStages Speaker Series will be held at an off-site location: Unit 73\, City Place Mall\, 333 St Mary Ave\, Winnipeg\, MB R3C 4A5. \nArtists for Stages: Drawing the Curtain include: Abbas Akhavan (Toronto)\, Pablo Bronstein (London\, UK)\, FASTWÜRMS (Toronto)\, Toril Johannessen (Tromsø\, Norway)\, Kara Hamilton (Toronto)\, Federico Herrero (San Jose\, Costa Rica)\, Divya Mehra (Winnipeg)\, and Krista Belle Stewart (Vancouver). \nStages Speaker Series and Stages: Drawing the Curtain are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts through its New Chapter Program.  \n\nRelated exhibit: \nSTAGES: Drawing the Curtain
URL:https://plugin.org/event/stages-speaker-series-artist-talk-by-toril-johannessen/
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SUMMARY:Cat's Cradle Workshop with Hannah Doucet
DESCRIPTION:“We all need a place for play\, whether it’s jump rope\, base-ball\, or making a sculpture… My knitting-yarn sculpture is a somewhat distant cousin to some other string games. Maybe the one that uses the most space is kite flying. But the one that is the oldest\, and the most universal is cat’s cradle.” – Fred Sandback\, “Children’s Guide to Seeing”\, Contemporary Arts Museum\, Texas\, 1989. \nEvoking Sandback’s relationship to play on Sunday\, February 26th from 11:00am-12:00pm\, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art will host a cat’s cradle workshop with artist and educator\, Hannah Doucet. \nFor this workshop\, Doucet will trace a brief cross-cultural history of string games that she will activate through demonstration and instruction. Participants will have the opportunity to playfully engage Sandback’s work through the materiality of string—its accessibility and malleability within his sculptures. The experiments with string will evolve from the creation of individual forms to collaborative games expanding to involve the production of multi-person\, large-scale constructions. \nThe workshop will be 40 minutes to an hour and is open to children ages 6 and up. Everyone welcome! Juice and snacks will be served. \nHannah Doucet is a photo-based artist from Winnipeg\, Canada whose art practice incorporates a range of media and material including sculpture\, textile\, video\, and installation. Often engaged with the body\, Doucet’s work explores the abilities and failures implicit within visual representation and material. Doucet received her BFA\, honours from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art in 2015. Solo exhibitions of her work include I Never Recognized Her Except In Fragments at the New Gallery\, Calgary (2016) and Present Absence at C Space Gallery\, Winnipeg (2015). Doucet’s work has been featured in many group exhibitions locally and nationally\, recently includingProof 23 at Gallery 44\, Toronto (2016)\, Anticipating Distance at Avenue Gallery\, Vancouver (2015)\, and Fresh Paint\, New Construction at Art Mur\, Montreal (2015). In addition to being a professional artist\, Doucet is a facilitator at Art City in Winnipeg. \nThis exhibition and related programs are generously sponsored by Michael Nesbitt. \n\n\nRELATED PROGRAMS: \nThursday\, March 16 | 7:00pm: Respondent Series: Talk by Howie Chen   (Angie Keefer exhibition)\nFriday\, March 24 | 7:00pm: Respondent Series: Talk by Edward A. Vazquez \n\nPlug In ICA extends our gratitude to our valued donors and our appreciation to our membership and volunteers. \nWe 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 Investors Group and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs. \nPlug 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 \nFor media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt at sarah@plugin.org or by phone at (204) 942-1043\nFor general information please contact: info@plugin.org. For media inquiries please contact Sarah Nesbitt: sarah@plugin.org
URL:https://plugin.org/event/cats-cradle-workshop-with-hannah-doucet/
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SUMMARY:Contract Employment Opportunity: Project Coordinator. Deadline: February 20th\, 2017
DESCRIPTION:Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art seeks an experienced individual to coordinate Stages: Drawing the Curtain\, a major public art project to take place throughout the city of Winnipeg in August 2017. \nAccording to priorities established by the Executive Director\, the Project Coordinator will lead the successful delivery of this ambitious public art project\, featuring newly commissioned artwork. Plug In has invited nine artists from around the world to contemplate the stage – its function as a platform; its meaning as a point of attention and its physical design. The sculptural ‘stages’ will take many shapes and forms but each is intended to be platforms for performers or audiences to occupy\, physically engage and contemplate. \nThe ideal candidate will have previous experience in communications\, managing budgets\, coordinating human and material resources\, and an established track record in coordinating projects in the visual arts or with not-for-profit organizations. Working on average 40 hours per week\, with variability as this position will be required from time-to-time to work evenings\, and weekends. Preferred three-to-five years previous experience in arts and project management (or combination thereof)\, and a relevant post-secondary education. \nWhile this position has a range of accountabilities that relate to ongoing Plug In operations\, it is dedicated to the successful coordination of one large-scale project. The successful candidate will provide support and implement a major visual arts project working with the Director\, the artists\, Plug In staff\, contractors and collaborators to implement various aspects of the project. \nThis is a seven-month contract full-time position for March 1 – September 30\, 2017. A job description is available to download. \nInterested candidates should submit a curriculum vitae and letter of interest by 4pm central time on Monday\, February 20\, 2017. Plug In thanks all candidates for their interest\, but only those to be interviewed will be contacted. \nPlease submit applications to: Angela Forget\, Operations Coordinator\, angela@plugin.org or\, Unit 1\, 460 Portage Ave\, Winnipeg MB R3C 0E8 \nFile Download: \nStages Project Manager 2017 job description
URL:https://plugin.org/event/contract-employment-opportunity-project-coordinator-deadline-february-20th-2017/
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SUMMARY:Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents: MARKERS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS\, A Respondent Talk by Evelyn Forget (economist)
DESCRIPTION:As part of our ongoing Respondent Series\, on Thursday\, February 16th starting at 7pm\, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents a talk by Evelyn Forget. Forget is an economist\, and is the Academic Director of the Manitoba Research Data Centre\, as well as a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. \nFor her talk\, “Markers of the Middle Class”\, Forget will respond to the shifting markers of social class provoked in Angie Keefer’s exhibition FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL currently on display at Plug In ICA. Here\, Forget speculates about whether a perceived decline in the middle class accounts for the rise of populist movements today. She will trace the evolution of the middle class and its characteristic attributes from the Netherlands in the 16th century\, through the French Revolution to its peak in postwar America. As outlined by economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey\, Forget will identify a set of bourgeois virtues attributed to the middle class\, and also the vices more often seen by outsiders – artists and bohemian critics. \nEvelyn Forget is an economist and professor from the Rady School of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. Her research attempts to answer the question: “How can we best ensure that everyone has access to the tools and resources they need to live a full life?” She works in the areas of health economics and the history and philosophy of economics. Her public policy work examines the relationships between poverty\, inequality\, health and social outcomes\, and quality of life. Most recently\, she recovered and analyzed the data collected during a Guaranteed Annual Income experiment (called Mincome) that was conducted in Manitoba during the 1970s\, and is currently involved in the development of a similar experiment to be conducted in Ontario this spring. \nAngie Keefer\, FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL is generously sponsored by Video Pool and William F. White International Inc.\, Winnipeg. \n\nPlug In ICA extends our gratitude to our generous donors\, valued members and dedicated volunteers. \nWe 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 Investors Group and Wawanesa Insurance for the direct support of our youth programs. \nPlug 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 \nFor 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. For media inquiries please contact Sarah Nesbitt: sarah@plugin.org \n\nRELATED PROGRAMS: \nThursday\, March 16 | 7:00pm: Respondent Series: Talk by Howie Chen\nFriday\, March 24 | 7:00pm: Respondent Series (Fred Sandback exhibition): Talk by Edward A. Vazquez \n\n\nRelated exhibit: \nAngie Keefer\, FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL
URL:https://plugin.org/event/plug-in-institute-of-contemporary-art-presents-markers-of-the-middle-class-a-respondent-talk-by-evelyn-forget-economist/
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SUMMARY:Tournée guidée en français de deux nouvelles expositions solo des artistes Angie Keefer et Fred Sandback
DESCRIPTION:Le samedi le 4 février\, Plug In ICA présente une tournée guidée en français par Janelle Tougas des expositions FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL d’Angie Keefer et une sélection d’oeuvres de Fred Sandback. \nAngie Keefer\nFIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL \nFIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL est une exposition de nouvelles œuvres par Angie Keefer\, une artiste estimée pour son profond engagement discursif dans le monde des arts visuels. Ses projets passent du design à l’édition\, de l’écriture à la performance\, de l’installation à l’enseignement et remettent toujours en question ses reflexes qui lient les formes symboliques et matérielles à la fluctuation d’activité sur les marchés financiers et les marchés de la connaissance. \nTrois nouvelles œuvres sont présentées sous une exposition commune divisée dans deux espaces distincts\, séparant ainsi le rôle de l’observateur et le rôle de l’acteur chez le participant. FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL occupe l’écran dans le passage couvert à l’entrée du Plug In ICA\, tandis que la galerie qui donne sur la rue sert de studio de production et de salle d’exposition. Ces œuvres complexes captent et projettent l’image des visiteurs\, les impliquant dans une trajectoire historique qui mène vers les démarcations commerciales et actuelles du statut de première classe. \nAngie Keefer est artiste\, écrivaine\, enseignante et éditrice. Par contre\, la distinction entre ces catégories dans l’œuvre de Keefer est beaucoup plus floue que ces titres laissent entendre. Elle s’intéresse aux particularités fortuites de la création et de la distribution de l’art – à la prise de position critique ou commerciale par le langage\, au travail qui l’entoure\, et aux forces mouvantes du marché – Keefer dévoile et met à l’épreuve ce qui supporte le tout. Elle a souvent présenté ses œuvres aux États-Unis\, en Europe et en Amérique du Sud. Parmi ses expositions récentes\, on retrouve Greater New York\, PS1\, New York (2015-16); Kunstverein Munich (2015); la Whitney Biennial\, New York (2014); Objectif Exhibitions\, Antwerp (2013-14); et Yale Union\, Portland (2013). Keefer travaille aussi avec une variété d’organismes pour monter des performances\, des conférences et des séminaires\, ainsi que d’autres séries parmi lesquelles on retrouve Artists Space\, New York (2015); le Liverpool Biennial (2014); Contemporary Art Centre (CAC)\, Vilnius (2014\, 2011); le Mercosul Biennial\, Porto Alegre\, Brézil (2013); Witte de With\, Rotterdam (2013); le São Paulo Biennial\, Brézil (2012); et le Museum of Modern Art\, New York (2012). Ses textes ont paru récemment dans Mousse\, Harvard Design Magazine\, et Bulletins of The Serving Library. \nPROGRAMMATION CONNEXE: \nJeudi le 16 février | 19h : Respondent Series : Discussion avec Evelyn Forget\nJeudi le 16 mars | 19h : Respondent Series: Conférence d’artiste par Howie Chen \nCette exposition est commanditée en partie par Video Pool Media Arts Centre à Winnipeg. \nFred Sandback\nUne sélection d’œuvres \nLes œuvres de Fred Sandback sont difficiles à décrire puisqu’elles contiennent une énergie générée par les gestes et les moyens les plus simples pour produire de grands effets. Sandback abandonne l’objet afin de dessiner dans l’espace. À partir de matériaux standard achetés en magasin\, il façonne une expérience épurée et précise de l’espace. Utilisant le plus fréquemment du fil acrylique\, il dessine des lignes qui activent l’espace et qui créent des volumes dans des chambres autrement vides. Il expose ce qui s’y trouve déjà\, donnant au vide une définition. \nSon exposition au Plug In est une sélection d’œuvres de sa pratique sculpturale qui comprend des pièces horizontales et verticales qui s’étendent du sol au plafond\, le long des murs\, et en lignes droites et diagonales. La couleur donne une résonnance émotionnelle aux lignes\, à l’énergie et aux formes qui se dévoilent graduellement tout au long de la rencontre perceptuelle du visiteur. \nFred Sandback (1943-2003) a exposé ses œuvres internationalement à compter de l’année 1968. Ses premières expositions en solo ont lieu à la Galerie Konrad Fischer à Düsseldorf et à la Galerie Heiner Friedrich à Munich. Il était étudiant de maitrise en beaux arts à l’école d’art et d’architecture de Yale lors de celles-ci. En 2005\, Le Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein à Vaduz organise une vaste étude des œuvres de Sandback. Ce projet voyage au Fruitmarket Gallery à Édinbourg et à la Neue Galerie am Joanneum à Graz en 2006. En 2011\, ses œuvres sont présentées dans une exposition en solo au Whitechapel Gallery à Londres\, puis au Museum of Contemporary Art à Denver. Ce dernier consacre le bâtiment en entier à cette exposition. En 2014\, le Kunstmuseum Winterthur en Suisse accueille une importante rétrospective de ses dessins qui est ensuite montrée au Josef Albers Museum à Bottrop et au Museum Wiesbaden en Allemagne. De mai à septembre 2015\, le Pulitzer Art Foundation à St. Louis présente aussi une exposition de ses œuvres. Lié à l’exposition du même nom\, Fred Sandback: Light\, Space\, Facts at The Glenstone Foundation\, Potomac\, Md (parue en 2016) est la plus récentes des nombreuses publications sur son œuvre. En 2017\, le University of Chicago Press publieraAspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculptures par Edward A. Vazquez. On retrouve aussi ses sculptures dans plusieurs collections de musées à l’international et dans une exposition permanente au Dia:Beacon à New York. Le patrimoine de Sandback est représenté par David Zwirner\, New York/Londres et un historique complet de ses expositions et de sa bibliographie est disponible en ligne au site www.fredsandbackarchive.org. \nPROGRAMMATION CONNEXE:\nSamedi le 21 janvier | 15h : Tournée guidée par Amavong Panya\nDimanche le 26 février | 11h : Cat’s Cradle – un atelier pour enfants mené par Hannah Doucet\nVendredi le 24 mars | 19h :  Respondent Series: Discussion par Edward A. Vazquez \nCette exposition et la programmation connexe est généreusement commanditée par Michael Nesbitt.\nLes textes descriptifs des expositions sont disponibles en anglais à plugin.org
URL:https://plugin.org/event/tournee-guidee-en-francais-de-deux-nouvelles-expositions-solo-des-artistes-angie-keefer-et-fred-sandback/
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Tour by Amavong Panya
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday January 21\, 3pm\, join us for a walk through of the Fred Sandback exhibition\, A Sampling of Works with Chief Installer and artist Amavong Panya.\n\n\n\n\n\nPanya’s intimate knowledge of Sandback’s sculptures will offer valuable insight into the work of this important American artist.\n\n“It is my belief Fred’s work is a deliberate and experiential conversation of space and sometimes the unnoticed architectural and functional details of a room and its physical constructs such as a wall\, floor\, ceiling or combination of those elements. The idea of sculpture and the viewer’s movement to “see” a sculpture alllows another depth to the ultimate conversation of Fred Sandback’s catalog of work.”\n\n\n\n\n\nAmavong Panya is an artist and co-owner of NFA SPACE Contemporary Art + Exhibit Services\, Inc. based in Chicago\, IL USA. Among its many clients\, The Fred Sandback Estate has cooperated with Amavong Panya as the Chief Installer and Installation Expert of Fred Sandback’s work for over a decade. The continued interest\, dialogue and admiration of Fred’s work has brought forth various installation projects and exhibitions around the globe such as the Kuntsmuseum in Vaduz\, LI; Instituto Moreira Salles in Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro BR; Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver\, CO USA; Gallery New South Wales in Sydney\, AU and more recently the Glenstone Museum in Potomac\, MD USA.\n\n\n\n\nRelated exhibit:\nFred Sandback\, A Sampling of Works
URL:https://plugin.org/event/exhibition-tour-by-amavong-panya/
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SUMMARY:Plug In ICA Launches Two New Solo Exhibitions with Angie Keefer and Fred Sandback
DESCRIPTION:Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is extremely pleased to announce the launch of our winter program with two solo exhibitions by acclaimed American artists Angie Keefer and Fred Sandback. Keefer is known for her complex portrayal of art and economics and Sandback is historically renowned for his perceptual sculpture made from simple means in command of light and space. These presentations mark their first solo exhibitions in Canada. The exhibition launches with an artist talk by Angie Keefer on Thrusday\, January 19 at 7pm\, an opening reception on Friday\, January 20 at 7pm\, and a walk-through of Sandback’s exhibition by Amavong Panya on Saturday\, January 21 at 3pm.  \nAngie Keefer\nFIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL\n\n FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL is an exhibition of new work by Angie Keefer\, an artist admired for her deep discursive engagement in the visual arts. Her work moves between design and publishing\, writing\, performance\, installation\, and teaching\, and is often unsettled in its reflexive linking of symbolic or material form with the fluctuating activity of financial and knowledge markets.\n\nThree new works are presented as a unified exhibition divided among two distinct spaces\, separating the viewer’s experiences as witness and performer. FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELLoccupies Plug In ICA’s exhibition breezeway on a monitor wall and our street front gallery\, which Keefer turns into a production studio and showroom. These complex works capture and project the image of their audience\, implicating viewers in a historic trajectory leading towards the contemporary\, commercial delineation of first class status. \n\n\nAngie Keefer is an artist\, writer\, teacher\, and publisher\, though the distinctions among these categories are much less definitive in Keefer’s work than comma-separated terms would indicate. Taking an interest in the incidental aspects of art making and its dissemination—from critical & commercial positioning through language\, to surrounding labour\, and shifting market forces—Keefer exposes and pushes at the seams of that which holds the enterprise together. She has exhibited extensively in the USA as well as Europe and South America. Recent exhibitions include Greater New York\, PS1\, New York (2015-16); Kunstverein Munich (2015); Whitney Biennial\, New York (2014); Objectif Exhibitions\, Antwerp (2013-14); and Yale Union\, Portland (2013). Keefer has also worked with various organizations to stage performances\, talks\, seminars\, and other series\, including Artists Space\, New York (2015); Liverpool Biennial (2014); Contemporary Art Centre (CAC)\, Vilnius (2014\, 2011); Mercosul Biennial\, Porto Alegre\, Brazil (2013); Witte de With\, Rotterdam (2013); São Paulo Biennial\, Brazil (2012); and The Museum of Modern Art\, New York (2012)\, among others. Her writing has recently appeared in Mousse\, Harvard Design Magazine\, and Bulletins of The Serving Library. \n\nRELATED PROGRAMS: \nThursday\, January 19 | 7:00pm: Artist Talk by Angie Keefer\nThursday\, February 16 | 7:00pm: Respondent Series: Talk by Evelyn Forget\nThursday\, March 16 | 7:00pm: Respondent Series: Artist Talk by Howie Chen \n\n\nThis exhibition is sponsored in part by Video Pool Media Arts Centre\, Winnipeg. \nFred Sandback\nA Sampling of Works\n\n\n\nIt is difficult to describe Fred Sandback’s artworks as they contain an energy that is generated from the simplest of means and most minimal of gestures to the most maximal effects. Sandback leaves the object behind to draw in space. Using ordinary store bought materials in a seemingly minimal and precise manner\, he redefines our experience of space. Most commonly\, he uses acrylic yarn to draw lines that articulate space\, delineating volume in otherwise empty rooms\, over ostensibly bare walls from floor to ceiling and wall to wall. He exposes what is already there seemingly giving definition to air. \nHis exhibition for Plug In is a sampling of this sculptural practice that includes both vertical and horizontal pieces that stretch from floor to ceiling\, across walls\, and in straight and diagonal lines. The artist’s use of colour adds an emotional vibrancy as line\, shape\, and energy reveal themselves gradually within the viewer’s perceptual encounter. \nFred Sandback (1943-2003) exhibited internationally from 1968 when his first solo shows were held at Galerie Konrad Fischer\, Düsseldorf\, and Galerie Heiner Friedrich\, Munich\, while the artist was still a graduate student pursuing his MFA at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein\, Vaduz\, organized an extensive survey in 2005\, which traveled to the Fruitmarket Gallery\, Edinburgh\, and the Neue Galerie am Joanneum\, Graz\, in 2006. In 2011\, his work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery\, London\, and the same year the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Denver\, dedicated its entire building to a solo exhibition. In 2014\, the Kunstmuseum Winterthur\, Switzerland hosted a major retrospective of his drawings that subsequently traveled to the Josef Albers Museum\, Bottrop and Museum Wiesbaden\, Germany. The Pulitzer Art Foundation\, St. Louis\, mounted an exhibition from May to September 2015. There are numerous publications on his work\, the most recent in 2016 documenting Fred Sandback: Light\, Space\, Facts at The Glenstone Foundation\, Potomac\, Md.  Aspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculptures by Edward A. Vazquez will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017.   Sandback’s sculpture is represented in numerous museum collections internationally and is on permanent view at Dia:Beacon\, New York. His estate is represented by David Zwirner\, New York/London and a complete exhibition history and bibliography is available online at www.fredsandbackarchive.org. \n\n\nRELATED PROGRAMS: \nSaturday\, January 21 | 3:00pm: Exhibition Tour by Amavong Panya\nSunday\, February 26 | 11:00am: Cat’s Cradle – a children’s workshop lead by Hannah Doucet\nDate to be determined | Respondent Series: Talk by Edward A. Vazquez \n\nThis exhibition and related programs are generously sponsored by Michael Nesbitt.\n \nFull length exhibition texts are available on plugin.org \n\nPlug In ICA gratefully acknowledges the continued support of the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their contribution to our artistic programs. As always we extend our appreciation to our generous donors\, valued members and dedicated volunteers. \nPlug 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 \nFor general information please contact: info@plugin.org. For media inquiries please contact Sarah Nesbitt: sarah@plugin.org 
URL:https://plugin.org/event/plug-in-ica-launches-two-new-solo-exhibitions-with-angie-keefer-and-fred-sandback/
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Tour and Artist Talk with Angie Keefer
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, January 19th\, in conjunction with her solo exhibition at Plug In ICA\, FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL American artist Angie Keefer will be giving an exhibition tour including an in depth discussion around each of the works\, and a question and answer period. \nAngie Keefer is an artist\, writer\, teacher\, and publisher\, though the distinctions among these categories are much less definitive in Keefer’s work than comma-separated terms would indicate. Taking an interest in the incidental aspects of art making and its dissemination—from critical & commercial positioning through language\, to surrounding labour\, and shifting market forces—Keefer exposes and pushes at the seams of that which holds the enterprise together. She has exhibited extensively in the USA as well as Europe and South America. Recent exhibitions include Greater New York\, PS1\, New York (2015-16); Kunstverein Munich (2015); Whitney Biennial\, New York (2014); Objectif Exhibitions\, Antwerp (2013-14); and Yale Union\, Portland (2013). Keefer has also worked with various organizations to stage performances\, talks\, seminars\, and other series\, including Artists Space\, New York (2015); Liverpool Biennial (2014); Contemporary Art Centre (CAC)\, Vilnius (2014\, 2011); Mercosul Biennial\, Porto Alegre\, Brazil (2013); Witte de With\, Rotterdam (2013); São Paulo Biennial\, Brazil (2012); and The Museum of Modern Art\, New York (2012)\, among others. Her writing has recently appeared in Mousse\, Harvard Design Magazine\, and Bulletins of The Serving Library. \nFor more information about the exhibition see: Angie Keefer: FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL\nThis exhibition is sponsored in part by Video Pool Media Arts Centre and William F. White International Inc.\, Winnipeg \n\nRelated exhibit:\nAngie Keefer\, FIRST CLASS\, SECOND THOUGHTS\, INTERMINABLE SWELL
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