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Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs | Spanish Tour
2018-11-15 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
El día jueves 15 de Noviembre a las 3pm, la artista Francesca Carella Arfinengo brindará un tour guiado de las exposición Dias de Lectura: más allá de la situación actual.
La exhibición está estructurada alrededor de ideas como la indexación, colección, el encubrimiento y la revelación con un enfoque en el uso de materiales y la superposición de la poesía. El uso de texto sirve como cimiento del grupo de obras; el texto es por lo general texto extraído, poético y coloquial con narrativas históricas y políticas entrelazadas como material mismo, incluyendo la revista popular Jet de Cultura Negra en el trabajo de Theaster Gates Do I Know You, 2017; la declaración de Independencia de Haití en Liberté ou la morte de Fabiola Carranza; carteles de centros comerciales en la obra de Ken Lum 117 Dwight Eisenhower Blvd, 2009; y en el descubrimiento reciente de graffiti medieval en All Saints Bench, 2018 de Shannon Bool.
Natalie Czech, Hassan Khan y Sylvia Matas presentan al lenguaje utilizando significantes del día a día: anuncios en revistas, letreros hechos con luces LED y recortes de periódicos, a los cuales analizan sintácticamente transformándolos en gestos poéticos y politicos.
Jeanne Randolph y Sameer Farooq y Jared Stanley activan diferentes colecciones por medio de la crítica-ficcional (Randolph) y museos especulativos (Farooq y Stanley).
Leah Decter, así como Carranza, excava lenguaje del archivo, específicamente del manifiesto marítimo que detallada la llegada de su abuelo materno a Canadá y lo utiliza en su obra tejida en telar (through)line(age) 1779-1925-2013, 2013.
Como parte de la exhibición Raven Chacon empieza un nuevo proyecto, un libro, dedicado a la vida de Zitkála-Šá, una mujer de la nación Yankton Dakota que vivió a los inicios del siglo 20. El libro estará compuesto por doce partituras dedicadas a doce mujeres Indígenas contemporáneas “trabajando en el campo de la composición y la interpretación musical”
La exhibición require ser leída al paso que uno se mueve dentro del espacio. A travez del maridaje de objetos y texto, la manera en la cual historias son captadas y representadas aparece en términos prosaicos pero carga con el peso de los errores y tergiversaciones de la historia misma.

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is eager to announce the opening of our fall exhibition, Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs . Structured around general notions of indexing, collecting, cloaking and the reveal with a focus on material and an overlay of poetry – the exhibition is grounded in the use of text, often found, poetic, and colloquial, with historical and political narratives interwoven as material, including the popular Black cultural magazine Jet in Theaster Gates’s work Do I Know You , 2017; the Haitian Declaration of Independence in Liberté ou la morte by Fabiola Carranza; strip mall signage in Ken Lum’s 117 Dwight Eisenhower Blvd, 2009; and in recently uncovered medieval graffiti in All Saints Bench , 2018 by Shannon Bool.
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Natalie Czech, Hassan Khan, and Sylvia Matas present language using banal everyday signifiers: magazine print ads, LED signage, or newspaper clippings, which they parse into poetic and political gestures. Jeanne Randolph, and Sameer Farooq and Jared Stanley activate collections through ficto-criticism (Randolph) and speculative museums (Farooq and Stanley), and Leah Decter, like Carranza, excavates language from the
archive of her maternal grandfather’s ship’s manifest coming in to Canada in her woven work, (through)line(age) 1779-1925-2013, 2013.
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As part of the exhibition Raven Chacon begins a new book project in dedication to the life of, an early 20th century Yankton Dakota woman that will be comprised of twelve musical scores dedicated to twelve contemporary Indigenous women “working in the field of contemporary music performance or composition.”
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The exhibition is to be read as one moves through it. Through a paring of objects and texts, how histories are captured and presented surface in prosaic terms, but carry the weight of history’s missteps and misrepresentations. Please join us Saturday, September 29th for our opening reception programmed alongside an exciting schedule of events including a discussion between Raven Chacon, Suzanne Kite, and Laura Ortman at 6pm, followed by performances by Kite and Ortman at 8pm.
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Image credit: Ken Lum, 117 Dwight Eisenhower Blvd, 2009, Plexiglas, enamel paint, powder-coated aluminum, 97 x 82 x 2 inches, Courtesy the artist & Royale Projects, Los Angeles

Curatorial Tour by Jenifer Papararo
2018-11-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
This Saturday, (Nov. 17) JOIN US at 3PM, as Plug In ICA’s very own, executive director, Jenifer Papararo conducts a FREE guided tour of our current exhibition, “Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs”. ..
Anyone and everyone is invited to participate! Cost: FREE (like all of our programming).
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Did you know that Plug In ICA offers FREE guided tours and educational programs? We invite student groups to participate in our learning programs that include in-depth curriculum guides customized for each exhibition.
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@pluginicaThis Saturday, JOIN US at 3PM, as Plug In ICA’s very own, executive director, Jenifer Papararo conducts a FREE guided tour of our current exhibition, “Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs”

Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth: Video Screening and Discussion
2018-11-21 17:00 - 20:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth
• Screening and Discussion • Free!
Wednesday, November 21st | 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Screening & Discussion: 5:30 pm
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On Wednesday, November 21, 2018, discover our current exhibition, Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs through the interpretive lens of 5 youth participants.
Starting at 5:00 pm, participants of the sixth edition of our Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth [IIY] program, Mark Ginther, Tuva Bergstrom, Dylan VanDamme, Jordan Santiago and Victor Ilunga will offer the presentation of a short interpretive video produced by them in collaboration with Plug In ICA.
The Interpreting Youth program is, yet, another way Plug In ICA provides an entry into conversations and practices happening in contemporary art today. It is integral to the ICA’s educational programming to audiences in the community.
The screening offers a visual reflection of the youth’s collective and individual experience of Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs, and marks the culmination of an intensive four week session, 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 work closely with our Assistant Curator, Luther Konadu, to discuss process, approach and multi-media content creation.
The youth screening and panel discussion will begin at 5:30 pm, followed by a short reception. Assistant Curator, Luther Konadu, will moderate the panel discussion with IIY participants. Everyone is welcome! Snacks and refreshments will be served.
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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. 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.

French tour led by Evin Collis December 8, 3pm
2018-12-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Rejoignez-nous le 8 décembre à 15 h, où Evin Collis donnera un tour guidé gratuit en français de l’exposition “Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs”. “Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs”. Structuré autour des notions générales d’indexage, de collecte, de dissimulation et du dévoilement avec un accent mis sur des matériels et un recouvrir de poésie, – l’exposition est fondée dans l’usage de texte, souvent trouvé, poétique, et familier, avec des récits historiques et politiques tissés comme un matériau.

Stages Speaker Series: Artist Talk by Raymond Boisjoly
2018-12-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Manitoba
***Off-site location: 92 Higgins Ave. Winnipeg, MB, Canada. (wheelchair accessible; loads of parking; #47 bus route)***
On Friday, December 14th 2018, Plug In ICA will present an artist talk with Raymond Boisjoly as part of our STAGES Speaker Series in anticipation of STAGES 2019.*
Boisjoly is in Winnipeg to begin his research for STAGES 2019 and present on his artwork and process, which tussles with the possibility of communicating a sense of indigeneity that is not necessarily crucial to identity. As such he extends his research and actions beyond his personal or ancestral history from a position that is fractured between the desire for representation and the instability of image-making. Boisjoly obscures meaning and a direct form of address. His works are to be deciphered, with meaning often intentionally scrambled, hidden and coded. Through fragmentation and distortion, he conceals his research and reasoning, most commonly using photography and printing as processes to redirect our assumed understandings surrounding Indigenous communities as a means to speak about identity itself.
*With its conception in 2017, STAGES sets out to activate the city of Winnipeg with temporary public sculpture and performances by international and local artists. The Speaker Series is a means of initiating and connecting the artists with local audiences, and introducing visiting artists to Winnipeg.
Raymond Boisjoly has a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design where he currently teaches. He also has an MFA from UBC and has exhibited work widely across Canada and abroad. Boisjoly has shown work at Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg; The Power Plant, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery; Camera Austria, Vienna; Triangle France, Marseille; and most recently at SITElines, Santa Fe. In 2017, he was a finalist for the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize as well as the Sobey Art Award. Writings on Boisjoly’s work have appeared in Mousse Magazine, C Magazine, and OSMOS Magazine to name a few. He is represented by Catriona Jefferies, Vancouver.
Acknowledgements:
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art recognizes we are on Treaty One Territory, the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Métis, Cree, Dakota, Dene, and Oji-Cree Nations.
Stages Speaker Series & STAGES 2019 is supported by the Winnipeg Foundation.
We thank our community partners Alt Hotel for their continued support of STAGES. And would like to thank Leon A Brown for providing us with this off-site location.
Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. We acknowledge the sustaining support of our Director’s Circle. You all make a difference.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We could not operate without their continued financial investment and lobbying efforts.
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 more information on this and our other education programs, contact Luther Konadu at luther@plugin.org. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043
Image: Sly & the Family Stone (Interval: 1971/2013) Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin) 05, 2013, screen resolution lightjet print mounted on dibond, 30 x 40 in. (76 x 101 cm)

A Reversal of Winds by Sylvia Matas | Bookwork Launch & Signing *offsite
2018-12-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Blinkers, 520 Hargrave St, Winnipeg, MB, R3A 0X8, Canada
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents:
A Reversal of Winds by Sylvia Matas | Bookwork Launch and Signing
Saturday, December 15, 2018
***Off-site location: Blinkers, 520 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3A 0X8***
Bookwork Launch and Signing, 1-3pm
As part of Blinkers Holiday Sale, 12-5pm

Days of Reading | Curatorial Tour by Sarah Nesbitt
2018-12-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Manitoba
This Saturday, (Dec. 15) JOIN US at 3PM, as co-curator, Sarah Nesbitt conducts a FREE guided tour of our current exhibition, “Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs”. Anyone and everyone’s invited to participate! Cost: FREE (like all of our programming).
*This is our last public program in relation to Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs so please take this opportunity to visit the exhibition and learn about the processes and ideas behind this exhibition.
Did you know that Plug In ICA offers FREE guided tours and educational programs? We invite student groups to participate in our learning programs that include in-depth curriculum guides customized for each exhibition.
For more information on this and our other education programs, contact Luther Konadu at luther@plugin.org. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043
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INFORMATION ABOUT DAYS OF READING: BEYOND THIS STATE OF AFFAIRS
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents, Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs. Structured around general notions of indexing, collecting, cloaking and the reveal with a focus on material and an overlay of poetry – the exhibition is grounded in the use of text, often found, poetic, and colloquial, with historical and political narratives interwoven as material, including the popular Black cultural magazine Jet in Theaster Gates’s work Do I Know You , 2017; the Haitian Declaration of Independence in Liberté ou la morte by Fabiola Carranza; strip mall signage in Ken Lum’s 117 Dwight Eisenhower Blvd, 2009; and in recently uncovered medieval graffiti in All Saints Bench , 2018 by Shannon Bool.
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Natalie Czech, Hassan Khan, and Sylvia Matas present language using banal everyday signifiers: magazine print ads, LED signage, or newspaper clippings, which they parse into poetic and political gestures. Jeanne Randolph, and Sameer Farooq and Jared Stanley activate collections through ficto-criticism (Randolph) and speculative museums (Farooq and Stanley), and Leah Decter, like Carranza, excavates language from the
archive of her maternal grandfather’s ship’s manifest coming in to Canada in her woven work, (through)line(age) 1779-1925-2013, 2013.
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As part of the exhibition Raven Chacon begins a new book project in dedication to the life of, an early 20th century Yankton Dakota woman that will be comprised of twelve musical scores dedicated to twelve contemporary Indigenous women “working in the field of contemporary music performance or composition.”
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The exhibition is to be read as one moves through it. Through a paring of objects and texts, how histories are captured and presented surface in prosaic terms, but carry the weight of history’s missteps and misrepresentations.
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Acknowledgments:
Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. We acknowledge the sustaining support of our Director’s Circle. You all make a difference.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We could not operate without their continued financial investment and lobbying efforts.
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
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Installation shot of Natalie Czech’s, “A poem by repetition by Robert Grenier 2,” 2017. [far left]. | Leah Decter’s, “(through)line(age) 1779-1925-2013,” 2013. [centre] & Natalie Czech’s, “A poem by repetition by Vsevolod Nekrasov 2,” 2015. [far right]. Photo credit: Karen Asher

Plug In ICA • Gallery Closed
2018-12-24 - 2018-12-26 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Gallery closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day
Office is closed December 21, 2018 – January 1, 2019

Plug In ICA • Gallery closed
2018-12-31 - 2019-01-01 | Manitoba

Closed for Installation
2018-12-31 - 2019-01-21, 2019-01-23 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Plug In ICA Gallery and Bookstore are closed between exhibitions for installation. To browse our library or browse our bookstore, please ring the doorbell during office hours (Monday – Friday 10am-5pm), or email info@plugin.org to make an appointment.

Artist Talk: Jean-Paul Kelly
2019-01-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
In the lead up to Jean-Paul Kelly’s solo exhibition, That ends that matter, Plug In ICA welcomes this perceptive and provocative artist to Winnipeg. Kelly will introduce the complexity of his working process and research methods through a visual discussion of his work.
On Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 7pm, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents an artist talk by Jean-Paul Kelly. As an introduction to Kelly’s solo exhibition, That ends that matter, the artist will be speaking about the trajectory of his art practice and how it has led him to the current three-channel video installation which will open at Plug In ICA on Thursday, January 24. Born in London, Ontario and presently based out of Toronto, Kelly has over the last decade traverse through a body of work that has grown to include drawings, found images, animation, sound, photography and video all of which variably address the unstable ideas of truth within documentary frameworks.
That ends that matter will be the first presentation of Jean-Paul Kelly’s work in Winnipeg and in the prairies. He has extensively exhibited and screened works across North America and Europe including Delfina Foundation (London), Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (Saint-Jérôme), CGP London: Dilston Grove, Oakville Galleries, Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), The Power Plant (Toronto), Mercer Union (Toronto), and Gallery TPW (Toronto). Screenings include: Canada House (London), Courtisane Festival (Ghent), Vdrome, International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival. He has held artist residencies at the ISCP (New York) and Delfina Foundation; and was a guest artist at the 2018 Brakhage Center Symposium and the 2013 Flaherty Seminar. Kelly received the 2015 Images Festival Award, the 2014 Kazuko Trust Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Associated Programming:

Opening Reception for That ends that matter on Thursday, January 24, 7-10pm
Tournée guidée en français Samedi 16 février par Evin Collis
Video Screening curated by Jean-Paul Kelly on Thursday, March 7; 7pm
Curatorial Tour by Jenifer Papararo Saturday, March 9; 3pm
Respondent Series (TBA)

Acknowledgements:
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art recognizes we are on Treaty One Territory, the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Métis, Cree, Dakota, Dene, and Oji-Cree Nations.
Production of That ends that matter was made possible through funding support of Ontario Arts Council with additional research support from the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Kuzuko Trust Award and Delfina Foundation’s family of individual supporters.
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 could not operate without their continued financial investment and lobbying efforts.
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 more information on this and our other education programs, contact Luther Konadu at luther@plugin.org. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043
All public programming is free and open to the public. This exhibition contains explicit sexual and violent content material, and might not be suitable for all ages. Please use discretion.
Image: Jean-Paul Kelly, B.A.A.D.C., water-cut cold-rolled steel, approx. 3.5 x 9 inches, 2016 as part of That ends that matter, three-channel video installation and mixed media.

Jean-Paul Kelly: "That ends that matter" Opening Reception
2019-01-24 19:00 - 22:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Opening Reception:

Thursday, January 24 , 2019 | 7 pm

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Jean-Paul Kelly to Plug In ICA for his solo-exhibition That ends that matter, a comprehensive video installation set in a courtroom. Part re-enactment combined with found-photo montage streams, and graphical animation, That ends that matter attempts to parse through and recite Kelly’s experiences observing hearings at the City of London Magistrates’ Court in Central London, UK. Given the UK’s regulations restricting all forms of visual or audio recording in courtrooms, any recollection of events throughout a hearing becomes subjective. In an effort to recount what the artist, referencing documentarian Fredrick Wiseman, calls a “fair account” of what he witnessed, there’s an embrace of abstraction, tangents, error, and the aestheticization of Kelly’s felt experiences.
Please join us tonight at 7:00 PM for the public reception of Jean-Paul Kelly’s – That ends that matter – the first presentation of his work in Winnipeg and in the prairies.

He has extensively exhibited and screened works across North America and Europe including Delfina Foundation (London), Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (Saint-Jérôme), CGP London: Dilston Grove, Oakville Galleries, Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), The Power Plant (Toronto), Mercer Union (Toronto), and Gallery TPW (Toronto). Screenings include: Canada House (London), Courtisane Festival (Ghent), Vdrome, International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival. He has held artist residencies at the ISCP (New York) and Delfina Foundation; and was a guest artist at the 2018 Brakhage Center Symposium and the 2013 Flaherty Seminar. Kelly received the 2015 Images Festival Award, the 2014 Kazuko Trust Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Jean-Paul Kelly: That ends that matter
2019-01-25 - 2019-03-31 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Jean-Paul Kelly:That ends that matter |
Exhibition Dates: January 25 – March 24, 2019

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Jean-Paul Kelly to Plug In ICA for his solo-exhibition That ends that matter, a comprehensive video installation set in a courtroom. Part re-enactment combined with found-photo montage streams, and graphical animation, That ends that matter attempts to parse through and recite Kelly’s experiences observing hearings at the City of London Magistrates’ Court in Central London, UK. Given the UK’s regulations restricting all forms of visual or audio recording in courtrooms, any recollection of events throughout a hearing becomes subjective. In an effort to recount what the artist, referencing documentarian Fredrick Wiseman, calls a “fair account” of what he witnessed, there’s an embrace of abstraction, tangents, error, and the aestheticization of Kelly’s felt experiences.
Based in Toronto, Kelly has over the last decade and half, been closely working within a practice rooted in dissecting documentary frameworks. In an earlier interview for Vdrome.org, Kelly references the writer Truman Capote’s work as “poetic reporting” a process that Kelly embraces. Kelly states, “I’m interested in the metaphors and possibilities of documentary substance.”
This is the first presentation of Jean-Paul Kelly’s work in Winnipeg and in the prairies. He has extensively exhibited and screened works across North America and Europe including The Power Plant, Toronto; Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto; Gallery TPW, Toronto; Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto; SBC Gallery, Montreal; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Nightingale Cinema, Chicago; Courtesan Festival, Ghent; International Film Festival, Rotterdam; The New York Film Festival; The Toronto International Film Festival and Delfina Foundation, London UK. In 2014, he was the recipient of the Kazuko Trust Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York. He’s been longlisted the Sobey Art Award and the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize.

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art recognizes we are on Treaty One Territory, the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Métis, Cree, Dakota, Dene, and Oji-Cree Nations.
All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome! This exhibition contains explicit sexual and violent content material, and might not be suitable for all ages. Please use discretion.

That ends that matter | Visite guidée en français avec Evin Collis
2019-02-16 03:00 - 16:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Rejoignez-nous le samedi 16 février à 15 h, où Evin Collis donnera un tour guidé GRATUIT en français de l’exposition “That ends that matter” par Jean-Paul Kelly.
“That ends that matter” est une installation de vidéo compréhensive qui déroule dans une salle d’audience. Une part reconstitution combinée avec des montages des photos retrouvées et d’animations graphiques, Jean-Paul Kelly a tenté de réciter ses expériences d’observation des audiences dans le tribunal de la Cité de Londres dans le centre de Londres, Royaume-Uni. Le règlement du Royaume-Uni restreint toutes les formes d’enregistrement vidéo et audio dans les salles d’audience, donc toutes les récollections d’événements durant une audience deviennent subjectives. Dans un effort de raconter ce que l’artiste appelle un « compte rendu équitable » de ce qu’il a constaté, les expériences de Kelly fusionnent dans une embrassade d’abstraction, de tangentes, d’erreurs et d’esthétisation des expériences ressenties par Kelly. Né à Londres (Ontario) et basé actuellement à Toronto, Kelly a traversé au cours de la dernière décennie une série des oeuvres qui ont agrandi pour inclure des dessins, des images retrouvées, de l’animation, du son, de la photographie et du vidéo, qui tous adressent des idées déstabilisées de la vérité dedans un cadre documentaire. “That ends that matter” est la première présentation des oeuvres de Jean-Paul Kelly à Winnipeg et dans les prairies. Son travail a été largement exposé partout en l’Amérique du Nord et l’Europe. Toute la programmation est gratuite et ouverte au public. Tout le monde est bienvenu! Veuillez noter que l’exposition a du contenu sexuel et violent. La discrétion est conseillée.
Plug In Institut d’art contemporain reconnait que nous nous sommes situés sur le territoire visé par le traité no 1 et que les terres sur lesquelles nous sommes rassemblés font partie du territoire traditionnel des peuples anishinabé, cri, oji-cri, dakota et déné, et de la patrie de la nation métisse.

Programmation complémentaire incluse:
Projection vidéo organisée par Jean-Paul Kelly: le jeudi 7 mars à 19 h
Tour guidé avec curatrice Jenifer Papararo: le samedi 9 mars à 15 h

Video Screening curated by Jean-Paul Kelly:
Thursday, March 7 | 7pm
Curatorial Tour, Jenifer Papararo:
Saturday March 9 | 3pm

Nous espérons de vous voir.

Respondent Series Screening | Bonjour aux amis de calamité curated by Jean-Paul Kelly
2019-03-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
As part of our Respondent Series and in conjunction with Jean-Paul Kelly’s current exhibition, “That ends that matter,” Plug In ICA presents Bonjour aux amis de calamité, [B.A.A.D.C] a screening of film and videos curated by Kelly. The screening offers insight into Kelly’s working method and continued conflation of the decisions made by journalists with those made under the aesthetic conventions of the visual artist, aligning the objective principles of documentary with the subjective process of selection by artists. Kelly will join us in a video chat to introduce the screening and his curatorial thinking.
*The exhibition That ends that matter continues the artist’s interest in the divide between materiality and perception; what we see and what is actually represented. The
Related Exhibition: Jean-Paul Kelly “That ends that matter”

That ends that matter | Curatorial Tour by Jenifer Papararo
2019-03-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
A FREE guided tour by Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s Executive Director, Jenifer Papararo, will take you through Jean-Paul Kelly’s solo-exhibition, That ends that matter, Saturday, March 09, 2019, at 3pm.

INFORMATION ABOUT “THAT ENDS THAT MATTER”:
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Jean-Paul Kelly to Plug In ICA for his solo-exhibition, That ends that matter, a comprehensive video installation set in a courtroom. Part re-enactment combined with found-photo montage streams and graphical animation, That ends that matter attempts to parse through and recite Kelly’s experiences observing hearings at the City of London Magistrates’ Court in Central London, UK. Given the UK’s regulations restricting all forms of visual or audio recording in courtrooms, any recollection of events throughout a hearing becomes subjective. In an effort to recount what the artist, referencing documentarian Fredrick Wiseman, calls a “fair account” of what he witnessed, there’s an embrace of abstraction, tangents, error, and the aestheticization of Kelly’s felt experiences.

Related exhibit: Jean-Paul Kelly: That ends that matter

A Lecture by Minnawaanigogiizhigok (Dawnis Kennedy): Existing in Conflict with the Law: Canada’s Indian Act, and the Legislation and Criminalization of Indigenous Identity 7pm
2019-03-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
A Lecture by Minnawaanigogiizhigok (Dawnis Kennedy):
Existing in Conflict with the Law: Canada’s Indian Act, and the Legislation and Criminalization of Indigenous Identity
Thursday, March 28, 2019 | 7pm
as part of our Respondent Series
At Plug In ICA, Unit 1, 460 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Plug In ICA invites Minnawaanigogiizhigok (Dawnis Kennedy) to present on her research, exploring the impact of Canada’s Indian Act on identities of Indigenous peoples and the communities and governance structures they maintain. In her talk, Existing in Conflict with the Law: Canada’s Indian Act, and the Legislation and Criminalization of Indigenous Identity, Kennedy unpacks how treaty and governance are understood within Anishnaabe law. This presentation by Kennedy on Thursday, March 28, at 7pm is part of our Respondent Series and in conjunction with Jean-Paul Kelly’s current exhibition, That ends that matter.*
Minnawaanigogiizhigok (Dawnis Kennedy) (LL.M) is the Community Connection Coordinator at Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre (MICEC). Minnawaanigogiizhigok (Happy/Joyous Day Woman) is a member of the Waabizheshi (Marten) Clan from Bigaawanishkoziibing – Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation. She is a second degree Midewiwin (Way of the Heart) person and member of the Three Fires Society. Minnawaanigogiizhigok was also raised as Ojichidaakwe (Female Person of Big Heart) by the Ojichidaa Society in Bigaawanishkoziibing. Also known as Dawnis Kennedy, Minnawanigogiizhigok is of European and Ojibwe Anishinabe lineage works to bring best of both traditions forward.
Dawnis is a wife, auntie, great auntie, mother, sister, cousin, daughter, niece, granddaughter, caregiver and friend. She is an enthusiastic bead collector, sometimes crafter and occasional beadworker. She is an accomplished scholar focused on learning Anishinabe Onakonigewin (the law of Anishinabe peoples), a community educator and a support to many of the people in her life. In her work, Dawnis draws on her training as a helper, her western education, her learning in the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge, her experience as a Trudeau Foundation Scholar and her mentorship as a visiting scholar of Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig, Centre of Excellence in Anishinabe Education.
Thank you to the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre for making this presentation possible.
*The exhibition That ends that matter continues the artist’s interest in the divide between materiality and perception; what we see and what is actually represented. The exhibition centers on Kelly’s own recounting based on memory and observation as a visitor to courtroom hearings at the City of London’s Magistrates’ Court in the UK— a criminal justice system, which completely forbids any kind of recording; visual or otherwise. The result includes a visual music animation, online image streams, and a re-enactment of witnessed events. The various film selections serves as a boarder set of relations to the exhibition and Kelly’s overall interests in different forms of representation from documentary frameworks to film production. That ends that matter is the first presentation of Jean-Paul Kelly’s work in Winnipeg and in the prairies. For more information on the artist and the exhibition visit our website: plugin.org

Acknowledgments

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art recognizes we are on Treaty One Territory, the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Métis, Cree, Dakota, Dene, and Oji-Cree Nations.
Thank you to the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre for making this presentation possible.
Production of That ends that matter was made possible through funding support of Ontario Arts Council with additional research support from the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Kuzuko Trust Award and Delfina Foundation’s family of individual supporters.
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 could not operate without their continued financial investment and lobbying efforts.
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
All public programming is free and open to the public.
This exhibition contains explicit sexual and violent content material, and might not be suitable for all ages. Please use discretion.
For more information on this and our other education programs, contact Luther Konadu at luther@plugin.org. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
460 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3C 0E8

Jean-Paul Kelly: That ends that matter | Final Day
2019-03-31 12:00 - 17:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
We are pleased to announce that Jean-Paul Kelly’s solo-exhibition, That ends that matter, will be extended until March 31st, 2019 in an effort to increase accessibility for visitors. March 31st, 2019 marks the final day of Jean-Paul Kelly’s solo-exhibition. Visit: plugin.org for a current listing of gallery hours.

For more information on this and our other education programs, contact Luther Konadu at luther@plugin.org. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043

All public programming is free and open to the public. Everyone welcome! This exhibition contains explicit sexual and violent material, and might not be suitable for all ages. Please use discretion.

Related exhibit: Jean-Paul Kelly: That ends that matter

Closed for installation
2019-04-01 - 2019-04-25 | Manitoba

DEADLINE: for Summer Institute Applications | EXTENDED April 1, 2019, 5pm CST
2019-04-01 17:00 | Manitoba
DEADLINE: for Summer Institute Applications | EXTENDED: April 1, 2019, 5pm CST
The Summer Institute is an international post-graduate artist research program for professional artists and thinkers working in all disciplines and media. In the 2019 edition, Plug In ICA will host two iterations of the Summer Institute.
Session 1: Trackings and Trappings will be lead by faculty members: Anju Singh, Justine A. Chambers, and Natalie Purschwitz. (July 8 to 19, 2019)
Session 2: Indigenous Architectures will be lead by faculty member: Joar Nango (August 6 to 16, 2019)

Artist Talk by Daniel Buren | Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 | 7pm | Hosted by the Winnipeg Art Gallery
2019-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Blvd, 300 Memorial Blvd, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Artist Talk by Daniel Buren
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 | 7pm
As part of our STAGES Speaker Series
Hosted by the Winnipeg Art Gallery (300 Memorial Blvd, Winnipeg, MB, Canada)

Two Solo Exhibitions: Karen Asher, Class & Ryan Trecartin, Comma Boat
2019-04-26 12:00 - 2019-06-30 17:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents two solo exhibitions:
Karen Asher: Class
April 26 to June 30, 2019
Ryan Trecartin: Comma Boat
April 26, to June 30, 2019
Karen Asher is one of Winnipeg’s most notable photographers. Asher’s lens-based practice is expanded in the newly created video and installation Class, exploring performance and the body. Ryan Trecartin is a celebrated American artist and filmmaker. The video Comma Boat presents a frenzied look at fame, performance, power and control.
For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043.

Opening Reception | Two Solo exhibitions: Karen Asher, Class & Ryan Trecartin, Comma Boat
2019-04-26 19:00 - 22:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, April 26 from 7pm to 10pm of two solo exhibitions:
Karen Asher: Class
April 26 to June 30, 2019
Ryan Trecartin: Comma Boat
April 26, to June 30, 2019
Karen Asher is one of Winnipeg’s most notable photographers. Asher’s lens-based practice is expanded in the newly created video and installation Class, exploring performance and the body. Ryan Trecartin is a celebrated American artist and filmmaker. The video Comma Boat presents a frenzied look at fame, performance, power and control.
For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043.

Employment Opportunity | Internship | Applications due
2019-05-06 17:00 | Manitoba
Intern – Fundraising/Programming
Paid internship
Plug In ICA is looking for an enthusiastic and professional individual as our Fundraising Intern. This is a paid internship opportunity funded in part by Young Canada Works through the Canadian Museums Association. Candidates must be under 30 years old, a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, and be returning to school following the internship to meet eligibility requirements outlined by Young Canada Works.
This term position, from June 10 to August 31 2019, is 40 hours a week, requiring some work in the evenings and on weekends.
Reporting to the Executive Director and working closely with the Operations Manager, the intern will participate in a broad range of activities that include the coordination, promotion and documentation of our events, specifically events associated with STAGES, Summer Institute: Session I & II and fundraising.
Interested candidates should submit a curriculum vitae and letter of interest by 5 pm Central Time on Monday, May 6, 2019.
Plug In thanks all candidates for their interest, but only those to be interviewed will be contacted.
Please submit applications to:
Angela Forget, Operations Manager
angela@plugin.org

WORK: A performance by Ming Hon | WORK | as part of our Respondent Series
2019-05-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Manitoba
As part of our Respondent Series, Plug In ICA present WORK by Ming Hon, a collaborative performance that utilizes the space and installation of Asher’s solo exhibition, CLASS that is currently on view. WORK is a study on the physicality of the body in labour, its usage in production, the worth and effort of a body working towards varying levels and contradicting spectrums of exertion, finesse, sensuality, vulgarity, repetition and spectacle.

Artist Talk by Kenneth Lavallee
2019-05-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Studio 393, 393 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Canada
STAGES Speaker Series
Artist Talk by Kenneth Lavallee
Thursday, May 30th, 2019 | 7 pm
OFF-site Location: Studio 393, 393 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB. R3B 3H9 (Portage Place sky walk between The Bay and Staples)

The Poetic Intention of Intuition | Curator Talk with Nasrin Himada Thursday, June 6, 2019 | 7pm
2019-06-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
As a way to introduce Nasrin Himada, Plug In ICA’s new Assistant Curator, to the Winnipeg community, they will give a curatorial talk that will discuss their research process in developing select exhibitions, publications, and public programs. Nasrin’s curatorial vision is invested in the exploration of contemporary art practices that condition the transformation of place and how we come to be together. Curation is always a collaborative experience, and initiating spaces of collaboration is a political act, an act that challenges the intentions of contemporary arts and its place from within the milieu of social practice. Himada’s interests and motivations in curatorial work stems from their own background in transformative justice and decolonial methodologies that are inspired from Palestinian cultural history and knowledge.

Class | Artist Talk by Karen Asher
2019-06-14 19:00 - 2019-06-15 00:00 | Manitoba
Plug In ICA is proud to present an artist talk by Karen Asher in conjunction with her solo exhibition Class. Asher’s body of work engages the figure in location, the body in movement, the mundane in tension with the surreal, captured in moments of joy, melancholy and resilience. Her images offer a set of circumstances that enliven the vulnerability felt in the every day. For Class, the poignancy of life is imaged and imagined through her subjects on screen and in portrait, highlighting the empowering effect of improv, performance and pleasure. In this new work, Asher uses the camera to condition spaces of agency, visibility and confidence, allowing an openness at the heart of what is seen and felt. Astute and playful, Asher’s approach to composition is instigated by the care, rigour and sensitivity inherent in her process. The camera lens in Asher’s hands has the possibility of offering respite from hardship and struggle.
In celebration of Asher’s solo exhibition, a karaoke and dance party, featuring a performance by The Pinc Lincolns, follows the artist talk.

Angie Keefer: Second Thoughts | Book Launch
2019-06-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
I half hold that my life is a fine ride as long as I don’t attempt to navigate. The least critical way to describe this outlook is “bemused fatalism,” and as coping mechanisms go, there’s much to be said for keeping that faith, but so far it hasn’t proved compatible with ambitious ideas like writing a book, though this may turn out to be the first page of a first chapter, in which case I’ve changed my life and overruled fate with you as my witness.
–Angie Keefer
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the launch of Second Thoughts, a selection of writing from 2008 to 2018 by artist Angie Keefer. This compilation traverses numerous disciplines from physics to philosophy, incorporating biographical elements and running parallel to Keefer’s visual practice.
Without directly addressing her own visual work, the book shadows the artist’s research, capturing her thoughts, travels, and encounters across a broad spectrum of subjects, including octopuses, protons, pictographs, poets, grammar, economy, love, loss, and politics.
At nearly 550-pages, Second Thoughts is long in scope but precisely constructed. Keefer leads readers down vividly articulated paths, documenting her thought processes in an exacting manner that reveals writing itself as a process of formulating the world. Accumulated knowledge is reconfigured through the pacing and cadence of each sentence.
Keefer worked closely with designer Scott Ponik to present this selection of writing as a unified whole while framing each individual text with its own synopsis and postscript. Though all of the pieces have been published previously, many were significantly updated, amended, and rewritten for this edition. Second Thoughts includes an introduction by Maxine Kopsa and a short text co-written with Lucy Skaer. The title is pulled in part from Keefer’s 2017 solo exhibition FIRST CLASS, SECOND THOUGHTS, INTERMINABLE SWELL at Plug In ICA.
Keefer will be in attendance at Canadian book launches for a reading and signing. Launches will be taking place in Toronto at Art Metropole on June 19 at 7pm, in Winnipeg at Plug In ICA on June 20 at 7pm, in Calgary at Esker Foundation on June 21 at 6pm, and in Vancouver at Or Gallery on June 22 at 1pm.
Angie 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 often pulls at the stitching that holds the enterprise together. She has exhibited extensively at institutions in the USA and Europe, including Witte de With, Rotterdam (2018); Plug In ICA (2017); 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); and has staged performances, talks, seminars, and other series at Artists Space, New York (2015); Liverpool Biennial (2014); Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius (2014, 2011); Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2013); São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2012); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012), among others. Her writing has appeared in numerous artists’ publications, as well as Mousse, Harvard Design Magazine, and Bulletins of The Serving Library.
