Plug In ICA

Jean-Paul Kelly: That ends that matter | Final Day
2019-03-31 12:00 - 17:00 UTC | 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
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.

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.

IIY Screening and Discussion: Interpreting Asher & Trecartin
2019-06-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents:
Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth | Video Screening and Discussion: Interpreting Asher and Trecartin
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 | 5:00 PM
Unit 1, Plug In ICA | 460 Portage Ave
On Wednesday, June 26, 2019 discover our current exhibitions, Class by Karen Asher and Comma Boat by Ryan Trecartin through the interpretive lens of 4 youth participants. Starting at 5:00 pm, participants of the seventh edition of our Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth [IIY] program, Brett Lewis, Faron McDougall, Forest Monias, Sabba Rezai, Jacob Vergel, and session mentor Tuva Bergstrom, will present a short interpretive video produced by them. Following the screening will be a panel discussion where the participants will discuss the collaborative process.
The IIY 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 as it gives voice to youth in the community while building new audiences.
The screening offers a visual reflection of the youth’s collective and individual experience of Class and Comma Boat, and marks the culmination of an intensive eight weeks of meeting, working, and thinking together about the exhibition; and about video as an interpretive mode. For this iteration of the program, participants had the opportunity to work closely with Winnipeg-based artist Luther Konadu who lead the program; the artist Karen Asher and film maker Rhayne Vermette, to discuss process, approach and multi-media content creation.
The youth screening and panel discussion will begin at 5:00 pm, followed by a short reception. The program facilitator, Luther Konadu, will moderate the screening and panel discussion with IIY participants.
Everyone is welcome! Snacks and refreshments will be served.
Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth is designed for youth ages 16 to 24. The program reverses a pre-existing interpretive model used within arts institutions that often produce short videos as educational devices. These often include interviews with artists or curators, images of artworks and installation shots; they often reference artists’ biographies, previous artworks, and at times, glimpse into artists’ studios. These videos are usually presented online or within the gallery or museum in close proximity to the artworks, and tend to place an emphasis on the artist’s and institution’s intention over the experience of the viewer.
The “Interpreting [Interrupting] Youth” program inversely begins with the youth’s experience of the artwork, challenging conventional models of art interpretation by overturning basic roles of authority and authorship.
For more information about this and other education programs, please contact Luther Konadu at luther@plugin.org. For general information please contact: info@plugin.org or call 1.204.942.1043.
We give special thanks to JUST TV for their dedicated and expert partnership.
Our next IIY program will take place in October and November 2019. Please contact luther@plugin.org if you want to join. The Program is FREE, and you gain a certificate of participation at the end.
Acknowledgments
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art recognizes we are in the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Dakota, Dene, Métis, and Oji-Cree Nations. Plug In ICA is situated in Treaty 1 territory, the ancestral and traditional homeland of Anishinaabe peoples. Treaty 1 was signed in 1871, taking this territory from seven local Anishinaabe First Nations in order to make the land available for settler use and ownership (Referenced from the University of Winnipeg).
Plug In ICA extends our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors, valued members, and dedicated volunteers. You make a difference.
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

Summer Institute I: Trackings and Trappings | Faculty members: Anju Singh, Justine A. Chambers, Natalie Purschwitz
2019-07-08 00:00 - 2019-07-19 00:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents our 2019 Summer Institute Session I. The first session of the institute, Trackings and Trappings, will be led by faculty members: sound artist Anju Singh, dance artist Justine A. Chambers, and visual artist and designer Natalie Purschwitz.
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. The first session, led by Singh, Chambers, and Purschwitz, will run from July 8th to July 19th. Working under the heading Trackings and Trappings, the three leads will explore expanded notions of mapping, encouraging participants to investigate their own practice through the trappings of normalized systems of belief. Participants are invited to reorient their gaze, sensation and attention to gain understanding of how hard-wired ideological structures influence how we chart our trajectories through the experienced world.

Curator Talk by Bopha Chhay
2019-07-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
In consideration of critical and alternative curatorial practices that emphasis the importance of the gallery as a space for dialogue and creative engagement, Chhay will discuss Artspeak’s recent year of programming. With a mandate to encourage dialogue between visual arts and writing practices, Artspeak has been asking ‘How do we change the language we use to speak about artistic practice and institutions within the context of wider socio-political concerns?’ Approaching how they conceive of what constitutes ‘public(s)’ and different forms of engagement has been at the forefront of how Artspeak has attempted to change their use of language and therefore the narratives and the voices they want to give space to. What are our responsibilities to acknowledging and reconfiguring our relationship to place? Instead of terms such as ‘audience’, Artspeak has been thinking more along the lines of community building, and the mutual exchange and time it takes to build community. This requires a change of pace, a slowing down and different approach to time within their programming and relationship with their communities.

Summer Institute II: Indigenous Architectures | Faculty member: Joar Nango
2019-08-06 00:00 - 2019-08-16 00:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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.
Norwegian- Sámi artist/architect, Joar Nango, will be the lead faculty and facilitator for the second intensive session of the Summer Institute. Nango will focus on Indigenous architectures with a week of intensive knowledge sharing through a series of lecture programming followed by a week of production. The second session will start August 6th running to August 16th. Foregrounding Indigenous approaches to design and alternative models of social space, Nango will lead participants through a series of texts, discussions, guest lectures, workshops, and studio time for the first week, engaging local, Winnipeg-based, Indigenous architects and thinkers.
For more information: click here

STAGES biennial 2019
2019-08-16 08:00 - 2019-09-08 18:00 | Manitoba
Plug In ICA’s STAGES biennial 2019
featured artists:
Raymond Boisjoly
Daniel Buren
FASTWÜRMS (Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse)
Kenneth Lavallee
Joar Nango
Andrea Roberts
Silke Otto-Knapp
curated by Jenifer Papararo

INTRODUCTION
This is the second iteration of the STAGES biennial presented by Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. This year’s exhibition builds on the previous edition in its presentation of temporary public sculpture, installation and performances throughout Winnipeg, but 2019 has an expanded range and includes the remounting of an historic artwork. The biennial commissions seven artworks that take place across the city and its outskirts in abandoned industrial sites, apartment buildings, malls, municipal parks and parking lots.

STAGES biennial 2019 Launch party
2019-08-16 19:00 - 23:00 | Maison Chaboillez, 866 St. Joseph Street, Winnipeg, 866 St. Joseph Street, Winnipeg, manitoba, Canada
AUGUST 16 | 7 – 11pm
Opening Reception: LAUNCH PARTY: Friday, August 16, 7 – 11pm
Maison Chaboillez in Whittier Park, 866 St. Joseph Street, Winnipeg, MB
All welcome

Stages Speaker Series: Artist Talk by Silke Otto-Knapp
2019-08-17 14:00 - 15:30 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
AUGUST 17 | 2pm
Stages Speaker Series: Artist Talk by Silke Otto-Knapp
At Plug In ICA, Unit 1-460 Portage Avenue

#witch_raku_skull_fire by FASTWÜRMS
2019-08-23 12:00 - 2019-08-24 00:00 | 90 Annabella Street, 90 Annabella Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
AUGUST 23 | 12pm to 12am
#witch_raku_skull_fire by FASTWÜRMS
A site-specific performance in the garden of 90 Annabella Street, Winnipeg.

STAGES Guided Tour
2019-08-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Manitoba
AUGUST 23 | 2pm
Guided Tour
Bus tour, meeting at Plug In ICA
Approximately two hours; including performance by FASTWURMS. Please pre-register for this tour by emailing Rachael@plugin.org
* meet at Plug In ICA

STAGES Guided Tour
2019-08-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Manitoba
AUGUST 25 | 2pm
Guided Tour
bike tour of five works (Boisjoly, Buren, Lavallee, Nango, Otto-Knapp); meeting at Plug In ICA
Approximately two hours; Please pre-register for this tour by emailing Rachael@plugin.org
*meet at Plug In ICA
**weather permitting

STAGES Curatorial Tour
2019-09-07 16:30 - 20:30 | Manitoba
SEPTEMBER 07 | 4:30pm
Curatorial Tour
Bus tour, meeting at Plug In ICA
Approximately one hour and 30 minutes; four hours including performance CRISIS CANON by Andrea Roberts. Please pre-register for this tour by emailing Rachael@plugin.org

CRISIS CANON by Andrea Roberts
2019-09-07 19:00 - 21:00 | British-American Cement Plant
SEPTEMBER 07 | 7pm to sunset
CRISIS CANON by Andrea Roberts, vocal and sound performers by Zohreh Gervais, Doreen Girard, Sarah Jo Kirsch and Bret Parenteau
At the British-American Cement Plant is located on Sturgeon Road between Park Royale Way and Prairie Dog Trail in the RM of Rosser. It is a 25 min drive from downtown Winnipeg. Exact coordinates are 49°57’04.7″N x 97°16’35.6″W. The pathway is not paved.
A bus will leave from Plug In ICA at 6:15 pm. Please RSVP to Rachael@plugin.org to insure a seat. The bus is not wheelchair accessible. No washroom access.

STAGES Guided Tour
2019-09-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Manitoba
SEPTEMBER 08 | 2pm
Guided Tour
bike tour of five works (Boisjoly, Buren, Lavallee, Nango, Otto-Knapp); meeting at Plug In ICA
Approximately two hours; Please pre-register for this tour by emailing Rachael@plugin.org
*weather permitting

Annual General Meeting
2019-09-16 17:00 - 18:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Plug In ICA Annual General Meeting
for April, 2018 – March, 2019
Monday, September 16, 2019 | 5pm
At Plug In ICA | 460 Portage Ave, Unit 1

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art will hold its Annual General Meeting on Monday, September 16th at 5PM. Everyone is welcome, but in order to vote you must be a member in good standing (memberships must be paid before the meeting). Memberships may be acquired in the Plug In ICA Bookshop during regular Institute hours or purchased online here.
At the AGM we will present our annual report and audited ﬁnancial statements for the year ending March 31, 2019, and hold an election for the Board of Directors.
AGENDA
1. Welcome from the President of the Board (Sotirios Kotoulas)
2. Approval of Agenda and September 17, 2018 AGM Minutes
3. Presentation of the Annual Report (Jenifer Papararo, Executive Director)
4. Financial Report (Jordan Sodomsky, Treasurer)
5. Equity Committee Report
6. Appointment of Auditor for 2018/2019 ﬁscal year
7. Election
8. Motion to Adjourn

Artist Talk by Stan Douglas
2019-09-27 19:00 - 21:00 | 136 Artlab, University of Manitoba
Artist Talk by Stan Douglas
Offsite at 136 Artlab, University of Manitoba

Stan Douglas: Luanda-Kinshasa | Opening 7-11pm
2019-09-28 19:00 - 23:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Opening in conjunction with Nuit Blanche

Stan Douglas: Luanda-Kinshasa
2019-09-28 19:00 - 2019-12-29 19:00 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Cam Scott: ROMANS/SNOWMARE launch & reading
2019-10-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Plug In ICA and ARP Books present a launch and reading of Cam Scott’s ROMANS/SNOWMARE
