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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/
LOCATION:Manitoba
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SUMMARY:Stages Speaker Series: Artist Talk with FASTWÜRMS
DESCRIPTION:*New Location- 393 Portage Ave\, former Globe Cinema\, 3rd floor\, Portage Place Shopping Centre \nOn Tuesday\, April 11th at 7pm\, Plug In ICA presents an artist talk by Ontario-based collective FASTWÜRMS. \nFASTWÜRMS artwork is characterized by a self-described “determined DIY sensibility\, Witch Nation identity politics\, and a keen allegiance towards working class\, queer alliance\, and artist collaborations”. They are mainstays within the Canadian art scene and have a long relationship of working with Plug In ICA\, including on their 2008 exhibition Donky@Ninja@Witch. \nTheir Interdisciplinary practice takes on many forms including video\, installation\, performance and public art. Interweaving punk aesthetics with ancient symbol-ology their immersive installations act as stages for performance and audience interaction. They embrace the lexicon of popular culture witchcraft as a tool to look at issues of identity politics and social interaction. \nFor their talk\, FASTWÜRMS will present their work as it relates to the upcoming public art project\, STAGES: Drawing The Curtain – a constellation of site-specific public artworks to be launched through out Winnipeg 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. \nFormed in 1979 by multidisciplinary artists Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse\, FASTWÜRMS is known for their diverse immersive practice that explores identity\, humour\, magic and social exchange. Their practice takes the form of public commissions\, installation\, video\, performance\, and drawing. Together they teach studio art at the University of Guelph\, Ontario. Their work has been shown extensively in North America and Internationally at venues including the Power Plant (Toronto)\, Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)\, Ontario Art Gallery (Toronto)\, CIAC (Montréal)\, Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff)\, SEQUENCES Festival (Reykjavik\, Iceland)\, Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul\, Korea) Leokonig Projekte (New York) and the 2006 São Paulo Biennial\, Brazil. FASTWÜRMS is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art\, Toronto. \n\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: 393 Portage Ave\, former Globe Cinema\, 3rd floor\, Portage Place Shopping Centre \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). \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\, Portage Place Shopping Centre and Fillip Publishers. \n\nRelated exhibit: \nSTAGES: Drawing the Curtain
URL:https://plugin.org/event/stages-speaker-series-artist-talk-with-fastwurms/
LOCATION:Manitoba
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SUMMARY:Tagalog eksibisyon tour ni Patrick Cruz\, 2pm | Artist Talk in English\, 3pm
DESCRIPTION:Ihinahandog ng Plug In Institute of Contemporary art ang eksibisyong Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze) ang unang solo eksibisyon ni Patrick Cruz sa Winnipeg\, kilala sa estilo at pag gamit ng matitingkad na kulay\, matatapang na linya sa pagguhit\, at mga instalasyon na sumasakop ng espasyo gawa ng kanyang mga likhang-sining. Isang personal na kasaysayan ng imigrasyon mula sa Pilipinas papuntang Canada ay ang kwento na nakaguhit sa mga obra ni Patrick Cruz\, sa pamamagitan ng akumulasyon ng linya\, kulay at ibatibang estilo sa pagpinta\, ito ay isinalansan at pinagsamasama sa isang nakaka-engganyong instalasyon. Nakapaskil sa pader at gumagapang sa sahig ng Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art\, Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze) ay ang pananaw ng artist – ang kanyang perspektibo na bumubuo ng isang magulo\, maingay at masikip na mundo gawa sa mga ginuhit na linya\, matitingkad na kulay\, mga pinagtagpitagping mga bidyo at mga pinagpatongpatong na mga gamit. \nSi Patrick Cruz ay isang Filipino-Canadian artist at organizer na nagtatrabaho sa pagitan ng Vancouver\, Toronto at Manila\, Philippines. Nagaral siya ng pagpinta sa University of the Philippines Diliman at eskulptura sa Emily Carr University of Art + Design sa Vancouver. Tinapos niya ang kanyang Masters of Fine arts sa University of Guelph etong nakaraang taon. Ang kanyang sining at mga obra ay dala ng kanyang karanasan bilang isang immigrante galing Pilipinas patungong Canada. Siya ay nanalo ng National Prize noong 2015 mula sa 17th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. \n\nRelated exhibit:\nPatrick Cruz: Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze)
URL:https://plugin.org/event/tagalog-eksibisyon-tour-ni-patrick-cruz-2pm-artist-talk-in-english-3pm/
LOCATION:Manitoba
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SUMMARY:Respondent Series Performance | Psychic Materials by Casey Mecija
DESCRIPTION: On Thursday\, April 20\, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in collaboration with The Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies (U of W)\, and Queer People of Color (QPOC) presents Psychic Materials\, a performance by scholar\, musician and performance artist\, Casey Mecija.\nFor her presentation at Plug In ICA\, Mecija will draw on her background as a musician in the orchestral pop band Ohbijou and recent solo projects. She will perform amidst Patrick Cruz’s immersive installation Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze) currently on exhibition at Plug In ICA. Mecija and Cruz are linked by a mutual concern with the diasporic experience of migration from the Philippines. Mecija’s performance is sonically informed by her recent solo album Psychic Materials and will use a mash up of video and GIF art\, performance\, and sound to meditate on “the queer dynamics of diaspora”. \nFinding space within aesthetic practice to visualize what she refers to as “queer feelings\, Filipina subjectivity and diasporic longing”\, Psychic Materials puts forward two propositions: “What is the psychic life of music? What is the soundtrack to diasporic experience?” \nCasey Mecija is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in music and film. From 2004 to 2014\, Mecija was a writer and singer for the Canadian orchestral pop band\, Ohbijou and in 2016 she released her first solo album\, Psychic Materials. Mecija was awarded the WIFT-T Award (Women in Film and Television) at the 2013 Reel Asian Film Festival for her short film “My Father\, Francis” which screened at Inside Out LGBT Film Festival\, Toronto; Mixed Shorts: Local Heroes\, Toronto; and the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. In addition to her artistic pursuits\, Mecija is actively involved in queer and Filipina organizing. She is currently completing a PhD at The University of Toronto\, where she researches art\, media and cultural studies as they relate to queer diaspora. \nThis artist talk is presented as part of Plug In ICA’s Respondent Series\, which invites professionals from diverse fields to respond to the themes and subjects addressed in our exhibitions. \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. \n\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. \n\nRelated exhibit: \nPatrick Cruz: Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze)\n\n 
URL:https://plugin.org/event/respondent-series-performance-psychic-materials-by-casey-mecija/
LOCATION:Manitoba
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SUMMARY:Tournée guidée en français par Janelle Tougas des deux expositions de la programmation du printemps
DESCRIPTION:Le samedi 29 avril\, Plug In ICA présente une tournée guidée en français par Janelle Tougas des deux expositions de la programmation du printemps. Pour ces deux expositions en solo\, les deux artistes ont créé des environnements immersifs dans leurs galeries respectives du Plug in ICA – Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze) par l’artiste philippin canadien Patrick Cruz\, gagnant du 17e Concours annuel de peintures canadiennes de RBC en 2015\, et “A Greenhouse. Evening.” par l’artiste bien-aimé Winnipégois Ray Fenwick.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Patrick Cruz\n\n\nTitig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze)\n\n\nDu 14 avril au 04 juin 2017\n\n\n\n\n\nPlug In Institute of Contemporary Art est fier de présenter Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze)\, la première exposition en solo de Patrick Cruz à Winnipeg.\n\n\n\n\n\nPour cette exposition\, des motifs animés sont peints sur les murs\, le planché et la vitrine du Plug In ICA\, enveloppant l’espace et ses visiteurs. Ce parcours personnel d’immigration des Philippines au Canada est une histoire tracée à la surface des toiles de Cruz\, rendue visible par l’accumulation de lignes\, de couleurs et de gestes\, empilés et amassés dans une installation immersive. Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze) présente le regard de l’artiste – sa perspective\, fusionnée de façon stylisée dans un monde dense et saturé de lignes peintes\, de couleurs vives\, de collages vidéo et d’objets empilés.\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick Cruz est un artiste multidisciplinaire philippin canadien reconnu pour son style de peinture immersif\, sa palette de couleurs vives\, ses installations d’assemblages et ses lignes gestuelles. Influencé par son expérience de migration au Canada en 2005\, Cruz cultive le détritus de la société capitaliste\, l’implique en tant qu’acteur dans ses œuvres et y centre ses réflexions sur la mondialisation\, le déplacement et la migration. En 2015\, Cruz a gagné le 17e concours annuel de peintures canadiennes de RBC. Il a aussi exposé à travers l’Amérique du Nord\, en Europe et en Asie avec des expositions récentes à Projet Pangee à Montréal\, Centre A à Vancouver\, Project 20 à Quezon City aux Philippines et Multiplex à Portland. Ses œuvres sont présentement exposées à la Art Gallery of Alberta et ont été présentées au Mexico Material Art Fair en 2016. En plus de sa pratique en solo\, Cruz collabore souvent avec d’autres artistes pour présenter des performances et des projections vidéo. Ses œuvres sont collectionnées par la RBC\, la banque TD\, ainsi que par des collectionneurs privés à Manille\, à Hongkong\, à Vancouver\, à Calgary\, à Toronto\, et en Floride.\n\n\n\n\n\n Ray Fenwick\n\n\nA Greenhouse. Evening\n\n\nDu 14 avril au 4 juin 2017\n\n\n\n\n\nLe titre de l’exposition\, “A Greenhouse. Evening.” (Une serre. Soir.) est une description mettant en scène cette exposition solo de Fenwick qui est à la fois une installation élaborée et une performance improvisée.\n\n\nLa «serre» de Fenwick est une structure autonome\, placée dans le «soir» – une pièce faiblement éclairée. Cette mise en scène accueille les visiteurs qui sont invités à entrer et à se mettre en contact avec les éléments de l’installation ainsi qu’avec la possibilité d’une conversation. Dans “A Greenhouse. Evening.” Fenwick aborde la définition d’une conversation en poussant ce sujet à une conclusion absurde où les murs parlent et où les plantes peuvent comprendre et pousser.\n\n\n\n\n\nRay Fenwick est un artiste interdisciplinaire qui œuvre en performance\, en vidéo\, en art sonore et en typographie. Connu pour ses performances excentriques\, souvent immersives et à longue durée\, il explore le langage\, la voix et la communication. Ses œuvres de performances se situent à quelque part entre l’humour expérimental et l’art sonore. En plus de ses projets en solo\, Fenwick collabore aussi avec l’artiste Mitchell Wiebe sous le nom de Pastoralia\, un projet hybride d’art\, de performance et de musique qui est le point de rencontre des pratiques artistiques des deux artistes.\n\n\n\n\n\nFenwick a complété sa maitrise en beaux-arts à l’Université du Manitoba et a exposé au Canada et aux États-Unis. Pastoralia a donné des prestations dans plusieurs salles inattendues telles que l’ouverture de l’exposition Oh Canada du Mass MoCA\, à North Adams Massachusetts\, au Nocturne festival d’Halifax et tout récemment au Saltbox performance festival à Terre-Neuve. Ses œuvres ont aussi été exposées à la Galerie Sans Nom à Moncton\, à la Grenfell Art Gallery à Corner Brook\, à la Southern Alberta Art Gallery à Lethbridge\, à la Truck Gallery à Calgary\, et au Plug-In ICA à Winnipeg. Cette exposition marque sa première exposition en solo à Winnipeg.\n\n\n \n\n\nExpositions connexes :\n\n\nRay Fenwick: A Greenhouse. Evening.\n\n\nPatrick Cruz: Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze)\n\n\n\n\nRelated exhibits:\nRay Fenwick: A Greenhouse. Evening.\nPatrick Cruz: Titig Kayumanggi (Brown Gaze)
URL:https://plugin.org/event/tournee-guidee-en-francais-par-janelle-tougas-des-deux-expositions-de-la-programmation-du-printemps/
LOCATION:Manitoba
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