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SUMMARY:Summer Institute Session II: Site/ation with BUSH gallery
DESCRIPTION:Plug In ICA Summer Institute Session II:\nAugust 7-24\, 2018\nBUSH gallery:  “Site/ation” \nFor Session II of our Summer Institute\, post-graduate research program\, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is excited to partner with BUSH gallery. Over three weeks\, from August 7-24\, Tania Willard\, Peter Morin and Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill will lead Site/ation\, pushing a radical approach to curating and art making\, born from active engagements and lived experiences on the land\, land marking\, contemporary art\, the reserve\, and the gallery. Using Indigenous methodologies to build a transformational space\, that is open to everyone\, BUSH seeks to de-centre the gallery\, and the city as epicentres of contemporary art. \nBUSH gallery Project Statement: \nBUSH gallery acknowledges the Indigenous Nations that have ancestral ties to the Treaty 1 Territory and the Métis Nation homeland. As uninvited guests\,* we strive to connect what we are doing as Indigenous artists with valuing and circulating within local Indigenous economies and communities\, while also creating space for conceptual\, experimental and performative land-based Indigenous led contemporary art. By practicing reciprocity and value-based systems of Indigenous knowledges\, centred by our specific cultural backgrounds\, we make galleries of thought\, colour\, land\, sky\, text and interrelationality. \nThe 2018 summer intensive with Plug In ICA enacts ideas of site/ation. How are we influenced\, challenged\, changed and politically tied to the lands in our communities and in our orbits. Participants will camp on the land together\, read relevant texts\, go for walks on the land\, dream new relationships\, and will research and learn by making and doing. \nUsing art as strategy to guide resources and value Indigenous led spaces that acknowledge the land as the first gallery\, as our gallery as BUSH gallery we will come together to laugh\, to make\, to eat and to conjure ideas and dreams that will feed the ancestors. \nBUSH gallery functions as a space that allows for dialogue\, experimental practice and community engaged work that contributes to an understanding of how gallery systems and art might be transfigured\, translated and transformed by Indigenous customs\, aesthetics\, performance and land use systems. BUSH gallery is a trans-conceptual galleryspace. Trans-conceptual repositions ideas born within Indigenous and western epistemological conditions. The trans-conceptual space requires your body to be in a constant state of flux. Never settling like the flow of water in a river. One of the goals of BUSH gallery is to articulate Indigenous creative land practices\, which are born out of a lived connection to the land. \n\n\n\n* When we use ‘uninvited guest’ it means we acknowledge that due to dispossession of Indigenous lands and territories across Canada we operate outside of protocols that would make the local territory we are visiting within the authority of the traditional Indigenous land rights holder. \n\nParticipants for Summer Institute II include:\nLacie Burning\, Kevin Lee Burton\, Jane Harms\, Liz Ikiriko\, Audie Murray\, Joseph Naytowhow\, Dana Qaddah\, Christian Vistan\, Daina Warren\, Bo Yeung. Bio’s available here. \n\nPlug In ICA extends our gratitude to our artists\, generous donors\, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle. You make a difference! \nWe gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. Plug ICA gratefully acknowledges the RBC Foundation and the Johnston Group for their support of our 2018/2019 Summer Institute Program. \nPlug In ICA relies on community support to remain free and accessible to all. Enable us to continue presenting 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 media inquiries please contact: Sarah Nesbitt: sarah@plugin.org or (204)942-1043.
URL:https://plugin.org/event/summer-institute-session-ii-site-ation-with-bush-gallery/
LOCATION:Manitoba
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SUMMARY:Summer Institute Session II: Public Talk\, Site/ation with BUSH gallery
DESCRIPTION:Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to host a talk by BUSH gallery (Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill\, Peter Morin and Tania Willard) as part of the public programming for Site/ation\, session two of our 2018 Summer Institute program\, facilitated by the experimental curatorial and artist collective\, BUSH gallery. Everyone welcome!  \nBUSH gallery statement: \nBUSH gallery acknowledges the Indigenous Nations that have ancestral ties to the Treaty 1 Territory and the Métis Nation homeland. As uninvited guests\,* we strive to connect what we are doing as Indigenous artists with valuing and circulating within local Indigenous economies and communities\, while also creating space for conceptual\, experimental and performative land-based Indigenous led contemporary art. By practicing reciprocity and value-based systems of Indigenous knowledges\, centred by our specific cultural backgrounds\, we make galleries of thought\, colour\, land\, sky\, text and interrelationality. \nThe 2018 summer intensive with Plug In ICA enacts ideas of site/ation. How are we influenced\, challenged\, changed and politically tied to the lands in our communities and in our orbits? \nUsing art as strategy to guide resources and value Indigenous led spaces that acknowledge the land as the first gallery\, as our gallery as BUSH gallery we come together to laugh\, to make\, to eat and to conjure ideas and dreams that will feed the ancestors.  \nBUSH gallery functions as a space that allows for dialogue\, experimental practice and community engaged work that contributes to an understanding of how gallery systems and art might be transfigured\, translated and transformed by Indigenous customs\, aesthetics\, performance and land use systems. BUSH gallery is a trans-conceptual galleryspace. Trans-conceptual repositions ideas born within Indigenous and western epistemological conditions. The trans-conceptual space requires your body to be in a constant state of flux. Never settling like the flow of water in a river. One of the goals of BUSH gallery is to articulate Indigenous creative land practices\, which are born out of a lived connection to the land. \n\n* When we use ‘uninvited guest’ it means we acknowledge that due to dispossession of Indigenous lands and territories across Canada we operate outside of protocols that would make the local territory we are visiting within the authority of the traditional Indigenous land rights holder.
URL:https://plugin.org/event/bushgallery-public-talk/
LOCATION:Manitoba
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SUMMARY:Summer Institute Session II: Indigenous Art History at the BUSH  by Cathy Mattes | Wednesday\, August 15\, 10:30am
DESCRIPTION:Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present “Indigenous Art History at the BUSH\,” a talk by Cathy Mattes as part of Site/ation by BUSH gallery (Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill\, Peter Morin and Tania Willard). As an internationally distinguished curator Mattes is known for strategies that emphasize audience participation\, direct engagement\, and Michif cultural protocols and practices. As an educator at Brandon University\, Mattes makes connections between politics and art with the understanding that artists can enact social change. Drawing attention to marginalized art histories\, Mattes contributes essential labor towards shifting dominant narratives in the presentation of contemporary art and curatorial practice. \nFor this presentation\, Mattes will speak about her curatorial work\, including the Rielisms exhibition\, and Inheritance\, a recent exhibition of work by Amy Malbeuf that included collaborative elements such as ‘kitchen table talk’ and jigging after artist talks. \nMattes’s talk is part of Plug In ICA’s second session of our 2018 Summer Institute\, Site/ation facilitated by BUSH gallery. BUSH uses a radical approach to curating and art-making\, born from active engagements and lived experiences on the land\, land marking\, contemporary art\, the reserve\, and the gallery. Using Indigenous methodologies to build a transformational space\, that is open to everyone\, BUSH seeks to de-centre the gallery\, and the city as epicentres of contemporary art. \nCathy Mattes is a proud Michif writer and curator based in rural Southwestern Manitoba. Her practice focuses on the intersection of Indigenous issues and art\, with an emphasis on community\, which she sees as a complicated concept\, to be explored\, questioned and located. Interested in creating better conditions for Indigenous cultural workers\, Mattes has served on the board for the Urban Shaman Gallery\, and collaborated with Indigenous cultural workers in Australia and Venice. Her curatorial projects include Frontrunners\, Urban Shaman Gallery and Plug In ICA; Blanche: KC Adams & Jonathan Jones\, Chalkhorse Gallery\, Sydney Australia; Rockstars & Wannabes\, Urban Shaman Gallery\, and Transcendence – KC Adams\, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. She has lectured nationally and internationally\, and in 2010 she was selected as a delegate on the Canada Council for the Arts’ Aboriginal Curators Delegation to New Zealand and Australia. In addition to her freelance work\, Mattes was the curator at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba between 2003 and 2005\, and has been a consultant for various government agencies and arts organizations. She is an Assistant Professor teaching art history at Brandon University in the Visual and Aboriginal Arts Department\, and is pursuing her PhD at the University of Manitoba in Native Studies.
URL:https://plugin.org/event/summer-institute-session-ii-indigenous-art-history-at-the-bush-by-cathy-mattes-wednesday-august-15-1030am/
LOCATION:Manitoba
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SUMMARY:BUSH gallery Open Studios and Summer Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate with Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art and BUSH gallery as we close Site/ation the second session of our 2018 Summer Institute. Join us this Friday\, August 24th at Plug In ICA from 7-11pm as we celebrate the final weeks of summer with BUSH gallery open studios including performances\, installations and a screening. BUSH gallery (Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill\, Peter Morin and Tania Willard) and Summer Institute participants Lacie Burning\, Jane Harms\, Liz Ikiriko\, Audie Murray\, Joseph Naytowhow\, Dana Qaddah\, Emiliano Sepulveda\, Christian Vistan\, Diana Warren and Bo Yeung host a night of art\, music\, food and fun. On the rooftop patio enjoy dancing\, eating or socializing to BUSH gallery’s special summer play list. Cash bar will be open! Everyone welcome! \nEnacting a principal of Site/ation\, BUSH gallery Summer Institute grounded its programming in developing knowledge of and with the land. Working from a position of respect for their status as uninvited guests\, Site/ation emphasized respect for local knowledge by initiating a talk with Niigaan Sinclair on Treaty 1\, a plant walk with Elder Carl Smith\, and participating in the Broken Head Pow Wow. Art Elder Joseph Naytowhow guided the group in song\, picking choke cherries\, learning to sing ‘all shook up’ in Cree and so much more. They made NDN peanut butter\, went swimming in Lake Winnipeg\, and projected videos on the trees and makeshift screens. BUSH gallery collective gave a performative lecture\, including interventions by Tania Willard’s children; we all learned Metis jigging with curator Cathy Mattes; and played basketball at the Jackson Beardy Memorial Mural. Over the course of three weeks\, BUSH gallery participants camped\, laughed\, made\, ate\, and conjured ideas and dreams that fed the ancestors. Please join us in celebrating the culmination of this transformative Summer Institute session. \n\nFor More information on BUSH gallery and the Summer Institute\, Session II\, see: https://plugin.org/exhibitions/bush-gallery/ \n\nPlug ICA gratefully acknowledges the RBC Foundation and the Johnston Group for their support of our 2018/2019 Summer Institute Program. We extend our gratitude to our artists\, generous donors\, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle. You make a difference! We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. Plug In ICA relies on community support to remain free and accessible to all. Enable us to continue presenting 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
URL:https://plugin.org/event/bush-gallery-open-studios/
LOCATION:Manitoba
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SUMMARY:Closed for Installation
DESCRIPTION:Plug In ICA Gallery and Bookstore are closed between exhibitions for installation. To browse use 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.
URL:https://plugin.org/event/closed-for-installation/
LOCATION:Manitoba
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