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Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art

Unit 1, 460 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada
R3C 0E8

info@plugin.org

1.204.942.1043

Wheelchair accessible. Please contact us if you have any accessibility needs or requests.

We are on Treaty 1 Territory. Plug In ICA is located on the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.

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❗We are open from 12 - 6 pm today! Check out our

❗We are open from 12 - 6 pm today! Check out our current exhibition 'The Swarm' by Farah Al Qasimi!

We are very pleased to continue celebrating our over fifty years milestone by presenting two tandem solo exhibitions that offer crucial social, political, and historical reflections on the complex world of images in which we are all entangled one way or the other. Both artists are exhibiting in Winnipeg for the first time and they each broadly draw on the lives of objects and their intersections with the fickle nature of images.

Farah Al Qasimi (b. 1991, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes photographs, films and music. Often working with large-scale vinyl imagery and a multiplicity of photographic prints and screens, Farah is interested in the internet and its hierarchies of information and emotion. Farah also loves the complexity of storytelling and value-building in children's cartoons, and many of her video works include primary narrators who are anthropomorphized. She has a highly collaborative practice and has worked with hand-sewn puppets, falcons, African Land Snails, exorcists, and most recently, a Jack Sparrow impersonator.

Please visit the 🔗 link in our bio for more information about Farah Al Qasimi and 'The Swarm' ✨

Gallery hours: Tues, Wed, Fri 12 - 6 pm | Thurs 12 - 8 pm | Sat 12 - 5 pm

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📸: Farah Al Qasimi, Installation image for 'The Swarm' at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2023. Photo credit: Karen Asher

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Currently in our bookstore: Autobiography of an Ec

Currently in our bookstore: Autobiography of an Eccentric Line by Bev Pike

“Pike’s artist’s book traces the genealoggy of the female side of her family through the use of photos, clippings, drawings, facsimiles of texts, and letters written by different individuals (beginning with her great great great grandmother and finishing with her niece). This book celebrates the lives of women and claims a space for them in history.”
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👋 Have you seen our current exhibitions yet? If

👋 Have you seen our current exhibitions yet? If you haven't , why not stop by today!

Check out our current exhibition 'Darkroom' by Juan Ortiz-Apuy!

We are very pleased to continue celebrating our over fifty years milestone by presenting two tandem solo exhibitions that offer crucial social, political, and historical reflections on the complex world of images in which we are all entangled one way or the other. Both artists are exhibiting in Winnipeg for the first time and they each broadly draw on the lives of objects and their intersections with the fickle nature of images.

Juan Ortiz-Apuy is a Canadian-Costa Rican artist who has been living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal since 2003. Ortiz-Apuy has a BFA from Concordia University (2008), a Post-Graduate Diploma from The Glasgow School of Art (2009), and an MFA from NSCAD University (2011).

His work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in venues such as Les Abattoirs Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France), IKEA Museum (Sweden), Pamflett (Norway), DHC/ART Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain (Montreal), Art Gallery of Mississauga (Mississauga), Owens Art Gallery (Sackville), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), AXENÉO7 (Gatineau), MOMENTA Biennale de l’image (Montreal), Quebec City Biennial: Manif d'art 7 (Québec), Truck Contemporary Art (Calgary), Museum London (London), Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Toronto), VOX Centre de l’image Contemporaine (Montreal), and The MacLaren Arts Centre (Barrie).

His work has been awarded numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and has been reviewed in various publications such as Canadian Art, MOMUS, esse arts + opinions, The Gazette (Montreal), Le Devoir (Montreal), and Public Parking...

Bio continues in the comments ⬇️

📸 : Juan Ortiz-Apuy, Installation image for 'Darkroom' at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2023. Photo credit: Karen Asher

Click the 🔗 link in our bio for more info!

Currently in our bookstore: In Every Direction by

Currently in our bookstore: In Every Direction by Sylvia Matas

“In Every Direction” is a non narrative bookwork consisting of drawings, photographs, and text.
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📣 We are open from 12 - 6 pm today! Check out o

📣 We are open from 12 - 6 pm today! Check out our current exhibition 'The Swarm' by Farah Al Qasimi! ☀️

We are very pleased to continue celebrating our over fifty years milestone by presenting two tandem solo exhibitions that offer crucial social, political, and historical reflections on the complex world of images in which we are all entangled one way or the other. Both artists are exhibiting in Winnipeg for the first time and they each broadly draw on the lives of objects and their intersections with the fickle nature of images.

Farah Al Qasimi (b. 1991, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes photographs, films and music. Often working with large-scale vinyl imagery and a multiplicity of photographic prints and screens, Farah is interested in the internet and its hierarchies of information and emotion. Farah also loves the complexity of storytelling and value-building in children's cartoons, and many of her video works include primary narrators who are anthropomorphized. She has a highly collaborative practice and has worked with hand-sewn puppets, falcons, African Land Snails, exorcists, and most recently, a Jack Sparrow impersonator.

Please visit the 🔗 link in our bio for more information about Farah Al Qasimi and 'The Swarm' ✨

Gallery hours: Tues, Wed, Fri 12 - 6 pm | Thurs 12 - 8 pm | Sat 12 - 5 pm

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📸 : Video still detail from 'The Swarm' by Farah Al Qasimi, 2023

#FarahAlQasimi #TheSwarm #PlugInICA

Due to unforeseen circumstances our galleries and

Due to unforeseen circumstances our galleries and offices will be closed November 16, 2023.

Our apologies for the inconvenience. We will be open with our regular hours on November 17, 2023.

Regular gallery hours: Tues, Wed, Fri 12 - 6 pm | Thurs 12 - 8 pm | Sat 12 - 5 pm

📣 We are open 12pm - 6pm! Check out our current

📣 We are open 12pm - 6pm! Check out our current exhibition 'Darkroom' by Juan Ortiz-Apuy!

We are very pleased to continue celebrating our over fifty years milestone by presenting two tandem solo exhibitions that offer crucial social, political, and historical reflections on the complex world of images in which we are all entangled one way or the other. Both artists are exhibiting in Winnipeg for the first time and they each broadly draw on the lives of objects and their intersections with the fickle nature of images.

Juan Ortiz-Apuy is a Canadian-Costa Rican artist who has been living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal since 2003. Ortiz-Apuy has a BFA from Concordia University (2008), a Post-Graduate Diploma from The Glasgow School of Art (2009), and an MFA from NSCAD University (2011).

His work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in venues such as Les Abattoirs Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France), IKEA Museum (Sweden), Pamflett (Norway), DHC/ART Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain (Montreal), Art Gallery of Mississauga (Mississauga), Owens Art Gallery (Sackville), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), AXENÉO7 (Gatineau), MOMENTA Biennale de l’image (Montreal), Quebec City Biennial: Manif d'art 7 (Québec), Truck Contemporary Art (Calgary), Museum London (London), Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Toronto), VOX Centre de l’image Contemporaine (Montreal), and The MacLaren Arts Centre (Barrie).

His work has been awarded numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and has been reviewed in various publications such as Canadian Art, MOMUS, esse arts + opinions, The Gazette (Montreal), Le Devoir (Montreal), and Public Parking...

Bio continues in the comments ⬇️

Our galleries will be closed this Saturday, November 11, 2023 and our office will be closed Monday, November 13, 2023 for observation of Remembrance Day. Our regular hours will resume November 14, 2023!

📸 : Juan Ortiz-Apuy, Installation image for 'Darkroom' at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2023. Photo credit: Karen Asher

Click the 🔗 link in our bio for more info!

Plug In ICA's galleries will be closed November 11

Plug In ICA's galleries will be closed November 11, 2023, and our offices will be closed November 13, 2023 for observation of Remembrance Day.

We will be back with our regular hours starting November 14, 2023!
Our regular hours are: Tues, Wed, Fri 12 - 6 pm | Thurs 12 - 8 pm | Sat 12 - 5 pm

📣 We are open from 12 - 6 pm today! Check out o

📣 We are open from 12 - 6 pm today! Check out our current exhibition 'The Swarm' by Farah Al Qasimi! 🌷

We are very pleased to continue celebrating our over fifty years milestone by presenting two tandem solo exhibitions that offer crucial social, political, and historical reflections on the complex world of images in which we are all entangled one way or the other. Both artists are exhibiting in Winnipeg for the first time and they each broadly draw on the lives of objects and their intersections with the fickle nature of images.

Farah Al Qasimi (b. 1991, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes photographs, films and music. Often working with large-scale vinyl imagery and a multiplicity of photographic prints and screens, Farah is interested in the internet and its hierarchies of information and emotion. Farah also loves the complexity of storytelling and value-building in children's cartoons, and many of her video works include primary narrators who are anthropomorphized. She has a highly collaborative practice and has worked with hand-sewn puppets, falcons, African Land Snails, exorcists, and most recently, a Jack Sparrow impersonator.

Please visit the 🔗 link in our bio for more information about Farah Al Qasimi and 'The Swarm' ✨

Gallery hours: Tues, Wed, Fri 12 - 6 pm | Thurs 12 - 8 pm | Sat 12 - 5 pm

@frequentlyaskedquestion

📸: Farah Al Qasimi, Installation image for 'The Swarm' at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2023. Photo credit: Karen Asher

#FarahAlQasimi #TheSwarm #PlugInICA

Currently in our bookstore: nîtsânak by Jas M. M

Currently in our bookstore: nîtsânak by Jas M. Morgan

"Metonymy Press, 2019
200 pages, perfect bound
ISBN: 9780994047175

Jas M. Morgan’s memoir nîtisânak spans nations, prairie punk scenes, queer love stories, and grief while acknowledging the healing power of both blood and chosen kin."
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Save the date! 🗓️ Plug In ICA will be holdin

Save the date! 🗓️

Plug In ICA will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, November 21, 6pm to 8pm! All are welcome to attend, but must be a member of Plug In ICA in good standing to vote.

The AGM will be held at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage Avenue.

We will be presenting our annual report and audited financial statements for the year ending March 31, 2023 and the incoming board slate will be approved. .

Please email zoe@plugin.org to RSVP to the meeting. If you face any barriers to attending please include this in your message and we will work to provide alternative arrangements!

If you don't have a membership yet or are due to renew yours - now’s the time!

⭐️ Memberships are available at the following rates ⭐️

Student/Artist: $30

Visitor: $75

Family: $90

Members will receive sign-out privileges at the Library and Art Research Centre, 20% off all Plug In ICA publications and 10% off all merchandise and publications in the Bookstore.

Click the 🔗 link in our bio or drop by the Bookstore to become a member!

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We want to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who c

We want to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who came out to our Under the Stars: Creatures of the Night Costumed Dance Jubilee last Saturday 🌟 We had a great time celebrating with you and appreciate your support to continue keeping our programming free and open to the public! We hope you had as much fun as we did 👯

Thank you and congratulations to Cascade Chanel, Feather Talia, Kymera, and Jynx Nouveau for their wonderful performances and to DJ Gay Maddin (AKA Scott Fitzapatrick) and DJ Fishead who provided us with great music all night long!

And once again, we would like to thank Frito Lay for providing delicious snacks for the evening as well as our drink sponsors, The Pourium and Little Brown Jug Co., who supplied premium beer, wine, and other non-alcoholic beverages for the evening 🥂

A special shoutout also goes to Natasha Gusta and Suzanne Gillies for all their work on our decor committee

Check out our website for more images from the event!

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📸 Images courtesy of Khammy Phanthavong, 2023

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Plug In ICA Gallery and Art Book Shop
*please note that we are closed between exhibitions

Sundays & Mondays: Closed
 Tuesdays & Wednesdays: Noon to 6 pm
 Thursdays: Noon to 8 pm
 Fridays: Noon to 6 pm
 Saturdays: Noon to 5 pm

Closed
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Louis Riel Day, Easter Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Civic Holiday, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day

Office
 Monday to Friday: 10 am to 5 pm

Library and Research Centre
 Open during gallery hours.
Please call for appointment between exhibitions: (204) 942-1043

Paid parking available on-site and nearby.
Free admission.