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Visita guiada en español con Francesca Carella Arfinengo, Primavera 2018 | May 26, 2018 – 3pm

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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 homeland of the Métis Nation.

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The award-winning, multidisciplinary artist, Moreh

The award-winning, multidisciplinary artist, Morehshin Allahyari, gave an artist talk at Plug In back in the fall of 2019 as part of Labour of Love, a series which focused on digital technologies in the arts and the way in which they contend with racial capitalism. Allahyari's She Who Sees the Unknown, which refigures digital narratives under a feminist and decolonialist lens, is more relevant today than ever, as surveillance technologies take on new forms under the pandemic. Please take a listen, the talk is available in our online video archive at plugin.org.

Also, check out Allahyari’s interview in the Believer (believermag.com), she discusses Kabous, The Right Witness and The Left Witness (2019), the final work in her series, She Who Sees the Unknown, which explores the intergenerational trauma built within war and blood memory and DNA. Allahyari discusses, "healing our ancestors to alter our daughters, altering this idea of birthing and what birthing can be. [She talks] about birth justice: Who, when, and where you give birth. [She] added another component: what. What we can birth.”
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Still from The Ghost and the Flesh, artist talk by Morehshin Allahyari (2019). Image courtesy of the artist.
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On Thursday, June 18 at 7:30 PM CST, in support of

On Thursday, June 18 at 7:30 PM CST, in support of the Prairie Province Prisoner Support Fund, the Saskatchewan-Manitoba-Alberta Abolition Coalition (SMAAC) is presenting a night of stories and songs that explore the importance of anti-colonial abolition and celebrate artists across the prairies. Live stream link: smaac.org.

The donation link to the Prairie Province Prisoner Support Fund can be found at plugin.org (link in bio)!

On Friday, June 19 at 6 PM starting at the Manitob

On Friday, June 19 at 6 PM starting at the Manitoba Legislative Building, the family of Eishia Hudson has organized a demonstration for #JusticeForEishia.

Donations are being accepted by transfer at honoureishiahudson@gmail.com (password for acceptance: eishia). All funds will be used to purchase water, poster supplies, security, masks, tobacco, cloth and honoraria for the performers.

For further details and updates about this call to action please visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1247113252300930/. The link to this demonstration/protest along with other resources on organizing against police violence in Winnipeg can be found at plugin.org (link in bio).

In response to the #8CantWait reformist co-optatio

In response to the #8CantWait reformist co-optation of decades of Black feminist abolitionist work, a group of abolitionists has compiled this list of demands. #8toAbolition calls to divest from the prison industrial complex, invest in our communities, and create the conditions for a world without police, where no one is held in a cage, and all people thrive and be well. Learn more about working towards abolition at www.8toabolition.com. You can also find this link and more resources toward action and education on abolition at plugin.org (link in bio).

Show up Winnipeg! Friday, June 5th, 2020, 6 PM at

Show up Winnipeg!

Friday, June 5th, 2020, 6 PM at the Manitoba Legislative Building.
The use of PPE is encouraged 💛

@justice4blackliveswinnipeg

Resources for Anti-Racist Education & Anti-Racist

Resources for
Anti-Racist Education & Anti-Racist Action

Over the past few days we have put together some resources for donations, education and literature. This is by no means an exhaustive list, we will continue to add to it over the coming days. We encourage you all to do your own research and educate yourselves on these issues. All of the links mentioned in this post can be found at plugin.org (link in bio)! In addition, Arts.Black just released an amazing list of bail funds, freedom funds, and support networks in the US. Follow them, read their incredible publication, and check out that resource list.

If you'd like to support local organizations check out @justice4blackliveswinnipeg who are organizing a call to action on Friday, June 5 at 6pm at The Manitoba Legislative Building.

Also check out @ayomovement! (Aboriginal Youth Opportunities), a youth-led organization to build safety in new ways.

And for local updates follow @wpgpoliceharm.

Don't forget to also check out and keep informed on what's happening at Unist'ot'en camp and support them by donating to their legal fund.

Some books we love:
Robyn Maynard's Policing Black Lives
Tanya Talaga Seven Fallen Feathers
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
Desmond Cole's The Skin We're In
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's As We Have Always Done
NourbeSe Philip's Bla_k

And so many more, check out the longer list at plugin.org
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In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina S

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe is available in our online shop

In the Wake investigates Black lives being swept up in the “wake” of slavery and how the culture of anti-Blackness and white supremacy present premature Black death as normative. Sharpe writes of her personal experience and of “wake work” as sites of artistic production, resistance, consciousness and possibility of living in diaspora.
#inthewakeonblacknessandbeing #christinasharpe #blacklivesmatter

🚨Distant Intimacies is tomorrow, Wednesday May

🚨Distant Intimacies is tomorrow, Wednesday May 27! Join us at 5pm CST for an online screening curated by Kristin Li followed by a discussion with Jackie Wang, Robyn Maynard, Kristin Li, Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land and Aliya Pabani that explores the digital in terms of isolation and remote engagement, surveillance technologies and policing.
Featuring work by Midi Onodera, Frédérick Belzile, Atefeh Khademolreza, Stephanie Comilang, and Nika Khanjani, will be live streamed on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/THpZSXsThxo (link in bio)! 📲
Artist and speaker bios are available on our website www.plugin.org!
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Image credit: Video Still from Dejavu (2018) by Atefeh Khademolreza. Image courtesy of the artist.
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On Wednesday, May 27th at 5pm CST, Plug In is exci

On Wednesday, May 27th at 5pm CST, Plug In is excited to present Distant Intimacies, an online screening curated by Kristin Li, followed by a discussion with Jackie Wang, Robyn Maynard, Kristin Li, Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land and Aliya Pabani ✨🎬 The videos in this program are tentative gestures of reaching across borders, screens, prison walls. They capture the many ways that contemporary systems divide and isolate, yet, nonetheless, dreams of connection materialize into faint contours.
The video program features work by Midi Onodera, Frédérick Belzile, Atefeh Khademolreza, Stephanie Comilang, and Nika Khanjani.

Live streamed from
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For artist and speaker bios please refer to our website (link in bio) www.plugin.org 📲
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#distantintimacies #livestream #filmscreening #onlineprogramming

✨ Around this time last year, Plug In exhibited

✨ Around this time last year, Plug In exhibited Class, a solo exhibition by Winnipeg-based artist Karen Asher ✨ Class saw Asher for the first time extending her established photographic practice into the broader realm of installation. The exhibition featured a ninety-minute video of music, dance and visual effects. Asher slowly engaged her subjects, mostly friends and family, in a set of scenarios that border on highly composed to happenstance.

Almost a coming of age story, Class brought us together in an amalgamation of the nightclubs and bars Asher frequented in her youth. These recreated spaces expressed the gaudy, kitschy and gauche, but these are also spaces of agency, visibility and confidence.

Asher’s work explores her obsession with stress, absurdity, and the catastrophe of everyday life. She received her BFA Honours in photography from the University of Manitoba in 2009. Her work has been featured in various publications and shown internationally.

Asher’s artist talk which was presented in conjunction with her solo exhibition is available in our online video archive (https://plugin.org/video-karen-asher-artist-talk/) link in bio 📲

Although we can’t be together right now, we encourage everyone to turn up the music and dance around your living room in the spirit of Class!
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Lucid Dreaming: Conversations with 29 Filmmakers b

Lucid Dreaming: Conversations with 29 Filmmakers by Pamela Cohn is now in our online shop. .

This compilation of revealing conversations between film writer and arts journalist Pamela Cohn and 29 contemporary documentary and experimental filmmakers features Karim Aïnouz, Khalik Allah, Maja Borg, Ramona Diaz, Samira Elagoz, Sara Fattahi, Dónal Foreman, Ja’Tovia Gary, Ognjen Glavonic, Barbara Hammer, Sky Hopinka, Gürcan Keltek, Adam and Zack Khalil, Khavn, Kaltrina Krasniqi, Roberto Minervini, Terence Nance, Orwa Nyrabia, Chico Pereira, Michael Robinson, J. P. Sniadecki, Brett Story, Deborah Stratman, Maryam Tafakory, Mila Turajlic, Lynette Wallworth, Travis Wilkerson, and Shengze Zhu.

In Ja'Tovia Gary's excellent discussion with Cohn, @j_______g_______ states: "When I’m thinking about watching work and making work I’m making it from an oppositional gaze, specifically from a Black feminist oppositional gaze. This is a powerful space from which to create and a powerful space from which to gaze at the world.” You can read the rest of this dialogue on the Or Books website at https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/lucid-dreaming/ .

#pamelacohn #luciddreaming #orbooks

Thanks for sharing @artforum! Stayed tuned for our

Thanks for sharing @artforum! Stayed tuned for our opening date 📣

Kandis Friesen, The Cedar, The Birch, Our Hands At Full-Mast, Behind The After, 2017, wool, wood, thread, canvas, sand, 8' x 30' x 5'.⁠
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Artforum is posting images from artists’ exhibitions around the globe that have been shuttered or postponed during the coronavirus crisis.⁠
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Here: "Kandis Friesen: The Cedar, The Birch, Our Hands At Full-Mast, Behind The After" at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, postponed.⁠
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#pluginica⁠ #kandisf #repost #artforum #upcomingexhibition #winnipeg

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