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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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Currently in our bookstore: 'Towards Scarring our

Currently in our bookstore: 'Towards Scarring our Collective Soul Wound' by Cash Ahenakew with a foreword by Elwood Jimmy, Vanessa Andreotti, and Sharon Stein. Using his own experiences of navigating within a western colonial set of conditions, Ahenakew turns our attention towards alternate possibilities of how we think and attend to pain, the transformation of collective/individual trauma, and what that has to do with un-numbing ourselves to the pain of the Indigenous lands reside on and the ongoing work of Indigenization.
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Sneak Peak ✨ Plug In is extremely honoured to p

Sneak Peak ✨

Plug In is extremely honoured to present new work by Lori Blondeau
as part of our upcoming Winter 2021 Survey Exhibition, I'm Not Your Kinda Princess 💛

Stay tuned for more information as we navigate the closures and for announcements once we reopen 🎊

Here is documentation of @lori.blondeau creating her new work commissioned by Plug In ICA.

Happy New Year 💛 It's that time where we remin

Happy New Year 💛

It's that time where we remind ourselves of what our collective responsibilities are.

Link in bio ✨

Happy holidays from Plug In ICA! Thank you to our

Happy holidays from Plug In ICA! Thank you to our amazing community for the support over a strange and at times difficult year. Plug In ICA's virtual offices will be closed December 20, 2020 - January 4, 2021 but the Plug In book shop will be fulfilling orders until December 24. Pick up a bundled holiday pack, book, print, or merch for yourself or for someone special. Locals can use discount code PICKUP to arrange curbside pick up. Shop online at https://shop.plugin.org/ or email info@plugin.org with any questions. ❤

We are so excited to launch our inaugural issue of

We are so excited to launch our inaugural issue of Plug In Editions Online, Take One, guest edited by Chukwudubem Ukaigwe.

Featuring: Ekene Emeka-Maduka, Annie Beach, Iyunade Judah, Cassandra Cochrane, and Eve Tagny.

Designers: Chris Lee & Ali S. Qadeer

The issue is available to read online accessible from our homepage. Link in bio 🔥

The online publication will exist as a resource for artists concerned about issues of production and distribution of artwork in the present digital context, which will enable artists in new media as well as all disciplines to describe, shape and lead its content. The interviews address issues that are pressing for artists as they manage and navigate the shut downs, and as they continue forming their practice throughout this uncertain and precarious time.

Each contribution will be released at different times, to entice you and to keep you coming back for more, but to also give you time to read, think through, and digest the content more slowly, and to give space to each artist and their words.

Enjoy 🥂

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@iyuna.j @cassandracochrane17 @annie__beach
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Plug In ICA is pleased to announce its forthcoming

Plug In ICA is pleased to announce its forthcoming commission for Spring 2021. 🌱

With a forensic lens, Onyeka Igwe’s A So-Called Archive interrogates the decomposing repositories of Empire. Blending footage shot over the past year in two separate colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, United Kingdom—this double portrait considers the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial images continue to generate, despite the disintegration of their memory and their materials. Igwe’s film imagines what might have been ‘lost’ from these archives. It mixes the genres of the radio play, the corporate video tour, and detective noir, with a haunting and critical approach to the horror of discovery.

Onyeka Igwe’s forthcoming film is a co-commission by Plug In ICA, Winnipeg; KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin (@kwinstitutefcontemporaryart ); and Mercer Union, Toronto (@mercerunion ); with support from Julia Stoschek Collection and Outset Germany_Switzerland. Additional support from Tyneside Cinema Projections, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

Ahead of its Canadian premiere and exhibitions in Winnipeg and Toronto, A So Called Archive is presented online from 12 - 30 December 2020 through KW Institute of Contemporary Art: https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/kw-production-series-2020-onyeka-igwe/

Onyeka Igwe is an artist filmmaker, programmer, and researcher. She is currently based in London. In her non-fiction video work, Igwe uses dance, voice, archive, and text to expose a multiplicity of narratives. The work explores the physical body and geographical place as sites of cultural and political meaning. Igwe’s video works have been screened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2017; Dhaka Art Summit, 2020; and at film festivals internationally including the London Film Festival, 2015; Rotterdam International (NL), 2018, 2019 and 2020; Edinburgh Artist Moving Image (GB), 2016; Images Festival, Toronto (CA), 2019; and the Smithsonian African American film festival, Washington, D.C., 2018. For Onyeka’s full bio please visit https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/kw-production-series-2020-onyeka-igwe/

Currently in our bookstore: ‘Noopiming: The Cu

Currently in our bookstore:

‘Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies’ by renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, activist, musician, artist, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. The book experiments with the form of the novel bringing together prose and stray poetic lines to amalgamate a narrative stemming from the interweaving relationships and characters the main protagonist, Mashkawaji (they/them) introduces us to.
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Find this book along with Simpson's other books like ‘Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs’ in our bookstore.
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This Saturday, December 12, tune in for a special

This Saturday, December 12, tune in for a special live performance with the collaborative duo Heartberry Kief (Visual Artists, @hassaanashraf and @annie_beach) at 8pm CT as they decorate time with an electronic music experience on Plug In ICA’s Instagram Live. This performance is presented as part of Sovereign Intimacies in partnership with @1c03 with support from @videopool

It is also a chance to celebrate the completion of a beautiful commission also entitled Heartberry Kief, for this exhibition, which consists of a mural project on two different walls in the gallery spaces of Plug In ICA.

Join us in celebration of this powerful collaboration 🎊

Hassaan Ashraf is a multi-disciplinary artist who moved to Winnipeg in 2012 to pursue an MFA. Their work reflects on their journey as a displaced artist, dealing with diaspora, colonialism, politics and the west’s discomfort with alien cultures. Their work re-examines everyday experiences they had in Lahore, including rickshaws, kite flying, the Urdu language, and everyday life. Their practice has evolved into conversations about race and gender politics, and possibilities of forming alliances with Indigenous artists and communities to fight colonisation and white supremacy. Their current practice involves Urdu and Punjabi calligraphy in different forms, sizes, mediums and performances.

Annie Beach is a visual artist, born and based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty One Territory. Beach is Cree/Saulteaux/Ukrainian, with relations from Peguis First Nation and Brokenhead First Nation. She is a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Honours) from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art, where she has sat on the School of Fine Art Student Association as Co-President for a number of years. Beach has curated, designed, and executed dozens of mural and community art projects throughout Manitoba and works as art instructor with a variety of youth, community arts and cultural-based organizations. Beach is also one of three recipients of the 2019 Hnatyshyn Foundation Emerging Artist prize.
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Images courtesy of the artists.

Alright folks so you can not shop in the stores bu

Alright folks so you can not shop in the stores but you can shop online and support an important cultural arts institution by picking up a PIICA holiday pack! Give someone you love, miss, or tolerate a fantastic gift of arts and culture. There are various packs that you can select from, each pack comes with eclectic pieces that are lovingly curated by the folks at Plug In and reflect the many complex perspectives that we all hold. For those of you who are looking to renew their memberships, pick up a pack with a membership, get some goodies (you can either gift those or ‘treat yo self!’) and get a tax receipt all at the same time (Hello, did someone say multitasking) and support a local arts organization. If you are a local to the Winnipeg region we can offer curbside pick up and for those sending to far away we can gift wrap and ship!

Please note: our offices and shop will be closed December 20-January 4, so order early to avoid disappointment. Use discount code: PICKUP for curbside pick up.

Holiday packs start at $25 and include books, totes, posters, prints and more, visit https://shop.plugin.org/collections/holiday-packages for more information. Pictured here: Angie Keefer: Second Thoughts; FASTWÜRMS #Witch_Raku_Skull_Fire tote (pink); Marcel Dzama, 4 Kinds of Police, watercolour and rootbeer on paper, 2000; Exhibition Notes: Days of Reading, Plug In Memberships, Skeena Reece: Entitled poster, Simon Hughes: Architectura Borealis silkscreen, Exhibition Notes: Entering the Landscape, Spurned! poster

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Don’t forget to grab your copy of Zong! by M. No

Don’t forget to grab your copy of Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip to read along with the virtual online readings @zongglobal2020 or read along with the pages provided here along with the pre-recorded sessions: https://zong.world/zongglobal2020/

The Zong! readings will continue on tomorrow and will end on Wednesday, Dec 9, with a live reading with Philip and invited readers, hosted by Plug In. Link in bio!

Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song, moan, shout, oath, ululation, curse, and chant, Zong! excavates the legal text, the only extant, public document related to the massacre. Memory, history, and law collide and metamorphose into the poetics of the fragment. Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition, Zong! becomes an anti-narrative lament that stretches the boundaries of the poetic form, haunting the spaces of forgetting and mourning the forgotten.

*Our shipment of copies of Zong! has been delayed but please check in this week or email us at info@plugin.org to pre-order your copy. We’re hoping they arrive by Monday ✨

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 6pm CT Plug In I

On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 6pm CT Plug In ICA is honoured to host a durational reading by M. NourbeSe Philip as our final event of Sovereign Intimacies and as part of Zong! Global 2020.

This is the first online global iteration of the annual durational reading of Zong!, M. NourbeSe Philip’s acclaimed book-length poem. The 10-day durational reading commemorates the massacre of some 150 enslaved Africans, which began on November 29, 1781 and continued for the following 10 days. These readings have been running since November 30 and will close on December 9, 2020 culminating with this live reading hosted by Plug In ICA presented in partnership with @1c03 with support from @videopool

Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song, moan, shout, oath, ululation, curse, and chant, Zong! excavates the legal text, the only extant, public document related to the massacre. Memory, history, and law collide and metamorphose into the poetics of the fragment. Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition, Zong! becomes an anti-narrative lament that stretches the boundaries of the poetic form, haunting the spaces of forgetting and mourning the forgotten.

Born in Tobago, @nourbesephilip is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and independent scholar who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto where she practised law for seven years before becoming a poet and writer. Among her published works are the seminal She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks; the speculative prose poem Looking for Livingston: An Odyssey of Silence; the young adult novel, Harriet’s Daughter; the play, Coups and Calypsos, and four collections of essays including her most recent collection, BlanK. Her book-length poem, Zong!, is a conceptually innovative, genre-breaking epic, which explodes the legal archive as it relates to slavery. Among her awards are the prestigious Chalmers Award, the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (Outstanding mid-career artist), and the Pushcart Prize (USA). Philip is the 2020 recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

Currently in our bookstore: ‘sashiko’, publ

Currently in our bookstore:

‘sashiko’, published by Candor Arts (@candorarts), is a collection of writings by the late prolific writer, emi kuriyama, who passed away at the age of 24 in 2016. The book opens with a foreword by artist iris yirei hu (@iristheempress) who is also part of our current exhibition Sovereign Intimacies. She writes: "Writing gave emi permission to play, to render possible what was not in her lived reality--to twist, push, pull, and tease her experiences into absurdity and magic. For emi, writing is rebellion, as it is resistance and resilience." The book's title was selected by hu and emi's mother. It borrows from a traditional Japanese stitching style used for embroidery and quilting which hu describes as speaking to "the correspondence between the running stitch that strengths the durability of clothes and the carefully arranged words on that enabled emi to care, fully."
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