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📹 All of our STAGES Speaker Series videos are on our website! If you didn't get a chance to attend any of the STAGES artist talks, now you can view them from home! Between August 11 and September 3 2023, we will run six projects throughout the city by six selected artists from across the country. Each of these artists will select and research a site within the city limits to activate, respond to, or consider as a point of departure. The artists gathered for this iteration of STAGES represent an array of idiosyncratic practices with a nuanced attunement to the world today and its ever-refracting complexities. They work within, and around modalities that are steeped in social, theoretical, and aesthetic practices in equal measure. Their respective artistic disciplines are invariably multiple and generous in what they impart. We are excited to share their work and the intricate conversations they hold. ⭐️ The following are the artists for STAGES 2023 : Hangama Amiri, Kabul, Nova Scotia, Ontario, & New York Ekene Emeke-Maduka, Manitoba Marisa Gallemit, Ontario Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Quebec Lou Sheppard, New Brunswick Paul Zacharias, Manitoba Click the 🔗 link in our bio to view all the videos! Stay tuned for more exciting STAGES announcements! ✨ #pluginica #STAGES2023

📢 We are excited announce that the artists participating in our artistic and curatorial digital justice residency, Magic Keystrokes and Glitter, will be sharing presentations about their practice on July 12 from 6 - 8 pm in our galleries. Please join us on July 12 for an opportunity to hear about these 6 artists practices, along with a chance to hear from the faculty, Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware and Kamran Behrouz about their practices as well. Light refreshments will be served following the presentations ✨ The artists participating in the residency include: micha cárdenas Raven Davis Evan Ifekoya Mentah L’autentika Kim Ninkuru RANdom Click the 🔗 link in our bio to read all the artists bio's and for more information on Magic Keystrokes and Glitter! 🖼️ Image credits: Raven Davis, image courtesy of the artist RANdom, image courtesy of the artist Mentah L’autentika, image courtesy of the artist Evan Ifekoya, Resonant Frequencies, The Welcome, 2022 #MagicKeystrokesandGlitter #PlugInICA

Currently in our bookstore: Queer City, a Reader - by Publication Studio São Paulo "A collection of essays, artistic contributions, and two inserted zines, Queer City, A Reader was developed as part of an 18-month inquiry in São Paulo. Initiated by Lanchonete.org and ArtsEverywhere/Musagetes, the Queer City program was a broad collective inquiry into how can we understand the contemporary city through a queer, intersectional, non-normative lens. The program included a series of encounters, dinners, residencies and performances, and Queer City, A Reader reconfigures these moments into a new form, extending the inquiry trans-nationally. With contributions by Todd Lanier Lester, Shawn Van Sluys, Jota Mombaça, Bruno Mendonça and Nat Cout, João Marcelo and Claudio Bueno, Juliana Santos, Thiago Carrapatoso, Bibi Abigail, Carué Contreiras, Bruno Puccinelli, Vitor Grunvald, Kadija, Regis Mikail, Sabrina Duran, Jean-François Prost, Niki Singleton, Thiago Hersan, Ternura Radical and the Queer Graphics Laboratory. Edited by Júlia Ayerbe and designed by Laura Davinas of Edições Aurora/Publication Studio São Paulo. The English version of this book was published by Publication Studio Guelph. It is available in Portugese from Publication Studio São Paulo." . . . Find this book in our bookstore through the link in our bio . . . #QueerCityaReader #PublicationStudioSaoPaulo #pluginicabookstore

📚 Back in stock! 📚 We now have all of Walter Scott's 'Wendy' graphic novels back in stock in our bookstore! Written and illustrated by Walter Scott, through a satirical lens, the 'Wendy' series chronicles the life of a fictional aspiring artist and her various attempts to achieve global success and art stardom but whose dreams are perpetually derailed. Walter Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working across writing, video, performance and sculpture. In 2011, while living in Montréal, he began the comic book series, Wendy. Wendy has been featured in Modern Painters, Canadian Art, Mousse Magazine, and Art in America. Recent Exhibitions include the 2016 Montreal Biennale, Le Grand Balcon, Musée d’art contemporain; Big Toe, Giant Steps at Occidental Temporary, Paris; and Ambivalent Pleasures: Vancouver Special, Vancouver Art Gallery. @walterkscott Click the 🖇️ link in our bio to shop our bookstore! 👋 Friendly reminder our galleries are closed between exhibitions but our bookstore and research library remain open! They are open from Monday - Friday, 10 am - 6pm. Our bookstore, research library and offices will be closed Monday July 3. #walterscott #pluginicabookstore

📣 Plug In ICA is thrilled to announce a two-week artistic and curatorial digital justice residency, Magic Keystrokes and Glitter. From July 10 - July 22, 2023, Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware and Kamran Behrouz will structure and direct the residency which will take place in our galleries. The program will consist of remote and in-person collaboration of ideas, best practices sharing and art curation design in the digital realm. This project will leave the community with a collection of open-source information that will be a starting off or continuation of broader dialogues in the sector. It will centre around rethinking intersectional digital justice with a cohort of 6 international artist/thinkers invited by Ware and Behrouz. In conjunction with this residency, we will be hosting two events. Please join us on July 12 for an informal gathering where the participants will have a chance to connect with the community and share presentations about their practice. On July 21 we will be hosting an open studio style event, where the artists will be presenting their research from the residency. For more information visit our website through the link 🔗 in our bio Stay tuned for more details about these events to come! 💫 @syrusmarcus kamran_behrouz Bios of faculty below ⬇️

🗓️ There is just 4 days left to see our current exhibitions! We are currently exhibiting: 'Quantum Choir', a solo exhibition featuring Michèle Pearson Clarke, alongside 'Audacity', a solo exhibition featuring Alanna Fields. Both artists and educators, Pearson Clarke is based in Toronto, and Fields is based in New York. This is their first time exhibiting their work in Winnipeg – and the first time showing her work in Canada for Fields. Please visit the 🔗 link in our bio for more information on Michèle Pearson Clarke & Alanna Fields and the exhibitions ✨ Quantum Choir is presented with the collaboration of the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Gallery hours: Tues, Wed, Fri 12 - 6 pm, Thurs 12 - 8 pm Sat 12 - 5 pm Image: Michèle Pearson Clarke, Installation image for 'Quantum Choir' at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2023. Photo credit: Karen Asher @at_theagh @mpclarke @alannafields #MichèlePearsonClarke #QuantumChoir #AlannaFields #Audacity #PlugInICA

Currently in our bookstore: Wordless: The Performance Art of Rebecca Belmore "Published by grunt gallery, 2019 Edited by Florene Belmore Text by Glenn Alteen, Florene Belmore, Jen Budney, Curtis Collins, Richard William Hill, Jessica Jacobson-Konefall, Wanda Nanibush, Jessica Jacobson-Konefall, Dan Pon and Kathleen Ritter Spanning performance projects from more than 30 years of Belmore's celebrated career " . . . Find this book in our bookstore through the link in our bio . . . #WordlessThePerformance ArtofRebeccaBelmore #RebeccaBelmore #pluginicabookstore

🖼️ There's only 10 days left to visit our current exhibitions! We are currently exhibiting: 'Quantum Choir', a solo exhibition featuring Michèle Pearson Clarke, alongside 'Audacity', a solo exhibition featuring Alanna Fields. Both artists and educators, Pearson Clarke is based in Toronto, and Fields is based in New York. This is their first time exhibiting their work in Winnipeg – and the first time showing her work in Canada for Fields. Please visit the 🔗 link in our bio for more information on Michèle Pearson Clarke & Alanna Fields and the exhibitions ✨ Quantum Choir is presented with the collaboration of the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Gallery hours: Tues, Wed, Fri 12 - 6 pm, Thurs 12 - 8 pm Sat 12 - 5 pm Image: Alanna Fields, Installation image for 'Audacity' at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2023. Photo credit: Karen Asher @mpclarke @alannafields #MichèlePearsonClarke #QuantumChoir #AlannaFields #Audacity #PlugInICA

Currently in our bookstore: in lieu by Trent Thompson "An elliptical set of jottings that trace skin to landscape. Amid the ‘roomy’ pages, eyes should drift onto a world that falls beautifully, with you. Paperback, staple bound, offset colour, 2018. Trent Thompson" . . . Find this book in our bookstore through the link in our bio . . . #inlieu #TrentThompson #pluginicabookstore

Currently in our bookstore: Amalie Atkins: we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical published by MacKenzie Art Gallery "Amalie Atkins: we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical. Set against the luminous landscapes of southern and central Saskatchewan, Atkins' multi-layered narratives present bittersweet sagas of grief, joy and transformation that linger in the memory like half-remembered fairy tales." . . . Find this book in our bookstore through the link in our bio . . . #weliveontheedgeofdisasterandimagineweareinamusical #AmalieAtkins #MacKenzieArtGallery #pluginicabookstore

📣 Plug In ICA will be closed for a private event on Tuesday, May 30, 2023.

📢 Have you seen our current exhibitions yet? If you haven't now's your chance! We are currently exhibiting: 'Quantum Choir', a solo exhibition featuring Michèle Pearson Clarke, alongside 'Audacity', a solo exhibition featuring Alanna Fields. Both artists and educators, Pearson Clarke is based in Toronto, and Fields is based in New York. This is their first time exhibiting their work in Winnipeg – and the first time showing her work in Canada for Fields. Please visit the 🔗 link in our bio for more information on Michèle Pearson Clarke & Alanna Fields and the exhibitions ✨ Quantum Choir is presented with the collaboration of the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Gallery hours: Tues, Wed, Fri 12 - 6 pm, Thurs 12 - 8 pm Sat 12 - 5 pm Image: Michèle Pearson Clarke, Installation image for 'Quantum Choir' at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 2023. Photo credit: Karen Asher @at_theagh @mpclarke @alannafields #MichèlePearsonClarke #QuantumChoir #AlannaFields #Audacity #PlugInICA