Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue R3B 2E9 Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg in partnership with Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is excited to announce the opening of the group exhibition, Sovereign Intimacies, featuring the work of Hassaan Ashraf, Annie Beach, Ayumi Goto, iris yirei hu, melannie Monoceros, Peter Morin, Mariana Munoz Gomez, Wanda Nanibush, M. NourbeSe Philip, Meghann O’Brien, Marie-Anne Redhead, Cheyenne Thomas and David Thomas, and co-curated by Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith. The e...xhibition will be on view from September 26 until December 20, 2020 at Plug In ICA. Plug In ICA will be open by appointment from Wednesday to Saturday between 1 and 5 pm. Please contact [email protected] or call (204) 942-1043 to reserve a time to view the exhibition. To ensure the safety of everyone in Plug In's galleries all visitors are asked to wear a mask and sanitize their hands upon entry. We gratefully acknowledge program partners Video Pool Media Arts Centre and VUCAVU as well as financial support for this project from The Manitoba Arts Council/ Le conseil des arts du Manitoba. For more details please visit https://buff.ly/3i1WXTO or https://buff.ly/3iWgkPD! Image: still from Wrapped in the Cloud, copyright Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O'Brien), 2018. Produced in collaboration with Conrad Sly, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, and Kate Hennessy. Video, 4 mins. Description: A digital model of a woven Tlingit Raven’s Tail robe is shown. Thin white intersecting/web-like lines form the outlines of the blanket design and fringes on a black background. The form may evoke constellations in a night sky. See more

Why not make November 26 an evening with mel? Join their "Stitch-Kin" poetry reading on zoom, which will run 6:00 - 7:00 pm CT, take a break to grab some snacks, and then tune in to their artist talk "Whispers in the Weft" with Manitoba Craft Council and MAWA Mentoring Artists for Women's Art which starts at 7:30 pm! mel's practice is a multi-disciplinary and these two events will offer folks the opportunity to better understand different but intertwined aspects of their work!

Please join us on Zoom next Thursday, November 26 at 6:00 pm for "Stitch-Kin; an evening of poetry with melannie monoceros!" This is the fourth online gathering as part of "Sovereign Intimacies," presented by Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, with support from Video Pool Media Arts Centre. Details and Zoom registration link below.

You can still watch Un/Spoken on VUCAVU until tomorrow! Over the past few days, we’ve been introducing you to the artists featured in the online video screening program. Last but not least is Karin Lee whose Small Pleasures is an interesting companion to Sky Hopinka’s Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary which also features speakers of Chinuk wawa. Small Pleasures is a unique film featuring three women (First Nations, Chinese and European) who use the pre-c...olonial trade language of Chinook Jargon to convey to each other complex ideas about feminist resistance in late 19th century Canada. The film is based on the life experiences of the filmmaker's great-grandmother Tsang Ho Shee, inspiring thought about inter-cultural dialogue over a century ago. Karin Lee is a media artist whose films, installations and writing spans over two decades, with fiction and non-fiction films reflecting the contemporary issues of our day as well as the themes of the Asian diaspora, women, gender, identity and sexuality. Her solo show at the Sum Gallery in Vancouver’s Art in Pride Society, was the inaugural exhibition in Vancouver. As a filmmaker, Karin co-produced Cedar and Bamboo, a documentary about children of Chinese and First Nations parents, wrote, directed and produced the web series Plan B, a dark comedic drama about an abortion clinic, and is currently in post-production for Girl with Big Feet (Ts'ekoo Cha Ke), a period drama. A fourth generation Canadian, Karin was born, raised and is based in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Watch Small Pleasures and the rest of the Un/Spoken program for free on VUCAVU (link in bio) until tomorrow, November 18. Un/Spoken is presented by Gallery 1C03 The University of Winnipeg, Video Pool Media Arts and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art as part of the exhibition Sovereign Intimacies. Photo: Karin Lee, Small Pleasures, 2016, video still. Courtesy of Moving Images and the artist. Image ID: Sepia-toned video still shows the face of an East Asian child about 5 to 8 years old looking slightly above the camera to the viewer’s left. The child’s expression is observant and slightly sad or concerned.

Join us TONIGHT at 7 pm CT for "Weaver girl limns two rainbows," an Artist Talk by iris yirei hu in conversation with Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith! Register for the live webinar: https://buff.ly/2IqvOhi ... Presented by Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg & @pluginica, with the support of @videopool, as part of the exhibit, Sovereign Intimacies." Discussion will ensue about the ways in which collaborations & fostering space for transformative encounters within interpersonal, cross-cultural relationships manifest in the exhibit, & how we can look to the genuine and nurturing relationships in our daily lives for guidance in changing the way museums & art spaces operate. Image ID: Installation view of "Sovereign Intimacies" exhibit featuring sculptural installation "Weaver girl limns two rainbows" by iris yirei hu. An upright mixed media painting shows an aerial perspective of a figure with blue limbs and white dress seated with a loom and weaving a rainbow coloured tapestry. The painting is attached to a vertical loom-like structure made of wood, dowels and twine. On the ground extending in front of the structure is a rectangular mound of chunks of locally-sourced, grey clay. There is a spool of white thread positioned on top of the mound of clay. See more

After watching the "Un/spoken" video program VUCAVU, witness the enriching discussion between "Un/spoken" curators Marie-Anne Redhead & Mariana Mariana Muñoz Gomez with artists Marissa Sean Cruz & Léuli Eshrghi. Presented in partnership between The University of Winnipeg Gallery 1C03, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art and Video Pool Media Arts Centre. Link: https://bit.ly/3lAkJs