PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts
121-100 Arthur St R3B 1H3 Winnipeg, MB, Canada

TO BE CONTINUED - Online screening ends at midnight! PLATFORM centre and the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF) are excited to present an online screening titled TO BE CONTINUED. Running from 01 -31 July, 2020, this screening explores ideas of the aftermath; something that results or follows from an event, especially one of a disastrous or unfortunate nature a consequence. The works in this collection explore possibilities of renewal, waiting, longing, foreshadowing,... as well as explorations of confusion and anticipation. Big thanks go out to all the artists who participated in this program. Visit the link below to watch the screening before it comes down. Total run time is 49 mins. The Absorber Ray Fenwick special dark glass somewhere Charlotte Clermont House Pieces Christine Lucy Latimer Demi Monde Caroline Monet Warp Jean Borbridge Hot Plastic Suits Dallas Cant Gains + Losses Leslie Supnet Meltwater Tracy Peters Close Call Chantel Mierau & Jennifer Still The Light at the End of the Tunnel is Making it Hard to See the Tunnel Jon Sasaki grand-maman Piano Guillaume Valle Road Movie Zebulon Zang (audio by J. Waterfalls) Breath on the Nile Denton Fredrickson

PLATFORM is excited to announce the results of the 2020 PLATFORM Photography Award. This year we are pleased to be able to award three full prizes. The winners of the 2020 PLATFORM Photography Award are Jean Borbridge, Christina Hajjar and Iyunade Judah. PLATFORM is thrilled to be supporting the creation of new work from these emerging artists. While these three practices are unique in approach and style, each artist explores the notion of identity in varied and considered wa...ys. Each award includes $2000, a full year of darkroom access and a one-year membership to PLATFORM. This new work will debut January 2021 in three solo exhibitions. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Jean Borbridge is a multimedia artist based out of Treaty 1, otherwise known as Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 2018, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours through the University of Manitoba. With a focus on painting, photography and performance, she works to understand representation of the self and others and the fallibility of such endeavors. She has exhibited and curated shows in a variety of artist run centres in Winnipeg, as well as having exhibited at Art Mur in Montreal, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the national historic site of The Forks. She is currently the st.ART Coordinator at Graffiti Art Programming; a program which provides free visual art, music, and dance workshops throughout Winnipegs Downtown and North End communities. Christina Hajjar is a queer femme first-generation Lebanese-Canadian artist, writer, and organizer. She is passionate about collaboration and cultural production as tools of community-building and resistance. Her multidisciplinary practice utilizes photography, performance, poetry, zines, food, and curation in order to grapple with diaspora, memory, and intergenerational inheritance. Hajjar is a co-founder of Carnation, publishing artwork and writing on displacement and diaspora. She is a 2020-2021 recipient of the Foundation Mentorship Program at Mentoring Artists for Womens Art. Her food culture column Feeding Diaspora is published at The Uniter. Learn more at christinahajjar.com. Photo credit: Crystal Le Iyunade Judah is an artist-photographer based in Winnipeg Canada, originally from Ogun, Nigeria. His work focuses on the black experience from an Africans point of view in the diaspora. He has worked on a number of photo projects and short films on black masculinity, gender and afrocentrism. Judahs work primarily focuses on identity and a need for consciousness in African art. "My work is inspired by my curiosity to discover African history and art. I found out that theres almost no identity for me and a lot of people like. I make use of imaginary narratives such as reincarnation in my practice to convey a message which might be on sexuality, history, identity or love. I infuse fabric as a backdrop to appreciate African prints and patterns which has become a personal style."

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#fbf From the archives: a handbill from Charles Shillidays 1996 site specific exhibition titled Mask. The last photo of the three is an example of how the work was shown in 1996 -- nestled in between advertisements in the Winnipeg Free Press, every day from November 12 - 25 96. Shilliday utilized the Winnipeg Free Press for a fourteen day installation of photographs consisting of self-portraits. Mask is a simple construction of image and text with an evident relationship to portraiture and advertising imagery.

Folks!! Just a few days left to apply for the 2020 PLATFORM photography award! The application deadline is this Sunday, May 31. The yearly award aims to assist the recipient in their creation of new lens-based work (photography and video). To be eligible for this award you must be based in Manitoba. Current students are not eligible. The winner of this award will receive:... $2000 CAD a one-year PLATFORM membership one-year access to PLATFORMs black and white darkrooms feature on PLATFORMs website a solo exhibition in PLATFORMs Gallery 2 For more information on how to apply, head to http://platformgallery.org/platform-photography-award/

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Performance for aging Apple devices, a new online work by Colby Richardson will debut on the internet on June 01 & 04, 7PM CDT. Co-presented by PLATFORM centre and the Art Gallery of Regina, this performance is designed to be viewed live and will be streamed on multiple devices. https://www.facebook.com/events/236713990904384... "Performance for aging Apple devices" is a composition which uses FaceTime video calls between damaged and discarded iPads, iPhones, and iMacs - and the nuances and limitations they produce - as a catalyst for new expanded cinema. The piece builds upon Richardsons continued exploration into modes of appropriation of ubiquitous and outmoded media, and takes a playful approach to structuralist work. The performance is designed to be live streamed (and viewed) on multiple devices.

Outreach Coordinator Callie Lugosi interviewed Ian August about his work in our current group exhibition! The show is viewable via the same link below, and can also be seen in the gallery by appointment only. Email [email protected] to book.

Clips from Sarah Fullers Gallery 2 show, Terra Incogknita, up now until July 31! Come see our current programming by appointment email [email protected] to book dont be shy!! We miss you. // Fuller explores her relationship to place and habitat through a series of performative videos. The works use the presence of her body in the landscape as both a disruptive character and a camouflaged entity; at times it is obvious where she is in the environment and at other times, she becomes completely integrated.

Only four hours left to submit!!! Send us your work via the link in the event page details!

Just ten days left to apply for the 2020 PLATFORM Photography Award!!! This yearly award aims to assist the recipient in their creation of new lens-based work (photography and video). To be eligible for this award you must be based in Manitoba. Current students are not eligible. The winner of this award will receive:... $2000 CAD a one-year PLATFORM membership one-year access to PLATFORMs black and white darkrooms feature on PLATFORMs website a solo exhibition in PLATFORMs Gallery 2 Visit http://platformgallery.org/platform-photography-award/ to apply! We cant wait to see what you send us.

PLATFORM centre and co-presenters the Art Gallery of Regina are excited to announce Performance for aging Apple devices, a new online performance work by Colby Richardson (MB). This performance is designed to be viewed live and will be streamed on multiple devices. The performance will be live streamed on Monday June 1st and Thursday June 4th at 7 PM CDT via YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/c/UCfd6a5uGnNl1J-jT6hl1T6g/featured ) with additional (and optional) elements being streamed on Instagram Live via @brokenphone003 and @brokenphone006.

Hannah Doucet was the recipient of the 2017 PLATFORM Photography Award. Nows your chance to apply ~ the deadline for the 2020 award is just around the corner on May 31! http://platformgallery.org/platform-photography-award/ Hannah Doucets Gallery 2 exhibition, I wondered when my body would deflate, ran from 02 March 24 March 2018. The show explored our relationship with our changing bodies within the context of illness. Specifically exploring hair as a site of strong emotive significance, the work contemplated the contradictions that exist within the societal constructions of hair and health. The exhibition highlighted subtle, poetic and futile gestures of resistance to illness, while simultaneously wrestling with enduring bodily anxieties and complete lack of control.

The deadline to submit your work for TO BE CONTINUED - our juried video screening in collaboration with Winnipeg Underground Film Festival - is THIS FRIDAY at 4PM! Read more about what were looking for on the event page below, or go straight to the source and submit via this link: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSfA0sWMelo5uO4-0/viewform

Weve teamed up with WUFF to produce this extra special juried screening send us your stuff!

Photo makers!!! You have two weeks left to apply for this years award! Dont miss out!

Bret Parenteaus performance for the exhibition "Suddenly, no, at long last". Tracks performed - Solitary & Solace, Partners Gazed In Admiration, & Poppers at the Bathhouse. Recorded on 05/12/20. Bret Parenteau is a sound artist based in Winnipeg. Under the initials B.P., Parenteau has been crafting his formula of noise, field recording, & tape manipulation for the past few years. Parenteau is the Head of Makade Star label based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty 1 Territory and Historic Mtis Nation Homeland.

Feeling weird and/or isolated? Make an appointment to see our current exhibitions! Email [email protected] to book an appointment to view. We have hand sanitizer and a warm welcome ready for you (at a safe distance, obvs). You can also take a look at both exhibitions from the comfort of your home here: Our current group exhibition Suddenly, no, at long last ~ https://suddenlynoatlonglast.tumblr.com... and Terra Incogknita, Sarah Fullers solo exhibition ~ https://terraincogknita.tumblr.com

Ian Augusts work from our current group exhibition, Suddenly, no, at long last, curated by our own Collin Zipp. To see the full show, head to suddenlynoatlonglast.tumblr.com, OR make an appointment to see it in person!! Email [email protected] for that. We hope to see you in the space soon. Ian August is an artist based in Winnipeg. Augusts recent paintings are inspired by the function of thresholds in Dutch interior painting of the seventeenth century. These ...works are characterized by multiple doors and windows commenting on each other to entice the curious gaze of the viewer. At least thats how I explain myself when Im busted taking cell phone pictures of peoples windows. August received his MFA from York University, and his BFA, honours from the University of Manitobas School of Art. His work has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including Plunder Dupes, Actual Gallery, Winnipeg; and Re: Build Them, Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg. His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions. suddenlynoatlonglast.tumblr.com

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Our two online exhibitions open today! Visit the links below to see the works: https://suddenlynoatlonglast.tumblr.com/ https://terraincogknita.tumblr.com/... PLATFORM will also be open by appointment only for the month of May starting 05 May, 2020. Please email us at [email protected] to schedule a viewing. Please review the following guidelines before you visit: 1. If youre sick, stay home! 2. Gallery visitors must sanitize their hands - soap and water will be provided. 3. Artspace front doors remain locked - call us when you arrive and we will safely let you in 4. Please refrain from food or drink, including coffee cups. 5. Please limit your visit to an hour. 6. Thank you for following our new temporary guidelines, stay safe!

Check out Sylvia Matas Akimbo Hit List! See her work in the group show "Suddenly, no, at long last" opening online tomorrow...

Tayler Busss triptych, This Here, from our digital student exhibition An Isolated Moment. This Here draws on spatial and object distortion in times of isolation. Skeletons of objects remain the same as their outer shell transforms. Domestic spaces become cloaked in a familiar unfamiliar. What is left is a fragmented view of a seemingly whole perspective. View our digital exhibition here: https://anisolatedmoment.tumblr.com

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Applications are due 31 May 2020.

Congratulations to all the long listed artists! Especially to PLATFORM Board member Luther Konadu and PLATFORM exhibiting artists Freya Bjrg Olafson and Jason De Haan...

"An Isolated Moment" is now live. Check out our online exhibition featuring new work by Photo Projects students from the University of Manitobas School of Art. https://anisolatedmoment.tumblr.com/

Deadline to apply is 31 May, 2020. Visit http://platformgallery.org/info/submissions/ for more information.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 MAY, 2020