Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
460 Portage Ave Unit 1 R3C 0E8 Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Currently in our bookstore: LIFTA | Future Palestine. Founded in 2018, LIFTA is a space led by the imagination. Prioritizing collaboration and human-centric processes, LIFTA develops projects across different mediums including publications, exhibitions, and film. Crafted by people of the region, our inaugural project is a book centered upon the theme of Future Palestine. Volume I features work from award-winning artists, poets, curators, researchers and writers from Palestin...e and its diaspora. The 2nd volume will take the format of a long term archival initiative based in CDMX exploring Diasporic communities from the Arab world. The theme of Future Palestine is a step away from the past and present, from the limitations of current affairs, memory and rhetoric a step towards intangible possibilities and impossibilities. It examines all the things that bind Palestine to Palestinians: time, land, exile, ideas of return, and for those that remained; ideals of exit, nationalism and things lost, found and held onto. This departure brings forth the question: how much of history, reality and experience can we shed in the realm of the imaginary? See link in bio to find you copy . . . #lifta #futurepalestine #pluginicabookstore

Plug In ICA is saddened to learn of the recent passing of critic, curator, educator and mentor Sigrid Dahle. Through her curatorial work at the University of Manitoba School of Art’s Gallery One One One, as well as her mentorship to countless artists, Dahle’s presence was a vital one in the Winnipeg artistic community, and all of us feel her loss deeply. Dahle’s achievements are too great to enumerate completely here, with her curatorial work at galleries, artist-run centres ...and other institutions at, additionally to Gallery One One One, Winnipeg Art Gallery, aceartinc., the St. Norbert Arts Centre, SITE Gallery, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Gallery 1C03 (University of Winnipeg), Video Pool Media Arts Centre, the Muttart Public Art Gallery (Calgary), Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon), Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina) and SAW Gallery (Ottawa). If we were to isolate just one of these exhibitions so carefully curated by Dahle, with her characteristic conceptual inventiveness, we might focus on her work on the My Winnipeg omnibus exhibition which, initially part of the Prairie Scene show at the National Gallery in Ottawa, travelled independently to the Maison Rouge (Paris) and Le museé international d’ artes modesties (Sète). As part of the curatorial team that included Paula Aisenberg, Hervé di Rosa, Noam Gonick, Anthony Kiendl, Cathy Mattes and Cassidy Richardson, Dahle’s contribution, the group show There’s No Place Like Home, focused on the processes that transform place, in the sense of contingent location, into home: a transformation requiring material, conceptual and imaginative capacities exemplified in the work of Rosalie Favell, Hope Peterson, and Royal Art Lodge among others. Dahle’s curatorial assemblage evoked a city haunted by its colonial past, a Prairie gothic, as she put it, illuminated by the work of these emerging and established artists. During the past few years, Plug In has lost many friends: Bernie Miller, Gerry Atwell, Cliff Eyland, and now, Sigrid Dahle. We mark their memory as we offer our humblest condolences to Sigrid Dahle’s family, friends and countless artists who have been fortunate to encounter her.

Join us on November 16 at 7 pm CT for weaver girl limns two rainbows, an artist talk by iris yirei hu in conversation with curators Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith Presented in partnership with Gallery 1C03, with support from Video Pool Media Arts Centre as part of Sovereign Intimacies.

Currently in our bookstore: 'Carceral Capitalism',Jackie Wang's thoughtfully crafted collection of eclectic essays on the human impact of incarceration under modern capitalism,policing and automation,financialization and debt, and the pitfalls of innocence vs. guilt discourse. This thoroughly researched set of writings is part ofSemiotext(e)'s Intervention series. . . . Find this and several othersocially and critically engaged publications like it in our bookshop. See l...ink in bio. . . . #jackiewang #pluginicabookshop See more

We are excited to announce Un/spoken, an online video screening program curated by Marie-Anne Redhead and Mariana Muñoz Gomez! This event is presented in partnership with Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg and Video Pool Media Arts Centre. Un/spoken will be on view through VUCAVU (https://vucavu.com/en/home) until November 18, 2020. We also invite you to join us on November 9 at 7pm CT for a discussion with the curators and filmmakers. The discussion will be moderated by Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Marie-Anne Redhead in Conversation with Marissa Sean Cruz and Léuli Eshrghi. Find more details about the screening and discussion on our website: https://plugin.org/exhibitions/redhead_munoz-gomez_2020/.

Terrorientalist Landscapes, an Artist Talk by Gelare Khoshgozaran Join us online on November 5, 2020 at 7 pm CT for Terrorientalist Landscapes, an artist talk by Gelare Khoshgozaran as part of her solo exhibition of and sandbox on view until December 20 at Plug In ICA. She will contextualize the exhibition within her larger practice, and preoccupations with simulation, landscape, and surrogacy in the construction of different sites of violence. The talk will be followe...d by a conversation between Khoshgozaran and Plug In ICA’s curator, Nasrin Himada. Gelare Khoshgozaran is an undisciplinary artist and writer who, in 2009 was transplanted from street protests in a city of four seasons to the windowless rooms of the University of Southern California where aesthetics and politics were discussed in endless summers. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the New Museum, Queens Museum, Hammer Museum, LAXART, Human Resources, Visitor Welcome Center, Articule (Montreal), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Pori Art Museum (Finland) and Yarat Contemporary Art Space (Baku, Azerbaijan). She was the recipient of a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2015), an Art Matters Award (2017), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2019) and a Graham Foundation Award (2020). Her words have appeared in contemptorary (co-founding editor), The Brooklyn Rail, Parkett, X-TRA, LA Review of Books, Art Practical, Ajam Media Collective and MARCH, amongst others. ------------------------------------------- Associated Programming Solo Exhibition| of and sandbox | September 26 December 20, 2020 All public programming is free.