WITH ART Public Art Program & Winnipeg Foundation| Picturing a Bright Future The Eritrean Women’s Photography Project : Sarah Crawley | 14^th October – 3^rd November 2010 | Official Launch Saturday October 23, 7pm All Welcome!!!

An exhibition of photographic works by members of the Eritrean Women’s Photography Project and artist Sarah Crawley is the result of a year long WITH ART project, a Winnipeg Arts Council community public art program, additionally funded by the Winnipeg Foundation and supported by The Eritrean Community in Winnipeg.  Spending time together in the darkroom, the digital lab and at community events the 13 participants have created a body of work that revolves around their lives as recent newcomers to Canada.

September 3 – October 5, 2010

Winnipeg (August 29, 2010)

Showing Up, Speaking Out is a four-week project offering Winnipeggers unique opportunities to speak out on important topics such as housing, poverty, and accessibility by co-creating temporary art works in public spaces with local and visiting artists. This project is about how art can help us express ourselves while building community. It also emphasizes the legitimacy of public space as a site for conversation about about city life.

To participate, community members are invited to attend free workshops focused on brainstorming ideas and creating art to be displayed and/or performed as a group. The works will be presented in various locations across Winnipeg and aceartinc. (2nd floor, 290 McDermot Ave.) will host photos, notes and other related items left by participants about their their involvement as an installation that will transform over time.

Inge Hoonte (Netherlands/USA) is the first of five artists/artist groups involved with Showing Up, Speaking Out. She will work with participants at Art City (616 Broadway) on September 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. On Sunday, September 5 from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m., she will work with a wider range of community members at aceartinc. Participation is free and all are welcome! Please join us!

Artist biography: Hoonte orchestrates and documents human interaction, communication, and physicality in public and private settings. Her multidisciplinary approach combines writing, performance, audio, video, and community-based projects. Hoonte has presented her work throughout the United States (i.e. the Whitney Biennial, New York City), Canada (i.e. Toronto Free Gallery), and elsewhere (i.e. Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki). Hoonte holds a BFA in Visual Art and Public Space from the School of the Arts Arnhem, Netherlands, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Other participating artists will include: Tomas Jonsson (Calgary) on housing and poverty, Deborah Kelly (Australia) on diversity, Kristin Nelson (Winnipeg) on accessibility, and Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action Group including collaborating artist Leah Decter (Winnipeg).

As part of First Fridays (http://www.firstfridayswinnipeg.org), Winnipeggers are welcome to drop in to Showing Up, Speaking Out at aceartinc. on September 3 between 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. to learn more about how to this project works, and how to get involved. Information is also available at http://www.showingupspeakingout.ca. Please visit often for regular updates.

This project is made possible thanks to partnerships with many local organizations: aceartinc., Art City, Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, newinnipeg.net, RAW: Gallery of Architecture and Design, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, The University of Winnipeg’s Students’ Association, Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, and Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

Generous financial support for this project has been made available by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Winnipeg Arts Council.

News releases will be issued throughout the duration of this project to share details about each element. A growing calendar of events can be found at http://www.showingupspeakingout.ca/get-involved.

« Showing up, Speaking Out »
Présenté par Milena Pacentile avec Aceartinc, cette exposition explore à quel point les artistes puissent motiver etfaciliter la participation civique en faisant le lien entre des artistes locaux, nationaux, et internationaux avec des communautés locales par le biais d’une réalisation collaborative d’oeuvres éphémères installées à travers la ville de Winnipeg. Du 24 au 26 septembre, deux artistes (un local et un de l’extérieur de la province) faciliteront la participation communautaire dans le développement et la présentations d’installations dans l’espace publique. L,ensemble du projet a lieu du 3 septembre au 5 octobre 2010.

Détails à venir!

10-30th  August   |   launch: 12th August, 7 – 11pm    |   Raffle – A Linus Woods piece, 10pm. Proceeds to the Helen Betty Osborne Foundation.

The artwork in this show connects Indigenous Peoples together with mixed media paintings in an installation symbolic of a family tree. The exhibition focuses on community and family, two cornerstones of traditional Indigenous values.

The show is reflective of artist Linus Woods’ connection to his Dakota/Ojibway roots and affectionate interest in North American Indigenous Peoples. All My Relations transcends the cultural similarities and differences among the Indigenous Peoples represented, revealing a historical connection to spirituality, kinship, and common colonial experience.

Natural disasters, pets and other stories

Saturday 21^st August – Friday 1^st October,  2010

images:(left) Elisabeth Belliveau, still from Margaret’s Mountain and (right) Jessica MacCormack, still from Nothing Ever Happens

Launch: 8pm, Friday 20^th August 2010

Artists’ Talk: 8.30pm, Friday 20^th August 2010

This exhibition features new animations and drawings by Jessica MacCormack and Elisabeth Belliveau, bringing together the artists’ individual interdisciplinary practices, converging on the use of stop-motion, to explore fragmented narratives, psychic spaces and surreal animal imagery. Themes of home, language, the body and landscape are explored through animated drawing, cut-outs and collage.

MacCormack completed her MFA through the Public Art and New Artistic Strategies program at the Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany) and is currently an Assistant Professor at Concordia University. jessicamaccormackrmack.tumblr.com/

Belliveau completed her BFA at the Alberta College of Art and Design and her MFA at Concordia University. More info, work and animations can be viewed at www.elisabethbelliveau.com. Her new book, don’t get lonely don’t get lost, will be for sale throughout the exhibition.

**french**

(Catastrophes naturelles, animaux de compagnie et d’autres histoires)

Une exposition de Elisabeth Belliveau et Jessica MacCormack

Vernissage

20 h, vendredi le 20 août 2010  |   gratuit

Causerie d’artiste

20 h 30, vendredi le 20 août 2010  |  gratuit

Exposition

Le samedi 21 août au 1 octobre 2010  |   midi à 17 h   |   gratuit

Samedi 21 août – vendredi 1 octobre 2010   |   12 à 17 h   |   gratuit

Cette exposition met en valeur de nouvelles animations et de nouveaux dessins de Jessica MacCormack et Elisabeth Belliveau qui réunissent les pratiques individuelles interdisciplinaires des artistes, en se concentrant sur l’usage de l’animation image par image afin d’explorer des narrations fragmentées, des espaces psychiques et l’imagerie animale surréelle. Les thèmes du foyer, du langage, du corps et du paysage sont explorés à travers des dessins animés, des découpages et des collages.

MacCormack est titulaire d’un diplôme du Public Art and New Artistic Strategies Program à la Bauhaus University (Weimar en Allemagne), où elle a obtenu sa maîtrise en beaux-arts; présentement elle est professeure assistante à l’Université Concordia.

jessicamaccormackrmack.tumblr.com/

Belliveau est titulaire d’un diplôme du Alberta College of Art and Design, où elle a obtenu son baccalauréat ès beaux-arts, ainsi que de l’Université Concordia, où elle a obtenu sa maîtrise en beaux-arts. Consulter www.elisabethbelliveau.com pour plus d’information et pour voir davantage de ses œuvres et de ses animations. Son nouveau livre, don’t get lonely don’t get lost, sera en vente lors de l’exposition.

Translation/Traduction : Simone Hébert Allard

aceartinc. & the artists gratefully thank the generous support of associate members & donors, our volunteers, the Winnipeg Arts Council, The Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, WH and SE Loewen Foundation, The Family of Wendy Wersh, The Sign Source, Friesens Corporation , Design Type Ltd.. Half Pints Brewing Co., M.A.W.A., The HI Downtowner.

image credit: irational.org

Spike Island/aceartinc. International Artist Residency
Kayle Brandon 21 June – 21 July

talk: Finding space Monday, July 26 at 7pm

This artist talk will focus on located and site specific works, which seek to embed the maker and practice into a place. The presentation will include the artists research and development carried out during the Aceartinc residency.

ace has partnered with Bristol’s contemporary art gallery, Spike Island, to create this artist residency. For the past month Kayle has been working in ace’s smaller Project Room.

Kayle Brandon is a  inter-disciplinary Artist/researcher, whose work is sited within the public, social realm. She predominantly works in collaborative and collective fields; a working method which informs much of her ethos around the making of art.

Brandon works in a variety of media; mapping and making guides out of explorations into territory and social, political, structures. Making and distributing alternative/wild/feral produce and creating experimental social
events.

Her main areas of interest are in the relationships between the natural and urban worlds and Human/Non-human relations. She investigates this field via physical intelligence, provocative intervention, observation, self-guided exploration and collective experience.

http://www.irational.org/kayle/

Wrap Up Party: Old Market Square/ Art Space Atrium
When: Saturday 31 July 2010,   from    3PM – 11PM

Structure Set-up: 10AM – 1PM
Art Workshops: 3-6PM
Film Screening: 9:30PM

Please come and help us celebrate the completion of a successful project organized by five artist run centre’s in Winnipeg. The Airstream trailer will be parked outside of the Art Space building, and Lancelot Coar along with some fantastic volunteers will erect the structure in Old Market Square.

The Closing Party will include performances by the abzurbs, films from the Video Pool Vault, art workshops and much more…
Refreshments will be served

On The Road is generously funded by Winnipeg Arts Council’s Audience Development Grant as well as the Visual Arts Assistance Program through Manitoba Culture, Heritage, and Tourism.
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On The Road
1 – 31 July, 2010  (10AM – 10PM)

Communities in Winnipeg and Manitoba
A ROVING ART PROJECT COMING TO A COMMUNITY NEAR YOU!

On the Road is the brainchild of five of Winnipeg’s Artist-Run Centres: Platform: centre for photographic + digital arts, aceartinc., Video Pool Media Arts Centre, La Maison Des Artistes Visuels Francophones, and Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art.

This project is dedicated to the dissemination of contemporary art by cultural producers to diverse communities in Winnipeg and Manitoba in July of 2010. We wish to promote equal access to art and the organizations from which it is disseminated. Thus we are committed to bringing contemporary art to people who have limited access to it due to geographical barriers.

A 1976 Air Stream Trailer will be the shining, silver heart of On The Road, a rip-roaring contemporary art project led by architect Lancelot Coar. Branching from the trailer will be a huge, spidery, fiberglass and fabric frame that will, with community participation, morph into beautiful and strange structures to house a temporary art space. Within the structure we will showcase videos by Manitoban artists, lead art making workshops, and performances by The Abzurbs, a group of mayhem music makers. Each community is warmly invited to help raise the structure and make it their own for the duration of On The Road’s stay.

July 1:  LAUNCH PARTY @ La Maisons des artistes visuels (219 Provencher Blvd), Winnipeg

July 2: Urban Barn @ Kenaston Blvd + McGillivray, Winnipeg

July 16 + 17: St. Claude, Manitoba

July 20, 21 + 22: Peguis, Manitoba July 24 + 25: Victoria Beach, Manitoba

July 30: Central Park, Winnipeg

July 31: Market Square

For further information please contact Natasha Peterson, Project Coordinator, at ontheroad.coordinator@gmail.com or 204.942.8183

Follow the project online: http://ontheroadenroute.blogspot.com/

On The Road is generously funded by Winnipeg Arts Council’s Audience Development Grant as well as the Visual Arts Assistance Program through Manitoba Culture, Heritage, and Tourism.

Une exposition ambulante au Manitoba au cours de l’été 2010

On The road/En route invite les artistes contemporains de venir transformer une caravane ‘airstream’ en un espace d’exposition pour une période de un à quatre mois l’été prochain. La proposition sélectionnée prendra en considération les relations communautaires, les réalités rurales, la culture des artistes autogérés et les spécificités d’une galerie ambulante ayant une emphase sur l’excellence artistique.

Au sujet de On The Road/En route

Ce projet est dédié à la diffusion de l’art contemporain de diverses communautés de Winnipeg au Manitoba par l’entremise des producteurs culturels. Nous espérons pouvoir promouvoir et permettre l’accès à l’art ainsi qu’aux organismes qui le diffusent. Nous sommes alors engagés à livrer l’art contemporain aux gens qui y ont un accès limité dû à des barrières géographiques. Notre point de vue est que l’art renforcit les communautés par l’entremise de l’inspiration, de la provocation et de la conversation. Les projets qui démontrent l’excellence artistique ainsi que des connaissances et un intérêt par rapport : aux Premières nations, aux francophones, au multimédia, à la photographie et aux communautés LGBT auront priorité.

En route est l’idée originale de cinq centres gérés par des artistes de Winnipeg : Platform: centre for photographic + digital arts, aceartinc., Video Pool, La Maison des artistes et Urban Shaman Gallery.

Pour plus d’information, veuillez s.v.p. contacter Natasha Peterson à cette adresse : ontheroad.coordinator@gmail.com

PDF of this event

La Commune (Paris 1871)

Free film screening event / discussion with food

(part of 16 Days of Non Organised Art) Sunday 18th July 2010   |   1pm

French Translation follows…

In the week that marks Bastille Day, join us on Sunday 18th July for one day of food and discussion based around a screening of the 2002 Peter Watkins film ‘La Commune (Paris 1871)’.
This is a cinematic participatory event!

Beginning at 1pm, La Commune will be screened in two parts with a break around 4pm to eat food together and share thoughts and ideas. La Commune is a meticulously researched opening up of the events surrounding the Paris uprising of 1871. With a cast of non-professional actors presenting themselves to us in and out of character, and using the device of a television news crew to guide us through the unfolding narrative, ‘La Commune’ is a meditation on the presentation and reproduction of histories, of ‘events’. At once arresting for its engagement of audience and actors, for its interrogation of process and mediation, La Commune is radical social cinema.

Watkins cinema provokes a serious questioning of society, be it the breakdown of humanity in The War Game (1965), its pop lunacy in Privelage (1966), its clinging to democratic legalities in Punishment Park (1970), or its overturning in La Commune. Bring food to share with a mind open to present day sites of insurrection and to the issues the film raises.
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Peter Watkins. 2000. 345 mins.
http://www.participatoryspectacle.info/events/
Thanks to Rebond pour la Commune

film still above: photographer CORINNA PALTRINIER

about the artist:
ali sparror visits us from Bristol’s Cube Microplex. His interests mould performance, group dialogue and detours, writing and the production of various media. At aceartinc. ali will be pursuing previous curatorial interests with film screenings, readings and other guerilla events- keep an eye on our website and facebook page.

La Commune (Paris 1871)

Événement de diffusion de film gratuit/discussion avec bouffe

Dimanche le 18 juillet 2010 13 h

Pendant la semaine qui marque le Jour de la Bastille, venez vous joindre à nous le 18 juillet pour une journée de bouffe et de discussion basée sur la diffusion de ‘La Commune’ (Paris 1871), un film fait en 2000 par Peter Watkins.

Il s’agit d’un événement cinématographique participatif!

Dès 13 h, ‘La Commune’ sera diffusé en deux parties avec une pause aux alentours de 16 h pour nous permettre de manger ensemble et de partager nos pensées et nos idées.

La Commune est le résultat d’une recherche méticuleuse révélant les événements qui se sont passés à Paris lors du soulèvement de 1871 – quand les gens de Paris ont pris le pouvoir et mis en place leur propre gouvernement radical.

Une distribution de comédiens non professionnels se présentent à nous soit en, soit hors caractère et, à l’aide d’une équipe de télévision, nous guident à travers le déroulement du narratif de ‘La Commune’, qui est une méditation sur la présentation et la reproduction des histoires, ou des ‘événements’. Tout en étant saisissant par son engagement avec la foule et les comédiens, et son questionnement du procéssus et de la médiation, ‘La Commune’ est du cinéma radical. Le cinéma Watkins provoque un questionnement sérieux de la société, que ce soit la rupture de l’humanité dans The War Game (1965), la folie pop dans Privelage (1966), l’attachement aux légalités démocratiques dans Punishment Park (1970) ou le soulèvement dans La Commune (2000).

Un pionnier du ‘docudrame’, ses films donnent l’impression d’être une collision entre le documentaire dramatique et la science fiction, et révélent une méfiance par rapport aux formes traditionnelles de moyens narratifs et de formats médiatiques.

Apportez de la bouffe pour partager et adoptez un esprit ouvert en ce qui concerne les sites d’insurrection d’aujourd’hui ainsi que les questions que le film relève.

‘La Commune (Paris, 1871)’Peter Watkins. 2000. 345 min. En français avec sous-titres anglais. http://www.participatoryspectacle.info/events/Merci à Rebond pour La Commune

aceartinc. is up for anything for 16 days in July.

Artists and non-artists will experiment / do same-old, same-old/reinvent the space/go nuts/be subtle/do something interesting.

This event is inspired by the terrific fun we had at aceartinc. with the übersuper events that took place on Alexandre David’s installation ‘Over Here’ last July and by Eryn Foster’s ‘35 Days Of Non Organised Art’ that she programmed at Eyelevel Gallery in May last year. The free, off the cuff happenings these two things engendered spurred us onto providing circumstances for more of this good stuff to occur.

(please note these days and times may change, so check regularly our web and facebook page)…

key: red- day show run 12pm – 4pm       | blue- evening show run 7pm – 9pm

Perry Rath – Soul Cakes (Throughout the 16 days)

July 16 ***no day show | Andew Kear- Totally L7

July 17 Shimby- Non traditional Coffee Ceremony | One Trunk Collective- B&W silent films w/ live performance

July 18 Ali Sparror- PART 1 film showing of Peter Watkins La Commune (Paris 1871) | PART 2 of Ali Sparror-film showing

July 19 Ingrid Gatin CANCELLED | Erika Lincoln- Magpie Project CANCELLED

July 20 Daniel Thau-Eleff | Alex Elliot & Branwyn Bundon- Travel Tips & Playtimes

July 21 ***no  show       | ***no show

July 22 Kendra Ballingall & Nicole Shimonek- Natural Causes       | Joanne Bristol- Poetry & Architecture

July 23 Freud’s Bathhouse and Diner      | Mr. gh0sty- gr8-bits

July 24 Kerri-Lynn Reeves      | Stephen Basham

July 25 ***no show        | Bond Institute- Annual General Meeting 2010

July 26 ***no show       | 7pm, artist inresidence talk: Kayle Brandon- Finding space

July 27 ***no show        | Connie Chappel- Mexico Mannequin

July 28 Glen Johnson-  Mid-life Crisis       | Fem Rev- Making + Doing

July 29 Kari Zahariuk      | Lasha Mowchun & Elise Dawson- Confetti

July 30 Coral Maloney- Participatory Preserving       | Jaime Black- The REDress Project

July 31 Joe Kalturnyk- MNP (Mass Nap Machine): or “Orgy of Sleep” | The Wpg Arcades Proj.- Where is the capital of the 21st century?

aceartinc. & the artists gratefully thank the generous support of associate members & donors, our volunteers, the Winnipeg Arts Council, The Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, WH and SE Loewen Foundation, The Family of Wendy Wersh, The Sign Source, Friesens Corporation , Design Type Ltd.. Half Pints Brewing Co., The HI Downtowner.

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http://www.myspace.com/itkillsitkillsitkills

Warm up for Folk Fest with the gorgeous sounds of the band, IT KILLS on the So I Could See You Tour.

Think haunted shipwrecks echoing with the sighs of tragically lovesick seahorses and fish determined to grow lungs.

Lisa Lipton Solomon Vromans William Robinson & sometimes Alice Hansen Aaron Sinclair Darcy Fraser are the members of this sweet smellin group.

Tuesday 6th July 7pm   |   free/by donation

Bonefeather

Callum Paterson + Nathan Gilliss   |   July 2nd – August 18, 2010

in the new aceart intern programming areas Emily’s Cove & Suez Gallery

Opening Reception: Friday July 2nd, 2010, 7pm

“Callum “Kyd” Paterson and Nathan “Houston” Gilliss are super-stylie animators out to destroy the earth with their pizzazz. Their production company, Public Ritual, makes multi-media video that combines STOP-motion, punk drawings, and weird ideas with their digital prowess. Callum is a former tree-planter turned musical prodigy. Nathan moved here from Kentucky to dominate Emily Carr. Headquarters for Public Ritual is a flashy studio filled with stringed instruments and lights and cameras and drawings and a French chick sewing fashion in the corner.  BoneFeather, their debut film, has garnered tons of attention at TIFF’s children’s festival and at student festivals across the US and Canada, most likely for what Callum calls ‘the notion of awkward sexuality in the imaginary natural kingdom.’ There is something about Public Ritual that is a little bit dangerous, a little bit genius, and totally hawt. And, they gave birth to Jesus.”
Check it: www.publicritual.ca

The co-curators of this project are Emily Doucet (University of Winnipeg) and Suzanne Morrissette (Ontario College of Art and Design), both currently interning at aceartinc. With this exhibition they are exploring the use of experimental programming space outside of the traditionally used spaces of aceartinc. ‘Emily’s Cove’ (located in the front stairwell) and ‘Suez Gallery’ (located by the washrooms) are the spaces to be employed in this project. By incorporating a portion of the set and materials used in the creation of the short film ‘Bonefeather’ the curators hope to entertain new possibilities for video display and introduce the sculptural and multi-media elements involved in the production of stop-motion animation.

stills from Bonefeather by Callum Paterson and Nathan Gilliss, courtesy of artists.

Night Shift |   Emily Rosamond   1- 30 june 2010   |   talk and party 11 June, 7pm/8pm   |   give away day June 29th 12-5pm

french follows…

For Emily Rosamond’s first solo exhibition in Manitoba, she will work with approximately one ton of used building supplies, renovation debris, discarded furniture and household items collected around Winnipeg by the local junk removal company Declutter.ca. Showing up with only a tool kit of specially chosen connective items – including hooks, chains, fluorescent plasticine, drywall mud, paint and a sculpture, she will work the night shift from June 1-19, building on the spot and without a plan, in a manner that responds to the contingencies of the materials – their scratches, cracks and other evidence of their former lives. Each morning, the space will appear different from the day before. Reaching its final stage by June 20, the changes will slow down and stop, finally pausing, masquerading as a “final” product until the end of the month, when the materials will be carted away again by Declutter, resuming their regularly scheduled activities.

Just before the installation leaves the gallery, there will be a call to the general public, inviting all interested parties to take home a piece of the installation before it disappears.

Rosamond, whose art practice has involved activities such as drawing designs with shampoo on floors, Dremelling groups of pencils into blobby shapes, hugging packages of Neo Citran, impersonating tall grasses on video, and creating an 80% scale replica of the space of her kitchen, enters this piece with a keen interest in how performative and sculptural actions can renegotiate the spaces between architecture and furniture, commodities and trash, objects and the ephemeral sense of “character” that accrues around them.

Emily Rosamond is an emerging artist, academic and educator currently based in Montreal. www.erosamon.com

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Emily Rosamond   |   Night  Shift   |   1 au 31 juin 2010   | causerie d’artiste/le boum  19 h/ 20 h, 11th Juin

Pour sa première exposition solo au Manitoba, Emily Rosamond travaillera avec environ une tonne de matériaux de construction usagés, de débris de rénovation, de meubles et d’objets ménagers jetés au rebut et ramassés aux alentours de Winnipeg par Declutter.ca, une compagnie locale de débarras. Elle se présentera avec une boîte d’outils connectifs spécialement choisis, et travaillera de nuit du 1 au 19 juin; Emily se mettra à construire sur place, sans un plan, d’une manière qui correspond aux possibilités présentées par les matériaux : les égratignures, les craques et d’autres indices qui témoignent de leurs vies antérieures. Chaque matin, l’espace aura une apparence différente que la journée précédente. En s’approchant du stade final le 20 juin, les changements vont ralentir pour enfin s’arrêter complètement, prendront une pause pour donner l’impression d’être le produit ‘final’ jusqu’à la fin du mois, quand les matériaux seront enlevés encore une fois par Declutter afin de reprendre leurs activités régulières.
Avant que l’installation quitte la galerie, il y aura un appel au public invitant les personnes intéressées à rapporter un morceau de l’installation chez eux avant qu’elle ne disparaisse.

Emily Rosamond est une artiste émergente, une universitaire et une éducatrice basée présentement à Montréal. www.erosamon.com

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end of Emily Rosamond’s  Night Shift

image credit: Liz Garlicki “Night Shift” by Emily Rosamond, 2010

Give Away Day (or GAD as we lovingly named it)
Tuesday, June 29th starting noon till 5pm.

The items used in Ms. Rosamond’s installation will be given away before
disposal. First come, first items to take.

List of items you may see for the taking…

* old windows
* small school desk
* dismantled chairs, bed frames
* scrap wood (think about all those items you want to build. this is free
stuff people)
* exercise bike
* sewing machine (?? works??)
*  sleds
* toques and other clothing items
* wool

We could go on, but you won’t want to read anymore, you want to see it…so
c’mon down!!

NO HOLDS! You must take the item that day!!

May 4-26  | Launch- May 4, 5-7pm | Curator Talk- May 4, 6pm

Curated by Naomi Hocura and Brandon Hocura

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG’S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM – www.plastic-paper.org

Daisuke Ichiba’s images are violent and beautiful. His paintings describe a delicate world haunted by Japanese phantasms and grotesqueries of moral contradictions; a world where youth and sex mingle with corruption and death. The rooms into which the viewer peeks are forbidden, as if a sliding door has been drawn back on a scene reenacted from a gothic past. This first North American exhibit will feature recent paintings and photography, as well as a selection of screenprinted books from his collection.

http://tetorahidoro.xxxxxxxx.jp/

Daisuke Ichiba started painting seriously in the eighties and in 1990 self-published his first book entitled 37 Year Old Bastard. Since then, he has continued to release a book a year, and was noticed by the great manga artist Takashi Nemoto, as well as Pakito, from the outsider art gallery, Le Dernier Cri based in Marseille, France. Since 2006, Ichiba has held solo shows in Paris, Marseille, and Switzerland, and in recent years has been pursuing photography.

PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG’S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM is an international festival that takes place May 5-8, 2010 at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada. The festival is one component of the year-round organizational activities of the Big Smash! Film Collective. PLASTIC PAPER’s programming is a mix of premieres, retrospective screenings, short films and features with special guests, workshops, multi-media presentations, installations and exhibits, artist talks, and gatherings where the artists and the audience can interact more informally.
Confirmed special guests for PLASTIC PAPER 2010 include Oscar-nominated animator BILL PLYMPTON, who will be presenting an animation master class, and puppeteer and curator HEATHER HENSON (of the illustrious Henson clan), who will be premiering a new “best of” selection of her ongoing HANDMADE PUPPET DREAMS series of independent puppet films.

Toronto-based curator NAOMI HOCURA will be appearing in person to present SECONDS UNDER THE SUN, an amazing program of contemporary Japanese animated short films on opening night, and local progressive psych band MAHOGANY FROG will be closing the festival with the premiere of a new live score for legendary animator Bruce Bickford’s work-in-progress, CAS’L’.
ADDITIONAL PREMIERES include the Oscar-nominated SECRET OF KELLS, Mamoru Hosoda’s SUMMER WARS, Priit Parn’s LIFE WITHOUT GABRIELLA FERRI and Barry Doupe’s PONYTAIL, as well as the return of the SATURDAY MORNING ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT CEREAL CARTOON PARTY!

info on Plastic Paper Festival visit: www.plastic-paper.org
PLASTIC PAPER is generously sponsored by the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

Sleep…
in the gallery

presented by ccole productions in conjunction with send + receive.

Thursday, 13 May   |   8 pm   |   $7

bring cozy things-pillows, quilts, comforters…
On Thursday May 13 come down to aceartinc. for an evening of dreamy and hypnotic sounds and visuals. This evening won’t bore you to sleep but will lull you to relax, kick-back and possibly drift off…

Featuring Vancouver drone maker Empty Love, Winnipeg sound maker Chris Bryan and a dreamy film program of shorts featuring works by local filmmakers Leslie Supnet, Clint Enns, Andrew Milne + Cam Johnson and Kelsey Braun, and Montreal filmmaker Sabrina Ratté.

Doors are at 8:00 p.m. Films to begin around 8:30 to be followed by the live sound performances.

We urge you to bring open ears and a pillow, sleeping bag or whatever makes you cozy… warm sounds, dreamy visuals and dream machine will be provided…

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bios:

EMPTY LOVE has been creating deep, organ rattling, analog drones since late 2007 in vancouver, in both the studio and live. several studio sessions, as well as some live performances have been documented on releases through vancouver based labels thankless, diadem discos, panospria, and csaf, as well as some self released items here and there. from the onset, empty love live performances have included a large visual element, often times utilizing home made props (such as dream machines, light wheels, and various other oddities), and more recently using projected visuals. several live and studio collaborations have happened with other vancouver sound artists, most of which have been released as part of the ongoing “empty love +” series.
http://www.last.fm/music/Empty+Love

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CHRIS BRYAN has been working with audio as a medium since 1996 and started performing and recording as 3×3is9 when he switched over to a primarily digital approach in 1999. Recently a decision was made to abandon the 3×3is9 moniker as he felt that the “pop” sensibility of the name no longer fit his work. Chris’ approach to sound remains the same; with live performance typically being a semi-improvised computer based set exploring the textures and contrasts within sound. Chris has performed as a solo artist, and collaboratively with artists like Jamie Drouin (Van) and Bernhard Günter (DE).
http://www.myspace.com/91909710
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LESLIE SUPNET is a Canadian artist from Winnipeg, MB. Her animated work and drawings reveal inner collective emotion, while remaining deeply connected to her own experience. Her animations have screened at various festivals, such as the Images Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Signal & Noise, Image Forum Festival in Japan, LA Film Forum and Antimatter.
http://www.sundaestories.com/
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CLINT ENNS is a video artist and filmmaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose work
primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown both nationally and internationally at festivals, alternative spaces and mircocinemas.

He has recently completed a master’s degree in mathematics at the university of manitoba, and his interests include model theory of rings and modules, structuralist film, destructuralist video, and mathematics in art.
http://vimeo.com/clintenns
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MILNE/JOHNSON have been working together for the last two years. These collaborations have culminated in live mixing with 16mm projectors, contemporary dance, and performance art. Andrew Milne is a Winnipeg-based Fusion Artist with a practice in The Exchange District. His active artistic disciplines include Film, Video, Performance, Sculpture, Photography. Andrew began his career in Vancouver, moving to Winnipeg in 2006. Through processes of embodiment the work he creates is an attempt to disquiet a viewer’s current ideas of future, possibility and self. Cameron Johnson began making music through percussion. Since 2004 he has been exploring the manipulation sound and source in both solo and collaborative projects. Working exclusively with audio hardware as nontraditional instrumentation his work is attempting to welcome people into an space that they would normally find hostile.
http://vimeo.com/andrewmilne
http://www.myspace.com/thiscameraisred

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KELSEY BRAUN is currently focusing his artistic practice in sound and video to highlight the aural and visual parts of the world that remain on the periphery, using them to construct another kind of reality from within which we can either escape, or observe our own from. His recurring themes of land and proximity seek an awareness of their relationship. Such environments are explored through a contrasting and complimentary combination of media to define, connect, and re-contextualize these phenomenon. These ideas manifest as sound performance and recording, single-channel video, and installation.

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SABRINA RATTE is currently enrolled in the Master in Film Production of Concordia University in Montreal. Some of her fictions and experimental films played in Festivals such as Les Rendez-vous du cinéma Québécois, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, and Festival International du Court Métrage à Clermont-Ferrand. She is now experimenting a lot with video imageries, eerie atmospheres and abstractions. She is also currently working on projects involving live video performances.
http://vimeo.com/user3219345

for more info about send + receive please visit: http://www.sendandreceive.org/

May 15th – May 28th, 2010

launch party will be May 14, 7:30 – 11:30 pm

Selected graduating and thesis students of the University of Manitoba’s School of Art are displaying their best at Ace Art, in an exhibition appropriately titled “Coming Out”. This show will feature work by students from the painting, drawing and sculpture departments.

Participating artists are: Christabel Lindner, Willy Carleton, Joan Larson, Emilie St Hilaire, Kara Passey, Stephanie Graham, Chantel Mierau, Cullen Bingemen, Joshua Roach, Laura Magnusson, Sherrie Rennie, Ryan Klatt and Echo Ying Xie.

This group of artists has obtained a 3 or 4 year Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (studio). Their final year represents a culmination of their art studies; this exhibition is displaying the top work of all 13 artists. All participants are un-influenced from each other, despite working in such close quarters, creating a very diverse collection of art. From the delicate knitted work of Chantel Mierau, to the heavy industrial work of Sherrie Rennie, this exhibition shows the differences between the artists, their materials, and their content. Many graduates from the School of Art pursue Master’s degrees or work independently as emerging artists in Winnipeg and abroad.

The opening night launch party will be May 14, 7:30 – 11:30 pm and guests are invited to take part in the debutante theme with the option of dressing in formal attire.

SATURDAY, 15 MAY
Inland/Outland – Iceland
Svavar Jónatansson and Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson
aceartinc.
2−290 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg
8pm, Free Admission

If you can’t get your hands on one of those Iceland Express direct-to-Reykjavik flights but you’ve always wanted to go, Svavar Jónatansson’s epic photographic examination of Iceland’s wild periphery, an intricately woven immersive multiple projection presentation is the antidote.   Accompanied by an evocative soundtrack composed by acclaimed GusGus lead singer Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson. Both artists will be in attendance.

Svavar Jónatansson started photography in his teens. Shooting this and that during his early years, he moved towards a focus on people, photographing intimate personal relationships and documentary-style photography of musicians and artist, as well as street photography during travels in Europe, Israel and USA. He has written articles on his travels for the Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið, as well as for a series of travel blogs.

Svavar’s work with renowned nature photographer James Balog has influenced his ideas and approach to photography. the present culmination of all that is him, has past, present and possible future, comes together in his latest work, Inland/Outland-Iceland. Svavar studies sociology and anthropology at the University of Iceland, and the Núna(now) presentation of Inland/Outland-Iceland will represent his first ever public exhibition.

Inland/Outland-Iceland will be performed at aceartinc. on Saturday, May 15. A Q&A with the artist will follow.

www.inlandoutland.com

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Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson is an Iceland solo artist and lead singer of the bands GusGus, Nýdönsk and Esja. Daníel Ágúst has been part of the local and international music scene for twenty years; in 1989 he participated in the Eurovision Song Contest for Iceland with the song Það sem enginn sér. He finished in 22nd place, scoring no points.

Daníel took a break from GusGus in the year 2000, and has acted on stage and screen and composed music for film, dance and television. His first solo album, Swallowed a Star, was released in 2005. He rejoined GusGus with the releases of Forever in 2007 and 24/7 in 2009, touring extensively in Europe. He is currently working on his second solo album.

Daníel will be performing solo on Thursday May 13th at Plug In ICA. He’ll also perform his original score to Svavar Jónatansson’s Inland/Outland-Iceland at aceartinc. on Saturday, May 15.

artist’s website: http://www.myspace.com/danielagust

for a full schedual of the festival please visit: http://www.nunanow.com/

Here are some of the photographs from the pinhole photography workshop participants…

image: camera obscura-inside foyer at aceartinc. photo credit: Scott Stephens

French follows in “more”…

Camera Obscuras around the Exchange…Sunday April 25th
Thanks to the generous support of the Manitoba Lotteries, aceartinc. has commissioned local artists, Sarah Anne Johnson & Andrew Milne, to create a camera obscura in ace and other locations around the city which will be free for pleasure seekers to visit in the run up to World Pinhole Photography Day 2010. And as a special workshop, Sarah and Andrew will show the ArtCity youth how to build a camera obscura in their centre!

A camera obscura (from the Latin for “dark room” or “darkened chamber”) projects an image from the outside of a room onto a flat surface inside via a carefully positioned hole. The external scene is reproduced, upside-down, but with color and perspective eerily preserved.

Standing inside a camera obscura is effectively like standing in a large pinhole camera. It’ll give you a unique understanding of how pinhole photography works. But as importantly, it is an enchanting experience, one which imparts a sense of the mystery involved in art-making.

Images from partner locations…

MAWA
611 Main Street, R3B 1E1  |   204 949 9490   |   www.mawa.ca

photo credit: Andrew Milne

La Maison Des Artistes Visuels Francophone
219 Provencher Boulevard, R2H 0G4   |   204 237 5964   |   www.maisondesartistes.mb.ca

photo credit: Andrew Milne

Plug In ICA
286 McDermot Avenue, R3B 0T2   |   204 942 1043   |   www.plugin.org

photo credit: Andrew Milne

ArtCity
616 Broadway, R3C 0W8   |   204 775 9856   |   www.artcityinc.com

photo credit: Andrew Milne

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All venues open SUNDAY 25th April 2010, World Pinhole Photography Day. Please contact individual venues for access to the camera obscuras.

documentation of performances on April 25th…

Dance performances in the camera obscuras
Local dancer, Ming Hon, is creating  a dance that will be performed within some of the camera obscuras. You are invited to watch the eruptions and flutterings that take place when the outdoors goes indoors. Outside Plug In ICA at 2pm

Ming Hon is an independent dance artist and choreographer. Ming’s main artistic intent is to connect her inherent natural movement vocabulary of moving in an off-kilter and unsettled way with her interest in surreal conceptual narratives and caricatures.

photo credit: Liz Garlicki, Ming Hon “untitled”, 2010

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4×5ft Land Camera Project
Andrew Milne is constructing a 4 foot by 5 foot land camera with support from the Winnipeg Arts Council. The huge camera will be used to capture an image of the aceartinc. building facade from the parking lot at Princess and McDermot on the afternoon of the 25th April. The resulting image will be on display at Platform from the 27th April until the 4th May.

photo credit: Andrew Milne

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Liz Garlicki and Lyndsay Ladobruk
Liz Garlicki is a Winnipeg artist who explores gentrification and advertising culture based on the milieu surrounding her.

Miss Lyndsay Ladobruk is a Winnipeg performance artist. Here esthetic of humor mixed with serious messages is something that she uses to draw in and seduces an audience and then leave them examiningtheir own life.

Outside aceartinc. at 2:30pm. Other obscura locations depending on our mood we’ll perform for you.

photo credit (left): Liz Garlicki. Image from left to right: jaymez, Miss Metro & Loula, David Leckie, Lyndsay Ladobruk “looking for trouble”,  intervention performance, 2010

photo credit (right) Jude Thomas. image: Liz Garlicki “Ain’t No Tree High Enough”, performance  2010

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Stories
hannah_g will tell stories in another of the camera obscuras. Outside aceartinc. at 1:30pm

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An Open Call for Winnipeg-based Artists
Showing Up, Speaking Out
Independent curator, Milena Placentile, invites submissions from Winnipeg-based artists to participate in a community arts project taking place from September 3 – October 5 at aceartinc.

Showing Up, Speaking Out seeks to explore the extent to which artists can motivate and facilitate civic participation by connecting local, national, and international artists with local communities through the collaborative production of ephemeral artworks deployed in public spaces throughout Winnipeg.

One goal of this project is to enhance relationships between artists and diverse communities through the formation of a socially resonant context that will highlight the creative, critical work of artists while providing unique opportunities for community members to collaborate in manners well poised to increase confidence in recapturing the public sphere as a place for thoughtful idea exchange.

The presentation site for this project, aceartinc., will serve as a staging ground where people will collaborate to determine projects, plan the delivery of their interventions, and make props. The venue will simultaneously be a site for exhibiting ephemera related to each action (i.e. used props, photographs, digital video, messages to other participants). It will also be a destination for discussing the potential impact of each action and reflecting on what participants might have gained from their involvement.

All activities will be supported by a blog/online discussion forum (http://showingupspeakingout.blogspot.com/) and a downloadable/print-on-demand publication including critical responses by local writers.

The artists confirmed at this time include:
***** Inge Hoonte (Netherlands/Brooklyn, USA) will work with participants to address the issue of recreation in public space
***** Deborah Kelly (Sydney, Australia) will work with community members to respond to issues pertaining to “living together” (i.e. sexual, racial, and gender diversity)
***** Tomas Jonsson (Calgary) will work with participants to address the issue of social housing/homelessness

Showing Up, Speaking Out seeks the participation of one or two additional artists to propose a theme around which she/he will develop an intervention in collaboration with other members of the community.

Submission Requirements:
In addition to the mandatory requirement that applicants be based in Winnipeg, each artist is requested to submit the following information via email to showingupspeakingout@gmail.com:

***** Artist CV including current contact information (mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address) (3 pages maximum)
***** A one page statement expressing why she/he would like to participate in this project and what experience she/he has working with others in a collaborative fashion. Please remember that this opportunity is open to artists at any stage of their career – emerging, mid-career and established.
***** A one page statement about the theme she/he would like to explore in collaboration with community members. Examples include: policing, water stewardship, public transit, parking lots, bicycle lanes, food security, waste management, government accountability, etc.
***** Support material in the form of 10 digital images of past work — .jpg preferred; no greater than 72 dpi or a resolution of 1024 X 768 pixels. Up to two videos may also be submitted as support material and should be available for viewing online (i.e. youtube, vimeo, etc). Please remember to provide a descriptive list of all images and video including title, date, and year created, as well as any other brief details relevant to understanding context.

Each participating artist will be paid a fee in accordance with the CARFAC rate equivalent to a solo exhibition to cover activity spanning approximately 10 days over the course of the exhibition period (September 3 – October 5). The dates of participation are flexible and will be agreed upon in advance of the project launch. Each participating artist will also have access to a budget of approximately $400 for production materials or equipment rental as necessary.

Please direct enquiries and submissions to: showingupspeakingout@gmail.com

Please note that all submissions must be received by Monday, July 5, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. In order to ensure fairness, late submissions can not be accepted. Submissions will be selected through a jury including constituents from the various groups described below.

This project is made possible thanks to the generosity of the Winnipeg Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts as well as the energetic and enthusiastic partnership of: aceartinc., Art City, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Urban Shaman Gallery, and Video Pool Media Arts Centre, among others to be announced.

This project is included as part of Culture Days Manitoba (September 24 – 26, 2010).

World Pinhole Photography Day   |   25th April 2010
Pinhole Photography Workshop for members, April 11 & 18

image by participant Michelle Slota

shot from a Christmas Tea tin 1 min 30 second exposure

April 11th at aceartinc.-  2nd flr. 290 McDermot Ave.  time: 12-5pm

April 18th at Platform Centre for Photographic  + Digital  Arts – 121-100 Arthur St.

what to bring:
*at least three containers to make into pinhole cameras. this could be a shoe box, pringles container, tin cookie box, tin coffee container. basically think of a box that has very little light going into it and that can be sealed. this is less work when you tape the edges etc.

*scissors (you will be cutting paper, duct tape and maybe some tin. so don’t bring your special sewing kind. hee hee)

*an exacto knife (not necessary but if you want to bring it will go faster). one that has a bigger blade not for delicate work.

*needles with small piointy tips (this is also optional)

*your payment of $60.00 if you have not paid.

To celebrate the international extravaganza of DIY, photography aceartinc. and PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital art are joining forces and pooling resources to impart the skill of experimental pinhole photography to a few of our respective members.

Last year’s workshop was a roaring success- totally oversubscribed and gorgeously over-achieving. Book your place on this year’s workshop and learn the gentle craft of pinhole photography and get your pictures uploaded onto the WPPD website!

This workshop will take place over two Sundays with local artist, Sarah Crawley.

Sunday 11th to make the camera  and Sunday 18th April to develop the photos.

Participants will learn how to make a camera, take pictures with it, develop their images and finally upload them onto ace’s website as well as the official W.P.P.D. website, and exhibit the results on PLATFORM’s members wall P121.

Participants need to bring scissors, masking tape, a smock and 3 to 6 containers such as shoeboxes, Pringle cylinders, biscuit tins, film canisters etc. (round containers are preferable) but all other supplies (photo paper, film processing, paint, etc and all tuition is included in the subsidised $60 fee- a deal if ever a Winnipegger saw one! If you are interested but broke, get in touch with either ace or Platform.

There are very limited places and these will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, so hurry!

gallery@aceart.org   |   outreach@platformgallery.org

Pinhole Artist Collective   |   through the eye of a needle

in ace’s Project Room, April 9 – May 1, 2010

through the eye of a needle, shows how a group of artists (Marian Butler, Sandra Campbell, Sarah Crawley,  William Eakin, Lori Fontaine, Jacquelyn Hébert, Beth Johnson, Jen Loewen and Natasha Peterson) can be united in the process of exploring their intentions and sharing their experimentations.  Pinhole photography is about capturing light through an opening (a lens) the size of the prick of a needle.  You never quite know what you are going to get, but that is what fascinates, mesmerizes and intrigues us about the images we make.  The mystery of the way the light moves during these long exposures allows us to see the world in a new way and this invites the viewer to explore the spaces between our photographic intent and the results.

PAC (Pinhole Artist Collective) is a collective of artists interested in exploring the artistic medium of pinhole photography. In regular gatherings, the collective engages in both constructive criticism and artistic creation. Growing out of the spirit of World Pinhole Photography Day and a DIY artistic philosophy, they are hands-on, resourceful, and playful.  They use analogue and digital processes and are, from time to time, nomadic with their pinhole practices.

Look out for the Pinhole Artist Collective’s upcoming summer show at PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital arts…

above image by Jacquelyn Hébert
exchange #1 and was made with a three-hole pinhole camera in 2009
www.jacquelynhebert.ca

1st of April,  2010  7pm | stories  730pm   830pm|   Free

Uncle Glennie is a seasoned (marjoram and turmeric) reader who has been reading stories aloud since he was a very small boy. He is now getting quite hoarse.
Known for his ability to hold an audience in the palm of his hand (it is very large) Uncle Glennie has sometimes drawn large crowds for his performances. A few of the sturdier individuals involved have even managed to sit all the way through one.
Uncle Glennie has been compared to many famous writers and performers but never favourably.

On the evening of April the First, Uncle Glennie will be reading selections from the Persiflage canon. Samples of this can be found at: www.persiflage.ca .

Frozen In Time, Switzerland    |    Nathalie Daoust
19th March – 1st May, 2010

Daoust presents a series of hand tinted, black and white images taken with a pinhole camera. Each photograph reveals a pervading sense of introspection, a desire to escape reality by reinventing the truth.

“Since my very first experiments in photography I have been fascinated by human behaviour and its various realities and by the ever-present desire to escape and live in a dream world. The aesthetic of my new project enriches visual exploration at the border between dream and reality, conveying a feeling of escape.” ~Nathalie Daoust

FRIDAY, MARCH 12 8pm till midnight
here at aceartinc. 2nd flr-290 McDermot Ave.

aceartinc.’s turnaround is a series of events/ performances/ installations that occur between the uninstall and install of regular exhibitions at the gallery. Operating on a fly-by-night ethos, turnaround enables performers to take advantage of a large space to experiment with and test ideas. Preference is given to projects which are innovative, mischievous, passionate and enthusiastic. It is an opportunity for community building between various artists and audiences in Winnipeg.

To launch the aceartinc.turnaround series, Winnipeg media artist mrghosty has created a concept dance party/ mixer/ installation: transmission alpha.

Inspired by flash mobs and pirate broadcast media; mrghosty has assembled local talent and low wattage broadcast technology to bring you a new experience using old technology. Rather than using a traditional party set up of sound system and video projection, all media in the space will be broadcast over FM Radio and UHF television signals.

The Djs will be playing their mixes and broadcasting them live into the space, where guests can listen to them on portable radios and headphones (which are provided :)). Giving the participants the chance to put on their headphones and dance (creating a silent dance party a la flashmob), or to simply remove the headphones and mingle.

Mrghosty will be adding a live video mix broadcast over UHF to scores of vintage televisions of various size, and age installed throughout the gallery. This will also be the events primary source of light, the vintage glow of cathode ray tubes. Keeping with the theme of vintage technology, classic radio and television programs and commercials will be thrown into the mix.

Featuring fantastic local Djs:

THE SHAKE (Lotek and Manalogue)
DJ Cyclist (lebeato)
DJ King Kobra (Live PA set)
DJ Beekeeni (Vav Jungle)
DJ Kasm (balanced records)

live video mix and installation concept: mrghosty.

Admission is $5 and proceeds go to cover team ghosty’s cost of the tech for the event and to raise funds for aceartinc.. 50/50 split.

*portable FM radios with earbud headphones are free with admission.
BUT!!!! feel free to bring your own portable radios! Those old wacky headphone radios or your old walkman :)

So come on out, pop in your headphones, and raise some money for your local artist run center!

http://www.aceart.org
http://www.mrghosty.net

Daniel Barrow

No One Helped Me book launch & performance of Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry

Tuesday 16 February   |   7.30 pm   |   free

Please book in advance to avoid disappointment

204 944 9763   |   gallery@aceart.org

aceartinc. cordially invites you to a free performance of Every Time I see Your Picture I Cry by Daniel Barrow to celebrate the release of his new art book, No One Helped Me, published by aceartinc. with the generous support of the Winnipeg Arts Council’s New Creations Fund. This is a beautifully produced, limited edition, complete with a 7” record (voice by Daniel Barrow, music by Amy Linton; B side by The Ballet) to accompany your page turning. It also contains exclusive essays by Jon Davies and Steven Matijcio.

Awarded the 2008 Images Prize at its premiere, Daniel Barrow’s newest “manual animation” combines overhead projection with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent telephone book chronicling the lives of each person in his city. In the late hours of the night, he sifts through garbage, collecting personal information and then traces pictures of each citizen through the windows of their homes as they sleep. What he doesn’t yet realize is that a deranged killer is trailing him, murdering each citizen he includes in his book, thus rendering his cataloging efforts obsolete. The garbageman is a failed artist who fears becoming subject to the grip of something overwhelming. This animation traces his attempts to slow down and creatively reflect, in a process of coming to terms with his own self-loathing and fear.

ISBN: 978-0-9864732-0-3
Edition of 500.

more about the artist and to order book: www.danielbarrow.com

or purchase No One Helped Me at Art Metropole:  http://www.artmetropole.com

aceartinc. & Rainbow Resource Centre- RRaCe Peer Project for Youth (ages 15-24)

Showing of RRaCe – Peer Project for Youth video project
part of The Fantasia Affair “Gender Outlaws” with Kate Bornstein show
Saturday February 27, at the West End Cultural Centre – 586 Ellice Ave.
doors open 7:15pm
show time 8pm.
tix $10.00 – all ages, rush seating
Tickets are available at the Rainbow Resource Centre (170 Scott St.) and the University of Winnipeg Info Booth (515 Portage Ave.).

aceartinc. and the Rainbow Resource Centre are very chuffed to let you know that the films the queer youth made with Peter kingstone as part of our WAC Youth Arts Initiative partnership (RRaCe) will be screened at the West End Cultural Centre as part of the Kate Bornstein event!

This project was made possible by the generous support of the Winnipeg Arts Council and the Winnipeg Foundation through the Youth Arts

aceartinc. is is committed to supporting queer artists and cultural producers and  has therefore partnered with the Rainbow Resource Centre to create a long-term friendship that will bring queer youth to aceartinc. to see and respond to exhibitions, participate in activities, use the Project Room and all our resources and become and remain members.

aceartinc. has been looking to raise its profile with Winnipeg queer youth in order to invest in future audiences and artists and continue to be relevant to the queer community. Working with the 2009/2010 programmed exhibitions will provide a variety of contexts in which queer youth can work with professional artists to place their identities in different cultural, social and political contexts and explore their creativity in an experimental and safe atmosphere. We want to skill them up to create your their culture and to think critically about the culture we are surrounded by.

There will be four workshops with the four exhibiting artists at aceartinc. Each of these workshops will involve art making and discussion. The artworks made during these workshops will be exhibited in a special exhibition which aceartinc. will host in June 2010 as part of Winnipeg Pride.

http://www.rainbowresourcecentre.org/youthprogramming.htm

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The Little White Cloud That Cried
By Guy Maddin

Goddesses unharnessing the power of the sea and putting it into a whole new element as they engage in orgiastic battles and whoopla. This is a 16mm spectacular by Guy Maddin, starring Lexi Tronic and Breanna Taylor and featuring photos by Steve Ackerman. This is the WINNIPEG PREMIERE!

Screening at 10pm at aceartinc.

Saturday, November 28

This event is happening as part of the aceartinc. Winter Warmer members’ show & sale- enjoy the art (which is also for sale) before hand or afterhand… this is goin to be a corker of a night!

Advisory: this film contains explicit material.

Cuban artist Dalvis Tuya

November 14th – 12th of December, 2009
reception: November 14 at 7pm at aceartinc.
2nd flr-290 McDermot Ave. (Continued)

Gallery 1C03
Off campus talk: Thursday, November 12 beginning @ 7:00 p.m.
(aceartinc, 2nd floor, 290 McDermot Ave.)

The Pinky Show: Class Treason Stories (excerpts)

Gallery 1C03 in partnership with the University of Winnipeg’s Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies proudly present

The Pinky Show: Class Treason Stories (excerpts)

From a secret desert locale, a collective of gently voiced cats disseminate a project called The Pinky Show intended to cultivate intellectual curiosity, openness, and compassion.

Focusing on information and perspectives that have been misrepresented, suppressed, ignored, or otherwise excluded from mainstream discussion, Pinky and her friends use various formats (i.e. video, art, books, ‘zines, and blogging) to explore the unseen world in ways that are easy to understand, with special attention given to reconnecting information to its oft-ignored ethical and moral dimensions. Visit www.pinkyshow.org for more information.

The Pinky Show: Class Treason Stories (excerpts) will be available for viewing November 12 – December 12, 2009

Exhibition launch: Thursday, November 12 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
(Gallery 1C03, 1st Floor, Centennial Hall)

Off campus talk: Thursday, November 12 beginning @ 7:00 p.m.
(aceartinc, 2nd floor, 290 McDermot Ave.)

On campus talk: Friday, November 13 from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
(Room 2C15, 2nd Floor, Centennial Hall)

Crits with thesis students at the University of Manitoba School of Art: Friday, November 13 (Details TBA)

Please stay tuned for more information!

For further information about the Gallery, our programming, booking a tour, or submitting an exhibition proposal, please contact:

Jennifer Gibson
Art Curator
Art Curator Department/Gallery 1C03
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
R3B 2E9
Ph: 204.786.9253
Fax: 204.774.4134

aceartinc. Halloween Party!   |   Dress to clarify/stupify/thrillofy!

Friday 30th October    |    8 ’til dawn of the dead   |   free

This is a no frills party, just the basics- music, refreshments and darling art- back of the envelope stuff. Talk and jive, that’s what we’re diggin and hope you do too.

Howie Tsui’s exhibition, ‘Horror Fables’ is just beautiful and pretty scary too- we’ll tell you some of the stories that are depicted in his paintings. We even have a few ides for games.

It’s free, so no bones or bucks or clams need be shelled out for this slice of carved pumpkin pie.

Associated activities:    ArtCity Halloween Party, Friday 30^th October    |     4 – 8 pm   |   free

Thanks to funding from the Winnipeg Foundation, Howie will be running Horror Fable workshops at ArtCity to make this famous party the scariest yet! http://www.artcityinc.com/

Événement spécial

aceartinc. Fête de l’Halloween!   |   Habillez-vous pour éclairer/stupéfier/faire frissonner!

Le vendredi 30 octobre    |    20 h jusqu’à l’aube des morts   |  gratuis

Activités reliées

ArtCity Fête de l’Halloween, Le vendredi 30 octobre    |     16 à 20 h   |   entrée gratuite

Grâce au financement de la Winnipeg Foundation, Howie exécutera des ateliers d’Horreur de fables à ArtCity, ce qui fera en sorte que cette fête très connue soit la plus épeurante à date! http://www.artcityinc.com/

Horror Fables   |   Howie Tsui
14th October  –  13th November,  2009
Launch:  7pm  +  artist talk    |    7.30pm,  Tuesday, 13th October   |   Free for all

Judgment at Sanzu River, courtesy of the artist

Using imagery from traditional Asian ghost stories, Howie Tsui is creating a painting-based installation that satirises the disturbing social climate of fear and fantasy in contemporary western culture. He is particularly interested in contrasting the way fear was used in historical Asian fables to develop moral character modern Western society where fear is used to further political and economic interests.

The exhibition is comprised of two parts. The main features large scale narrative drawings in the style of traditional Asian scrolls with content inspired by neo-conservative propaganda, Asian ghost stories and accounts of supernatural experiences from his family members. Complementing these paintings will be an ephemeral installation of spectral figures scattered along gallery walls. The two components will be situated in a haunting gallery atmosphere accompanied by an unnerving audio collage culled from 1960’s Asian horror films

Special event:

aceartinc. Halloween Party!   |   Dress to clarify/stupify/thrillofy!

Friday 30th October    |    9 ’til dawn of the dead   |   $4 bones$

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Ace’s Embroidery Gatherings

Join a sewing circle to embroider the aceart feast cloth!!! Thread provided but bring your needles and scissors. If you fancy doing your own sewing projects then please do! ace’s gathering will be…

NO EMBROIDERY IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. CHECK IN THE NEW YEAR HERE ON OUR WEB SITE FOR UPDATES.

NEW VENUE:  the Lo Pub (330 Kennedy St just behind Portage Place), 8:30- 10:30pm.

for more info contact Hannah Godfrey program@aceart.org

How the embroidery night started…

(Continued)

Midnight Pie Fight

A fundraiser for aceart’s programmer, hannah_g
Friday, October 2
tix $10.00 avail at aceartinc.
doors open 8pm (Continued)

21 August – 26 September
Opening: Thursday 20 August  |   8pm   |   Artist Talk: Thursday 20 August   |   8.30 pm

Prairies go up in Smoke! Smokey Smothers Heart of Coldness!

Prairies go up in Smoke! Smokey Smothers Heart of Coldness!

POSTER PROJECT

1. WPG>LDN Winnipeggers!

Send us 2 hard copies of posters, no bigger than A3, that is 11.7″ × 16.5″. We will then put them in a binder which will be transported by Nicole Shimonek to London, England where they will be pasted up around the East End and elsewhere. this call is now closed, Londoners, it’s your turn!!!

2. LDN>WPG Londoners!

Send us 2 hard copies of posters, no bigger than A3. We will then put them in a binder which will then be transported by Nicole to Winnipeg, Canada where they will be pasted up round the North End and elsewhere. Drop off/mail the posters to 13 Field Road, Forest Gate, Newham E7 9DW

p.s. A poster is whatever you want it to be, natch.

contact hannah_g if you have a query: program@aceart.org or call  204 944 9763 pics of the poster at sites in London…. (Continued)

with professional artist and preparator Aston Coles

Saturday     |    29th August    |       noon-4pm    |     free for up to date members / $15.00 for new members or renewals

call ace if you wish to participate 944-9763

(these workshops fill quickly and spaces are limited, so we ask that if there is a cancellation to call 3 days prior – unless unforeseen things happen. limit 7-9 people for this workshop.) (Continued)

As part of Alexandre David’s show…

CHECK THIS OUT!!!! Utilizing Alexandre’s installation to it’s fullest potential, ace has devised a series of events to experiment the acoustics, space and visual site-lines inviting some of the community during the showing of Over Here.

ALL WELCOMED!!!! (Continued)

co-sponsored event
Handmade Nation (2009) by Faythe Levine
Film screening and DIY Craft Sale

Friday, June 19, 2009
Craft sale – 7 pm
Screening – 7:30 pm
Ellice Theatre, 585 Ellice Ave
Admission $5

Handmade Nation documents a movement of artists, crafters and designers that recognize a marriage between historical techniques, punk and DIY ethos while being influenced by traditional handiwork, modern aesthetics, politics, feminism and art. Fueled by the common thread of creating, Handmade Nation explores a burgeoning art community that is based on creativity, determination and networking. (Continued)

I Know One Other Person In This Town

by Conway + Young

Conway + Young have permitted aceartinc. to paste one of their projects, ‘I Know One Other Person In This Town’ in the right hand washroom. Visitors to the gallery are cordially invited to participate in this project. If you can’t find a pen,  ask us for one from ace’s friendly staff. (Continued)

aceartinc. hosts….

Bringing Home the Bacon

May 1 – May 31, 2009
Opening: Friday, May 1 8 pm – 12 am

Panel Discussion + Catalogue Launch: Thursday May 14

at 7 – 9pm here at ace! (Continued)

Richard Boulet “Stitched and Drawn”

Curated by Wayne Baerwaldt, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary

May 5 – June 13, 2009

Public Reception with the artist in attendance
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 | 6pm
Artist Talk | 7pm

This touring exhibition organized by the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, includes more than thirty recent works by Edmonton artist Richard Boulet. The artist addresses issues of an eventual spirituality through the cultivation of mental health. His practice is a multifaceted one that includes mixed media drawings and fibre sculptures incorporating quilting and cross-stitching techniques. (Continued)

Call for Personal Legacy Participants

EXTENDED DUE DATE!!

aceartinc. is hosting The Arrivals Project: A Personal Legacy Workshop run by urban ink Production urban ink Artistic Director Diane Roberts will guide 8-10 artists in an embodied exploration of their own histories of (dis)place(ment). Participants will discover & work with a ‘Personal Legacy Voice’ of an ancestor at least three generations removed. The in-studio work will involve ensemble and individual physical & vocal exercises designed to awaken ancestral histories that open gateways for the emergence of historic truths from critically anchored personal places.

When & Where?

April 22-27, 2009 (two ½ day sessions and full days on both Saturday and Sunday- times TBA by group decision)

‘aceartinc.’

2nd Floor, 290 McDermot Avenue

url: www.aceart.org

Who can apply? All Artists are encouraged to apply, particularly those who identify as coming from Aboriginal and Diverse Cultural artistic backgrounds.

How to apply? Email the Diane Roberts a 1-2 page application-statement (.doc/.rtf/.pdf) containing:

· why you want to participate · what life experience you bring · artistic discipline and training (if any)

· your name, phone numbers, mailing address and email

· (attach) a small .jpg photo of yourself

Application deadline EXTENDED!!!: Wednesday March 25th, 2009

send to: outreach@urbanink.ca

***The selected workshop participants will be sent a questionnaire and asked to submit archival and anecdotal research in a written profile of a chosen ancestor by Thurs April 2nd.

Workshop Cost?

FREE.

For the Arrivals Project primer, flyer & info.:

http://www.urbanink.ca/in_development.asp

For more information visit www.urbanink.ca, call us at 604-692-0885 and join us on FACEBOOK.

This workshop was made possible by the Canada Council’s Creative Capacity Program

Image: Peristome by Heather Komus

MYSTERY MEAT

Group show featuring works by The University of Manitoba’s painting, drawing and video thesis students.
17 April to 30 April 2009
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday 17 April, 8 PM

Mystery Meat presents a vibrant sampler from Winnipeg’s fresh talent. Come see the brimming artistic talent harnessed within four walls. Mystery Meat promises a variety of aesthetics and expression show casing 16 different artists. A wide range of painting, drawing and video styles including a performance by Lyndsay Ladobruk on opening night.

“The integrity of the art world is dictated by the artist.” – Jessica Wadge.
For information please contact Jessica Wadge at jessica.wadge@hotmail.com

Sunday 26th April is this year’s World Pinhole Photography Day!

To celebrate the international extravaganza of DIY, photography aceartinc. and PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital arts are joining forces and pooling resources to impart the skill of experimental pinhole photography to a few of our respective members.

The workshop was taken place over 2 consecutive weekend afternoons- Sunday the 19th of April and Saturday the 25th of April. Conducted by local photographer, Sarah Crawley, participants will learn how to make several cameras, take pictures with them, develop their images and finally upload them onto ace’s website as well as the official W.P.P.D. website at http://www.pinholeday.org/

Manitoba page: http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2009/index.php?formType=list&f_action=refresh&Country=&Province=&City=&groupname=Crawly%3AWinnipeg&searchStr=

What came out of the workshop. (Continued)

REVIVAL Heidi Phillips & ARCHIVE Collin Zipp

March 13  to April 9, 2009
Launch: Friday, March 13, 7:00 pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 2:00 pm at Ace Art.
For further information, or to arrange an interview with the artists, contact Hannah Godfrey, program@aceart.org or (204)944-9763.

“aceart is very pleased to be exhibiting the work of a coupla Winnipeg’s most promising emerging artists” says Hannah Godfrey, Ace Art’s program co-ordinator. (Continued)

PRESSURE COOKER: a night of performance and video by aceartinc. members

you can’t keep a lid on!

NIGHT OF EVENT: Friday, May 8, 2009 7:30 pm at aceartinc.
free admission, but we won’t turn away new memberships and donations!!!!

Artists: (Continued)

Terrorism, Democracy, Leisure
Afshin Matlabi

Friday 23rd January- Saturday 28th February 2009
Launch night: Friday 23rd January 2009, 7:30pm
Artist talk: Saturday 24th January 2009 2pm

Terrorism, Democracy, Leisure expresses Afshin Matlabi’s frustration with the nature of liberal democratic beliefs which he believes are facing an uninvited evolution. (Continued)

All Power to the People!
A Graphic History of the Black Panther Party USA.

Friday 23rd January- Saturday 28th February 2009
Launch night: Friday 23rd January 2009, 7:30pm

All Power to the People features a collection of Black Panther Party posters, newspaper graphics and broadsheets archived at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles, California. (Continued)

photo courtesy of Cedar Tavern Singers

aceartinc. is proud to present
Cedar Tavern Singers
one night performance
Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 9pm

Long long ago, back when the world was young—that is, sometime around the year 2006, two individuals of musi-artistic temperament were summoned to the mountainous regions of the north. It was here, while enduring not only the harsh climes, but also bear, elk, and T-rex attacks on a regular basis, a voice of a sub-sub-genre of musical art was forged. This was not, however, without precedent. A seed had been planted and events had been set in motion naught but one year earlier when Mary-Anne and Daniel had joined forces to unleash upon the world the destructive energies of their combined powers in the form of a rock-opera (yet to be completed.) And so,in the majestic Southern Continental Ranges of the Canadian Rockies, it was only a matter of time before the the two intrepid heroes united once again, this time as the Cedar Tavern Singers AKA The Phonoréalistes to fight the good fight and to sing the good song (and occasionally the bad song.)

Art is All Over

DEARRAINDROP – “Don’t Go to Your Mansion” Curated by Paul Butler
18th October – 31st October, 2008
special performance hosted by send + receive see web for details

aceartinc. is pleased to present the first solo multi-media exhibition in Winnipeg by Dearraindrop.

Dearraindrop is a Virginia Beach-based collective made up of Owen Osborn, Christopher Kucinski and founding members Joe Grillo, Laura Grant, and Billy Grant. Dearraindrop have collaborated on paintings, clothing, animation, installations, music, performance and videos for close to 15 years. This fall, they’ll bring their explosive psychedelic maximism born from mass media, art history, old cartoons, video-games and science fiction to Winnipeg in what curator Paul Butler calls ‘an attempt to resuscitate Winnipeg’s art community as a leading collaborative centre.”

The aceartinc. exhibition is part of a larger series of events organized by Butler including a musical performance for the Send + Receive festival, a workshop at Art City where children will learn to make instruments for electronic toys, an artist talk and The University of Manitoba’s Fine Art department, and a video screening at Cinematheque organized in collaboration with Platform centre for digital and photographic arts.

Dearraindrop have exhibited solo shows at V1 gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark (2008), GAD in Oslo, Norway (2007), Iconic Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal (2007), Loyal in Stockholm, Sweden (2006), Perugi Arte Contemporanea in Padova, Italy (2005), Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, (2005), Deitch Projects in NY (2004), P.S.1. In Brooklyn, NY (2004), John Connelly Presents in NY (2003), and HaNNa (2004) in Tokyo, Japan. Their work has been hailed widely in the press including reviews and articles in The New York Times, Paper Magazine and The Globe and Mail.

Everything is Everything
An exhibition by Amy Wong
26th September – 14th November, 2008

opening: Friday September 26 at 7:30pm
Artist talk: Saturday September 27 at 2pm

for more info on the artist: amywongwebsite.blogspot.com

^{image: Amy Wong “Everything Is Everything” © Christopher Wong}

Dempsey & Millan- Lift

Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan
Lift
Date and Times: Friday, September 12
7:30 am – 9:00 am, 11:00 am -12:30 pm, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Location: Kensington Building (275 Portage Avenue at Smith Street)

Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan will present Lift, a series of performance interventions that will be situated in the smallest of spaces: elevators. Dempsey and Millan write, “Elevators are perhaps the last public space uncolonized by consumer culture. With almost no media to distract us, we are very aware (even if briefly) of ourselves, of the wait, of our agency put on hold. We retreat inward, breath-held, until required to re-emerge as the doors open at our floor.” Dempsey and Millan will combine pre-recorded audio with live performance on short (vertical) journeys with captive audiences. As they have done in many previous works, the artists will interact with audience members, whose stories and actions (their journeys) will radically impact and contribute to the performance. This come-and-go performance for a small space will elicit moments of surprise and human contact, to create intimacy within an anonymous space.

Research photo courtesy the artists. Photographer unknown.

Experimental, passionate, and irreverent, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan are two of Canada’s best known performance artists. Collaborators since 1989, this Winnipeg-based duo were catapulted into the national spotlight in their 20s with the controversial, now world-renowned performance piece, We’re Talking Vulva. Since then, this acclaimed duo has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, their film and video works being screened in venues as far-ranging as women’s centres in Sri Lanka to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. They have also created installations (Archaeology and You for the Royal Ontario Museum), published books (Lesbian National Parks & Services Field Guide to North America, Pedlar Press), and curated exhibitions (recently as Adjunct Curators at The Winnipeg Art Gallery). They have been acclaimed as “one of the high-points of contemporary Canadian artistic production.” (Border Crossings) For more about the work of Dempsey and Millan, see: http://www.fingerinthedyke.ca

Nhan Duc Nguyen- Heyseeds

Nhan Duc Nguyen
Heyseeds
September 12 – October 4,2008
Installation at aceartinc. reception:
Friday, September 12 at 8:00 pm Friday

Installation at Little Saigon
reception & (in)visible cities panel discussion: Tuesday, September 9 from 6pm – 8pm
installation available for viewing from September 9 – October 4 during regular restaurant hours.
Little Saigon Restaurant (333 William Avenue at Adelaide Street)

Nhan Duc Nguyen’s Heyseeds focuses on the aesthetics, histories and politics of Northern Vietnamese animist traditions as they are being practiced in North America. For (in) visible cities he will be creating two distinct but interrelated shrine installations – one installed in a downtown Winnipeg Vietnamese restaurant, Little Saigon, and another in the Flux gallery of aceartinc. The restaurant shrine will include interviews with restaurant workers, as part of the record of the story of Vietnamese-Canadians (which Nhan has conducted and recorded in advance of the festival), played in conjunction with music used to call up the spirits. A second shrine, installed at aceartinc., has an interactive component which will enable viewers to write on sticky notes and other stationery, and include them for display as a part of the shrine. (Continued)

(in) visible cities a performance art festival workshops

The City Re-imagined, Re-invented!

artist: Nhan Duc Nhguyen, Shrine to Literature: Redux (2008) from the show ‘Everything is Not Lost’ curated by Kim Nguyen, at the Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver.
photo by Randall Lee

aceartinc., Urban Shaman Gallery, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art are thrilled to present (in) visible cities – a performance art festival in Winnipeg’s Exchange District from September 6th to 13th, 2008. (Continued)

Mother’s Mother’s Mother: The Legacy and Rebellion of Aboriginal Women’s Art

Mother’s Mother’s Mother: The Legacy and Rebellion of Aboriginal Women’s Art
HANNAH CLAUS, ROSALIE FAVELL, MARIA HUPFIELD, SHELLEY NIRO, DAPHNE ODJIG, TANIA WILLARD
curated by JENNY WESTERN

image: Hannah Claus, unsettlements, 2004
image credits: Paul Litherland

Urban Shaman Gallery and Ace Art Inc. from July 10 – August 16th, 2008

panel discussion: Nancy Campbell, Maria Hupfield, and Jenny Western
at 7pm on Thursday, July 10th at Plug In ICA (286 McDermot Avenue)

opening reception: Thursday, July 10th at 8pm at aceartinc. & Urban Shaman Gallery

Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba from September 5 – October 18, 2008
7:30pm Reception and book launch on Friday, September 5th, 2008

Winnipeg, MB… Urban Shaman Gallery, Ace Art Inc., and the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba are pleased to co-present the exhibition Mother’s Mother’s Mother: The Legacy and Rebellion of Aboriginal Women’s Art. Showcasing new, recent, and past works by Hannah Claus, Rosalie Favell, Maria Hupfield, Shelley Niro, Daphne Odjig, and Tania Willard, the exhibition addresses the generational relationships that occur among women within familial contexts, schools of theory, and the contemporary Canadian Aboriginal art scene. Linking these three concepts with a line drawn from the traditional to the present, curator Jenny Western reflects upon the creation of historiographies through myth, memory, inheritance, and difference.

Mother’s Mother’s Mother will be exhibited at Urban Shaman Gallery and Ace Art Inc. spaces concurrently from July 10 – August 16, 2008. A panel discussion will be held in conjunction with Plug In ICA on Thursday, July 10 at 7pm and opening reception at Urban Shaman Gallery and Ace Art Inc. at 8pm. The exhibition will then travel to Brandon where it will be displayed at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba from September 5 – October 18, 2008. A publication will be co-produced by Urban Shaman, Ace Art Inc., the AGSM, and MAWA and launched at the AGSM’s opening reception.

For more information contact
Allison Yearwood at program@urbanshaman.org (204) 942-2674
Theo Sims at program@aceart.org (204) 944-9763
Amber Andersen at curator@agsm.ca (204) 727-1036

“Out of Hand” Manitoba Crafts Council 2008 Juried Exhibition

“Out of Hand”
Manitoba Crafts Council 2008 Juried Exhibition
June 18 – 28, 2008
hosted by Ace Art Inc.
2nd floor, 290 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg
gallery hours: 12 – 5 pm, Tuesday through Friday

The Manitoba Crafts Council is pleased to announce its upcoming juried exhibition, “Out of Hand,” to be presented June 18 to 28, 2008 at Ace Art Inc. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, June 18th from 7-10 pm, with brief program including awards presentations at 7:45 pm. All are welcome to join us for this celebration of fine craft in Manitoba and to meet many of the artists with work in “Out of Hand.” (Continued)

Audition

(Continued)

VideoPool Media Arts Centre presents Richard Dyck

aceartinc. hosts…

April 18 to May 2
Richard Dyck -The day we cut Nettie’s curls, she was 7 years old

presented by VideoPool Media Arts Centre

Reception for both exhibitions: Friday, April 18th at 7:30 pm, 290 McDermot Ave.
In celebration of its first quarter century, Video Pool Media Arts Centre has commissioned six works by artists who have maintained close relationships with Video Pool over the years. These works, curated by Sigrid Dahle and Grant Guy, will be presented in cooperation with galleries and other venues in Winnipeg’s exchange district from April 12 – May 24, 2008. (Continued)

PDF [painting, drawing, fine arts] 2008

(Continued)

Re:Location

Re:Location

7 March – 5 April 2008
Boja Vasic/Vessna Perunovich (Toronto, ON) Scott Conarroe (London, ON)

Reception: Friday 7th March, 7.30pm

Conarroe talk: Saturday 8th March at 2pm

Re: Location is a show that presents views of two different worlds, that both challenge common media-shopped depictions of reality and landscape. Both worlds hold true to the Canadian landscape (both experiential and physical), with Vasic and Perunovich’s Parallel World familiar in the minds of many immigrants and refugees and Conarroe’s Civil Twilight series of photographs taking an often unnoticed view of cities within the geographical confines of Canada. (Continued)

Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point
Jarod Charzewski and Colleen Ludwig

January 18 – February 23
Reception Friday 18th January at 7.30 pm (artists in attendance)
Artists Talk: Saturday 19th January, 2pm

Goodbye world as we knew it. If it wasn’t clear before, it is now. The world climate is changing rapidly, and no one knows what’s going to happen or how to plan for it.
(Continued)

Winter Warmer- WHERE THE WARMTH COMES FROM COMMUNITY ART!!

HEY ACE MEMBERS!!!

TIME TO WARM UP AND SHOW OFF SOME ARTWORK!!!

WINTER WARMER
FRIDAY, December 7 -15, 2007
doors open 7pm

The Winter Warmer is an Open Members show of new works of any medium. Most works are for sale with 100% of the profits going directly to the artists.

East Meets West – Winnipeg

East Meets West

26th October – 24 November, 2007

aceartinc. Reception: Friday 26th October, 7.30pm (CT)
Artist talk: Janice Wright Cheney, Saturday, 27th October at 2pm

image: Acadie, 2006 © Sarah Petite

Artistes de la galerie Connexion
Gallery Connexion Artists (Showing at aceartinc.)
Carol Taylor, Sarah Petite, Stephanie Wierathmuller, Stephen May, Janice Wright Cheney
Artistes d’aceartinc.

aceartinc. artists (Showing at Gallery Connexion)
Collin Zipp, Maclean, Cyrus Smith, Mélanie Rocan, Veronica Preweda, Martin Finkenzeller, Doug Melnyk, Michael Benjamin Brown, Sylvia Matas, Rob Fordyce

The Further East You Go, The Further West You Come (or, to be pedantic, The More Central You Come). (Continued)

Art Imitating Life Imitating Art

Dan Donaldson
Art Imitating Life Imitating Art
26th October – 24 November 2007

Reception: Friday 26th October, 7:30pm

This show is firstly a play on words, but it is also structured around the use of metaphors, cliché’s and ironies. It is a combination of LIFE Magazine’s documentation of world events over the last 30 or 40 years, intertwined with my own graphic styling and sense of humor. Everyone at some point has used the standard cliché “it’s like life imitating Art”, or vice-versa, and I am simply taking this phrase to heart and creating a large body of work.

The idea behind this work first took root nearly fifteen years ago, and came about more or less by accident. I was making a piece for a Student Bolshevic show called “Punished in silk”. I decided to paint a negative image of Abe Lincoln licking his lips, in what I thought to be a fitting style, given the title of the show. As money was tight, I painted the work on an old bed sheet which happened to have a square patch sewn on it. I decided to paint part of the LIFE logo on the square to make the patch less noticeable. From there, I just decided to keep adding pieces, when I wasn’t working on anything else. I did this for about a year, and then moved on to other things. It wasn’t until I pulled the work out of storage a couple of years ago that I decided to get back into it. (Continued)

Amy Russell (Ireland): Artist in Residence 2007

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE : September 2007

aceartinc. is excited to host photographer Amy Russell to our gallery and Winnipeg during the month of September. We hope that the Winnipeg community welcomes her.

Amy Russell is originally from West Cork Ireland. She graduated with a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast in 2005.

She is a practicing artist based at Queen Street Studios, Belfast for the past two years. Her practice is a mixture of sculpture and photography. She has currently just completed a Certificate in Youth Art with The National Youth Council Of Ireland in Dublin. Amy has coordinated and been involved with a number of cross-community art based projects in Belfast. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Recent group exhibitions include “The Space Shuttle Project” PS2 Belfast and “Engendered Species” LA California.

Amy Russell & aceartinc. would like to thank: Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Frieso Boning

The Winnipeg Trash Museum
An exhibition of new work by Frieso Boning

Reception: Friday September 14, 7:30pm (Artist in Attendance)
Artist talk: Wednesday September 19, 7pm

Taking familiar objects and altering perceptions, Frieso Boning has come up with a mixed media installation that cleverly incorporates humour. The Winnipeg Trash Museum is an in-depth exploration of the specific subject of trash and and at the same time an examination of museological practice. (Continued)

digShift

digShift
Roewan Crowe

22 June – 4 August, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, 22 June at 7:30 pm

Artist Talk: 7 pm, Wednesday, 18 July 2007

In the installation digShift, artist Roewan Crowe delves into shifting layers of meaning at an abandoned gas station. For over 15 years she has reluctantly yet faithfully returned to this site from her past to take photographs, perform, write, theorize, dig, and shoot video in an attempt to imagine some sort of reclamation – personal, historical, and environmental – for this compelling and toxic landscape. (Continued)

“Bread” U of M School of Art Annual Juried Show

(Continued)

aceartinc. in collaboration with send + receive…

Showing at aceartinc. :

CKUW 95.9 FM presents
SEND + RECEIVE: A FESTIVAL OF SOUND [version 9] May 8 to 13, 2007

Winnipeg, Canada

for more info on the festival & program around the city:
http://www.myspace.com/sendandreceive
www.sendandreceive.org
(Continued)

Karma Kanyon

Melanie Authier

27 April – 25 May
Reception: Friday 27th April 7:30pm (artist in attendance)
Artists Talk: Saturday 28th April, 2pm

The conventions of beauty and the sublime invest landscape with a sense of yearning and longing. These conventions have existed since the 18th century and can be looked at self-consciously to help locate and critically diagnose our own yearnings today. Our current cultural predicament includes the realization that the concept of “nature” is a social construct. Nature is a provisional category that is ideologically determined. The artistic movements of the picturesque and the sublime were the early symptoms of a continuing relationship with nature and landscape as something that is romanticized and lost. Melanie Authier is interested in the emotional exploration of these sites of longing, yearning and desire. Her paintings express the idea of a landscape or “nature” that is mediated. They probe both the ways that landscape is presented to us and the ways that we experience it in the 21st century, while remaining attentive to all the rhetorical possibilities of the languages of abstract painting. (Continued)

TRANSITION / TRANSACTION

still images from Mayasitiw (2006) by GABRIEL YAHYAHKEEKOOT

TRANSITION/TRANSACTION
Curated by Elwood Jimmy

March 16 – April 21, 2007
Reception 7.30pm Friday March 16

Panel Discussion, Saturday, March 17, 2pm
Moderated by Steve Loft with Elwood Jimmy, Daybi and Gabriel Yahyahkeekoot.

Transition/Transaction features recent video works by Gabriel Yahyahkeekoot and Daybi, two young Aboriginal media artists with roots in the Plains region of Canada.
(Continued)

SKIN- Gwen Armstrong

In the Project Room

SKIN
Gwen Armstrong

February 27th – Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
Skin is a mixed media installation and performance work presented as the final defense thesis work by University of Manitoba, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) candidate Gwen Armstrong.

I remain in a state of perplexed wonder at the miracle of relationship, the immeasurable potential for renegotiating the treacherous capacity of skin to be both barrier and opening. Skin permits, skin denies. As the erected boundaries of modernity fall, how do we gatekeep our bodies, our hearts, our humanity? How do we manage our skin, our only true boundary? Skin held too openly invites the penetration of pathogens and pain. But when cells multiply, covet immortality and forget how to die, impervious skin must be cut to allow release.

So I’m building a wall with the found bits of elasticity that are shed onto my path (well, rubber bands, actually). On the outside, I confess myself in video gathered from the past months of living with cancer. On the inside of my elastic wall, I will be living.

Please come to visit me in the project room at aceart.
2nd Floor, 290 McDermot Avenue
Tuesday, February 27th – Saturday, March 3rd, 2007.
12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.

During this time, you can also contact me at armstrong.gwen@gmail.com.

Episodic

Donigan Cumming : EPISODIC

January 12 – February 24, 2007

Reception: Friday January 12, 7:30pm (Artist in Attendance)
Artist talk: Saturday January 13, 2pm

When Cumming turned to video in 1995, he retained his actors/models just as he maintained his fascination with what they evoked. Cumming seeks to know about death and the inroads of age and illness, drink and drugs; he studies unwitting delusion and the circumstances of self-destruction. Yet his subjects are survivors, real people living their lives despite their potential for squalor. (Continued)

Second Annual Winter Warmer

KC Adams
Ian Amell
Betino Assa
Ian August
Jean Bachynsky
Louis Bako
Joani Barnett
Irene Bindi
Pat Bisson
Kale Bonham
Pauline Braun
Jill Brooks
Adam Brooks
Mike Brown
Leona Brown
Derek Brueckner
Sigourney Burrell
Nan Carson
Phoebe Chard
Celia Coles
Aston Coles
Roger Crait
Sarah Crawley
James Culleton
Lynn Devisscher
Jess Dixon
Tamara Dixon
Josh Dudych
Patrick Dunford
Aganetha Dyck
William Eakin
Heidi Eigenkind
Cliff Eyland
Mia Feuer
Martin Finkenzeller
Clyde Finlay
Elvira Finnigan
Rob Fordyce
Jamie Fougere
Adrian Gorea
Ken Gregory
Jill Hiscox
Lois Hogg
Simon Hughes
Takashi Iwasaki
Amy Jeanne
Leala Katz
Kevin Kelly
Traute Klein
Peter Kralik
Doug Kretchmer
Alexis Lagimodiere-Grise
Garland Lam
Emilie Lemay
Erika Lincoln
Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan
David Macri
Andrew Marek
Sylvia Matas
Ted Mayer
Heather Millar
Shaun Morin
Niki Mulder
Kristin Nelson
Les Newman
Karen Owens
Geoff Parkyn
Linda Pearce
Demetra Penner
Shannon Pidlubny
Veronica Preweda
James Pullar
Jenni Reeder
Janelle Regalbuto
Dominique Rey
Don Ritson
Dan Saidman
Rob Shaw
Theo Sims
Cyrus Smith
Suzie Smith
Scott Stephens
KD Thornton
Murray Toews
Patrick Treacy
Andrea Vanryckeghem-Reeks
Andrea Von Wichert
Karen Wardle
Justin Waterman
Tamara Weller
David Wityk
Lisa Wood
Seth Woodyard
Paul Zacharias
Juan Zavaleta
Collin Zipp
Lida Zurawsky

Crumpled Darkness

October 27 – December 9, 2006

Haraldur Jónsson and Steingrímur Eyfjörð
Curated/ Organised by Hannes Lárusson and Birna Bjarnadóttir

Opening Friday, October 27 @ 7:30pm
Artist talk by Haraldur Jónsson: Saturday, 28 October, 2pm

Exhibition sponsored by: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Iceland, Department of Icelandic Language and Literature, Páll Guðmundsson Memorial Scholarship, University of Manitoba.

Haraldur Jónsson: The Gap, the Wound
There are those who view art as being separated from reality and artists as the true exiles. However, in the case of Haraldur Jónsson’s artwork, one could make the opposite observation,
viewing art as reality, or as the medium that brings about the only possible reflections of reality. Far from in exile, the artist is here and now, his perception being of a moonlike quality, stimulating the ebb and flow of the countless reflections of reality, as if reality itself gravitates towards this human attribute. Thereby, one would not wish to disregard the human condition. Reality is hard to grasp, in particular the one that can only be perceived from within, or the reality of inner experiences. (Continued)

Self-Serve at La Pagode Royale

October 13 – November 18, 2006

Shelly Low

Reception: Friday 13th October, 7:30pm (Artist in Attendance)
Artist talk: Saturday 14th October, 2pm

Critical Distance by Iris Yudai

This current work springs from the research in Low’s previous project: La Pagode Royale, and explores the commodification and manufacturing of culture. La Pagode Royale takes its name from the Polynesian/Chinese restaurant, which Low’s parents owned and worked in during the late seventies and eighties.

This project experiments with the use of food, and involves building a large scale Pagoda out of rice krispie squares. Rice krispies are a processed, sweetened derivative of rice. Rice krispies “squares” are a familiar North American treat, with its’ golden color alluring and desirable. The main sculptural element of this project takes the name of Low’s parent’s restaurant and materializes it into a 9 foot pagoda made up of over a thousand rice krispie squares. Already, a golden pagoda is trivial in terms of representing what it is to be ‘Chinese’. And to be built out of a North American processed treat (rice krispie squares), further enhances a ‘served up’ idea of culture.
(Continued)

Architecture For A Colonial Landscape

August 18 – September 30, 2006

Rebecca Belmore

Artists’ Reception: Friday August 18 at 7:30pm

As part of Parallel, aceartinc. presents Architecture For A Colonial Landscape, an exhibition consisting of two video-based works; the video component of Fountain, presented at the 51st Venice Biennial and a new video installation called Architecture For A Colonial Landscape.

Both works reference historic and current cycles of oppression, greed and theft – theft of land, theft of language, theft of identity and theft of human rights. Both works counter such moral abandon with a last-gasp, guttural act of defiance and self-determination through gesture and action.

In an interview with Scott Watson she says, “One has to keep I mind that there was a serious attempt by governments to destroy aboriginal languages. I am part of that plan. She goes on to say, As a youth, I was witness to a traditional way of life that I would eventually leave behind. But it was never about leaving something behind; it was about taking something into the future at least that is how I see it at this point in my life.” (Continued)

VIDEOTHON 2- a fist full of videos

Thursday August 10, 2006

an open members show of video works
7pm to 11pm at the PARK THEATRE, 698 Osborne St. S. $3 at the door.

No one helped me / Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry

June 16th – July 30th, 2006

Recent work by Daniel Barrow

Closing Reception 7:30pm, July 30th

Critical Distance by Steven Matijcio

Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry

A new performance by Daniel Barrow
Presented by ace art inc. in collaboration with the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival

July 19th-30th, 2006: Performance 7pm nightly
2pm matinée closing performance on Sunday, July 30th

For more information please contact aceartinc. or the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival Box Office.

Aceartinc. and Daniel Barrow would like to make a special thank you to Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council The Canada Council for the Arts and Jessica Bradley Projects, The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, VideoPool, PlugIn ICA, and Lloyd Branson.

International Lecture Series

Julie Deamer: Director of Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Lecture: 7pm, Tuesday 23rd May 2006

Sarah Glennie: Commissioner of Ireland’s participation at the 51st Venice Biennale 2005
Lecture: 7pm, Friday 9th June 2006

Matt Keegan: Independent Curator, Artist and Publisher, New York
Lecture: 7pm, Thursday 29th June 2006

This series is designed to increase the visibility of local artists to artists and curators outside of Winnipeg, and, conversely, to provide the opportunity for local artists and cultural producers to become more familiar with artists and curators from away. This program is a valuable opportunity to look at issues, trends and changing standards in professional practice within the International contemporary arts scene as well as fulfilling our role to demonstrate commitment to professional and artistic development of Manitoban artists. (Continued)

Ace’s High Annual Juried Show

May 5 – 20, 2006

Students from the University of Manitoba

Reception: May 5, 7.30pm

mark saunders, krisjanis kaktins-gorsline, takashi iwasaki, peter kralik, kelsey braun, elaine stocki, kazuteru miyauchi, dominika dratwa, denise c. miller, nora kobrinsky, josh dudych, jenny moore koslowsky, alexis dirks, ryan klatt, john small, melody white

mentis prehensio

March 10 – April 22

Sarah Crawley
Artists’ Reception: March 10 – April 22
Artists’ talk: Artist Talk Saturday March 11, 2pm

“At 10 years of age, I developed a unique compulsive, repetitive behaviour. I blew on my hands. Having difficulty describing this past behaviour to a friend, I reenacted the gesture only to be flooded with sensory impressions and memories from that time in my life. I was struck by the physical nature of my response.”

Sarah Crawley

During the research and production of her last body of work, ala lingua, Sarah Crawley developed an interest in line, the repetition of line and pattern, and how these conjure memory. Recreating more repetitive gestures from her past, Crawley began to consider the lines and patterns created on the skin as a result of these gestures, to be permanent micro versions of the transient lines left on the sky by the migratory geese in ala lingua. Both are a result of repetitive actions, both are linked to physical memory.
(Continued)

Cover Series:Belfast Portraits

January 20 – February 25

Brian Flynn
Reception Friday March 10, 7.30 – 10 pm

Brian Flynn uses carpet underlay and his fingers to produce these huge portraits by removing the black bits. While the faces are of real persons, their identity is deliberately swept “under the carpet” of assumptions. The removal of verifiable identity both of persons and the character of the material -underlay- affords these works of art to be inventive and political, ethical and cognitive. The cover images are as mass produced as is the underlay, forging an unflattering link. On a deeper level, the material evokes a hidden existence.

Flynn remarked: “you see the underlay only before the carpet is laid or when it is spent”.

The cover images, a staple diet of culture obsessed by celebrities of all kinds, point not only to the fragile temporaneity but also to the beings “before and after” – where the actual time is not given. Unsettling as both the removal of identity and of presence may be, the scale increases the impact. The persons are not innocent bystanders, they seem to be harbouring guilt. For that is guilt, if anything be guilt, not to increase freedom. Flynn’s visits to Northern Ireland throughout his youth formed his individual voice that aims at revealing the ambivalence of historical truths.

Dr Slavka Sverakova
(Catalogue Essay from Brian Flynn, Cover Series: Belfast Portraits)

Image: Brian Flynn, Wake (detail), carpet underlay, 10 x 20 feet, 2005

Brian Flynn gratefully acknowledges the support of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

First Annual Winter Warmer

November 25-December 9 2005

Gala Night: Friday, November 25, 7PM-Late.
Live music, crêpe stand, creative refreshment, 50/50 draw, silent auction.
Come and celebrate the diversity and creativity of our members’ work in The Winter Warmer, and open show and sale.

Opening night features a live performance by Shary Boyle with music by Christine Fellows, to coincide with the launch of her new book, Witness My Shame.

Between Sounds and Abstractions

October 15 – November 12

Catherine Béchard and Sabin Hudon
Béchard and Hudon have collaborated to create an interactive automated sound installation comprising of two works, Au Bout Du Fil and The Voice of Things. Au Bout Du Fil is an acoustic work inspired by a very simple amplification device of our childhood, the string telephone, where a series of strings are stretched between two pails along with a mechanized platform to which paper sheets are attached. The paper rubs back and forth on the strings. In The Voice of Things two huge mechanical brooms are suspended and see-saw, backwards and forwards. As they teeter-totter, they scratch, stroke and brush against a heap of newspapers. Their rhythms, sometimes very slow, convey a feeling of suspension in time and their excessive size suggest a sense of frailty and loss of balance. In both pieces the work is triggered by the viewers presence, and the sounds created are directly related to the position of the viewer to the works.

Catherine Béchard and Sabin Hudon, “In Between Sound and Abstractions”

exhibition at aceartinc. in conjunction with Send and Receive 2005, photo: Catherine Béchard

To Be Continued…

Teresa Ascencao, Adad Hannah, and Daniel Laskarin

Opening reception: Friday August 26, 7:30pm
Artist talk: Saturday August 27, 2pm

Critical Distance by Steve Loft

To be Continued… is a group show of three artists from Toronto, Montreal and Victoria respectively, and features three video installations. Glowing Madonna by Teresa Ascencao is an interactive video installation whereby the viewer’s shadow, together with a video projection of a contemporary Virgin Mary, remains glowing on a large photo-luminescent wall. In Room 112, Adad Hannah presents two simultaneously shot views of a hotel room in slow rotation. The footage captures motionless characters; a celebrity is interviewed, a couple fights, a musician is interviewed and subsequently walks out on his girlfriend, an assistant applies powder, and a babysitter sends instant messages on a mobile phone while his charges play video games. Relapse, by Daniel Laskarin combines digital video with sculpture, creating a group of small interconnected boxes, where some of them contain a small, moving image of a building being demolished; its collapse reveals its duplicate, which collapses in turn ­ peeling off layers like the layers of an onion. The endlessly moving video image explores a state of suspended anticipatory consciousness. All three works employ a sense of transformation through ‘capturing’, through either continuous repetition, through video stills shot in real time or by the stealing of your shadow by the actual work.

(Continued)

VIDEOTHON: the good, the bad, and the just plain ugly

22 July, 2005

A non-juried members show of video works by: Risa Horowitz, Kevin Kelly, Konrad Kordaoski, Quidam (Doug Kretchmer), Tyrone Otte, Karen Johnson, Lynn Devisscher, Collin Zipp, Jen Delos Reye, Liz Garlicki, Hope Peterson, Matthew Shimnowski, Elvira Finnegan, Val Klassen, Dominique Rey, Ken Harasym, Graham Ududec, Rob Blaich, Brett McLaughlin, Karen Wardle, Leanne Cipriano, Derek Bruekner, Jean klimack, Doug Lewis, Glenn Johnson, Christine Kirouac, Juan Zavaleta, Grant Guy, Susan Kennedy, Anne-Michele Fortin, Simon Hughes, Nicole Shimonek and Paul Butler.

Isn’t There Something On Tonight?

June 9, 2005

A night of spoken word performances.

aceartinc. in collaboration with Urban Shaman hosted a sit-down-club atmosphere of artists, performers and writers to participate in an evening of spoken word. Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists participated through an open call from our respective memberships. Spoken word became a recognized and popular genre in Montreal in the early nineties despite its history stemming back to the seventies. Its popularity stemmed from its ability to hybrid a wide array of artistic practices, such as: theatre, dance, poetry, storytelling, performance art, popular music, rap, and even stand-up comedy. This fusion of the different genres has developed into slam poetry, which is delivered energetically and rhythmically; dub poetry, a musical and distinctly Jamaican form; simple readings of printed texts within a literary tradition; text-based performance art; activist messages; monologues or stories; poetry springing from the urban hip-hop culture; experimental sound poetry; or work that draws its influences from all of these forms.

Featuring works by: Colette Balcaen, Daniel Barrow, Gary Bergman, Jan Braun, Barbara Chatelaine, Ira Chatelaine, Shayla Elizabeth, Christoff Eubrecht, Ernest Flow, Rob Fordyce, Paul Friesen, Michael Goertzen, Garth Hardy, Cheyenne Henry, Emilie St. Hilaire, Leila Katz, Traute Klein, Heather McKenzie, Kathryn McKenzie, Duncan Mecredi, George Morrisette, Shannon Pidlubny, Courtney Siebring, Lynnel Sinclaire,Cyrus Smith, Dave Streit, Joan Suzuki, Ferrin Towers and Lindsey Weibe.

Martin Beauregard : Maclean

28 May – June 30, 2005

Installations, photographs and video works by Martin Beauregard and Maclean

Opening reception: Friday May 27, 7:30pm,
Artist Talk: Saturday May 28, 2pm.

Critical Distance by Christabel Wiebe

Maclean

Martin Beauregard

(Continued)

PS: The University of Manitoba Students of Fine Art Annual Juried Show

April 30 – May 14, 2005

Opening Reception: Friday April 29, 7:30pm,

Each year aceartinc. provides a professional development opportunity for the School of Art students by offering our space as a site for a juried group exhibition. The students gain experience with the installation processes, while have the opportunity to see their works in exhibition and invite the public to share in their success. This year presented twenty-one artists from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art who, in the eyes of a jury, have situated themselves successfully within the problematic schema of the student artist.

Featuring work by: Jon Armistead,  Cam Bush, Wendy Campbell, Alexis Dirks, Natalie Ferguson, Rob Fordyce, Dagmara Genda, Dionne Horsford, Takashi Iwasaki, Krisjanis Katkins-Gorsline, Jessica Koroscil, Jenny Moore Koslowsky, Sally McDonald, Divya Mehra, Bruce Montcombroux, Agnes Neufeld, Mark Saunders, Johanna Schmidt, Elaine Stocki, Melody White and Collin Zipp.
Critical Distance by Gwen Armstrong

Visiting Artist & Curator Lecture Series

Scott Watson: 21 March, 6pm

Lisa Gabrielle Mark: 25th March, 6pm

Reid Shier: 3rd May, 7pm

Confetti : Warped

March 5 – April 16

Karen Azoulay : Robyn Foster

Reception: Friday March 4, 7:30-10pm
Artist Lectures: Saturday March 5, 2pm

Critical Distance by cam bush

Spoke

January 8 – February 19

Tandem installations by prairie-based artists Sandee Moore and Linda Duvall

Reception: Friday january 7, 7:30-10pm
Artist Lectures: Saturday January 8, 2pm

Critical Distance by Jeanne Randolph

Three Objects

Oct 16 – Nov. 13, 2004

Daniel Young & Christian Giroux

Critical Distance by Kenneth Hayes

Too Sweet, Go Away!

August 28 – October 2, 2004

Helen Cho

Critical Distance by Doug Lewis

bound…

June 11 – July 10

An exhibition of paintings by Manitoban painters, organised by the Programming Committee of aceartinc. Teresa Burrows, Cliff Eyland, Kevin Friedrich, Glennys Hardie, Shaun Morin, Bev Pike, Paul Robles, Tim Schouten.

Critical Distance by Risa Horowitz

Fancifully Conceived, Falsely Devised

May 14 – May 28

Annual University of Manitoba School of Art Student Exhibition: Stacey Abramson, cam bush, Wendy Campbell, Dawn Chaput, James Craig, Dominika Dratwa, Ken Harasym, Maegan Hill-Caroll, Richard Hines, Leah Janzen, Garland Lam, Veronica Lussier, Julia Mark, Mathias Reeve, Joel Simkin, Meera Singh, Jenny Smirl, Elaine Stocki, Ainsley Sturko, Robert Taite, Stephen Weibe, Suzanne Wasyliw-Adams, Collin Zipp.

Project Room – Flux Gallery Residency

April

Michelle Allard

UNDONE

April 1 – May 1

Mariela Borello

Critical Distance by Susan Turner

101 Talismans for a Happy Death

February 20 – March 20

Joseph Conlon

Critical Distance by Sandee Moore

I’m Only Happy When it Rains, and 20 or 30 other clichéd things I hate about myself

January 9 – February 7

Les Newman

Critical Distance by Valery Camarta

Design Cares Project Room

December 11 – December 13

graphic designers fundraising exhibition

6th Annual X3 Fundraiser

December 6

various artists

twitch

October 18

artist lectures and panel discussions

twitch

October 17 – November 22

Garnet Hertz [Saskatoon]: Experiments in Galfanism
Nicholas Stedman [Toronto]: The Blanket Project
Kevin Yates [Southampton ON]: Small Dead Woman and other figures
David Rokeby [Toronto]: Very Nervous System
Steve Deitz [independent curator], essayist
Jennifer Woodbury [Director, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba], essayist
Mike Carroll [graphic designer].

Curated by Risa Horowitz
Critical Distance by Risa Horowitz, Steve Dietz and Jennifer Woodbury

Eternal Network: Western Front Historical Survey of Canadian Experimental Video Art

September 17 – September 30

co-sponsored with Video Pool

Project Mobilivre Bookmobile Project

September 8 – September 9
Community Service / Outreach / Partnership / Workshop
Sarah Crawley

Cowboys and Indians (and Métis?)

September 5 – October 4

David Garneau

Critical Distance by Cathy Mattes

Project Room

August 10 – August 17
use of space/studio visits

Sarah Crawley

The Real Thing: Coca, Democracy and Rebellion in Bolivia

August 7- August 8

Dada World Data Productions

Performathon: 20th Anniversary Celebration and Fundraiser

July 18

Bev Pike, David Street, Ada Bello, Coral Aiken, Alex Badger, Michael Dumontier, Winnipeg Poetry Slam Team, Kevin Matthews, Gruf the Druid, Darek Dawda, Derek Evers, Charles Romero Venzon, The Adzurbs, Dominique Rey, Cliff Eyland, Tannis Van Horne, Nicole Shimonek, Victoria Prince, Glen Johnson, Marianne Jonasson, Joan Suzuki, Rob Fordyce, Can Da ‘Ce Cross, Ron Moore, Brian Sostek [Minneapolis], Megan McClellan [Minneapolis], Risa Horowitz, Erika Lincoln, Kevin from the Fix, Winnipeg Visions Performing Arts Troupe, Leah Janzen, Doug Lewis, Chris MacDonald, Mike Taylor, Shawn Frosst, Hope Peterson, Veronica Lussier, Tim Turner, Karen Owens, Lori Fontaine, Jane Clark, Divya Mehra, Mia Feuer, Eli Epp, Angelene Jeannette, KC Adams, Jen Barthel, Veronica Preweda, Karen Wardle, Holly Procktor. (local artists except where noted)

Told by a Dodo / The Two of Us / Doing Dates

July 16 – July 28
Told by a Dodo by Funky Chicken
The Two of Us by Purple Fish
Doing Dates by School for Johns

No Frills

July 15 – August 9

Display of artwork by aceartinc. staff and board: KC Adams, Chris MacDonald, Karen Wardle, Kevin Matthews, Dominique Rey, Shawn Frosst, Veronica Preweda, Jean Klimack, Liz Garlicki, Leah Janzen, Risa Horowitz, Winnipeg.

The Decor Project: White on White

June 7 – July 5

Hadley Howes, Maxell Stephens

Critical Distance by Risa Horowitz

Reservations for All

May 16 – May 30

University of Manitoba Fine Arts Students
organized by Harlyn Weijs

Machinations

April 12 – May 10

Joanne Balcaen
partner with MAWA for studio visits

Critical Distance by Daniel Barrow

Supplies

April 12 – May 10

Jennifer Stillwell

Critical Distance by Doug Lewis

Scale

February 1 – March 1

Erika Lincoln

Critical Distance by Reva Stone

Rash

January 10 – February 28

mariiane mays

Mr. Ketchup Chips Presents Jennie O’s Rolodex Art Show

January 10 – January 25

Jennie O’Keefe

X3: 5th Annual Exhibition and Sale of Multiples

December 3 – December 7

various artists

Launch of August Witch

November 21

poems by Sandra Mayor

Cyclops Press

send + receive: a sound festival

October 26th

Chrisof Migone, Kaffe Matthews, Lori Freedman organized by Steve Bates of send + receive
co-sponsered by Into The Music

L’invention des animaux

October 19 – November 9

Jocelyn Robert
in partnership with send + receive

Critical Distance by Marianne Mayes

Unexpected Encounters

September 14 – October 12

Micheline DuRocher, Christine Horeau, Marie-Christine Simard, Sindra MacDowell, Helene Dyck curator: Gail Bourgeois

Critical Distance by Susan Turner

Grocery Store: Live in the Exchange

August 9 – August 31

Co-op Collective: Shawna Dempsey, Lorri Millan, Jake Moore, Zab

Critical Distance by Christopher Olsen

Climate Control: or how to predict the weather with a pig spleen (part of Doppler)

July 18 – July 28

Ken Gregory

Critical Distance by Hope Peterson

The Face of Everything (part of Doppler)

July 18 – July 28

Daniel Barrow

Critical Distance by Robert Enright

Weather Vane II (part of Doppler)

July 18 – July 28

Joanne Bristol, Gail Brown, Launi Davis, Dennis Jackson, Lorraine Oades, Mark Pounds, Heidi Phillips, Alex Poruchnyk, Yudi Sewraj, Angela Somerset, Jennifer Stillwell, Deborah Van Slet curator: Marian Butler

Critical Distance by Alissa York

Doppler: Weather or Not We’ve Got to Talk About It

July 18 – July 28

Weather Vane II
The Face of Everything
Climate Control

part of Winnipeg Fringe Festival

Dutch Treat: The Ab Barrs Trio

June 26

an evening of live jazz

sift: part of Site, Sort, Sift, Search, See

June 21 – June 23

Risa Horowitz: lecture
Maggie Ross: lecture
Lois Klassen: lecture, workshop

The New Myth

June 13 – July 6

Wendy Wersch

Critical Distance by Bev Pike

Familiar

May 15 – June 9

Joanne Bristol

co-sponsered with MAWA

Scratch

April 19 – May 4

Students of the School of Fine Art, University of Manitoba

Gail Bourgeois

April 19 – April 20

studio visits

co-sponsored with AKA

Balanced Records

April 6

CD release party

extension service offered by aceartinc.

Zana Poliakov

March 12

lecture (co-sponsered with Floating Gallery)

sno-screen

February 23

a project of (outdoor video on snow)

various artists, including University of Manitoba video students
co-sponsered by the NSI

Critical Distance by Alex Poruchnyk

Lucky Rabbit

February 22 – March 23

Holly Newman

Critical Distance by Heidi Eigenkind

Polish

February 22 – March 23

Mary Kavanagh

Critical Distance by Alison Gillmor

Song for the First Born

January 18 – February 16

an installation by Karen Hoeberg

Critical Distance by Shawna Beharry

The Last One Standing

December 24

Christine Fellows

Crows – opening and book construction event

December 16
Sheila Spence, Joanne Bristol, Susan Mills, April Hickox, Dagmar Dahle, Karilee Fuglem, Candace Savage

designer: Angela Somerset, Marian Butler
Critical Distance by Jen Loewen

Weather Vane I

December 12 – December 15

Sister Dorothy, Neal Livingston, Sharon Alward, Tom Elliott, Tim Philips, Isabelle Hayeur, Zachery Longboy, Terry Bilings, Nelson Henricks, Sarah Angelucci, Nicole Shimonek, Jack Lauder/Lloyd Branson, Grant Guy, Wendy Geller, Dave Grywinski, Marie France Giraudon, Emmanuel Avenel

curator: Marian Butler; co-sponsered by Cinematheque
Critical Distance by Alissa York

X3: 4th Annual Exhibition and Sale of Multiples

December 4 – December 8

various artists

Chrysalis Sound and Movement

November 22 – November 24

send+receive: a festival of sound

October 16 – October 20

Steve Heimbecker: quadrophonic sound performance (Oct. 19)
Diane Landry: La Morue (Oct. 20)
CinDy (Oct. 20)

organized by Steve Bates
Critical Distance by Steve Bates

L’ecole D’aviation (Flying School)

October 14 – November 10

Diane Landry

Critical Distance by Rodney Latourelle

Crows

September 15
Publication Launch: Joanne Bristol, Dagmar Dahle, Candace Savage, Shiela Spence, Susan Mills, Karilee Fuglem

Designer: Angela Somerset and Marian Butler

home

August 1 – August 31

jake moore and Steve Bates

Pods

July 20

Diane Lemieux

A Collection of Response: Site, Sort, Sift, See

June 23 – June 24

A writing workshop with Rob Shaw and Michelle Perry

Displaced Space

June 14

June Fundraising Party at the West End Cultural Centre
MC: jake moore
Performers: Chrysalis Sound & Movement, Albatross, The Paperbacks, Christine Fellows, Sixty Stories

Arrivals/Departures

June 1 – June 23

Alison Taylor, Kaiberley [Kai] Wilbee, Lisa Kakoske, Maria Lopez-Dabdoub, Dominique Rey, Michele S Sarna

nb. previous MAWA advisory program participants

Intro to WAC (Winnipeg Arts Community)

May 4

SNAC, CARFAC, Gallery 1.1.1., MPA, Gallery 1C03, Main/Access, MAWA, Plug-In, Floating, Wpg. Film Group, MAC, Urban Shaman, Video Pool, WAAC, AGSM

Site, Sort, Sift, See

March 24

artists’ lectures by Kevin Matthews, jake moore, Doug Melnyk

Moving

March 23 – April 21

Doug Melnyk

Critical Distance by Shawna Dempsey

stairwell project #3 installation

March 23 – April 21

Michael Dumontier & Tom Elliott

Critical Distance by Kevin Matthews

trace – sculpture installation

January 19 – February 17

Leah Decter

Critical Distance by Lori Fontaine

X3: 3rd Annual Exhibition & Sale of Multiples

December 5 – December 9

various artists

Critical Distance by Phil Koch

sidewalk project – an installation

October 27 – November 25

Doug Lewis

Critical Distance by marianne mays

Send + Receive

October 15 – October 21

Ed Osborn

co-sponsered with Video Pool

The Perfect Past – photography

September 15 – October 14

Sara Angelucci

Critical Distance by Lisa Mark

Prescribing Behavior (fear & JOY)-mixed media

September 15 – October 14

Fiona Kinsella

Critical Distance by Diane Lemieux

Theatre of Paint

June 20 – July 15

exhibition of paintings / video installation / residency Derek Brueckner

Critical Distance by Grant Guy

River Stairwell Project #2

June 16 – July 15

an installation by Michael Fernandes

Critical Distance by Kevin Matthews

hubbub

June 15 – June 16

Daniel Barrow

soundtrack by Jeff Cressman: Looking for Love in a Hall of Mirrors
Chris Marten with Greg Lowe: Gee Bwadun Tibikung – Where’s the One?
Ken Gregory: Acceleration + Position = Dream

Critical Distance by Randal McIlroy

Garden Variety

May 12 – June 3

University of Manitoba Students of Fine Arts

bottom/top: an installation by my name is scot

March 31 – April 29

Scott Keefer

Critical Distance by Darrel Ronald

Lesbian Biology 101 (circa 1950): case studies

March 31 – April 29

Szu Burgess

Critical Distance by Robert Shaw

Green

March 18

Fundraising Party

What the World Needs Now is a Sense of Humour and Love Sweet Love

February 18 – March 18

Debra Mosher

Critical Distance by Cliff Eyland

Tinkering, Sensors, Machines and Me Stairwell Project #1

January 21 – February 18

Ken Gregory

Critical Distance by Kevin Matthews

Salt of the Earth -installation

January 14 – February 12

Vanessa Eidse

Critical Distance by Ellen Peterson

X3: Rhymes, Reason & Tales – 2nd Annual Exhibition & Sales of Multiples

December 7 – December 11

various artists

Critical Distance by Doug Melnyk

Crows

Sheila Spence, Joanne Bristol, Susan Mills, April Hickox, Dagmar Dahle, Karilee Fuglem, Candace Savage

Designer: Angela Somerset
Curator: Marian Butler

Mourning – installation

October 29 – November 27

Barb Hunt

Critical Distance by Sheila Spence

Stories and Iyalogues: Visual Memories, History and Identity

September 24 – October 23

sculpture / installation by Gomo George

Critical Distance by Gerry Atwell

rapt: an ongoing correspondence

August 20 – September 18

an installation by Kathleen Sellers and Susan Shantz

Critical Distance by jake moore

Orienteering: MAWA Advisory Program Participants’ Show

July 6 – July 30

Katharine Bruce, Mary Ferguson, Kathryn Jones, Erika Lincoln, Rene Joshi Sims

The First Time

May 14

Miles Eldredge

In/Habit -artists’ installation projects

May 3 – May 27

Judy Bowyer, Dena Decter, Lois Klassen, Jean Klimack, Catherine MacDonald, Vida Simon

curator: Marian Butler

Draw: publication / residency

May 3 – May 27

Judy Bowyer, Dena Decter, Lois Klassen, Jean Klimack, Catherine MacDonald, Vida Simon

Publication Contributors: Sylvia Legris, Marian Butler, Angela Somerset
curator: Marian Butler

debutaunt

April 10 – April 30

Students of the School of Fine Art, University of Manitoba

Artist Talks

March 12 – April 3
March 18: Brenna George
March 31: Tom Elliott and Michael Dumontier
June 17: Richard Dyck and Alex Poruchnyk

Critical Distance by Susan Chafe

Working Space: interactive media works

March 12 – April 3

Apartment by Richard Dyck
Flight by Brenna George
Tracking the Minotaur by Al Rushton

Degenerate Art

February 12 – March 6

Bonnie Marin

Critical Distance by Szu Burgess

a relatively small collection: an exhibition of audio cassettes

January 8 – July 10

Ian Birse, Judy Bowyer, Joanne Bristol, Gail Brown, Hank Bull, Michael Drew Campbell, Raylene Campbell, Elaine Carol, Cause & Effect, Shawna Dempsey / Lorri Millan, Michael Dumontier / Tom Elliott, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Michael Fernandes, Ken Gregory, Kip Jackson, Drue Langlois, Erika Lincoln, Todd Martin, Rita McKeough, Jennie O’Keefe, Jocelyn Robert, Adrian Shalom Williams, Kathleen Yearwood

curator: Michael Dumontier and Tom Elliott

Man Made

January 8 – February 6

Evan Tapper

Critical Distance by Jack Lauder

Audio Installation

November 28 – December 12

Mary Louise Chown

X3: 1st Annual Exhibition and Sale of Multiples

November 27 – December 12

various artists

Dance of Gaia

October 9 – November 7

Angela Luvera

Critical Distance by Tricia Wasney

The Brown Show

September 3 – September 26

Scott Hadaller, Simon Hughes, Cathy Kuryk, Les Newman, Paul Robles

Critical Distance by Blair Marten

Hand Made books

August 26 – September 26

Susan Mills

Ground Zero Performance Series, Part 3

August 7

Shudder: Rita McKeough

curator: Grant Guy
Critical Distance by Diedre Logue and Kim Truchan

Ground Zero Performance Series, Part 2

July 20 – July 25

St. John the Baptist: Sharon Alward

curator: Grant Guy
Critical Distance by Stephen Phelps

A Ferocious Longing

May 29 – June 27

Connie Cohen

Critical Distance by Joan Thomas

Ground Zero Performance Series, Part 1

May 14 – May 16

HOT: Tanya Mars with the cooperation of Plug-In Gallery

curator: Grant Guy and Adhere And Deny
Critical Distance by Sheila Spence

Light / Shadow / Dark

April 9 – May 16

Ron Gorsline

curator: Jennifer Woodbury
Critical Distance by Derek Brueckner

Literally – off site installation

March 6 – March 29

Kelly Mark

Critical Distance by Cliff Eyland

Flashpoint

February 27 – April 4

Multimedia Installation & Bookwork by Helene Dyck

Critical Distance by Erika McPherson

Exalt Fax & Other Techno Sirens

January 16 – February 21

Aurora Landin

Critical Distance by Susan Turner

Glass Armour: Fragile Shields

December 6 – January 10

Karen Justl

Critical Distance by Susan Chafe

lost + photographic: 3 evenings of performance

November 27 – November 29

Grant Guy

Critical Distance by Sharon Alward

captive and absent

October 29 – November 22

video installation by Lori Rogers

curator: Jennifer Woodbury
Critical Distance by Vera Lemecha

Utopia / Dystopia: Towards A New Millennium

October 10 – October 12

Anthony Kiendl and Louise Wilson

part of Floating Gallery Festival

Curator in Residence – web project: Visits from Away, News from (A)way, Footnotes

October 1 – October 16

Marian Butler

curator: Marian Butler

Writing With Art: Writing Texts that Accompany Exhibitions

September 27

interdisciplinary workshop with Jean Randolph

A Bird in the Hand -multimedia installation

September 19 – October 12

Alex Poruchnyk

Critical Distance by Grant Guy

Project Room – collaborative audio work

August 1 – June 31

Michael Dumontier and Tom Elliott

Project Room – research of women boxers

July 28 – August 15

Catherine Kirouac

2nd/2e Global Attic Festival

June 19

The Global Stairwell Humming Choir – Rotterdam and Winnipeg Choirs via telephone

Wanda Koop, Erika McPherson, Simon Hughes, Val Klassen, Susan Turner, Reva Stone, and more

co-sponsered with Video Pool / Buhne de Bovenlucht / Picos de Europa

See Everything/See Nothing

June 19
Wanda Koop

co-sponsored with Video Pool

New Prairie Video

June 12

Dorothy Penner, Diana Thorneycroft, Robert Hamilton, Dana Cooley, Melinda McCracken, Vanessa Eidse, Sharon Bajer, Tate Shimozawa, Kevin Ferris

co-sponsored with Video Pool

Burning Bridges

May 30 – September 27

Jarod Charzewski

Critical Distance by Allison Gilmor

So Sue Me

May 23
Brenna George, Gilles Herbert, Reva Stone, Susan Turner, Sheila Urbanoski, Nelson Henricks

co-sponsored with Video Pool

University of Manitoba, School of Fine Art Sculpture, Video 1 & 2 Students

May 14 – May 24

coordinated by Alex Poruchnyk

not what we are: an archive of identities

April 18 – May 10

Susan Turner

Critical Distance by Robert Sauvey

Solo Groping in the Dark

March 21 – April 12

Sharon Raynard

Critical Distance by Jennifer Stillwell

The Pretender Series

March 21 – April 12

Patrick Hartnett

Critical Distance by Al Rushton

Project Room: Recent Photographic Works

March 10 – March 15

Pedro Mendes

The 49th Parallel Project

February 14 – March 8

Gregor Turk

Critical Distance by Doug Lewis

Evolutio

January 10 – February 1

Karen Spencer

Critical Distance by Marian Butler

Myths of Work / Rules of Thumb

November 29 – December 21

Leslie Thompson

Critical Distance by Sheila Spence

Emergence

November 12 – November 23

Wendy Wersch

Critical Distance by Catherine MacDonald

footnote

October 18 – November 9

Stella Meades

Critical Distance by Heidi Eigenkind

Centre of the Universe

October 11 – October 12

The Oneiric Girls with special guest performance by Sisterboots: Carla-marie Powers, Catherine McGrath, Joanne Bristol, Marie Bristol, Tanya Lester and Janine Tschuncky

to sow

September 13 – October 12

jake moore

Critical Distance by Susan Chafe

Drag City: a queer adventure in cross-dressing

September 6 – October 15
An exhibition of fifteen gay and lesbian artists: Antoine Tempe, David Rasmus, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, G.B. Jones, Hamish Buchanan, Larry Glawson, Mark Beard, Maxine Henryson & Hunter Reynolds, Nina Levitt, Pierre Dalpe, Hugh Steers, The Boor Sisters, Steven Arnold, Sheila Spence, Catherine Opic PERFORMANCE: Greg Campbell, John Kelly, Diane Torr, Lori Weidenhammer

VIDEO: Sharleen Boudreau, David Gyrwinski, Sheila Urbanowski

curator: Robert Sauvey
Critical Distanceby Cathy Collins

(I give you) per_mission: WAITING/ROOM

August 17 – August 24

Catherine MacDonald and Dana Kletke

Protective Covering: a work in progress

August 2 – August 19

Connie Cohen

Body, Mind and Soul

July 5 – July 27

Carol Ramsay

Memoriola

July 5 – July 27

Racheal Tycoles

On the Skin

April 26 – May 18

Diana Thorneycroft and Michael Boss

Critical Distance by Tom Lovatt

Slide Show

April 6 – April 13

Students of the School of Fine Art, University of Manitoba

Unsacred Hearts

April 5 – April 6

Gabriella Rodriguez

Paintings

March 25 – March 26

Merlan Chatterton

The Game

March 18 – March 19

Wendy Wersch

Convergence – Art and the Hybridized Text

January 20 – January 21

Writing workshop with Lisa Mark

Omne Ex Ovum/Spiralling to Fill an Emptiness

January 12 – February 10

Jillian McDonald

Critical Distance by Louise May

No Show

January 5 – February 3

Christine Kirouac

Critical Distance by Louise Loewen

The Tightrope Walker

December 2 – December 23

Petra Muehler

Critical Distance by Angela Somerset

Ground/Connection

November 25

Therese Chabot

Steven Horne: visiting artist

November 17

Steven Horne

me, me, me, and me

November 6 – January 5

Shirley Brown, Sheila Spence, Doug Melnyk, Larry Glawson

curator: Sigrid Dahle

Advice to the Lovelorn

November 3 – November 25

Jo-Anne Balcaen

Images of Decay

September 30 – October 29

Gordon Laird and Andrew Olcott

curator: Sylvain Campeau (with Floating Gallery)

sound machine

September 1 – September 23

Michael Dumontier and T.R. Elliott

Critical Distance by Marian Butler

Wanderlust

August 8 – August 12

Angela Somerset and Therese Mastroiacovo

Limited Exposure: a performance art event

July 13 – July 14

Heidi Arneson, Djola Bernard Branner, Moe Flaherty, Steven Grandell, Ric Oquita, Patrick Scully

curator: Karen Platt, in partnership with: No Name Exhibitions (Minneapolis)

The Pig Made Me

June 9

Gordie Agar

Illuminating Rotterdam – Lecture

June 6

Ludo Hoes

co-sponsored with SNAC and Bounce Rotterdam

after the gleaners

May 19 – June 10

Kay Cherniski

curator: Sigrid Dahle

Critical Distance by Michael Boss
Curatorial Critical Distance by Sigrid Dahle

The Latest in Human Packaging and Excessories

April 21 – May 13

Lucas Romeik

still life

March 24 – April 15

Aganetha Dyck and Karen Thornton

curator: Sigrid Dahle

Critical Distance by Doug Melnyk

inside out

February 24 – March 18

Sarah Crawley and William Eakin

curator: Sigrid Dahle

Critical Distance by Cliff Eyland
Critical Distance by Sigrid Dahle

Dark O’ Clock

January 17 – February 18

Stephen Andrews, Doug Ischar, Mathew Jones, Wanda Koop, Glenn Ligon

curator: Wayne Baerwaldt
coordinated by Thea Demetrakopoulos for Plug-In Inc.
special sponsor: University of Manitoba School of Fine Arts Student Council

Critical Distance by Alison Gillmor

Macedonian Art

December 14

Petre Nikoloski

no one… in conversation

December 2 – December 23

Reva Stone, Richard Dyck

Critical Distance by Susan Chafe

information junkie: a multi-media exhibit

November 4 – November 26

a.f. kiendl

Critical Distance by jake moore

Critical Writing Workshop

October 20 and October 23

Joan Borsa

co-sponsered with MAWA

An Evening with Murdoch Burnett

October 16

Murdock Burnett

Blair Marten: Sculptures

October 7 – October 29

Blair Marten

Critical Distance by Bruce Sapach

The Gift Horse / I trust You

September 9 – October 1

jake moore

Critical Distance by Lisa Mark

After the Deluge

July 15 – August 6

Jean-Yves Vigneau

Critical Distance by Anthony Kiendl

Lies about Betty and The Truth About Zucchini

June 3

Lori Weidenhammer

Critical Distance by Lisa Mark

Critical Writing Workshop

May 14

Jeanne Randolph

Ione Thorkelsson

May 6 – May 28

Ione Thorkelsson

Critical Distance by Jan Horner

Seasons Seasons

April 12 – April 30

Julie Atkinson

Critical Distance by Cecile Clayton-Guthro

Languages of sign, medium, and figure

April 12 – April 30

Derek Breuckner

Critical Distance by Bev Pike

Ken Gregory

April 1 – April 7

Ken Gregory

Critical Distance by Jack Lauder

Tiny Infirmaries

March 15 – March 26

Erika Macpherson and Hope Peterson

co-sponsered with Video Pool

Adhere and Deny’s Musical Chairs

March 4

Grant Guy, featuring Alex Poruchnyk, Sharon Alward, Jack Lauder, Carole O’Brien & Dok Trinaire

Critical Distance by Robert McKaskell

Into the Body Dark: Substance and Document

February 1 – February 19

Nancy Litchfield-Hutchison

Critical Distance by Donna Jones

Annual Happy Holidays Party

December 17

Boozing and Schmoozing

Her Have I Worshipped Within Me

November 23 – December 18

Anjali Dookeran

Passages

October 26 – November 20

Erla Glesby

A Dialogue: Re-constructing the Decorative

September 28 – October 23

Bev Pike and Leila Sujir

Ex Post Facto: Artist-Run(ing) Centres

September 27

Suzanne Gillies, Simon Herbert, Sigrid Dahle, Alison Gillmor, Richard Brown

moderated by Don DeGrow

Weather Vane II: the first decade show

a: August 31 – September 11
b: September 14 – September 25

GROUP A: Barb Hunt, Susan Barton Tait, Karen Justl, Grace Nickel, Donna Côté, Vincent Mikuska, Carol Ramsay, Donnely Smallwood, Shirley Brown, June Boyd, Donna Jones, S.Lee, Walter Vieto, Alethea Lahofer, Denis Lessard
GROUP B: Norman White, Kevin deForest, Gisele Beaupré, Roland Bouchard, John White, Margaret Doell, Larry Glawson, Deb Mosher, Ina Schneider, Robert Pasternak, Patti Johnson, Richard Brown, Kevin Mutch, Rob Labossierre, Doug Harvey
GALA: Maga Maroons, The Waiting Why Nots, Table Singers, Shawna Dempsey, Lisa Mark, Karen Busby
PANEL DISCUSSION: Suzanne Gillies, Simon Herbert, Alison Gillmore, Sigrid Dahle, Richard Brown, Don DeGrow

co-ordinated by Donna Jones

Great Day in the Mornin’

June 22 – July 17

Works n’ Constructions
by Gord Wilding

In Sites: A Topography of Incest

June 1 – June 9

Heidi Eigenkind

International Electrographic Mailart Exhibition

May 4 – May 29

guest artist: Sarah Jackson; also various including Erla Glesby and Miriam Unruh

curator: Robert Sauvey

An Evening of Performance – 3rd Annual

April 15

Alethea Lahofer; Jeff Gillman & Doug Melnyk; Robert McKaskell; Donna Lewis & Doug Melnyk; Marianne Jonasson; Jeanette Angel; Bill Pura & Rob Gardner; Helen K. Wright; Lloyd Brandson; Terri-Lee Calder & Karen Justl

Recent Work

April 6 – April 24

Shirley Brown

Premarital Jitters

March 16 – April 3

Barbara Bottle

Internity

February 23 – March 13

Antonia Lancaster

Festival du Voyeur

February 5

by Queer Culture Canada

curator: Noam Gonick

Driving Inward – recent paintings

February 2 – February 20

Helene Dyck

Myriad: 1991 MAWA Advisory Program Participants

January 12 – January 30

Evelyn Gushe Hutsal, Eveline Mangin Mauws, Heba Farid (Latif), Nancy Litchfield-Hutchison, Barb Bottle, Lynda Blanchard, Erla Glesby, Lisa Graves, Bonnie Marin

Meadow

November 24 – December 19

Lylian Klimek

Memento Mori

November 24 -December 19

Linda Fairfield

Chocolate Quarry

November 18 – November 19

Stephen Rappaport

co-sponsored with AKA and Neutral Ground

Double Bind

October 20 – November 14

Gisele Beaupré

Sextet in Shanghai – reading

October 3

Helen K. Wright

Nocturne

September 29 – October 17

Ron Gorsline

John Higham – paintings

September 8 – September 26

John Higham

Situated Images

August 11 – September 5

Edith Regier

Edge Manitoba

July 9 – August 1

Performance: Shawna Dempsey, Doug Melnyk, Sharon Alward
Audio: Ken Gregory, Doug Melnyk
Video: Jeff Gilman, Gilles Hebert
Paintings & Sculpture: Reva Stone, Steve Gouthro, Shirley Brown, M.A. Peers, Kal Asmundson, Susan Chafe, Ron Gorsline

Misfit Lit: The Comix Show

June 4 – June 27

over 70 comic artists including Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Dan Clowes, Robert Crumb, Mary Fleener, Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez, Chester Brown, Aline Kominsky, Gary Panter, Harvey Pekar, Noreen Stevens and art spiegelman

co-sponsored with Plug In, MPA, & the WAG

A Nice Day for Toast

May 12 – May 30

Karen Justl

Annual Juried Members’ Show

April 14 – May 2

Gayle Freed Stern, Susan Crawford, Joyce Bowden, Barbara Balfour, Gisele Beaupré, Cecile, Clayton-Gouthro, Donna Cote, Bill Pura, Katharina Stieffenhofer, Margarita Popova, Erla (Chernick) Glesby, Marianne Gopalkrishna, Shelley Rusen, Patrick Treacy, Megan Vun Wong, Ronald W. Lindsay, Louisa Garbo, Rosemary Kowalsky, Robert Sauvey, Derek Brueckner

Ace Art’s Evening of Performance

April 10

Colette Urban; Lloyd Brandson, Dan Miller, Derek Thorlakson, Katherine Lind; Scott Ellis; Doug Melnyk, Cathy Nosaty, Kevin Haines, Ken Gregory, Dora Foster, Sandra Lathbury, Davey Cooke, Willard C. Scott; Margaret Sweatman, Tony Desmarteaux, Paul Janzen; Marianne Jonasson; Alethea Lahofer
Ellen Peterson – emcee

Mr. Whitey’s Magic Lantern Show

March 17 – April 11
 
John White

Recent Paintings

February 25 – March 14

Maggie Dunbar

House of Lat

January 28 – February 15

Meg Cullen

Come From Away

December 3 – December 21

Lois Brake, Annette Kirby, Margaret Doell, Elizabeth Hazlette, Rosemary Trachsel, Stephen Jackson, Kay Cherniski, Henry Schumacher, Gail Ryckman, Claude Perreault, Lois Klassen, Abbas Elias, Kathy Willer, Tanis Moore, Barbara Balfour, Carol Ramsay, R.M. Goodman, Rober Freinet

curator: Donna Jones

When the Medicine Ways Come Together

November 12 – November 30

curator: Kal Graham Asmundson

Tomorrow Morning. Early

October 22 – November 9

Dale Amundson

Beyond Winnipeg: East

October 1 – October 19

East Derek Owen, Margarita Popova, Ruth Mckibben, Guye Strobbel, Choon Wha Shim

curator: Arthur Harris and Jennifer Woodbury

Passionate Regards

September 10 – September 28

Sheila Spence, Larry Glawson, Christine Kirouac, Diane Colwell, Isaac Applebaum

curator: Debra Mosher

In Our Travels

July 30 – August 24

Latha Attawar and Sharon Norman

curator: Ken Lulewich

Outdoor Sites

July 9 – July 28

Carol Pickering, Iain Robertson, Heba Latif, Megan Vun, The Student Bolsheviks

Cataract

June 11 – June 29

Laura Vickerson

Studio Work

May 14 – June 1

University of Manitoba School of Fine Art Thesis Students: Dana Cooley, Toni Head, Leigh Konyk, Christine Kirouac, Wayne Littlejohn, Eveline Mauws, Gilbert Ragot, Bruce Sapach, Eric Van Mumster, Kayleigh Walmsley

curator: Margot Johnston

Recent Work

April 23 – May 11

Dale Boldt

An Evening of Performance

April 4

At the West End Cultural Centre

Doug Melnyk (text), Maggie Nagle (stag conception), Ruth Cansfield (choreography), Cathy Nosaty (music/audio treatment), Amanda Haines (vocal), Julia Barric-Taffe, Richard Clarkin, Brent Lott (performers)

Doc Trinaire’s Travelling Shows: Documentation

April 2 – April 20

Kim Adams, Roland Bouchard, Susan Chafe, Grant Guy, John Gurdebeke, Alex Poruchnyk, Donnely Smallwood, Reva Stone

curator: Grant Guy

Recent Excavations

March 12 – March 28

M.A. Peers

Lake Superior: Winter Journal

February 19 – March 9

Susan Shantz

Large-scale multi-media drawings

January 29 – February 16

Alison Norlen

Recent Work / Untitled Show

December 4 – December 22

Kevin Mutch

The Fleeting Pleasures of Sin

November 13 – December 1

Rudy Braun

Recent Work

October 23 – November 9

Carol Ramsay

Bound by Silence

October 2 – October 20

Amy Buehler

Juried Members’ Show

September 11 – September 29

Cecile Clayton-Gouthro, Sharon Zenith Corne, Valerie Dewson, Doug Glenn, Rosemary Kowalsky, Eveline Mauws, Katharina Stieffenhofer, Aija Svenne, Stephanie Van Nest, Megan Vun

It is Fine and Honourable to Die for One’s Culture: images of women advertising

August 21 – September 8

Lois Luke

Outdoor Sites

July 10 – July 29

Sculpture by Frieso Boning
Installation by Karen Justl
Window Installation by M.A. Peers
Laser Print by Susan Turner
5 Paintings by Nicola Woods
Sculpture by Doug Glenn
Performance by Doug Harvey

The Edge of the World

June 26

Robert McFadden

Libertine Lickerish

June 19 – July 7

University of Manitoba School of Fine Arts students: Linda Frena, Gabriella Agnero, Jacques Vrignon, Craig Reimer, Glenn Knapp, Jhessicah, Michelle Zacharias

Room for Imagination

May 8 – May 26

Margaret Doell

Recent Work

April 17 – May 5

Patti Johnson

The Slavery of Personhood in the Hands of Religion

March 27 – April 12

Jorge Figueroa

Love and Gravity

March 15

Lowell Morris

In a Private Language

February 20 – March 10

Sarah Crawley, Meg Cullen, Dena Decter, Gayle Freed-Stern, Katherine Huss

Large Scale Collages

January 30 – February 17

Michael Waterman

Recent Work

January 9 – January 27

Pauline Kupiak

Tornado

December 5 – December 23

Shirley Brown

A Curious Phase

November 14 – December 2

Rosemary Trachsel

Wound

November 8

Simon Herbert

1000 Miles Apart: New Works in Clay

October 24 – November 10

Faculty and Students of Alberta College of Art, Red Deer College, University of Regina and University of Manitoba

Lucy – An Audio Installation Serial

October 13 – November 3

various artists
Doug Melnyk – text
Jeff Gillman – audio treatment and composition

Figureheads: An exploration of the mind and body

October 3 – October 21

Susan Zaluski

Go-Go World and Catastrophe & Beguilement

September 19

Diane Torr

Recent Work

September 12 – September 30

Pat Mahon

Off the Beaten Track / Hor des Sentiers Battus: New Canadian Art

August 14 – September 3

Maureen Margaret, John Gurdebeke, Larry Glawson, Aganetha Dyck, Doug Melnyk, Wanda Koop, Eleanor Bond

curator: Sheila Butler

Psych – Scapes

August 1 – August 19

Megan Vun

Juried Members’ Show

July 11 – July 29

Richard Claxton, Eveline Mauws, Susan Veres, Rosemary Trachsel, Caroline Dukes, Shelley Rusen, Doug Glenn, Annette Lowe, Cecile Guillemot

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