A collaborative multimedia art event. Local films with new soundtracks performed live; dance, visual and culinary arts. Featuring Amir Amiri, Jon McPhail, Demetra Penner, Tom Keenan and many more.
Wednesday April 11, doors at 7:00, performances at 8:00
aceartinc. (2nd floor, 290 McDermot ave.)
$10
aceartinc.’s turnAround presents:
The Young Lungs Dance Exchange Fundraiser
Contemporary dance performances throughout the night.
Dance Works By:
D-Anne Kuby (With support from Winnipeg Arts Council)
Alexandra Garrido
Constance Cooke (With support from Canada Council for the Arts)
Claire Hardy
Rachel Cooper
Sasha Amaya
Becky Sawdon
Zorya Baskier-Pasternak
Card Reader: Mikaela MacDonald
And don’t forget the wine raffle!
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased from anyone involved, at the door or by emailing younglungs.wpg@gmail.com. Supporting this event helps Young Lungs continue to enrich the modern dance community of Winnipeg.
In the Netherlands there are currently deep explorations into dissolving boundaries between media (as a social art), activism, urban design, and development. In February, Lawrence Bird received a WAC professional development grant to attend a conference and workshop in Amsterdam: Social Cities of Tomorrow. Here interdisciplinary groups developed ideas for using media to tackle urban problems in Amsterdam, The Hague, and Eindhoven. A key problem was regenerating industrial or marginal areas of these cities; a challenge Winnipeg shares. It also included several presentations and roundtables on the use of games in planning, a dozen international best-practise examples of media use in the city, and how new forms of trust are emerging through media use as old forms of trust are breaking down — evidenced by the Occupy movement for example. Lawrence will present the conference’s ideas for using media in urban activism, design and planning, and discuss how they might be applied to Winnipeg.
A brief synopsis of the conference can be found here: http://www.furtherfield.org/features/social-cities-tomorrow
Keynote speakers: Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, and Dan Hill.
TUESDAY, January 17th 2012
6pm to midnight
aceartinc. 290 McDermot Avenue, 2nd floor.
Cover is by donation ($5.00 is recommended).
Video Pool Media Arts Center, in collaboration with aceartinc. and Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts invite you to celebrate LITE NITE: ART’S BIRTHDAY 2012: an evening of light inspired installations, workshops, performances, silent auction and cake! Since January 17th, 1963, emerging out of the Fluxus art movement, Art’s Birthday has been celebrated on a global level by a circuit of artists to acknowledge the presence of art in our daily lives.
For more information please visit our website at www.videopool.org or befriend Video Pool Media Art Centre on Facebook!
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is a nonprofit Artist-Run Centre dedicated to independent video, audio and computer integrated multimedia production, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
We thank and acknowledge the support of our funders and partners:
Canada Council For The Arts, The Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, The government of Manitoba, The Ontario Arts Council, The Winnipeg Foundation, The National Film Board, The Thomas Sill Foundation, The W.H. & S.E. Leowen Foundation, CKUW Radio.
THURSDAY JANUARY 26TH
9PM-1AM
Big Fun Festival Kick off is finally here!
We are proud to present the first show of the festival on Thursday January 26th!
This show is sure to be a good one, a loud one and a take no prisoners evening. Opening the show we have local up and comers Pop Crimes, channeling ethereal noise into tightly woven pop music. This guys will have your ears wanting some more. In the middle we got This Hisses, you know em’ ya love em’. Gritty dynamic, and blisteringly loud, haunting rock music. Last we have the veterans of the scene. Mahogany Frog. With the use of myriad keyboards (both analogue and digital), feedback-ridden guitars, fuzz-bass and walls of electronic samples, the group creates a tube-saturated, highly overdriven jazz-rock.
Tickets are 7 Dollars at the door
If you’re into some SERIOUS Big Fun and SERIOUS deals, Festival Passes are available for 30 Dollars at Into the Music, Music Trader, Lo Pub and Black Sheep Diner
Get here early this one is going to be tight!
FRIDAY JANUARY 27TH
8:30PM-1AM
TICKETS $7
Big Fun is an annual indie music festival taking place in multiple venues throughout the Exchange District and surrounding area the last weekend of January. Using Winnipeg’s prairie winter as the backdrop, we will be showcasing the wealth of Manitoba’s artists alongside our historic downtown.
The goal of Big Fun is to present various genres of music and art over the course of four days. It will run from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon (Jan. 26-29) with multiple shows each night. Big Fun takes the shows out of overused bars and clubs, occupying galleries, lofts, and warehouse spaces instead to create an entirely new event experience.
Manitoba maintains a reputation for having a rich artistic community as well as a bitter winter. We want to bring these two elements of our province together to create an annual event our prairie town can be proud of.
Big Fun Productions is comprised of five Winnipeg artists and musicians who are passionate about their city. Inspired by the layout of Pop Montreal and NXNE, Big Fun wants to create the same excitement within the music and art community in Winnipeg by hosting several events throughout the year.
Perry Bard
“Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake”
February 01-23, 2012
Workshop with Perry Bard: February 01 2012
Opening Reception: February 02 , 2012 6pm
aceartinc. 290 McDermot Ave 2nd Floor
Presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in collaboration with aceartinc. “Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake” is a participatory web and public video installation re-interpreting the original 1929 avant-guard documentary “Man With a Movie Camera” by Dziga Vertov. “The Global Remake” illuminates the capabilities of the internet to achieve global collaboration by encouraging culturally diverse participation. The piece includes footage shot by people around the world creating infinite possible versions of the film. As new videos stream online (dziga.perrybard.net) each contribution becomes part of a worldwide montage, in Vertov’s terms the “decoding of life as it is”.
WORKSHOP with New York based artist Perry Bard FEBRUARY 01, 2011
Join Perry Bard to learn about and discuss “Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake”, influenced and inspired by Dziga Vertov’s remarkable documentary “Man with a Movie Camera” from 1929. Bard will lead a two hour workshop touching on Dziga Vertov’s documentary practice and Vertov in the age of YouTube,
Participants will record their own video footage interpreting the original script of Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera, and upload them to http://dziga.perrybard.net where software developed specifically for this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film. The submissions uploaded will be a Winnipeg contribute a Winnipeg chapter to the world wide project.
Invitation to share an evening of dance
Ordinary Acts
Thursday & Friday
24th & 25th November, 2011
8 PM
aceartinc.
2nd Floor, 290 McDermot Ave
$15 cash only at door
RESERVATIONS
osbornestreetdance@gmail.com
CHOREOGRAPHER
Treasure Waddell
DANCERS
Natasha Torres-Garner
Branwyn Bundon
Treasure Waddell
MUSIC
Joel Klaverkamp
INSTALLATION
Brenna Klaverkamp
Ordinary Acts explores our isolated experiences and our interconnectedness.
To be alive connotes our attachment to the natural, organic world and life’s mysteries as revealed in the most ordinary of acts. Our very transience asserts itself on our life and forms our identity. We are bound to nature and we are by our very nature ordinary and completely extraordinary.
“….because simply to be here is so much
and because what is here seems to need us,
this vanishing world that concerns us strangely-
us, the most vanishing of all. Once
for each, only once. Once and no more.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Financial assistance provided by the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council. With the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council.
Come on down to the gallery to hop around on Claire Hodge’s super-cool interactive Bruce Lee video installation and check out Rhayne Vermette’s excellent Fort Richmond inspired installation.
Bring your roller skates, skateboards, etc. and skate around the gallery for a coupla hours – cooling refreshments and go-faster tunes will be provided.
a Busker Derby | Saturday 30th July, 7pm
aceartinc.’s Woodshop will be open to Soap Box Teams August 20th and 27th from 12-5 (both dates are Saturdays). Bring materials and plans, we will provide the space and tools as well as supervision and general assistance.
First Annual aceartinc. Soapbox Derby at Ciclovia
The next big sports coup to hit the Peg after the Jets’ return- the city’s first annual Soapbox Derby!
Build a car or borrow something with wheels that someone can sit inside and is people-powered then race it down Broadway!
In conjunction with the race, we will be holding a raffle with over $1000 worth of goodies!
This is a fundraiser for your favourite artist-run centre, aceartinc., to help with our relocation and programming costs.
WHEN: 3-7pm, Sunday 11th September 2011
WHERE: Broadway, between Main Street and Fort as part of Ciclovia and ManyFest
What is ManyFest?
ManyFest (Formerly known as Lights on Broadway) is a weekend of festivals and family fun! Hosted by the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ, ManyFest 2011 will take place from September 9-11 on Broadway and will include a variety of exciting, all-inclusive events. Highlights will include an outdoor movie night, a dance party in the street, a wine and cheese festival, and of course, Ciclovia! The Ciclovia component of ManyFest takes place on Sunday, September 11. It is a free, eco-friendly, healthy-lifestyle festival and transportation initiative that will see Broadway closed from Osborne to Main Street, creating a network of car-free streets from Assiniboine Park all the way to The Forks! There will be bike shows, skateboard demonstrations, hockey tournaments, and Winnipeg’s First Annual Soap Box Derby, hosted by aceartinc.! For more information about ManyFest and Ciclovia, as well as a calender of events for the weekend, please visit http://www.downtownwinnipegbiz.com.
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE RACE
1) Complete the registration form and sign the waiver.
ace soap box waiver
derby registration form
derby_rules
2) Pay the entry fee of $100 by August 18th 2011, either by dropping into Ace
with cash or cheque, or mailing a cheque to:
aceartinc.
2nd floor, 290 McDermot Ave.
Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T2
Don’t forget to include the signed waiver and application form!
3) Consult and adhere to the guidelines and Rules of Entry. You can complete
these steps and find more information online or see us in person…
http://www.aceart.org/fundraising | (204) 944-9763 | 2-290 McDermot Ave, Wpg
image courtesy of Milena Placentile | 2011
Free Public Lecture
Growing pressure to frame the value of cultural activity insofar as it serves the dominant economy makes it all the more important to think about the ways in which artist-run culture can demonstrate resistance. Introducing the collective practices of Not an Alternative (New York), PLATFORM (London), and VIVO Media Arts (Vancouver), Milena Placentile proposes to share thoughts on the nature of radical practice within and beyond recognized non-profit structures with the hope of catalyzing discussion relevant to the interests and desires of Winnipeg-based artists. The presentation will also offer a preliminary list of considerations that self-organized initiatives might bear in mind as they evolve.
Annual Call for Submissions – Regular Programming
is dedicated to cultural diversity in its programming and to this end encourages applications from contemporary artists and curators identifying as members of GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered), Aboriginal (status, non-status, Inuit and Metis) and all other culturally diverse communities. encourages proposals from individuals, groups and collectives in all visual arts media.
Regular Programming submissions are solicited through a general annual international call with a deadline of August 2nd.
The Selection Committee reviews submissions within the context of ’s mandate and goals and makes recommendations to the board within 4 weeks of the deadline. [The Selection Committee is comprised of the Programming Coordinator, 1-2 Board Members, and 2 Community Members.]
The program is based on ’s available material or personnel resources. will pay CARCC fees to artists exhibiting through Regular Programming. Travel and accommodation, one-way shipping and per-diems will be provided where funding permits. produces invitations and media release documents, maintains a Critical Distance writing program for response to projects, and documents all projects digitally and in other media as appropriate. Please call (204) 944-9763 or email the gallery if you require other assistance regarding your submission.
for submission specifications click here….
Erling T.V. Klingenberg Doubleganger | 2008
núna (now) is a series of Icelandic / Canadian music, film, dance, visual art, book and theatre events curated and produced by a group of local artists with ties to Iceland.
Sirra Sigrún Sigurðardóttir
Reykjavík, Iceland
Sirra Sigrun Sigurdardottir (b.1977) graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2001 and continued her studies in Art Theory at the University of Iceland from 2003 to 2004. She is one of the founders of Kling & Bang gallery in Reykjavik and has in that capacity organized a number of exhibitions and projects, including Jason Rhoades’ and Paul McCarthy’s Sheep Plug (2004), John Bock’s film Skipholt (2005) and Kling & Bang’s Sirkus for Frieze projects (2008). Sigrun Sigurdardottir has exhibited extensively in Iceland and internationally.
Sirra’s work often seems to find its footing on a thin line between art and entertainment, catching the viewer’s attention without revealing careful artistic investigations into the color spectrum and principles of movement and space. Certain personal symbols bear reference to art history, the status the artist, statistical information, scientific theories and topographical contexts. work evokes a response similar to a child’s sense of captivation by a magician’s illusions.
Erling T.V. Klingenberg
Reykjavík, Iceland
Erling lives and works in Reykjavik and is co-founder of Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.__
Erling T.V. Klingenberg appears often in his work when he uses art history as a form of objective presentation and subjective images. His working methods fluctuate between the challenging and the sincere, while allowing obtrusive emotions to enter his work. Erling puts the concept of artist into an unexpected and humorous context, just like in his motto; “it´s hard to be an Artist in a Rockstar Body”. The metaphor that exists in the artist’s endless chase for fame and fortune is at the root of Klingenberg’s body of work. However, it is not in the final product but in the process that his interests lie. His obsession with defining the role of the artist in this “Rock Star” based society is what takes him to actually investigate not what the artist does but how he does it. At the end, does he actually want us to see him as a godlike creator rather than a Rock Star that has just left the building?
Studied at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design where he completed an MFA degree. He also studied at Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Fachhochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Kiel, Germany and the Icelandic College of Art & Crafts, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Selected solo exhibitions: ”I exhibit nothing but in a new context”, Kling & Bang gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2005. ”Mass-production of individuality”, Reykjavik Artmuseum / Asmundarsafn, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2004. “Are you looking at me”, Artmuseum ASI, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2004.
Selected group exhibitions: ”Erling T.V. Klingenberg-artist”, Frieze Projects / Frieze Art Fair, London, UK, 2008. “Artists on the Verge of Something I & II”, The Living Art Museum and Kling & Bang gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland, 1998 and 2008. Pisland 1, Jurewicz-Arnardottir Art Foundation, Nikisialka, Poland, 2008. “Sundogs”, Truck gallery, Calgary, Canada, 2008. “Sense in Place – Site-ations”, Model & Nilland gallery, international project, Sligo, Ireland, 2005. ” New Icelandic Art, On reality, Man and Image”, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2004.
image courtesy of the artist | Ming Hon | 2010
Private Dancer
I’m your private dancer, a dancer for money.
(actually I dance for your presence, attention, and a silver collection at the door )
Thursday April 14th , 7pm @ aceartinc. (2nd Floor, 290 McDermot Avenue)
*one showing only*
Featuring two performance art/dance works:
1) A new work (in progress). A duet I have been choreographing on dance artist Hilary Bergen and myself, accompanied with a live score by musician Tim Church.
2) Cleaver Piece is a solo I have been invited to perform in Ottawa as part of the ‘Prairie Scene’ events put on by the NAC.
A Piece about Cleaver Piece:
The Butcher’s cleaver as an ancient/violent/seductive implement, distributing fresh, raw, ‘choice cuts’ of exotic delicacy. The fine art of butchery — usually performed behind swinging doors, in buildings outside city centres, in rooms with walls and floors which may be easily sprayed down. Here the cutting room is exposed to the consuming public; death and animals are quite literally the absent referent. Blade on stone, leg, thigh, and breast, the Butcher is in fact the meat she is selling. Toying with tension, and mastering control, the Butcher, she executes for the audience a simultaneous experience of horror, seduction, and appetite, an offering of cultural, societal, and economic status. On the chopping block, in black dress, she is the bête noire, your beast of burden, refashioned and transformed into the most sensuous, unctuous, and toothsome consumable accompanied with, of course, la petite mort.
March 22, 2011
Dear Member,
NOTIFICATION OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
It is our pleasure to invite you to the Annual General Meeting of aceartinc. which will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 28th, 2011 at the gallery.
There will be a special presentation regarding ace’s occupancy of its present space. We know there has been a lot of talk about this over the last few months and we hope to provide members with some clarity. We are seeking your opinions and feedback on this issue and strongly encourage you to attend this meeting.
Copies of the last AGM Minutes and Board/Staff reports will be distributed at the AGM. To facilitate members that are unable to attend, the Administrator shall, upon request, be pleased to forward copies of these documents. Similarly, if an absentee member wishes to raise an issue or respond to the agenda, please notify me (admin@aceart.org) and your contribution will be read at the AGM.
aceartinc. is currently seeking volunteers to assist in upcoming exhibitions and events. If you are interested in volunteering have a chat with our Gallery Coordinator, Jamie Wright.
Kind regards,
Jen Moyes | Administrative Coordinator
Jamie Wright | Gallery Coordinator
hannah_g | Program Coordinator
Annual General Meeting
June 24th, 2010
8:00pm
AGENDA
| 1. | Adoption of Agenda |
| 2. | Adoption of Minutes from 2009 AGM |
| 3. | President’s Report -presented by Josh Ruth |
| 4. | Treasurer’s Report -presented by Nora Kobrinksy, Appointment of Accountant for fiscal year 2008/2009 |
| 5. | Programming Report -presented by Hannah Godfrey |
| 6. | Proposed Employment Policy Amendment |
| 7. | Elections and Ratification of Board Directors from Membership |
| 8. | Adjourn |
______________________________________________________________________
| Current Board of Directors: | Current Staff: | |||
| Josh Ruth | President | Hannah Godfrey | Programming Coordinator | |
| Sally MacDonald | Treasurer | Jen Moyes | Administrative Coordinator | |
| Takashi Iwasaki | Secretary | Liz Garlicki | Gallery Coordinator | |
| Tamara Weller | Vice President | |||
| Robert Epp | ||||
| Kendra Goertzen | ||||
| Niki Trosky | ||||
| Laura Magnusson | ||||
| Doug Smith | ||||
Appendix:
Katerie Gladdys
Every year the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture hosts a symposium in the series Atmosphere.
Artist Katerie Gladdys (Digital Media Department, University of Florida) will be presenting THY NEIGHBOR’S FRUIT in the Flux space in conjunction with the symposium.
This project explores the act of an exchange–asking for something that is free requiring no effort on the part of the owner other than access to their personal space, transforming fruit into jam (product) and finally returning the fruit not only to the owner of the tree, but to other neighbors who own fruit trees in the form of jars of jam.
The methodology that informs this piece explores and textualizes suburban space in terms of the production of food examining what constitutes decoration and utility in the ordinary landscape. This research serves to perhaps highlight the commodity/currency found in one’s outdoor environment and how the sharing of that resource could create alternative awareness of community. The organization of these landscapes seen as atypical with respect to providing food revisits the idea of local vis a vis “homegrown” food. The project is a qualitative, poetic interpretation of social/environmental research and fieldwork.
The Atmosphere symposia explore the intangible and overlooked dimensions of architecture and the city: those difficult to pin down, document, record with conventional instruments and methodologies.
Atmosphere 2011 will focus on MEDIATED CITIES, the image of architecture, space, and place in cinema and other media. There is a long history of “city films” which have portrayed the experience of urban life, exploring through that experience the qualities and conundrums of modern life. Today that history is updated as cinema is supplemented by new forms of media including video, internet, and portable media. These new forms of media emerge from and articulate shifts and developments in architecture, landscape and cities as well as global geographies, technologies and politics. They include imaginary as well as documentary narratives, and works that blur the two. They are also being incorporated, rapidly, into the practice of all design disciplines.
The conference will build bridges between disciplines, between research and creation, between the academy and the community – contributing to the production of a truly mediated city.
