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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
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
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
Everything is Everything encompasses an array of work that grew from the simple idea of coveting values such as dearness, cherishing, longing, sincerity, cynicism and stating your ground.Wong blends artistic and pop filters into a re-appropriated use of semiotics in order to contemplate the everyday phenomenological reactions that come from living and working in different situations and environments. She oscillates between different styles and sources which she absorbs and reconstitutes in her own particular and engaging manner. Extreme cultural dabbling with infinite information as a point of departure is equally exciting, overwhelming and schizophrenic for Wong, who constantly asks herself and her audience how one can truly understand an experience in all its layered complexity.Amy Wong is a painter of Cantonese-Chinese descent, born in Toronto, who has lived and worked in Canada, the Netherlands and China. After completing her BFA in studio arts at Concordia University in Montreal, she was accepted to the two-year artist residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. She has recently returned to Toronto after being the first Canadian participant in the CEAC artist residency in Xiamen. She is represented by Galerie van Wijngaarden Hakkens in Amsterdam.
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.
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(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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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