Events
Imaginative Spaces: a public discussion with Francesca Carella Arfinengo and Luther Konadu
Thursday, February 21, 7-8pm
On behalf of the Collecting, Citing, Curating (CCC) cluster, Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Gurpreet Sehra will engage in conversation with local artists Francesca Carella Arfinengo and Luther Konadu around themes of citation, archive, and imaginative practices. The public will be invited to participate in the conversation. This event is presented in conjunction with Carella Arfinengo’s and Konadu’s exhibitions at window from January to March of 2019. CCC gratefully acknowledges aceartinc., The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities, and window for their support.
Increasingly, scholars and artists are challenging what material and archives can be mined for their work. In scholarly, aesthetic, and everyday encounters, citation functions to situate ideas, bodies, and cultural materials in relation to references that provide a scaffolding of legitimacy. CCC is interested in discussing these and related ideas as they pertain to Carella Arfinengo’s and Konadu’s research and recent works, Banner for a party and A CLEARANCE FOR VISUALIZING AN UNKILLABLE JOY. Both of these installations relate to space, place and labour while broadly engaging with practices of citation. They consider how the act of imagining can be productive while living under capitalism.
Carella Arfinengo and Konadu are part of an exhibition program at window, a 24-hour exhibition space located on the east-side street-level exterior of Artspace at Bannatyne & Arthur. Curated by Muñoz Gomez on behalf of CCC, their individual artist statements and exhibition details follow.
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Banner for a party by Francesca Carella Arfinengo
Exhibition: January 1 – February 13, 2019
The artist would like to acknowledge the support of Sean McLachlan in photographing the work.
(With a split heart
Dry cake
Dedos de chizito
Loud talking
Dancing in front of abuelita)
At the party
we laugh at the frustrating
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A CLEARANCE FOR VISUALIZING AN UNKILLABLE JOY. by Luther Konadu
Exhibition: February 18 – March 31, 2019
An area of clearance is a safety zone typically allocated on roadsides. It can be the designated space of entry allowed in drive-thrus or parkades. A similar idea runs central to A CLEARANCE FOR VISUALIZING AN UNKILLABLE JOY.—the idea of clearing for a designated space. The work stems from a series of figural painting works which included a built sculptural architecture called Retirement Pavilion. It is a space especially allocated for the figures to populate and inhabit. The Retirement Pavilion is thought of as a space of ease, rest, and free of all imaginable unwanted labour. This sculptural architecture is predicated on wishful thinking and make-belief. But not without foresight or contingency planning. Each iteration of Retirement Pavilion serves as an alternate to this ideal space for retiring. In expanding the vision for this work-free environment, language became another way to think through a physical reality. Rather than an object-oriented vision, A CLEARANCE looks at the possibility of language to be a container for sculpture. Instead of physically building Retirement Pavilion, what if it is spoken (or written) into existence. What if this ideal comfort lodging can be spatially activated not by sight or surface but something rather visceral. Or perhaps embodied through the realm of imagination via linguistic form. Material sculpture can always deteriorate and disappear, but like words in a book, language has the ability to be transported forward into the future like a capsule.
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Bios:
Francesca Carella Arfinengo is a settler person of colour based in Winnipeg. She is an arts administrator and artist. Using mostly textiles, her art practice explores transculturalism, displacement and immigration. She is interested in the effects of colonialism in humanity’s relationship to the land.
Luther Konadu is an emerging visual artist and writer currently residing on Treaty 1.
Collecting, Citing, Curating (CCC) is a research cluster interested in the creative acts of collecting, citing, and curating, and in considering these active iterative processes that give objects meaning. CCC is based at the University of Manitoba, with funding from the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities. Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Gurpreet Sehra are artists and members of this research cluster.
Cluster 2019
February 28 – March 3, 2019
aceartinc. / Rachel Browne / Cinematheque / Video Pool
Andrea Roberts / Beast Nest / Davis Plett / Erin Gee / Eliot Britton / Grace Hrabi / Hong Kong Exile / Kristen Wachniak / Luke Nickel / Maksym Chupov-Ryabtsev / Matt Poon / Mirror Frame / Natalie Tin Yin Gan / Remy Siu / Sharmi Basu / Susan Britton / TAK / Vicky Chow / William Kuo / XIE
CONTACT INFO
info@clusterfestival.com
(204) 223-9939
TICKETS
PWYC / $10 Student / $20 Adult
$30 Student Pass / $65 Adult Pass
Online: clusterfestival.com/tickets
Call: (204) 223-9939
Visit: McNally Robinson Booksellers
Up Down Strange
Friday, Mar. 1, 2019
Doors/Show: 7:30/8:00pm
aceartinc.
290 McDermot Ave.
An evening celebrating the work of one of Canada’s most important media artists: Winnipeg’s own Susan Britton. Britton’s films, created between 1976 and 1984, feature provocative takes on an emerging information age and the beginning of the MTV generation.
Cluster will feature the first new installation work by Britton in over 30 years, created in collaboration with her nephew (and Cluster-co-director) Eliot Britton! This evening will also feature the eXperimental Improv Ensemble playing live film soundtracks to highlights of Britton’s work.
In the Flux Gallery, Winnipeg’s Grace Hrabi presents a new sound installation that asks us to reconsider the apparent relationship between relaxation and nature (with collaborators Callen Froese and Jolene Kaminski). Erin Gee uses bio-sensors to create intimate music for just two audience members at a time. Finally, Kristen Wachniak presents a new dance performance that re-interprets the concepts of gesture and looping to explore identity in a dreamscape of sound—composed and performed by the artist herself.
10:00pm: after-show by CASATI
TAK
Saturday, Mar. 2, 2019
Doors/Show: 7:00/7:30pm
aceartinc.
290 McDermot Ave.
Co-presented by GroundSwell
In true Cluster style, this is chamber music as you’ve never heard it before.
New York’s TAK “impresses with the organicity of their sound, their dynamism and virtuosity — and, well, just a dash of IDGAF as they slay the thorniest material like it’s nothing” (Q2 Music).
In this super charged concert you’ll hear works by Erin E. Gee, Kate Soper, Ashkan Behzadi, David Bird, and William Kuo. You’ll also hear premieres by Cluster co-directors Luke Nickel and Eliot Britton. Instruments will combine with the elastic voice of Charlotte Mundy—as well as electronics, projections, and even roller coasters!—in a free-spirited and joyous exploration of contemporary chamber music.
TAK is: Laura Cocks (flute), Carlos Cordeiro (clarinet), Charlotte Mundy (voice), Marina Kifferstein (violin), and Ellery Trafford (percussion)
Public Lectures
Friday, Mar. 1, 2019, 5-6pm
aceartinc.
290 McDermot Ave.
Composers Erin Gee and William Kuo discuss their work in a free artist talk (part of First Fridays).
Lightning Talks
Saturday, Mar. 2, 2019, 7pm
aceartinc.
290 McDermot Ave.
Guest artists from the 2019 Cluster Festival discuss what inspires them to create in a playful quickfire format.
Lucky 7 Vol. 1: Gabriela Ocejo & Matt Foster // Savant Flaneur
Lucky 7 is a pilot performance series in Winnipeg, MB, intersecting musicians from far reaching genres and disciplines.
The idea behind Lucky 7 is simple: bring together two ensembles from different backgrounds, with complimentary skill sets to play a show: two individual sets and one collaborative set.
Tiny Desk meets the Bate Building.
Organized by Ashley Au.
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Friday, February 8, 2019
doors @ 7:00pm // show @ 7:30pm
$10 admission // limited space // advance tix available by emailing lucky7wpg@gmail.com
Thursday, January 31, 2019
7-8:30 pm
All are welcome!
Become a member or renew your membership!
Reg price: $25.00 (online or in person) AGM special, up to and night of: Pay what you can (in person or contact chantel@aceart.org)
Members receive voting privileges at AGMs and other benefits, as outlined on our website. aceart.org/membership
We’ll be approving our new anti-oppression policy. Read it online at aceart.org/mandate
805-4821 is a trans coming out story.
it’s also about the 80,000 words of facebook messages
my best friend and i wrote each other one fall.
it’s also about hamlet and trauma and having a feeling.
it’s also about my mom.
it’s mostly performed using an overhead projector
and it’s mostly performed in silence.
welcome to the movies.
created and performed by davis plett
edited by gislina patterson
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The Ugly at aceartinc. (290 mcdermot ave, 2nd floor)
nov 15 / 8pm
nov 16 / 8pm
nov 17 / 8pm
nov 17 / 10pm
nov 18 / 8pm
doors 30 minutes to showtime | performances are approx 60 minutes
tix are pay what you can afford, CASH ONLY, and can be reserved at davisplett@gmail.com
or 204-805-4821 (do you want to txt me some time?)
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cw:
this movie contains strong language
and textual representations
of physical, imagined, and systemic violence.
there’s a lot of shit about bodies, trauma,
and a kind of weird take on gender stuff.
there’s also, like, a LOT of stuff about ME.
if you have any particular questions, pls contact me.
accessibility:
aceartinc. is not a fully physically accessible space.
there’s a set of 2 stairs
then another set of 7 stairs before the elevator.
gallery staff are happy to assist however possible.
pls call ahead (204-944-9763)
to make any special arrangements.
full physical accessibility information can be found at
https://www.aceart.org/contact-access
also note that 99% of this performance
is projected text without sound
ace is participating with a table holding some merch and publications by us and associated artists…
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art’s PRAIRIE ART BOOK FAIR
September 7-9, 2018
• book fair • book launches • artist multiples • periodicals • workshops • readings •
FREE ENTRY
image caption: Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber, Acrylic on panel, 2018.
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is extremely excited to present our inaugural Prairie Art Book Fair September 7-9, 2018. As a means to acknowledge the critical relationship between contemporary art and publishing with a regional focus on the Prairies, the weekend will showcase over twenty-nine exhibitors and present numerous events with highlights including collaborative hole punch drawing with Winnipeg born artist Micah Lexier; a talk connecting DIY tattooing and artist multiples by Maxine Proctor (Director and Co-founder of the Toronto Art Book Fair and Managing Editor of BlackFlash Magazine), and a workshop with key presenter Jeff Khonsary (Co-Founding and Artistic Director of Fillip and Director of New Documents) on alternative book fair models, looking at the economics and social space of the book fair model itself.
Explore diverse and accomplished publications from over twenty-five publishers, artists, and galleries ranging from zines, catalogues, artist editions, fiction, poetry, criticism, and periodicals.
DF / Alder & Ash / D-Ann Kuby
11 July 2018, 6pm
DF
https://dfduo.bandcamp.com/
Looped saxophone with audio-reactive light installations and visuals. Spacious, pulsing, emotive, and bright.
Alder & Ash
https://alderandashmusic.bandcamp.com/
A counterpoint of two extremes. The music lies in stillness, introversion, and penitence. It lies in violence, cacophony, and angst. Alder & Ash plays cello with loop pedal to create improvised minimal classical music, with influence of doom metal, ambient, post-rock and noise.
D-Anne Kuby
Dance artist D-Anne Kuby will play with the sounds of Adrian (Alder and Ash) and Dustin (DF) for her second ever rendition of “let’s be honest – an improvisation regarding all that we can be absolutely certain of”. She also plans to present “Sarah minus Russell and without the poem”.
On Saturday May 12th, at aceartic. in the spirit of Paris is Burning, QPOC & Like That threw the second La Macha ball! A full evening of celebration of queerness you will never forget. This year had seven categories for your nerves, all judged by their Majesty, MANGHOE LASSI and QPOC royalty. aceartinc. is the spot, doors at 10pm, $10 sliding scale donation to get in to the event. DJ Slow Grind and Wanda G are your DJs and La Macha is going to be FIRE.
ace is proudly hosting this year’s send+receive. BUT not all the gigs are at ace- for a full listing go here.
Local legend, Joel Mierau will be giving a rare performance at ace on the occassion of alto saxophnoist, Brodie West’s, first Winnipeg concert. The gig starts promptly… it’s really a special, unique event.
Info:
Joel Mierau is an artist and sound engineer working in Winnipeg. whose work is informed by his intimate perception of subtle changes in sounds. This is a theme that influences + reoccurs throughout his work, often in the use of long tones and discrete movement.
Alto saxophonist Brodie West’s fascination in sound has taken him from Alexandra Park to Addis Ababa.
Originally hailing from Nanaimo, British Columbia, jazz studies at Humber College brought Brodie to Toronto. Emerging as a member of Zebradonk, Deep Dark United and Drumheller, he was soon in demand as a featured guest, adding his spirit to recordings ranging from Broken Social Scene’s seminal You Forgot It in People to more recent appearances with Jennifer Castle, Snowblink and Tasseomancy. Studies at the Amsterdam Music Conservatory with Misha Mengelberg lead to musical encounters with percussionist Han Bennink as well as The Ex, culminating in two tours to Ethiopia and the group’s collaborative recordings with Getatchew Mekuria.
Image: Chris Boni
Another hullabaloo of contemporary art, artists, and performance- the aceartinc. members’ show! Become a member and take part!
Come to the launch party at 8pm – midnight on 29 September. There’ll be performances, the opportunity to buy work on show, and DJs. 100% of the sale goes to the artist.
This year, ace is partnering with Blackspace Winnipeg. Black visual artists and those of colour are encouraged to take part in the members’ show and become a part of a larger artist community and use the resources that are available. ace and Blackspace’s goal is to highlight Black visual artists with the hope to foster diversity and inclusion for Winnipeg’s art scene. Nuit Noire will be taking place at ace the day after Carte Blanche.
Benefit for Justice for Errol
A night of good sounds in support of the Justice for Errol group. Performers:
Burden: deconstructed piano legends https://
Rosa Reaper: vocal loop blair witch project https://
Hypat1a: dreamy fearie experiments for laying around https://soundcloud.com/
Funds raised at this show will go towards the costs associated with the inquest into the murder of Errol Greene at the winnipeg remand centre in May last year. Though Errol’s widow Rochelle was granted standing at the inquest, the state does not provide any funding for legal representation, or other costs such as childcare, etc. Please consider making a generous donation, as costs will be very high, and no amount of benefit shows will make any significant dent in that bill. More information about the case will be available at the event, and a link to a pamphlet put together by the J4E group is posted in the comments on this event page.
Show starts early! please arrive on time! doors at 7pm, show is 8pm-10:30pm SHARP.
Suggested donation of $8, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Ace art is not an physically accessible venue, for this we apologize.
See you all there! For any questions please contact us through the J4E page, thank you.
Big thanks to Ace Art for their generous donation of the space to host the event ♥♥♥
please also share this gofundme with your networks, and donate generously: https://www.gofundme.com/
Image: Kelly Campbell
7pm, Friday 5 May 2017, free
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/a-performed-response-to-you-can-never-go-home-again-shelby-wright-katie-lyle
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https://www.aceart.org/movements-for-a-room-workshop
BANNED! Pt. 1 – FILMS FROM IRAQ
Proudly presented by the Winnipeg Underground Film Fest and Ace Art Inc.
Thursday, March 9th 7pm
$10 / Free for Immigrants
All proceeds to the ACLU
‘There, The Gun’ by Jamal Penjweny, 9min
‘Fan and Coffee’ by Rebeen Hamarafiq, 1min
‘The Flowering’ by Usama Alshaibi, 5min
‘Dream City’ by Emma Piper-Burket, 50min
Friday 17 February 2017 turnAround event
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/scott-leroux-a-retrospective-birthday-bash
7pm, Wednesday 8 February 2017
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/performances
Mujer Artista: Speaking In Tongues | partnership, host, main gallery
January 13 – February 3, 2017
https://www.aceart.org/mujer-artista-speaking-in-tongues
See here for photos of Taking It To The Grave by Andrew ‘Glamdrew’ Henderson, with Eroca Nicols.
Unstuck | Marla Hlady
presented by send + receive, a festival of sound
October 7 – 28, 2016
Artist talk and opening reception October 7 at 7:00pm.
For more info:
aceartinc.’s members’ exhibition and performances.
Proudly sponsored by Assiniboine Credit Union
8 – 11 pm, Friday 30 September 2016
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/carte-blanche
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/the-scott-wachall-memorial-bursary-artist-talk
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Limpe Fuchs
2 October, 5:15 pm, MAWA, 611 Main St.
Find out more: https://www.aceart.org/limpe-fuchs-artist-talk
send+receive | www.limpefuchs.de/en
Indigenous Curatorial Residency with Niki Little
Enendaman | Anminigook
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/indigenous_curator
https://www.aceart.org/enendaman-anminigook
Annual Student Show call 2015
Curated by Jennifer Smith
Thursday, March 12 at 7:00pm
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/open-city-cinema-video-pool-present-women-of-canadian-video-distribution
Come and get the newest volume of PaperWait – to be launched during the AGM
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/agm2014
Dr. David Churchill & Frank Livingston Artist Talk | 13 February, 2014 – 7pm
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/filling-the-hole-art-and-the-spaces-of-the-city
aceartinc. will hold its 2013 Annual General Meeting on Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 7:00pm, 2nd floor, 290 McDermot Ave.
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/2013-annual-general-meeting
image courtesy of Larry Glawson
An impromptu conversation with Doug Melnyk, Ian Mozdzen, & Coral Maloney | 18 September | 7pm
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/hollywood-hens-protesterns-and-other-stuff
Image courtesy of Clare Murphy | 2012
King of Lies | Storytelling with Clare Murphy | Saturday 23rd March, 7pm | $5
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/king-of-lies-storytelling-with-clare-murphy-saturday-23rd-march-7pm-5
Diaspora Ethiopia – Dir. Hagere Selam (shimby) Zegeye-Gebrehiwot
Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
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https://www.aceart.org/new-transit-ads-beginning-in-november
image courtesy of Michelle Elrick | 2012
Michelle Elrick | Friday 9th November 8pm
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The gallery will be open until midnight during Nuit Blanche, come and check out Doug Smith’s “Catharsis”
Nuit Blanche 2012 | gallery open til midnight | Doug Smith
That’s right folks! You can check out some fantastic drawings by Winnipeg’s own Doug Smith, and then wander directly into a pop-up version of Into the Music to peruse their immense collection of ultra-affordable LPs and CDs. This partnership between ace and Into the Music will kick off until late during Nuit Blanche and continue throughout October. Gallery hours will be extended from 10-5 Tuesday to Friday and 12-5 Saturday.
images courtesy crys cole | 2012
THREE SOLO’S
A concert of three solo performances by Catherine Lamb (US), Bryan Eubanks (US) and crys cole (CA)
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image courtesy Tamara Weller | 2012
Tamara Weller | Artist Talk | Thursday 12th July | noon | free
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/tamara-weller-artist-talk-thursday-12th-july-noon-free
Duet for a Schizophrenic | 27, 28, 29 September | 8pm
Little Theatre of the Grey Goose & Adhere and Deny present: Duet for a Schizophrenic by Chris Johnson.
Performance starts at 8pm. tickets are $12/ $8 low income.
Find out more:
https://www.aceart.org/duet-for-a-schizophrenic
