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/

WOULD you WANT a WONDERFUL WIKI?

If you can say that five times fast (and are a member of aceartinc.) you have the member privilege to gain web space with your own personal page on the aceart wiki website!

A wiki is like a Wikipedia and is an online network of artist’s pages that can feature a bio, a few photos of artwork, links to a website, videos, and more! The wiki is growing with artists everyday and we are always welcoming new contributions.

If you would like to check out the wiki please see:

www.aceartinc.pbworks.com

Interested in joining the wiki? Please contact Tanya at communications@aceart.org or call the aceart office.  Feel free to book an appointment with Tanya as soon as possible. She will be available to help with the technical side of the wiki.

aceartinc. wants to be a digital hub for info on our members, some of the finest artists in the country. Help us make it happen.

Wiki definition (from wikipedia.org):
A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis.

Purpose/Vision
• To provide a user-generated content online community for ace art.
• To provide free web space for members of ace art where they can show their art and develop an online presence (if they don’t already have one, or to supplement the one they have).
• To be an online reference for information about Winnipeg artists by expanding on the ace art web site and offering more information about our community to others.
• To be a space for generating dialogue about art by artists in the community.

Community Building
Part of the idea behind having an ace art wiki is to get all of its members into a venue where they can promote their art. Because it’s an online venue, the ace art wiki will also act as a resource for those looking for information about these artists. The wiki can expand and grow to include peer-reviewing for artists, support visuals, video, and link out to other sites for references, or for other shows member artists may be doing elsewhere. Most artists will likely already have an artist web site, but with a wiki, all members can edit each other’s sites, and there is also lots of room for forum discussion, and information sharing. For example, if artists want to get people in the community interested in a cause, say rallying around Bill C-62, the wiki is a great way to stimulate community discussion and how it will affect visual artists in particular. This is just one more forum for artists to connect with each other.

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

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.

Annual Call for Submissions – Regular Programming

Due: Post marked no later than August 1, 2009

Regular Programming is created through submissions that seek the support of ’s facilities and services for public presentation. 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 national call with a deadline of August 1st.

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….

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.

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).

In between the uninstall and install of our regular exhibitions the main gallery usually has a night or two of being an empty shell. We thought we’d invite people to put their pearls in it for one night only.

aceartinc.’s turnaround is a series of events/ performances/ installations that occur on a single night between the uninstall and install of regular exhibitions in 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.

turnarounders put on a nocturnal performance or throw a party etc. in the main gallery of ace. ace will not pay any fees to the participants but instead asks them to charge admission, half of which is kept by them, the other half goes to ace as fundraising for our programming and operational costs.

aceartinc.’s turnaround is not an exhibition opportunity. Submissions for exhibitions will not be accepted.

To apply for a turnaround spot, email program AT aceart DOT org with your idea and how you’ll do it- no more than a page please. Include your resume with at least but no more than five images to support your application.

designed by Mike Carroll, edited by hannah_g

PaperWait Vol. 10 & 11

IN TOWN MEMBERS COME PICK UP YOUR ISSUE!!

This is another bumper edition covering the programming from 2007/8-2008/9, containing all the Critical Distances for those years.

The theme of the artist pages is DIY/DIT- showcasing an ultra mix of work from artists across Canada. Highlights include Suzie Smith’s record sleeves, collage by Irene Bindi and an extract from Lauren Hortie’s Lesbian Coloring Book series. There are also a coupla special essays- Andrew Kear (WAG Associate Curator Historical Canadian Art)  discusses the DIY roots of The Peg; and English DIY activist and author, Amy Spencer, gives an overview of DIY culture.

In keeping with the theme, the book itself contains some treats to get you DIY / DIT-ing. A stencil, sticker page, postcards and flip book fun will help keep you in mischief.

This PaperWait is a limited edition, so you’re only going to get your hands on one if you are a member. It’s a pretty special number, even if we do say so ourselves. Make sure your membership is up to date to avoid disappointment.

Howie Tsui Vol 15:3

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Do you have a listing for the Winnipeg Arts e-List?
Please send us an email with information about your arts event and/or opportunities for artists (text only, no images) at least one week prior to the event/deadline. WAC can not guarantee info will go out, but we’ll try our best to distribute suitable materials every Thursday. Please note that due to the large volume of listings, each notice received will only be included once.