PROGRAM GUIDE JANUARY 22 TO MAY 08 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS CLOSE ENCOUNTERS P.04-05 WINNIPEG CULTURAL CAPITAL OF CANADA 2010 P.06-07 SUPPORTERS P.07 VENUES P.08-09 DATES P.10-11 BIOGRAPHIES P.12-29 PARALLEL PROGRAMMING P.30-31 MAP P.32 INDEX P.33 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: THE NEXT 500 YEARS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS ART Presented by Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 Organized by Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art with the Winnipeg Art Gallery, URBAN SHAMAN: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, Gallery 1C03, La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, North End Arts Centre and Graffiti Art Programming Inc. Curatorial Collective: Candice Hopkins, Steve Loft, Lee-Ann Martin and Jenny Western The world is at a crossroads. Now is the moment to reconfigure our notions of time to reveal alternative ways of thinking and being for the future. In Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, Indigenous art- ists imagine the future within the context of present experiences and past histories. By radically reconsidering encounter narratives between native and non-native people, Indigenous prophecies, possible utopias and apocalypses, this exhibition proposes intriguing possibilities for the next 500 years. “We all in different measure have carved out the future,” observes Hopi photographer and filmmaker Victor Masayesva in his book Husk of Time. “We are all clairvoyants, soothsayers, prophets, knowingly assuming our predictions.” Close Encounters brings together over 30 Indigenous artists from across Canada, the United States, South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, including newly commissioned work from Rebecca Belmore, Faye HeavyShield, Kent Monkman and Edward Poitras. Jimmie Durham’s long-term sculptural work Pole to Mark the Centre of the World (at Winnipeg) chal- lenges widely held ideas surrounding space and location, while James Luna’s poignant installation Spirits of Virtue and Evil Await My Ascension addresses issues of ritual and the passing of time. Close Encounters showcases artists and artworks that collectively invent provocative futures from a diversity of perspectives and practices. With its myriad histories, trajectories, tensions, collisions, and self- image(s), the city of Winnipeg offers an intriguing juxtaposition for these artistic mediations. Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years presents international Indigenous perspectives in a city that in many ways also epitomizes the future of Aboriginal people in Canada. Works in multiple venues throughout the city will serve as catalysts to invent different ways of thinking, acting, and being in the world of our shared future. At this pivotal moment in time, Close Encounters invites engagement with the speculative, the prophetic and the unknown. 05 WINNIPEG CULTURAL CAPITAL OF CANADA 2010 Through the Cultural Capitals of Canada national program, the Depart- ARTS FOR ALL ment of Canadian Heritage named Winnipeg the Cultural Capital of Canada for 2010. On behalf of the City of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Arts Council planned a year of extraordinary cultural events and arts programming. Activities and events were designed to harness the many benefits of arts and culture in community life and celebrate our artists as unique and vital to the fabric of Canadian culture. The River Barge Festival, The BIG DANCE on Broadway and City Stories with the Winnipeg Tarot Company were all events planned with the vision of ARTS FOR ALL that brought the arts into the lives of thousands of Winnipeggers in the year 2010. Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years is a unique and remarkable exhibition that will continue to enrich the lives of our citizens and help us carry this important designation well into 2011. The mission of Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 is to ensure that all people have access to the arts, are able to participate in the arts, and value and are enriched by the arts. In other words: ARTS FOR ALL. Close Encounters is a materialization of that vision, providing a massive multi-site exhibition of groundbreaking work free of charge to the public, and providing a platform to present work by leading Indigenous artists. Find out more at artsforall.ca Close Encounters is generously supported by: 07 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS EXHIBITION VENUES PARALLEL PROGRAMMING SITES VENUES CLOSE ENCOUNTERS URBAN SHAMAN: MAIN EXHIBITION SITE CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL ART 109 Pacific Ave 203–290 McDermot Ave PLUG IN ICA PLATFORM CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC 460 Portage Ave + DIGITAL ARTS 121-100 Arthur St WINNIPEG ART GALLERY (Artspace Building) 300 Memorial Blvd GALLERY 1C03 MANITOBA HYDRO 515 Portage Ave 360 Portage Ave LA MAISON DES ARTISTES VISUELS MANITOBA MUSEUM FRANCOPHONES 190 Rupert Ave 219 Boul Provencher NORTH END ARTS CENTRE 472 Selkirk Ave GRAFFITI ART PROGRAMMING 109 Higgins Ave 09 ← Circuit City III | KC Adams | 2007 | Digital print CLOSE ENCOUNTERS MANITOBA HYDRO OPENING PARALLEL PROGRAMMING DATES DATES Tuesday, January 18, 12:00pm URBAN SHAMAN: featuring work by KC Adams, Contemporary Aboriginal Art Postcommodity and Linus Woods TRADE ME Keesic Douglas Artist talk with Postcommodity Opening reception: and Linus Woods at 12:30pm Friday, January 28, 8:00pm Location: Manitoba Hydro, Location: 203–290 McDermot Ave 360 Portage Ave Screening of Bringing It All Back Home, Chris Eyre’s film about PANEL DISCUSSION James Luna Saturday, January 22, 10:45am Tuesday, January 18, 7:00pm Candice Hopkins, Mary Anne Location: Winnipeg Art Gallery Barkhouse, Faye HeavyShield and Nadia Myre Frontrunners Opening Reception: Saturday, January 22, 1:30pm Saturday, May 28 Lee-Ann Martin and Rebecca Belmore Location: Plug In ICA Presented by the Winnipeg Art PLATFORM centre for photographic Gallery and Mentoring Artists for + digital arts Women’s Art as part of Sculptural Acting Up! Performing the Indian Vocabularies: A symposium exploring Opening reception: the sculptural practices of contem- Friday, January 21, 7:00pm porary Canadian women artists Curatorial Lecture by Location: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Rosalie Favell: 300 Memorial Blvd Thursday, January 20, 7:00pm Artist Talk with Jackie Traverse: EXHIBITION OPENING Saturday, February 19, 3:00pm Saturday, January 22, 7:00pm Location: 121-100 Arthur St Location: Close Encounters Main Exhibition Site, 109 Pacific Ave GALLERY 1C03 unSacred BUS TOURS Scott Benesiinaabandan (stephens) Sunday, January 23, 12:00pm-4:00pm Opening reception at Gallery 1C03: Artist talks and visits to all Thursday, January 20, 4:00pm-6:00pm Close Encounters venues Public artist talk (Room 2C14): visit www.artsforall.ca Friday, January 21, 12:30pm-1:30pm Location: The University of Winnipeg EXHIBITION CLOSING RECEPTION 515 Portage Ave Saturday, May 7, 7:00pm Preview of Frontrunners exhibition LA MAISON DES ARTISTES VISUELS Location: URBAN SHAMAN: FRANCOPHONES Contemporary Aboriginal Art, The Forgiveness Project 203–290 McDermot Ave (Pardoner Moi) Nadia Myre Opening reception: Thursday January 20, 7:00pm Location: 219, boul Provencher GRAFFITI ART PROGRAMMING Opening reception: Thursday, April 28, 6:00pm-8:00pm Location: Plaza at the Forks 11 ← Lucinations (detail) | Doug Smarch Jr. | 2005-2006 | Installation CLOSE ENCOUNTERS KC ADAMS CAN MARIA THEREZA ALVES BRA BIOGRAPHIES As an artist, KC Adams focuses on Maria Thereza Alves is a Brazil- the investigation of the relation- ian artist living in Europe who ship between nature (the living) researches social and cultural phe- and technology (progress). Her work nomena, working particularly with includes sculpture, installation, situations that question social drawing, painting, photography, circumstances. Her work examines ceramics, printmaking and kinetic what we think we know, who we think art. KC Adams has had several solo we are, and the realities of where exhibitions, most recently Cy- and how we actually are at this borg Hybrids at the Odd Gallery time. Alves has recently exhibited in Dawson City and Modern Fuel in in the Guangzhou Triennal, Kingston. She has also been fea- Manifesta in Trento, the Prague tured in numerous group exhibi- Biennal, the Athens Biennal and tions; Cyborg Living Space II, The the Lyon Biennal where she received Language of Intercession at the the Francophonie prize. OBORO Gallery in Montreal, Cyborg Hybrids at the PHOTOQUAI: Biennale WORK des images du monde in Paris. She IRACEMA (DE QUESTEMBERT), 2009 has participated in residencies at Courtesy the Artist The Banff Centre, the Confederation Visit www.artsforall.ca for Art Centre in Charlottetown, PEI screening dates and times. and the Annex Gallery in Winnipeg. She has received several grants and LOCATION awards from Winnipeg Arts Council, Winnipeg Art Gallery Manitoba Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. Twenty pieces from the Cyborg Hybrid series are in the permanent collection of the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. She graduated from Concordia University with a BFA and is based in Winni- peg. WORK CIRCUIT CITY II, 2007 CIRCUIT CITY III, 2007 CIRCUIT CITY V, 2007 CIRCUIT CITY VI, 2007 CIRCUIT CITY IX, 2007 Courtesy the Artist LOCATION P hoto credit: Jason Manitoba Hydro, Head Office G rubb 13 ← Repellent Eye (Winnipeg) 2011 (detail) | Postcommodity | 2011 | Installation SHUVINAI ASHOONA CAN MARY ANNE BARKHOUSE CAN MICHAEL BELMORE CAN REBECCA BELMORE CAN Shuvinai Ashoona was born in Cape Mary Anne Barkhouse was born in Michael Belmore is a member of Born in Upsala, ON, Rebecca Belmore Dorset, NU, and began drawing in Vancouver, BC, and belongs to the the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts is an artist currently living in 1995. Ashoona's work was first Nimpkish band, Kwakiutl First Na- and graduated with an A.O.C.A. in Vancouver, BC. She attended the On- included in the Cape Dorset annual tion. She is a descendant of a long sculpture/installation from Ontario tario College of Art and Design and print collection in 1997, with two line of internationally recognized College of Art & Design in 1994. is internationally recognized for small dry-point etchings entitled artists that includes Ellen Neel, Michael works in a variety of media her performance and installation Interior (1997-33) and Settlement Mungo Martin and Charlie James.