Sovereign Intimacies

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Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O'Brien), "Wrapped in the Cloud," 2018

video still © Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O'Brien), 2018. Produced in collaboration with Conrad Sly, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, and Kate Hennessy. Video, 4 mins.

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art presents:

As part of Sovereign Intimacies:

Making Intimacy Sovereign and Sovereignty Intimate | An Artist Talk by Wanda Nanibush

Her talk entitled, Making Intimacy Sovereign and Sovereignty Intimate, takes a personal journey through the nexus of Sovereign/Intimacy, delving into her art practice and filmmaking Nanibush will begin the evening with a screening of her short video Arrivals and Departures.

Thursday, December 3, 2020 | 6 PM CT

Live Stream Link

Sovereign Intimacies is a group exhibition, curated by Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith, co-presented by Gallery 1C03 and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. The exhibition takes place at Plug In ICA and online with extensive programming that consists of online talks, workshops, screenings, and poetry readings.

Sovereign Intimacies explores themes of cultural and community exchange between Indigenous artists and artists from the diaspora, more specifically artists who are First Nations, Inuit and Métis collaborating with artists living in what is currently called Canada who came to this land and are not part of the settler/colonial history of the country. The group show consists of pairings of artists, as well as individuals, whose work is based on process and relationship building, and for those whose work is invested in active conceptualization around topics of friendship and intimacy, who are working to build collective vision of a sovereign future.

The curatorial intention is to present not only work in a gallery space, but to focus on an extensive online public program featuring readings, talks, workshops, screenings, and other local community engagements and encounters. The aim is to construct a space where these conversations highlight collaboration and exchange of knowledge. The community is centered, knowing that this exhibition cannot respond to and encompass all the needs of future discussions, but sets the goals for the community to continue these discussions to amplify our collective voice.

Featuring the work of Hassaan Ashraf, Annie Beach, Ayumi Goto, iris yirei hu, melannie monoceros, Peter Morin, Mariana Muñoz Gomez, Wanda Nanibush, Meghann O’Brien, M. NourbeSe Philip, Marie-Anne Redhead, Cheyenne Thomas and David Thomas.

Further details about these online programming events and how to connect with them will be posted at www.uwinnipeg.ca/art-gallery and www.plugin.org closer to event dates.

November 5 – 18 Video Screening curated by Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Marie-Anne Redhead presented with Video Pool Media Arts Centre and VUCAVU.

November 9 at 7 pm CT Discussion with Filmmakers moderated by Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Marie-Anne Redhead.

Discussion with filmmakers

November 9 at 7:00 pm CT

Introduced by Sovereign Intimacies curators Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith.

Featuring Un/spoken curators Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Marie-Anne Redhead in conversation with Marissa Sean Cruz and Léuli Eshrāghi. 

Register to attend this event as a zoom webinar!

We are pleased to announce Un/spoken, an online video screening program curated by Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Marie-Anne Redhead as part of our fall program, Sovereign Intimacies. Un/spoken can be watched online from November 5 - 18 on VUCAVU. 

Un/spoken weaves together work by Indigenous artists and racialized artists in diaspora from all over the world. It features works by Sebastien Aubin, Marissa Sean Cruz, Léuli Eshrāghi, Sky Hopinka, Francisco Huichaqueo, and Karin Lee. 

Each short film or video work takes up the theme of relationships; relationships to each other, to culture and language, to place, to the land, to nonhuman beings, to ourselves. Sometimes these relationships are fraught with fragmentation, dislocation and disappearances due to processes of colonialism, imperialism and ecological devastation. These films encourage us to explore the ways we relate to each other, to our worlds, to our histories and ways of being.

There will also be an online gathering on November 9 at 7:00 pm CT with Sovereign Intimacies curators Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith, screening program curators Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Marie-Anne Redhead, and filmmakers Marissa Sean Cruz and Léuli Eshrāghi. Please register to attend this event as a zoom webinar.

November 16 at 7 pm CT Artist Talk by iris yirei hu weaver girl limns two rainbows In conversation with Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith

November 26 at 6 pm CT Poetry Reading/Workshop with melannie monoceros

December 3 at 6 pm CT Lecture by Wanda Nanibush

December 9 at 6 pm CT Durational Reading by M. NourbeSe Philip