Live Chat with Marcel Dzama, Wayne Baerwaldt, Guy Maddin, Alison Norlen and moderated by Robert Enright

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art is thrilled to announce Live Chat, a group conversation in conjunction with “Ghosts of Canoe Lake’, an exhibition of new work by Marcel Dzama. The conversation will focus on Dzama and his work while likely delving into his history and the role Winnipeg has played in his development. Join us Saturday, November 23, 2024, at 2PM to hear from Marcel Dzama, Wayne Baerwaldt, Guy Maddin, Alison Norlen, in an informal discussion moderated by Robert Enright.

Marcel Dzama was born in 1974 in Winnipeg, Canada, where he received his BFA in 1997 from the University of Manitoba. Since 1998, his work has been represented by David Zwirner. The artist has had fourteen solo exhibitions with the gallery and has exhibited widely in solo and group presentations throughout the United States and abroad.

Guy Maddin has directed or co-directed thirteen feature-length movies, including Rumours (2024), My Winnipeg (2007), and The Saddest Music in the World (2003). His screenplay and film-story collaborators include Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, poet John Ashbery and longtime friend George Toles. His movies Archangel (1990) & The Heart of the World (2000) both won National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Experimental Film.

Wayne Baerwaldt is a visual arts curator based in Western Canada. His best-known curatorial projects trace performative elements in artmaking with an emphasis on unstable, disputed identities in diverse spaces. Recent projects include Leesa Streifler: The Performance of Being (co-curated with Jen McRorie) Marie Lannoo: In Extremis and Ydessa Hendeles: Grand Hotel.

Alison Norlen received a BFA (Honours) degree from the University of Manitoba in 1987, and MFA from Yale University in 1989. Alison teaches at the University of Saskatchewan and lives and works in Saskatoon. In 2020 Alison became was inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) and has been awarded as one of the U of S’s Distinguished Professors.

Robert Enright is a Winnipeg-based critic who first wrote about Marcel Dzama in 1998 and has since published a number of articles and interviews about him in various magazines. He is the senior contributing editor with Border Crossings and Research Professor in Art Theory and Criticism in the School of Fine Art & Music at the University of Guelph.

This exhibition was organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in partnership with Contemporary Calgary.