Winnipeg Arts Council

Apply for Plug In ICA’s 2025 Summer Institute (Deadline)

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This year’s iteration of the Summer Institute, Magic Creek, will be led by Rodney LaTourelle and Louise Witthöft. It will run from August 11 to August 22, 2025. It will focus on a site-specific approach to pedagogy, citing the often-overlooked nature of everyday interconnections, systemic entanglements and the embedded aesthetics of the local environment. The program references Colony Creek, a modest stream that was forced underground during Winnipeg’s early development and that continues to flow beneath the land where Plug In ICA is situated. The transformation of the creek is a metaphor for the contested relations between humans and non-humans and the recognition of co-existent, yet unseen, realities in a post-colonial context. Whether in the realm of the imagination, the sublime or so-called magical, the Summer Institute is a consideration of the poetic terrain where the visible and the invisible overlap. There is a further emphasis on the provenance and the future of circular and sustainable materials, with a call to re-use, re-duce, re-cycle and re-imagine.

There is no fee to participate in Magic Creek but Summer Institute participants will be responsible for their own travel and accommodations while in Winnipeg.

Visit plugin.org for more information and to apply!

Applications are due by 5pm CDT June 20.