September 27 to November 27, 2024
226 Main Street
Winnipeg, MB
Tuesday to Saturday: 11 AM – 2 PM
The merging of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers has long been a site of gathering. Whereas historically it has served as a meeting place and trade centre, the rivers today stand in for the symbolic act of gathering with guests from all directions and hosts from Treaty 1 territory. They are also sites of profound ongoing disapora and poverty, racial violence and environmental degradation. These are matters which our communities have organized around for many years.
Confluence is an exhibition which brings together artists who are active in the city of Winnipeg in 2024, in synergy with the city’s 150th anniversary, ushering a time to reflect on histories of the city, projection of future and understand the present’s needs, priorities, and values of artists and communities within the city and their relationships to one another and their communities.
Rhayne Vermette, La Maison à Léo, chromogenic print of Xerox collage, 2017, 40 inches x 28 inches
Bret Parenteau
Ian August
Kent Monkman
KC Adams
Pat Lazo
Casey Koyczan
Claire Johnston
Chukwudubem Ukaigwe
Programming:
Performance: Bret Parenteau
October 4, 2024
The Forks by the Assiniboine River near its confluence with the Red River
Audio-visual-based artist Bret Parenteau performed “Reflection by Red River” at The Forks as a part of the programming for Confluence. Using piezo disc microphones Parenteau identified, augmented, and amplified the sounds of river water.
Performance: Ian August
October 5, 2024
The Red and Assiniboine Rivers
Docking at The Forks
Confluence artist Ian August came out of retirement as a former river boat tour guide, providing two guest tours for registered guests of Confluence.
All proceeds from these events was directed to Bear Clan Patrol.
Workshop: Creating and Working with
Artificial Archives with Rhayne Vermette
October 26, 2024
226 Main Street, Winnipeg
In this first of a two-part workshop on working with film, Vermette took participants out to take photographs using Ektachrome film. These photos became the basis of manipulation in the second part of the workshop.
All proceeds from these events was directed to Haneen Koraz’s Go Fund Me page for film workshops with youth in Palestine.
Workshop: From Smartphone
to 3D with Casey Koyczan
November 16, 2024
226 Main Street, Winnipeg
In this workshop Confluence artist Casey Koyczan taught the basics of 3D scanning objects and locations using only a smartphone or tablet. The workshop supported participants as they used a combination of free apps and software to generate 3D models and create digital artworks.
All proceeds from these events was directed to YMCA Winnipeg.
Show: J.U.G. with Savant
Flaneur and Age of Self
November 21, 2024
Times Changed High and Lonesome Club | 234 Main Street, Winnipeg
Workshop: Two-Needle Beading
with Claire Johnston
November 23, 2024
226 Main Street, Winnipeg
In this 3-hour workshop participants learned how to draw their own floral beadwork patterns based on a pair of Métis hide gauntlets Claire rematriated from a private collection in London, England this past summer. Participants were guided to bead their floral design onto smoked moose hide using the Métis two-needle style.
All proceeds from registration for this workshop were donated to Two-Spirit Manitoba.
Workshop: Destroying the
Archive with Rhayne Vermette
November 24, 2024
226 Main Street, Winnipeg
This workshop considers the tenuous relationship between destruction and construction in the creative act. Through varied processes participants abstracted Ektachrome film through the building of new images on bleached 16mm, 35mm, and imax stocks.
All proceeds from registration for this workshop were donated to Haneen Koraz’s film workshops in Palestine.
