Winnipeg Arcades Project

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Winnipeg Arcades Project (WAP) is a multi-disciplinary collective that creates miniature museum exhibits on modern places and institutions in the city – those things that exemplify the power and preoccupations of our time. One day, WAP will open a museum of local culture, and our current exhibits aim to introduce new material into the collection of this future museum.

WAP exhibits have featured the Downtown BIZ, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, CanTalk call centre, Youth For Christ Centre of Youth Excellence, McDonald’s restaurants, and the unrealized water-parks of Sam Katz. These spaces exemplify new forms of power, populist pursuits, and the post-industrial workplaces of twenty-first century Winnipeg. In juxtaposing them we attempt – a la Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project – to draw out connections and commonalities not yet regularly perceived while in the process creating a kind of provisional image of our epoch.

Exhibits

WAP No.3 – Gambling. Exhibited at 298 Simcoe Street, Winnipeg, MB August 2015.

WAP No.2. Exhibited at Atomic Centre, Winnipeg, MB, August 2011.

WAP No.1 – Where is the Capital of the 21st Century? Exhibited at Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg, MB, July 2010.


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