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

On November 23 2024, Plug In ICA facilitated a Live Chat with Marcel Dzama, Wayne Baerwaldt, Alison Norlen, in an informal discussion moderated by Robert Enright. The conversation focused on Dzama and his work while touching on his history and the impact Winnipeg had on his development.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.