Thank you! 2021-22 Season
Posted by | Amy Beste | Posted on | May 27, 2022
Thank everyone who made this year’s program possible!

Tulapop Saenjaroen Notes From the Periphery 2021 Image courtesy of the artist
We are so appreciative of the outstanding artists who shared their works, time, and ideas with us: Renée Green, Lynda Benglis, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Pom Bunsermvicha, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Nazli Dinçel, Meriem Bennani, Andy Slater, Dani ReStack, Sheilah ReStack, and Nick Briz, as well as the artists and scholars who conversed with them: Jordan Carter, Molly Donovan, Melika Bass, Emily Martin, Deborah Stratman, and Zach Vanes.
We’d also like to thank our wonderful partners: Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, The Disability Culture Activism Lab in the Department of Art Therapy and Counseling at SAIC, Access Living, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, The Society for Contemporary Art, Video Data Bank, and the Gene Siskel Film Center. Our programs would not have been possible without your support.
And we’d like to thank you, our audience, for joining us virtually and in the theater this past year.
Make sure to follow us on social media (Conversations at the Edge is now on Instagram) for exciting news about our upcoming fall 2022 season!
Tags: Access Living > Andy Slater > Anocha Suwichakornpong > Dani ReStack > Deborah Stratman > Emily Martin > Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago > Jordan Carter > Lynda Benglis > Melika Bass > Meriem Bennani > Molly Donovan > Nazli Dincel > Nick Briz > Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival > Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago > Pom Bunsermvicha > Renee Green > Sheilah ReStack > The Disability Culture Activism Lab in the Department of Art Therapy and Counseling at SAIC > The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago > The Society for Contemporary Art > Tulapop Saenjaroen > Video Data Bank > Zach Vanes
Announcing Spring 2022
Posted by | ialber | Posted on | February 5, 2022
Join us for the spring 2022 season of Conversations at the Edge!
The series returns to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Gene Siskel Film Center (164 North State Street) for in-person screenings, performances, and presentations with Nazli Dincel (Feb 17), Meriem Bennani (Mar 10), Andy Slater (Mar 31), Dani and Sheilah ReStack (Apr 14), and Nick Briz (Apr 14). Visit www.saic.edu/cate for season details.
Thanks to our partners Video Data Bank, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts and the University of Chicago, Gallery 400, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the Gene Siskel Film Center.

Nazlı Dinçel, Between Relating and Use, 2018. Image courtesy of the artist and Video Data Bank

Meriem Bennani, Party on the CAPS, 2018. Image courtesy of the artist

Andy Slater. Photo: Charlie Simokaitis

Dani and Sheilah ReStack, Future From Inside, 2021. Image courtesy of the artists and Video Data Bank

Nick Briz, howthey. watch/you, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist
Tags: Andy Slater > Artist's Film > Chicago > Dani ReStack > Experimental > Feminist > Meriem Bennani > Nazli Dincel > New Media > Nick Briz > Political > SAIC Alumni > SAIC Faculty > Sheilah ReStack > Video Data Bank
Fall 2021 Season Recap
Posted by | ialber | Posted on | February 5, 2022
We would like to thank all of you for joining us both virtually and in person for our screenings and conversations with the fantastic artists of the Fall 2021 season of Conversations at the Edge!
A big thank you as well to all of our presenting partners, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Video Data Bank, The Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Stay tuned to our page for exciting news about our upcoming Spring 2022 season!

Renée Green Partially Buried Continued (1997) Courtesy of the artist and the Video Data Bank

Lynda Benglis Now (1973) Courtesy of the artist and the Video Data Bank

Anocha Suwichkornpong By The Time It Gets Dark (2016) Courtesy of the artist and Kim Stim

Pom Bunsermvicha Lemongrass Girl (2021) Image courtesy of the artist and Square Eyes

Tulapop Saenjaroen Notes From the Periphery (2021) Image courtesy of the artist
Tags: Artist's Film > Chicago > Early Video Art > Experimental > Experimental Documentary > Performance > Political > SAIC Alumni > Video Data Bank
Announcing Fall 2021
Posted by | Amy Beste | Posted on | February 5, 2022

Renée Green Partially Buried Continued (1997). Courtesy of the artist and the Video Data Bank
POM BUNSERMVICHA
TULAPOP SAENJAROEN
Tags: Anocha Suwichakornpong > Chicago > Early Video Art > Experimental > Experimental Documentary > Experimental Film > Feminist > Lynda Benglis > New Media > Pom Bunsermvicha > Renee Green > SAIC Alumni > Tulapop Saenjaroen > video > Video Data Bank
Spring 2021 Season Recap
Posted by | dmwaur | Posted on | May 12, 2021
Thank you for joining us for the Spring 2021 season of Conversations at the Edge!
We are so grateful for the artists and scholars who shared their work with us and for our presenting partners, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Visiting Artists Program, the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, SAIC’s Video Data Bank, and the Gene Siskel Film Center.

Wendy Clarke, One On One: Arnold and Ahneva. Courtesy of the artist and the Video Data Bank.

Carolyn Lazard, A Recipe for Disaster, 2017. Courtesy of the artist

Madeleine Hunt – Ehrlich, Spit on the Broom, 2019. Courtesy of the artist

Ian Cheng, Emissary Forks at Perfection (still), live simulation and story, infinite duration, 2015-2016. Courtesy of the artist, Pilar Corrias, London and Gladstone Gallery, New York

Wong Ping, Jungle of Desire, 2016. Wong Ping. Courtesy the artist and Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong _ Shanghai; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York /Los Angeles
Tags: 2021 > Animation > Artificial Intelligence > Carolyn Lazard > Documentary > Experimental > Hong Kong > Ian Cheng > Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich > Monographic Shows > New Media > Non-Fiction > USA > Video Data Bank > Video Games > Wendy Clarke > Wong Ping
Announcing Spring 2021
Posted by | dmwaur | Posted on | January 18, 2021
We’re excited to announce the Spring 2021 season!
Screenings and conversations begin February 8 in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s virtual cinema. Join us for programs with Wendy Clarke (Feb 11), Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, Liza Sylvestre, and Minh Nguyen (Feb 25), Madeleine Hunt – Ehrlich (Mar 25), Ian Cheng (Apr 6), and Wong Ping (Apr 15). Visit www.saic.edu/cate for season details.

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Spit on the Broom, 2019. Courtesy of the artist
Tags: 2021 > Animation > Artificial Intelligence > Documentary > Dustin Gibson > Experimental > Hong Kong > Ian Cheng > Liza Sylvestre > Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich > Minh Nguyen > Monographic Shows > New Media > Non-Fiction > Robert McRuer > USA > Video Data Bank > Video Games > Wendy Clarke > Wong Ping
Fall 2020 Season Recap
Posted by | dmwaur | Posted on | November 15, 2020
For our Fall 2020 program, we brought together a group of artists and scholars including Alison O’Daniel (Oct 1), American Artist (Oct 8), Delinda Collier (Oct 15), Ursula Biemann (Oct 22), Auriea and Michaël Samyn (Oct 28).
These vibrant conversations and related screenings took place in the Gene Siskel Film Center‘s virtual cinema. We’re grateful for our presenting partners, including SAIC’s Video Data Bank and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.
Thank you for joining us!

Alison O’Daniel, still from The Tuba Thieves, 2013 – ongoing. Image courtesy of the artist.

American Artist, Blue Life Seminar, 2019. Courtesy of the artist

Delinda Collier, Media Primitivism (Duke 2020)

Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares, Forest Law, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and SAIC’s Video Data Bank

Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn, The Endless Forest, 2005-ongoing. Courtesy of the artists
Tags: 2020 > Africa > Alison O’Daniel > American Artist (Oct 8) > Artist's Film > Auriea and Michaël Samyn > Curators & Programmers > Delinda Collier > Documentary > Experimental Film > Italy > New Media > Non-Fiction > SAIC Faculty > Switzerland > Ursula Biemann > USA > Video Data Bank > Video Games
Fall 2020 Season Announcement
Posted by | dmwaur | Posted on | August 20, 2020
We’re pleased to announce the Fall 2020 season of Conversations at the Edge! Throughout the season, we’ll be hosting virtual artist talks and events alongside on-demand screenings. Join us for programs with Alison O’Daniel (Oct 1), American Artist (Oct 8), Delinda Collier (Oct 15), Ursula Biemann (Oct 22), and Auriea and Michaël Samyn (Oct 28).
All programs are free, captioned, and take place in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s virtual cinema. Full details at www.saic.edu/cate.

Alison O’Daniel, The Tuba Thieves (2013 – ongoing). Courtesy of the artist
Tags: 2020 > Africa > Alison O’Daniel > American Artist (Oct 8) > Artist's Film > Auriea and Michaël Samyn > Curators & Programmers > Delinda Collier > Documentary > Experimental Film > Italy > New Media > Non-Fiction > SAIC Faculty > Switzerland > Ursula Biemann > USA > Video Data Bank > Video Games
Remainder of Spring 2020 – Postponed
Posted by | mnguyen6 | Posted on | March 26, 2020
We regret to announce that the remainder of Conversations at the Edge‘s Spring 2020 season has been postponed for a later date. This includes An Evening with Ian Cheng, This Set of Actions is a Mirror, Wong Ping: Digital Fables, McKenzie Wark and Legacy Russell: Culture That Loves Us. In accordance with the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), SAIC has suspended all on-campus events, exhibitions, and programming. For more information please visit saic.edu/alerts.
March 12 – Beatrice Gibson: Two Sisters – POSTPONED
Posted by | mnguyen6 | Posted on | March 9, 2020
Beatrice Gibson in person

3/12- Beatrice Gibson: Two Sisters
In response to the CDC’s guidance on COVID-19, the 30th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, has been postponed. Beatrice Gibson: Two Sisters has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.
Incorporating experimental music, poetry, and improvisation, the award-winning films of London-based artist Beatrice Gibson are shape-shifting explorations of social and political turmoil. In two powerful, deeply connected works—I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead (2018), which takes its title from a poem by CAConrad, and Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs (Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters) (2019), based on a screenplay by Gertrude Stein—Gibson defines the nature of motherhood and community in an age of contemporary anxiety. Weaving together images of joy and horror with readings by Conrad, Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, filmmakers Ana Vaz and Basma Alsharif, as well as friends and family, Gibson builds an archive of stories, at once triumphant and traumatic, cynical and optimistic, toward a collective future.
2018–19, France/United Kingdom, DCP, ca 50 minutes followed by discussion.
Presented in partnership with the Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, a project of Chicago Filmmakers.
Beatrice Gibson is an artist and filmmaker based in London. In 2019 she had solo exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre in London; Bergen Kunsthall in Norway; and Mercer Union in Toronto. She has twice won the Tiger Award for Best Short Film at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands (2009/13). In 2015 she won the 17th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel, Switzerland, and more recently was the recipient of the Marian McMahon Akimbo Award at the 2019 Images Festival in Toronto. Her latest film premiered at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight), Cannes Film Festival 2019.
Tags: 2020 > Artist's Film > Beatrice Gibson > CAConrad > Essay > Gertrude Stein > Monographic Shows > Onion City Film Festival > Performance > poetry