. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

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.

A hand sensually stroking a large green leaf overlaid with the word “metaphor.”

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

A large blue computer rendered globe with the words USA, CAPS, MOROCCO, and SPAIN hovering over the outlines of states.


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

A white man with red hair and red wraparound glasses wearing a blue cardigan holding up a microphone in a white room.


Andy Slater. Photo: Charlie Simokaitis

The rear end of a brown and white horse and a white rider swimming in green water.


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

Words and numbers in white type arranged to form the impression of a fingerprint against a background of purples and blues.


Nick Briz, howthey. watch/you, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist