. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Thank you! Fall 2023

Thank you to everyone who made this season possible! We are so appreciative of the amazing artists who shared their works, time, and ideas with us: Jessica Bardsley, Tsai Ming-Liang, Marta Pajek, Yoriko Mizushiri, Martina Scarpelli, Shoko Hara, Nadja Andrasev, Lénaïg Le Moigne, and Tal Kantor, and Tiffany Sia as well as the artists and […]

Tiffany Sia: Do Not Circulate

Thursday, December 01, 6:00 p.m. Join artist, filmmaker, and writer Tiffany Sia for a screening of her urgent and revelatory film/video works Over the last five years, Hong Kong-born, New York-based artist and writer Tiffany Sia has produced a series of urgent works that examine the making, circulation, and collection of images in times of […]

Andy Warhol’s Batman Dracula

Thursday, November 03, 6:00 p.m. Join Bruce Jenkins, SAIC professor and co-author of The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: 1963-1965, and Greg Pierce, director of Film and Video at The Andy Warhol Museum, for this rare screening of Warhol’s revelatory BATMAN DRACULA project. Presented in conjunction with the SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial exhibition, on view at SAIC Galleries. Andy […]

Anxious Bodies

Thursday, October 27, 6:00 p.m. Join us for this striking program of animated films exploring bodies, relationships, and power. Presented in partnership with DePaul University’s School of Cinematic Arts. Anxious Bodies explores the fraught terrain of bodies, relationships, and power through the work of six award-winning contemporary women animators, including Yoriko Mizushiri, Martina Scarpelli, Shoko […]

Marta Pajek: Impossible Figures and Other Stories

Thursday, October 20, 6:00 p.m. Join acclaimed Polish animator Marta Pajek for a screening of her recently completed trilogy IMPOSSIBLE FIGURES AND OTHER STORIES. Presented in partnership with DePaul University’s School of Cinematic Arts. Marta Pajek is known for unsettling and enigmatic films about dreams, relationships, and women’s lives. Her latest is the award-winning triptych […]

Tsai Ming-Liang

Monday, October 03, 6:00 p.m. Join us in person for a lecture by film director Tsai Ming-Liang followed by an audience Q&A. Screenings of Tsai Ming-Liang’s films GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003), STRAY DOGS (2013), and DAYS (2020) will take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center in September. Born in Malaysia in 1957, Tsai Ming-Liang […]

Jessica Bardsley: Into the Canyon

Thursday, September 22, 6:00 p.m. Join artist, scholar, and filmmaker Jessica Bardsley for a screening of her evocative landscapes and autofictions. Presented in partnership with the Video Data Bank. In Jessica Bardsley’s evocative, award-winning films, landscapes serve as potent metaphors for emotional states. The humid darkness of underground caves, geological striations of the desert, and […]

Announcing Fall 2022

Join us for the fall 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 with Jessica Bardsley (9/22), Tsai Ming-Liang (10/3), Marta Pajek (10/20), an animation program including Yoriko Mizushiri, Martina Scarpelli, Shoko […]

Thank you! 2021-22 Season

Thank you to everyone who made this year’s program possible! 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 […]

Nick Briz

Thursday, April 14, 6:00 p.m. Join artist Nick Briz for this interactive lecture performance on surveillance, capital, and the internet. For the last 10 years, new media artist, educator, and organizer Nick Briz has produced an  urgent and electrifying body of work that uses the tools of our digital age to illuminate its promises and […]

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