. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Rose Lowder’s Bouquets

Thursday, February 17, 6:00 pm | Rose Lowder in person! Bouquets 25-27 (Rose Lowder, 2002-03). Courtesy the artist and Light Cone, Paris. Brimming with vibrant images of blossoms, orchards, insects, and grasses, the works of celebrated French filmmaker Rose Lowder literally buzz with life. For over thirty years, she has crafted a body of stunning […]

The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn

Thursday, February 10, 6:00 pm | Martha Colburn in person! Destiny Manifesto (Martha Colburn, 2006). Courtesy the artist. Martha Colburn’s wickedly witty animations are assemblages of stop-motion puppetry, multi-layered glass painting, and all forms of pop cultural detritus. Drawing inspiration from the histories of the American West and more recent narratives of methamphetamine use and […]

Vivienne Dick: No Wave Films

Thursday, February 3, 6:00 pm She Had Her Gun Already (Vivienne Dick, 1978). Courtesy the artist and LUX, London. “The quintessential No Wave filmmaker.” —J. Hoberman One of the most important filmmakers to emerge from New York’s seething No Wave scene, and currently enjoying a resurgence of interest in her work, Ireland-born Vivienne Dick created […]

CATE Returns Feb 3!

Conversations at the Edge returns from the series’ winter hiatus on Thursday, February 3 with a screening of No Wave shorts by Ireland-born filmmaker Vivienne Dick. Additional season highlights include appearances by Martha Colburn, Rose Lowder, Andrea Geyer, Yael Bartana, Brian Springer, and Tony Cokes in addition to performances by the Berlin/Brisbane-based duo Botborg (Scott […]

The Unstable Object

Thursday, December 2, 6 p.m. | Daniel Eisenberg in person! The Unstable Object (Daniel Eisenberg, 2010). Image courtesy the artist. “Daniel Eisenberg’s films construct intricate webs of associations and reflections that probe consciousness, memory, and the emotional undercurrents of landscapes.” – Steve Anker What do a luxury automobile, a wall clock, and a cymbal have […]

Reenactments

Thursday, November 18, 6pm | Curator Irina Botea in person! “Artistic reenactments do not ask…what really happened…instead, they ask what the images we see might mean concretely to us” — Inke Arns Artistic reenactments do not aim to affirm or glorify the past, but rather to examine an event’s relevance in the present. They call […]

Erie

Thursday, November 11, 6 p.m. | Kevin Jerome Everson in person! Over the past thirteen years, Kevin Jerome Everson has crafted an exquisite—and prodigious—body of work on the working-class culture of African-Americans and people of African descent.  Combining documentary and fiction, Everson’s nearly 70 shorts and four features center on everyday tasks and gestures to […]

Civil Status: Films by Alina Rudnitskaya

Thursday, November 4, 6:00 pm | Alina Rudnitskaya in person! Often absurd and occasionally shattering, Alina Rudnitskaya’s documentaries are tragicomic field notes on the bracing cultural and political changes of “New Russia.”  Produced largely through the storied St. Petersburg Documentary Studio, her films examine the day-to-day lives of her fellow citizens while illuminating their aspirations […]

Under the Cement, Sediment: Recent Video In and Around China

Thursday, October 28, 6 p.m. | Curator Pablo de Ocampo in person! Still from “Factory” (Chen Chieh-Jen, 2003). Image courtesy the artist. In Yang Zhenzhong’s 2003 video Spring Story, a group of 1,500 employees at a Siemens factory recite an oft-cited line from a 1992 Deng Xiaoping speech: “A planned economy is not equivalent to […]

Interview with Luis Gispert

Charlotte Marra spoke with artist Luis Gispert in advance of his October 21 appearance at Conversations at the Edge. Charlotte Marra: In the video René (2008), you create a portrait of a family friend. There is a marked difference in style and subject matter from your previous work (Stereomongrel, 2005, or Smother, 2008) and elements […]

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