. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Marwa Arsanios: Who is Afraid of Ideology, Part 3 and Part 4

Thursday, April 20, 6:00 p.m. Join Berlin and Beirut-based artist Marwa Arsanios for her remarkable multi-part project on collectivity, feminism, environmentalism, and resistance, WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY. “A meditation on the relationship of human beings to the natural world, and a reckoning with the authoritative posture of conventional documentary filmmaking. – David Markus, Frieze […]

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 […]

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 […]

Meriem Bennani

Thursday, March 03, 6:00 p.m. Join artist Meriem Bennani for a screening of her works Party on the CAPS (2018), Guided Tour of a Spill (2021), and 2 Lizards (co-directed with Orian Barki, 2020). Presented in partnership with the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, in conjunction with the exhibition Meriem Bennani, and the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual […]

Tulapop Saenjaroen: Short Films

Thursday, October 28–Thursday, November 04 Recent films by Thai artist and filmmaker Tulapop Saenjaroen. Theatrical Screening A Room with a Coconut View, People on Sunday, Squish!, Notes from the Periphery Thursday, October 28, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Screenings A Room with a Coconut View, People on Sunday October 29–November 4 Gene Siskel […]

Spring 2021 Season Recap

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 […]

Wong Ping Lecture and Conversation

Thursday, April 15, 7:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Join artist and animator Wong Ping and Orianna Cacchione, curator of global contemporary art at the Smart Museum of Art for a wide-ranging look at the ideas and approaches behind Wong’s singular digital-pop works. Presented in partnership with the Open Practice Committee in the Department of […]

Wong Ping: Digital Fables

Monday, April 12–Sunday, April 18 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Six films by the Hong Kong based artist and animator Wong Ping. Presented in partnership with the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Self-described as “low-tech, stand-up comedies,” Wong Ping’s animations and installations combine ribald humor with […]

Announcing Spring 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 […]

That’s A Wrap! – Fall 2019

Thank you for joining us for our Fall 2019 season! See you in January 2020!                    

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