EXTENDED VIEWING AND REMARKS
Friday, September 5, 5:00 – 7:00 P.M.
SAIC Galleries, 33 E Washington
FRÉDÉRIC MOFFET: YOU’RE TOO LOVELY TO LAST
Thursday, September 11, 6:00 P.M.
Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.
Artist and filmmaker Frédéric Moffet presents three new films alongside works by Jamie Ross, Zuqiang Peng, and Amina Ross. Titled after a Billie Holiday lyric, the program explores beauty, impermanence, desire, and loss. Followed by a conversation with John Neff. Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge series.
ARTIST TALK WITH JAN TICHY
Monday, September 22, 4:00 P.M.
SAIC Galleries, 33 E. Washington, Lower Level 2
As part of Czech Heritage Week—a week-long celebration featuring cultural exhibitions, film screenings, and educational programs that highlight Czech history and contemporary creativity— Tichy will discuss In Place of Magic, his body of work that is on view as part of the Faculty Sabbatical Triennial. Hosted by the Czech Consulate of Chicago.
JERRY BLEEM: STORY TIME | DEMONSTRATION OF ARTIST’S BOOKS
Wednesday, October 8, 4:00 P.M.
SAIC Galleries, 33 E Washington, Lower Level 2
READING BY CHRIS SULLIVAN FROM HIS ONGOING creative DIARY
on the making of his work. Everyone, Put Down Your Pencils.
Friday, October 24, 4:00–4:30 P.M.
SAIC Galleries, 33 E Washington, Lower Level 2
THE ZONE OF PURE DOUBT | EPISODE 4: ADRIFT IN THE LATENT SPACE
Live Performance by Judd Morrissey, Ava Aviva Avnisan, & Doug Rosman
Friday, October 24, 4:45–5:30 P.M.
SAIC Galleries, 33 E Washington, Lower Level 2
The Zone of Pure Doubt is an ongoing multimodal project combining poetry, augmented reality, and original music to reimagine equatorial line-crossing ceremonies as rituals of queer transformation. In this activation, Morrissey and Avnisan perform alongside Doug Rosman’s real-time navigation of AI’s latent space.
QUEERS TEACH THIS!: A CONVERSATION
Wednesday, November 12, 4:00 – 5:00 P.M.
Maclean Center, Room 301, 112 S. Michigan Ave.
Join SAIC professor Dr. Adam J. Greteman and Dr. Erica Meiners for a public conversation about Dr. Greteman’s new book, Queers Teach This: Queer and Trans Pleasures, Politics, and Pedagogues. In a moment of educational backlash against LGBTQ+ inclusion in curriculum, this conversation invites artists, educators, students, and community members to engage and reflect on the pleasures and politics of queer and trans communities as they work to reimagine educational possibilities in schools and beyond. The conversation will examine lessons drawn from Dr. Greteman’s book, such as thriving amidst adversity, and highlight how joy and resistance intersect in the classroom. Don’t miss this chance to explore what it means to teach, learn, and thrive together in these challenging times with two leading voices in queer pedagogy. Dr. Erica R. Meiners is Professor of Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies and Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
#EXSANGUINATION: PERFORMANCE BY ROBERTO SIFUENTES
Date and Location Tbd
Produced by Defibrillator Gallery. DFBRL8R is a roving international platform for performance art based in Chicago.
Instagram: @dfbrl8r
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PAST PROGRAM:
Contemporary Art Library: Gaylen Gerber Archive
Conversation and reception, April 16, 2025, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S Michigan Ave, Mezzanine Level
In spring 2025, the Department of Painting and Drawing and the John M. Flaxman Library hosted a conversation between longtime friends and colleagues Gaylen Gerber, the Patrick J. and Diana L. Leemputte Professor in Painting and Drawing at SAIC, and Forrest Arakawa-Nash, the publisher of Contemporary Art Library to celebrate the release of Gerber’s exhibition archive on Contemporary Art Library, and Contemporary Art Library’s growing archive of contemporary practices and representations. Mixing vernacular and more normative concerns with art historical references has been an interest reflected in both Gerber’s and Arakawa-Nash’s work throughout their careers. In Gerber’s case, this stems from his ongoing exploration of a viewer’s ability to discern things, to distinguish objects and symbols from their network of circulation and references. For Arakawa-Nash, the impetus to combine disparate concerns has been more utilitarian, allowing for a level of freedom as his representation of artists moves between disciplines like painting, sculpture, performance, music, and curating. For both Gerber and Arakawa-Nash, the context in which artwork appears and an economy of means in their representation are key subtexts to how their projects are understood. The event focused on an open discussion about the preservation and representation of an artist’s practice using Gerber’s work as an example. The publication of his archive will be the first comprehensive digital record of his practice that is widely available.