<\/em>Friday, September 5, 5:00 \u2013 7:00 P.M.
<\/strong>SAIC Galleries, 33 E Washington
FR\u00c9D\u00c9RIC MOFFET: YOU\u2019RE TOO LOVELY TO LAST<\/a>
Thursday, September 11, 6:00 P.M.<\/strong>
Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.
Artist and filmmaker Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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ARTIST TALK WITH JAN TICHY<\/strong> JERRY BLEEM: STORY TIME | DEMONSTRATION OF ARTIST’S BOOKS QUEERS TEACH THIS!: A CONVERSATION #EXSANGUINATION<\/em><\/strong> The event title derives from a particular work within the exhibition. Responding to the hyper-mediatized collision of images and the sensory overload of global despair, Roberto Sifuentes<\/a> has toured the performance project #exsanguination<\/em><\/a> in various forms since its premiere at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery in 2017. This evening marks the conclusion of that project and celebrates its origins by bringing together Chicago-based artists for a one-night-only event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exsanguination<\/em> presents performance art that foregrounds our shared corporeality and vulnerability. Through gestures of giving, exposure, and the literal or metaphorical offering of blood, the artists reveal that beneath differences of identity, gender, politics, or social division, our bodies and spirits are deeply connected. Blood becomes a symbol of empathy, universality, and the fragile, unifying thread of humanity in a time marked by division, hatred, and dehumanization. In opening our veins to the audience and to each other, we acknowledge our shared flesh and recognize our shared compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n _____________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n PAST PROGRAM:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Contemporary Art Library: Gaylen Gerber Archive<\/strong> 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\u2019s exhibition archive on Contemporary Art Library, and Contemporary Art Library\u2019s growing archive of contemporary practices and representations. Mixing vernacular and more normative concerns with art historical references has been an interest re\ufb02ected in both Gerber\u2019s and Arakawa-Nash\u2019s work throughout their careers. In Gerber\u2019s case, this stems from his ongoing exploration of a viewer\u2019s 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\u2019s practice using Gerber\u2019s work as an example. The publication of his archive will be the \ufb01rst comprehensive digital record of his practice that is widely available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXTENDED VIEWING AND REMARKSFriday, September 5, 5:00 \u2013 7:00 P.M.SAIC Galleries, 33 E Washington FR\u00c9D\u00c9RIC MOFFET: YOU\u2019RE TOO LOVELY TO LASTThursday, September 11, 6:00 P.M.Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.Artist and filmmaker Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Moffet presents three new films alongside works by Jamie Ross, Zuqiang Peng, and Amina Ross. Titled after a Billie Holiday lyric, […]<\/p>\n
Monday, September 22, 4:00 P.M.<\/strong>
SAIC Galleries, 33 E. Washington, Lower Level 2
As part of Czech Heritage Week\u2014a week-long celebration featuring cultural exhibitions, film screenings, and educational programs that highlight Czech history and contemporary creativity\u2014 Tichy will discuss In Place of Magic<\/em>, his body of work that is on view as part of the Faculty Sabbatical Triennial<\/em>. Hosted by the Czech Consulate of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/facultysabbatical2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/09\/image-1200x579.png\")
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Wednesday, October 8, 4:00 P.M.
<\/strong>SAIC Galleries, 33 E Washington, Lower Level 2
READING BY CHRIS SULLIVAN FROM HIS ONGOING creative DIARY<\/strong>
on the making of his work. Everyone, Put Down Your Pencils. <\/strong>
Friday, October 24, 4:00\u20134:30 P.M.
<\/strong>SAIC Galleries, 33 E Washington, Lower Level 2
THE ZONE OF PURE DOUBT | EPISODE 4: ADRIFT IN THE LATENT SPACE<\/strong>
Live Performance by Judd Morrissey, Ava Aviva Avnisan, & Doug Rosman
<\/strong>Friday, October 24, 4:45\u20135:30 P.M.<\/strong>
SAIC Galleries, 33 E Washington, Lower Level 2
The Zone of Pure Doubt<\/em> 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\u2019s real-time navigation of AI\u2019s latent space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wednesday, November 12, 4:00 \u2013 5:30 P.M.<\/strong><\/strong>
SAIC Galleries Conference Room, 33 E. Washington, Lower Level 1
Join SAIC professor Dr. Adam J. Greteman and Dr. Erica Meiners for a public conversation about Dr. Greteman\u2019s new book, Queers Teach This: Queer and Trans Pleasures, Politics, and Pedagogues<\/em>. 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\u2019t 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\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One blood. One body. Five artists.
Saturday, November 15, 8:00 P.M.<\/strong>
Hairpin Arts Center<\/strong><\/a> | 2810 N Milwaukee Ave<\/a> | Free
Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery proudly presents EXSANGUINATION<\/strong>, a performance event related to SAIC\u2019s Faculty Sabbatical Triennial<\/em><\/a>, with SAIC Professor Roberto Sifuentes<\/a>, Lecturer \u00c1le Campos, Joseph Ravens, Lecturer Odette Stout, and Nikki Telegan. In a layered, immersive environment, five Chicago-based artists fracture and recombine the body, a ritual, and the giving of self. Within this performance art exhibition the body stands in for the displaced, the invisible, and the forgotten. It becomes a site for activism, penance, and reinvention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conversation and reception, April 16, 2025, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S Michigan Ave, Mezzanine Level<\/p>\n\n\n\n