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SILKE OTTO-KNAPP IN CONVERSATION

In conjunction with the exhibition SILKE OTTO-KNAPP—IN THE WAITING ROOM—curated by Solveig Øvstebø—the Renaissance Society and the Logan Center for the Arts present MOVING IMAGES, a series of dance films by Yvonne Rainer, Babette Mangolte and Trisha Brown, and Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham.

Post-screening, Otto-Knapp will discuss the films.

MOVING IMAGES screening with SILKE OTTO-KNAPP IN CONVERSATION

Friday, March 6, at 7 pm.

Logan Center for the Arts

915 East 60th Street, Chicago.

SILKE OTTO-KNAPP—IN THE WAITING ROOM

Through March 29.

Renaissance Society

University of Chicago, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor

5811 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago.

Top and below: Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham, Channels / Inserts, 1982, stills, courtesy and © the artists and their estates, the dancers, and Electronic Arts Intermix. All other images: Silke Otto Knapp, In the Waiting Room, Renaissance Society, January 11, 2020–March 29, 2020, installation views, courtesy and © the artist, the photographer, and the Renaissance Society.

SHEILA HETI — LIZ MAGOR — BLOWOUT

In conjunction with Liz Magor‘s Renaissance Society show BLOWOUT, author Sheila Heti will read from her contribution to the exhibition catalogue.

SHEILA HETI reading

Thursday, May 30, at 6 pm.

Swift Hall, University of Chicago, third floor

1025 East 58th Street, Chicago.

From top: Sheila Heti, photograph by Charla Jones, courtesy of the author, photographer, and Renaissance Society; Liz Magor, Blowout, installation view, Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2019; Liz Magor, Valet (Pink), 2018 (detail). Magor images above courtesy and © the artist and the Renaissance Society, photographs by Useful Art Services. Below: Liz Magor, Pet Co., 2018, (detail), courtesy and © the artist and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.