“Warped Spaces” by Micah Dillman and Sophia English. Photography courtesy of Contemporary Practices.

Art Bash is an end of the year exhibition that is solely comprised of work made by the first year students from the Contemporary Practices Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The Contemporary Practices Department at SAIC is comprised of a very specific curriculum that immerses first year students in studio practices where the concept of combining meaning and making is highly emphasized.

The sound and performance art pieces at Art Bash’s “Inter-Action” showcase absolutely dazzled me. “Inter-Action” was comprised of nine sound and performance pieces. In one room there were durational pieces, which the audience could move freely around and observe as they wished. In the next room there were performances with scheduled times that were hosted by first year student Mathieu White.

"Propositions" is the annual fall semester lecture series from the Performance Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Fall 2014 marks the 10th edition of this series.

Propositions mission is to host a bi-weekly series of talks, lively debate, proposals, questions and ideas from a wide constituency of artists, curators, art historians, activists, organizations, and funders that have a commonality with the Performance Department. It is their mission to keep looking at current contemporary memes and conversations, ideas, processes, theories and the diverse contexts of Performance making and studies in 21st century Art School education. 

These lectures consists of a number of individual series: 1) diverse, cross dialogue of different voices speaking throughout the semester and bringing international artists to the school and department; 2) a new annual talk series where they invite faculty from across the school to discuss how, why and what they teach here at SAIC; and 3) the One, Five, Ten alumni talks where they invite alumni back to the department to talk about their experiences post school.

Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and guests are welcome to come join, sit down, listen, share some snacks, drink and afternoon conversation.

Fall Semester Schedule: