What am I to do with a weak mirror?
Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez
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Curator Maite Borjabad will be in conversation with Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme discussing the artists' current exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, If only this mountain between us could be ground to dust.
Conversation will be live streamed for remote viewing as a Zoom Webinar. Guests may access the webinar at: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98599787618.
This conversation is supported by the Department of Art Theory and Practice, the Department of Art History, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Middle East and North African Studies Program, and the Comparative Literary Studies Program.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, December 2, 5:00pmKresge Hall, Room 1515,
1880 Campus Drive,
Evanston, IL, 60208,
December 2, 2021, 5pm,
Curtis Miller,
Assistant Coordinator, Lecturer,
Curtis Miller is an artist and educator working across film, video, photography, and publication. His work often takes the American Midwest as both site and subject. His films have screened internationally at the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Antimatter, Chicago International Film Festival, DMZ Documentary Festival, EXiS, IDFA, and Visions du Réel, as well as the Hyde Park Arts Center and the Renaissance Society, among others.
Other venues for performance, printed matter, and installations include the Chicago Artist Book Fair, MdW Art Fair, College Arts Association, Gallery 400, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and various artist-run projects and spaces throughout the Midwest. He has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the City Colleges of Chicago, and most recently as lecturer for the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. In 2025, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film."
