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An Evening with Angelo Madsen Minax
Thursday, October 3, 6:00 p.m. CT
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.
Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank. Minax will present a second program of his works at the Leather Archives and Museum on Saturday, October 5.
Please note that All CATE events will have real-time captioning (CART). Hearing loops, wheelchair seating, and companion seating are also available at the Gene Siskel Film Center. For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu/access or write cate@saic.edu
Exhilarating in their emotional and conceptual depth, the films of multidisciplinary artist Angelo Madsen Minax explore queer and trans desire, chosen and biological kinships, landscape, and the cosmos. Taking shape as essays, rituals, and intimate exchanges, they often draw on Minax’s background in DIY, punk, and activist communities. Scholar Jill H. Casid has fittingly described his approach as an “alter-cinema of kink, kin, and kind.” Minax will present four recent videos—Bigger On the Inside (2022), The Source Is A Hole (2017), The Eddies (2018), and Two Sons and a River of Blood (2021)—and a brief reading, followed by a discussion exploring the ideas and approaches that underpin his practice.
Angelo Madsen Minax (BFA 2005) is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator. His projects consider personal and collective histories with specific attention to queer subcultures and the politics of desire. Minax is currently a Guggenheim Fellow and USA Artists Fellow and has received awards and fellowships from the Sundance Film Institute, New York State Council on the Arts, the Warhol Foundation, and the LEF Foundation, among others. His award-winning 2021 film, North by Current, aired on season 34 of POV (PBS) and is currently streaming on KANOPY. Rolling Stone called the film "a beautiful, complex wonder” and Criterion declared it "a titanic work." An alum of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Minax is currently Associate Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of Vermont.
Angelo Madsen Mina at De La Warr Pavilion [Article]*
Dylan Huw | Art Forum International | May 2023
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Angelo Madsen Minax: A Crisis of Human Contact [Article]*
Tom Denman | Art Monthly | May 2023
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The Hole Is a Center: Angelo Madsen Minax Gets Beneath the Skin [Interview]
David Getsy | Pioneer Works Broadcast | April 11, 2024
Layered Losses: Angelo Madsen Minax [Interview]
Megan Milks | Bomb Magazine | June 15, 2021
All My Exorcisms Have Failed: Notes on a Few Angelo Madsen Minax Works [Article]
Steve Reinke | Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival | 2020
North By Current [Feature Film]
Angelo Madsen Minax | Grasshopper Film | 2021
Conversations at the Edge Lecture Recordings
Conversation at the Edge video recordings (2016–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.