Welcome to the Power Institute.
We are a Foundation based at the University of Sydney dedicated to understanding the visual world, through art and visual culture. We support research, publish texts, and organise events.
JW Power, [Untitled], c. 1938, Chau Chak Wing Museum, PW1961.347.
Publishing
Ian Burn: Collected Writings 1966–1993
By: Ann Stephen
$49.00AUD
Ian Burn has been described as many things: an activist, a trade-unionist, a journalist, an art critic, a curator and an art historian—or, as he once described himself in a moment of self-deprecating alienation, ‘an ex-conceptual artist’. Edited by Burn’s friend, frequent collaborator and eminent art historian, Dr Ann Stephen, this volume brings together 49 pieces of Burn’s own agile and expansive writings alongside a vast collection of his artworks. The collection concludes with reflections on Burn’s life and work from prominent figures and past collaborators in the form of memorial lectures.
Yhonnie Scarce: The Light of Day
By: Edited by Clothilde Bullen with contributions by Timmah Ball, Kelly Gellatly, Natalie Harkin and Tamsin Hong
$75.00AUD
Edited by Clothilde Bullen, with essays by Timmah Ball, Kelly Gellatly, Natalie Harkin and Tamsin Hong, this volume is an image-rich, comprehensive survey of internationally acclaimed Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce.
Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature
By: Shuxia Chen and Min-Jung Kim
$49.95AUD
This book introduces the understudied cultural artifact of the Chinese belt toggle, known as zhuizi (坠子). Similar to their better-known Japanese counterparts netsuke, these small carved ornaments offer a rare glimpse into everyday life in early modern China. Toggles were a feature of traditional Chinese garments from the 17th century but were scarcely collected. A collaboration between the Powerhouse Museum and Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, this publication reveals one of the world’s largest collections of these extraordinary objects.
Events
Thu, 17 October 2024
12:00PM
Curator as Editor: Re-Imagining Asian Futurism
Thanavi Chotpradit
Thu, 17 October 2024
3:00PM
Transoceanic Currents and Pelagic Materiality during Japan’s Nanban Period
Drisana Misra
Thu, 24 October 2024
4:00PM
Trumping Animation: Donald Trump and the Hyperanimation of Hyperreality
Alan Cholodenko
Wed, 30 October 2024
6:00PM
Against Precarity: Art Collectives and Creative Workers' Unions in Thailand
Thanavi Chotpradit
Components
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