Events

US-based art historian Brianne Cohen will introduce her new book about lens-based art practices across Cambodia, Vietnam, and Singapore, and their commitment to Indigenous land relations and environmental justice.

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Film scholar Ivan Cerecina traces the history of the word "montage" in its movement between French, English, and Russian contexts, and considers its enduring legacy as a key method of modernity.

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UK-based curator and scholar Holly Trusted introduces us to the extraordinary but enigmatic 18th century Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán.

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Art historian Ekaterina Heath traces the history of an 18th century sabre, examining its movement across Russian, steppe, and Qing imperial contexts, as part of a broader history at Kalmyk visual culture.

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Art historian and curatorial scholar Lilian Cameron analyses one of the most prominent and contested components of the exhibition: the wall text.

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A presentation by UK-based art historian Maddie Hewitson drawing together Victorian art, the Hebrew Bible, and Anglo-Jewish identity in the 19th century.

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Art historian Yvonne Low introduces the often overlooked history of society-based, medium-specific exhibition networks, an important parallel to the much-analysed biennale explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Art history PhD Candidate Aiden Magro introduces the work of Australia's "grassroots archivists”: ordinary queer people who kept photo albums not only for their nearest and dearest but for future generations of queer people. 

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A lecture on gender transition, sensory deprivation tanks, human-dolphin communication, and high-dose ketamine use.

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Artist Laura Kina discusses her work, and its relationship to the framework of "American Asian Art". 

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