Past events

A panel conversation on the writings of Okwui Enwezor, the Nigerian curator who from the 1990s until his death in 2019 pioneered new frameworks for understanding and exhibiting African and global contemporary art.

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A keynote presentation and three panel discussions with scholars, artists and curators interrogating the global reach and ambition of contemporary art, the publics it addresses, and the modes of solidarities it can generate.  

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Curated exhibition from the Schaeffer Fine Arts Library’s Rare collection of The Studio alongside selections from the German journal Jugend, the exhibition examines how Art Nouveau challenged artistic traditions through decoration, organic forms, and the blending of cultural influences.

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Presentations by two art history PhD candidates. Aiden Magro introduces his research into Australia's queer "grassroots archivists”, while Ruihan Ma explores subjectivity and modernity in the work of contemporary Tibetan artist Gade.

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

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The third event in our series on the way technology is changing what it means to see, co-presented with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. This session explores the forces that vision machines serve, and how to resist them.

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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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Some of Australia's leading art critics share their takes on the Biennale of Sydney, and the importance of art criticism in opening up the nuance of contemporary art and exhibitions.

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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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Join us to celebrate the launch of Blue Art Journal, a new publication in Australia dedicated to critical writing about local and global First Nations art, craft and design.

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