Past events

Artwork using pencils.

A symposium celebrating the past, present and future of Indigenous art writing and research.

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Avatars in the metaverse.

Thu, 4 August 2022

9:00AM

The New Metaverse and Women of Color

Lisa Nakamura

Part of our 2022 series Image Complex, convened by Nick Croggon.

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Mr R Wavehill Jangala with karu (children) at Malyalyimalyalyi/Lipanangku (1st Wave Hill Station), Wave Hill

Wed, 3 August 2022

12:00PM

Gurindji Ways of Being

Stephen Gilchrist, Josephine Crawshaw, Brenda L Croft, Leah Leaman Yinpingali Namitja, and Felicity Meakins

A conversation with artists, activists and scholars about the Gurindji way of being in the world. 

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An early photo of a trans woman.

Thy Phu, Yi Gu, and Deepali Dewan

A conversation with the editorial team behind the journal Trans Asia Photography.

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Two woman smiling at each other.

This presentation explores the construction of socialist ways of seeing in Vietnam, focusing on the communist illustrated magazine, Vietnam Pictorial, which deployed color images as a means to project visions of socialist futurity, conjuring forth revolutionary renovations at a moment when victory had yet to be assured.

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A set of charts.

Thu, 28 April 2022

10:00AM

Sectional Thinking Circa 1850

Zeynep Çelik Alexander

The second program in our 2022 series Image Complex, which introduces new scholarship on the way visuality shapes the history and politics of identity, technology and imperialism.

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A woman sitting in front of a Chinese temple.

Roberta Wue

A workshop designed for scholars, students and curators of Asian art and photography.

This workshop will examine two photographically illustrated books on China: John Thomson’s Illustrations of China and Its People (1873-74), and Lang Jingshan’s (or Long Chin-san) catalogue, Exhibition of Pictorial Photography (1939). Though both books are apart in time and purpose, they are similar in using photography and text to depict China as a culture and concept at different geopolitical moments.

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People using a peepshow in Peking in the 1800s.

Can China and the Chinese be encapsulated in an image?

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A pristine Australian beach.

Wed, 6 April 2022

6:30PM

Nyungar Ways of Being

Dr Roma Yibiyung Winmar, Ken Hayward, Clint Bracknell, and Jarni McGuire

An conversation about Nyungar art, language and being in the world. 

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A pink-hued photo of a rave.

Wed, 23 March 2022

12:00PM

Refuge in the Unseen: On Queer Raves

McKenzie Wark

A lecture on the politics and aesthetics of New York’s underground queer and trans rave scene.

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