Thu, 18 March 2021
6:00PM
Djalkiri: Histories of Indigenous Linework
The first event in the 2021 Linework series, which took place on 18 March 2021.
Past events
Fri, 5 March 2021
12:00PM
Fearless speech: Performative words in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Sharon Hayes
Jennifer González
The third lecture in the Image Complex lecture series, delivered on 5 March 2021.
Thu, 26 November 2020
4:00PM
Roundtable | Revisioning the Present
With an eye to image cultures developing around us, Rahaab Allana (Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi) has invited three practitioners to share a work of art, artefact, a poem or inscription – any object that embodies for them a source of knowledge about our past and future, which inscribes a moment that should live on and become a source of inspiration.
Mon, 23 November 2020
7:00PM
Yung Ma | Reimagining and Conserving the Disappearance of Hong Kong through Moving Image
Join us for our fourth and final Sydney Asian Art Series lecture of 2020 with Yung Ma, Artistic Director of Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2021, for his lecture “Reimagining and Conserving the Disappearance of Hong Kong through Moving Image”.
Tue, 10 November 2020
1:00PM
Yu-chih Lai | Mediating Tradition: Japanese Copperplate Printing and Art Reproduction in 1880s Shanghai
Scholars have long noticed how the ‘Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ (Walter Benjamin), following the invention of lithography, revolutionised the practice of art and its consumption in late-Qing China. However, few scholars have paid attention to copperplate printing, which was introduced to Shanghai commercially almost at the same time.
Fri, 30 October 2020
12:00PM
On migration, materiality and memory
Lisa Lowe
The “Image complex” lecture series proposes that the history of power in the United States can be told as a history of visual infrastructures: institutions and practices that govern how we perceive, and what we can do.
Thu, 15 October 2020
4:00PM
Changing Image Practices in South Asia
Archives collectively address our alternating visual expectations and provoke new dialogues on the notion of a stable or authentic discourse.
Thu, 17 September 2020
10:00AM
The Technological Sublime: An Ink Painter and a Coal Mine in 1960s China
The first lecture in the 2020 Sydney Asian Art Series. Delivered on Thursday, 17 September 2020.
Wed, 16 September 2020
6:00PM
Behemoth (2015)
To open the series, we welcome scholar Lisa Claypool, who will lecture on the theme of the “technological sublime” in the 1960s work of Chinese painter Fu Baoshi. In conjunction with this lecture, we will be hosting a special screening of Zhao Liang’s acclaimed 2015 film, Behemoth, with a short introduction by Lisa Claypool.
Fri, 11 September 2020
12:00PM
On Indigenous visual sovereignty
Jolene Rickard
The history of power in the United States can be told as a history of visual infrastructures: institutions and practices that govern how we perceive, and what we can do.