Past events
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.
Wed, 20 April 2022
11:00AM
Workshop: China Through Two Photographic Books
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.
Thu, 14 April 2022
11:00AM
Photographic Chinoiserie: John Thomson and the Chinese Export Image
Roberta Wue
Can China and the Chinese be encapsulated in an image?
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.
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.
Mon, 25 October 2021
12:00PM
Wu Mali, Mending the Broken Land with Water
Wu Mali
The fourth and final lecture in the 2021 Sydney Asian Art Series, delivered on 25 October 2021.
Thu, 7 October 2021
12:00PM
Speaking Through Text / Corresponding with the Past
This event took place on 7 October 2021, as part of the Power Institute’s lecture series Linework: Lines, Lineages and Networks in Indigenous Art.
Artists Vernon Ah Kee, Julie Gough and Warraba Weatherall join the editors of Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings, Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh, to consider Bennett’s indelible impact. Moderated by the Power Institute’s Deputy Director, Stephen Gilchrist.
Thu, 16 September 2021
12:00PM
Sugata Ray, With the Gobble of a Turkey: Visualising Human-Animal Relations in the Indian Ocean World
Sugata Ray
The third lecture in the 2021 Sydney Asian Art Series, delivered on 16 September 2021.
Thu, 10 June 2021
12:00PM
Murruwaygu: The Line in the South-East
The second event in the 2021 Linework series, which took place on 10 June 2021.
Fri, 21 May 2021
12:00PM
On art in the age of mass incarceration
Nicole R. Fleetwood
The fourth and final event in the Image Complex series, which took place on 21 May 2021.