Past events
Thu, 6 May 2021
12:00PM
Furuhata Yuriko, Plastics on Spaceship Earth: The Ecological Dilemma of Metabolist Architecture
Furuhata Yuriko
The second lecture in the 2021 Sydney Asian Art Series, delivered on 6 May 2021.
Thu, 8 April 2021
12:00PM
In Conversation: Patrick Flores, Phaptawan Suwannakudt & Samak Kosem
Patrick Flores, Phaptawan Suwannakudt, and Samak Kosem
The second event in the 2021 Sydney Asian Art Series, which took place on 8 April 2021.
Thu, 1 April 2021
12:00PM
Nature is Material, Site is Work: Philippine Artist Junyee’s Installations
Patrick Flores
The first lecture in the 2021 Sydney Asian Art Series, delivered on 1 April 2021.
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.
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.