Past events

The first lecture in the 2020 Sydney Asian Art Series.  Delivered on Thursday, 17 September 2020.

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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. 

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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.

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Flaudette May Datuin looks back on more than 30 years of research, curation and teaching in the field of feminist art criticism and art historiography, with focus on Womanifesto.

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A symposium on new research on gender and art in Southeast Asia.

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We can think of design as an inherently anticipatory process. This lecture explores how a history of exhibitionary architecture that starts in the 1970s in China and abroad contributed to the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to reposition itself relative to the world at large.

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Part of the 2019 Sydney Asian Art Series.

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A lecture about how recent films set in the city of Kolkata go beyond documentation to reveal the aspirations, desires and anxieties concerning the city’s global future.

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In March 2019, Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute) presented a talk entitled ‘Seeing Taste: Art, Cuisine and Urbanity in Safavid Persia/Iran’ as part of the Sydney Asian Art Series.

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Gilded glass bottles blown in India and porcelain flasks produced in Japan circulated around the Indian Ocean, filled with aromatic oils and packaged in custom-made boxes. These fragrant items were doled out as gifts by the Dutch East India Company, distributed to gain commercial leverage with high-profile recipients across an arena that stretched from the mountains of Ethiopia to the Qing Emperor’s court.

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