Past events

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Sun, 10 March 2024

10:00AM

Louise Bourgeois: Tides and currents

A symposium on the work of artist Louise Bourgeois, including talks, performances and screenings.

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A still from the 2016 film "By the Time It Gets Dark", directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong, which shows four people standing in a field, with holds folded in prayer.

May Adadol Ingawanij

A lecture on the moving image in contemporary Southeast Asian art, and its relationship to both the region's historical vanguardism, and the broader circuits of global contemporary art.

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A symposium about Indigenous ways of seeing, presented in association with the 2024 Biennale of Sydney.

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Fri, 1 March 2024

10:00AM

Matisse: Minotaure to Verve

Roger Benjamin

An exhibition of treasures from the Schaeffer Fine Arts Library collection, curated by Roger Benjamin. On view from March to April 2024.

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A watercolour painting showing a scene in Algeria, with a man on a horse in the foreground, and a group of men in the background sitting against the wall.

Roger Benjamin

A seminar on the unfamiliar work of Australian artist Sir Lionel Lindsay.

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Ye Funa, Jacquie Meng, Fan Donwang, WeiZen Ho, and Con Gerakaris

A pair of events on migrant and diasporic identities, and ways in which these are expressed in contemporary art and subculture.

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Jack Halberstam at a lectern delivering a PowerPoint presentation. The slide behind him reads "Pets Are Property, Property is Theft!"

Fri, 15 December 2023

7:00PM

Queer Powerpoint ft. Jack Halberstam

Queer PowerPoint and Jack Halberstam

An evening of corporate presentations and personal optimisation. But queer. And with Jack Halberstam.

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Jack Halberstam at a lectern delivering a lecture. He is smiling and gesturing with his hands.

A lecture on the disorderly architecture of 1970s artist and activists in the United States.

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Macarena Gómez-Barris and Juan Francisco Salazar

A reading and conversation at the AGNSW about non-extractive modes of being and seeing.

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Thu, 16 November 2023

6:00PM

The Lens

William Yang, Yvette Hamilton, and Dorcas Tang

A conversation with William Yang, Yvette Hamilton and Dorcas Tang about the history and politics of photography's documentary function. 

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