Past events
Fri, 13 December 2024
5:30PM
Unnatural relations: Queer abstraction and the intercourse of forms in contemporary art
David J. Getsy
A lecture by David Getsy, one of the US's foremost thinkers of the relationships between art, performance and queer studies.
Mon, 18 November 2024
6:00PM
Celebrating our 2025 Paris Residency Fellows
Join us for food and drink, to congratulate our 2025 fellows!
Mon, 11 November 2024
5:00PM
Archive Stories
Simryn Gill, Yvonne Low, and Mary Roberts
A conversation with scholars Yvonne Low and Mary Roberts, and artist Simryn Gill, about the poetics and ethics of research.
Thu, 7 November 2024
1:00PM
Power Reading Group: Future History
The Power Institute's regular reading group, focusing on new ideas and research in art history and visual culture.
Wed, 30 October 2024
6:00PM
Against Precarity: Art Collectives and Creative Workers' Unions in Thailand
Thanavi Chotpradit
A lecture on the creative labour movement in Thailand, and the politics of precarity, solidarity and collectivism.
Thu, 24 October 2024
3:00PM
Haunting History: The art and (life-) writings of Mia Bustam and Katharine Sim
Yvonne Low
A presentation on the feminist model of life writing in the writings of painters Mia Bustam and Katharine Sim, and the art histories of Indonesia and Malaya.
Tue, 22 October 2024
11:00AM
Digital Art History at the Getty Research Institute
Emily Pugh
A seminar on the opportunities and challenges digital technologies offer art historical and cultural heritage research.
Thu, 17 October 2024
3:00PM
Transoceanic Currents and Pelagic Materiality during Japan’s Nanban Period
Drisana Misra
A presentation on a group of 17th and 18th century objects produced and shaped by the waters between the Philippines, Taiwan, Ryūkyū, and Japan.
Thu, 17 October 2024
12:00PM
Curator as Editor: Re-Imagining Asian Futurism
Thanavi Chotpradit
A seminar hosted by our 2024 Sydney Asian Art Series Scholar in Residence, Thanavi Chotpradit.
Mon, 7 October 2024
10:00AM
An exhibition of books by Stolon Press
A showing of works by the Sydney-based publisher founded by artist Simryn Gill and writer Tom Melick.