Past events

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.

Thu, 3 October 2024
1:00PM
Power Reading Group: Apples
The Power Institute's regular reading group, focusing on new ideas and research in art history and visual culture.

Thu, 26 September 2024
3:00PM
Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: The Private and Public Lives of the John Jenner Albums
Aiden Magro
A presentation on the albums of photojournalist John Jenner, and their documentation of queer life in Warrane (Sydney).

Thu, 12 September 2024
6:00PM
Post Cultural Studies
McKenzie Wark
A lecture by theorist McKenzie Wark on what comes after Cultural Studies.