Past events

Wed, 24 July 2024
6:00PM
Screenic: Politicised Writings on Being Screened
Philip Brophy, Helen Hughes, and Ivan Cerecina
A conversation with Philip Brophy, Helen Hughes and Ivan Cerecina to mark the publication of a new anthology of Brophy's art writing.

Thu, 18 July 2024
6:00PM
Histories, Tactility and Material Culture: Studies on Chinese Belt Toggles
Chen Shuxia, Elizabeth Carter, and Min-Jung Kim
A panel conversation to launch the book Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature (2024).

Thu, 6 June 2024
10:30AM
Discussing Degrowth and/as Care Work
Justin Jesty
A seminar on developing and sustaining a degrowth culture through local community networks of care.

Thu, 30 May 2024
12:00PM
Japanese Art History: Research Seminar
A seminar with Japanese art historians Yukio Lippit and Melissa McCormick, presenting their recent research

Thu, 23 May 2024
6:00PM
Art and Work in the 21st Century
Alexander Alberro and Ann Stephen
A lecture about the 21st century politics of art, work and the artwork, to mark the publication of a major new volume of writings by artist Ian Burn, edited by Ann Stephen.

Thu, 23 May 2024
3:00PM
Contemporary Art at the Nexus of Cultures
Alexander Alberro
A presentation on contemporary art's capacity to supplant Western art's illusion of universality.

Wed, 22 May 2024
10:30AM
Community and Care at the Edges of Modernity
Justin Jesty
A lecture on the importance of community-art projects in contemporary Japanese art.

Thu, 9 May 2024
3:00PM
Curating Archie Moore's "kith and kin"
Ellie Buttrose
A presentation about Archie Moore's work "kith and kin" at the 2024 Venice Biennale Australia Pavilion, "kith and kin", by its curator Ellie Buttrose.

Thu, 2 May 2024
3:00PM
Visions of Relationality and Community by Contemporary Korean Artists in Australasia
Soo-Min Shim
A seminar on contemporary Korean artists currently based in Australasia, with a particular focus on the practices of Lisa Myeong-Joo, Haji Oh, and Yona Lee.

Thu, 18 April 2024
6:00PM
The Machine Eye
Julie Cairney, Peter Tuthill, and Eleanor Zeichner
A conversation about the new limits of perception, from the microscopic to the astrophysical, and from the technological to the artistic.