Thu, 27 April 2023
10:00AM
The Strike Against White Sight is a Feminist Strike
Nick Mirzoeff
White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but also by visual culture and distinctive ways of seeing.
Past events
Fri, 21 April 2023
6:30PM
Book Launches (Melbourne)
Rex Butler & ADS Donaldson, UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art
David Homewood & Paris Lettau, Ends of Painting: Art in the 1960s and 1970s
Thu, 6 April 2023
9:00AM
Kānawāpātahmōwin: Introduction to Indigenous Visual Knowledge
Gerald McMaster, Postcommodity, Harald Gaski, and Leroy Little Bear
The first event in the 2023 series, Indigenous Ways of Seeing, which is co-presented by the Power Institute and the Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge.
Tue, 4 April 2023
6:00PM
An Embarrassment of Riches: Indian Architectural Exhibits at the V&A
Kavita Singh
A lecture on the hidden histories of museums.
Fri, 2 December 2022
12:00PM
The Afterlives of Images: A Correspondence
Tina Campt
The fourth and final program in our 2022 series Image Complex, which introduces new scholarship on the way visuality shapes the history and politics of identity, technology and imperialism.
Thu, 17 November 2022
12:00PM
Feeling Media: A Seminar with Miryam Sas
Miryam Sas
In this seminar Miryam will introduce attendees to her new book, Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Aftermath of Art.
Thu, 10 November 2022
11:00AM
Realism and Media: Reconsidering Japanese Women Photographers
Miryam Sas
A lecture on Japanese photographer Tokiwa Toyoko, and the implications of their work for our understanding of photography and gender in 1950s-60s Japan.
Thu, 20 October 2022
12:00AM
Art in Place: jugama
Katrina Liberiou
A workshop for University of Sydney students, focused on the artwork ‘jugama’ by Waanyi artist Judy Watson.
Thu, 13 October 2022
6:00PM
Photo Demos: A Seminar with Christopher Pinney
Christopher Pinney
This seminar will build on Christopher’s September 29 lecture, “Citizens of Photography: Demotic Visual Practices in South Asia”, to consider his broader Photo Demos project, and the associated pamphlet series.
Thu, 29 September 2022
6:00PM
Citizens of Photography: Demotic Visual Practices in South Asia
Christopher Pinney
This presentation reports on recent ethnographic field research in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.