Past events
Thu, 5 October 2023
2:00PM
Wellness Business–healing or stalking? Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker, 2018
Toni Ross
A seminar on Finnish performance artist Pilvi Takala, and the current cultural and corporate obsession with wellness.
Thu, 28 September 2023
2:00PM
Eloquence Prize 2023
A prize for students across Australia addressing French and Australia art history.
Fri, 22 September 2023
6:00PM
Contemporary photography: process, practice and place
Peta Clancy, Amanda Williams, Simryn Gill, and Brett Neilson
A panel conversation about how contemporary artists engage with photography’s troubled relationship to land, place and Country.
Fri, 15 September 2023
2:00PM
Distance and Metaphor: Reimagining the Ka‘ba in Deccan India
Peyvand Firouzeh
A presentation about the replication and circulation of the Ka'ba between the Islamic centre and peripheries.
Fri, 8 September 2023
10:00AM
Making the Modern Body: Art, Health, and the Human Form
Emily Brink
A workshop on the relationship between art and health, and the representation of the modern body, led by scholar Emily Brink.
Wed, 6 September 2023
6:00PM
The Negative
Geoffrey Batchen, Justine Varga, James Tylor, and Anne Ferran
A conversation between artists and scholars about the materials and processes of photographic transformation.
Wed, 9 August 2023
6:00PM
Who Owns Ban Chiang?: Revisited
Melody Rod-ari
Academic Melody Rod-Ari reflects on collecting histories and provenance issues in Asian art – focusing on Ban Chiang, an important archaeological site in Thailand.
Thu, 3 August 2023
3:00PM
Smarthistory: Creating a Smarter, More Equitable and Diverse Art History
Melody Rod-ari
A workshop for scholars and students, led by our 2023 Sydney Asian Art Series Scholar in Residence Melody Rod-ari
Thu, 3 August 2023
10:00AM
The Evidence of Things Not Captured: Christopher “Dudus” Coke & the Fugitive Photograph in Postcolonial Jamaica
Krista Thompson
A lecture by art historian Krista Thompson (Northwestern University, Chicago) about fugitives and their photographic histories.
Thu, 20 July 2023
6:00PM
Dancing Sovereignty: Protocol and Politics in Indigenous Dance Practices
Mique'l Dangeli, Tammi Gissell, and Gerald McMaster
A lecture about the political power of Indigenous dance practices, preceded by a conversation between Mique'l, Gerald McMaster and Tammi Gissell