Past events

A large outdoor metal sculpture.

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.

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An illustration of the Gwalior Gateway as the Entrance to the Courtyard of the Indian Palace for the The Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886.

A lecture on the hidden histories of museums.

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Headshot of Tina Campt.

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.

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Chairs and clothing stacked together.

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.

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A Japanese woman dancing.

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.

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Photo of the outdoor sculpture, jugama.

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.

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Photograph of a mural featuring a mountain.

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.

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A bright, stylised photograph of a couple.

Christopher Pinney

This presentation reports on recent ethnographic field research in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

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Black-and-white artwork of Great-grandmother Barka, an old tree.

Thu, 25 August 2022

6:00PM

Barkindji Ways of Being

Nici Cumpston, Zena Cumpston, and David Doyle

A conversation with artists, curators and collaborators Nici Cumpston, Zena Cumpston and David Doyle about their work with Barkindji Country and knowledge systems.

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A group of people stand with their backs to the camera, facing a mural

Thu, 18 August 2022

12:00AM

Art in Place: Spine

Stephen Gilchrist and Ann Stephen

A workshop for University of Sydney students, focused on D Harding's Spine.

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