Events

US-based art historian Brianne Cohen will introduce her new book about lens-based art practices across Cambodia, Vietnam, and Singapore, and their commitment to Indigenous land relations and environmental justice.

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Film scholar Ivan Cerecina traces the history of the word "montage" in its movement between French, English, and Russian contexts, and considers its enduring legacy as a key method of modernity.

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The second event in our series on the way technology is changing what it means to see, co-presented with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. This session answers the question: What is a vision machine, and what does it do?

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A lecture by Kajri Jain, the 2026 Sydney Asian Series Scholar in Residence, on the sensory infrastructures of collage in a religious souvenir from Nathdwara, and a work by modernist Bhupen Khakhar.

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Artist and art historian meet in conversation.

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UK-based curator and scholar Holly Trusted introduces us to the extraordinary but enigmatic 18th century Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán.

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Art historian Ekaterina Heath traces the history of an 18th century sabre, examining its movement across Russian, steppe, and Qing imperial contexts, as part of a broader history at Kalmyk visual culture.

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The second event in our series on the way technology is changing what it means to see, co-presented with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. This session explores how vision machines see the world.

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Art historian and curatorial scholar Lilian Cameron analyses one of the most prominent and contested components of the exhibition: the wall text.

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A presentation by UK-based art historian Maddie Hewitson drawing together Victorian art, the Hebrew Bible, and Anglo-Jewish identity in the 19th century.

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