Calling student art and architecture enthusiasts - apply now to deliver a floor talk at the Chau Chak Wing Museum!
Installation view from ‘Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler’, with The Hong Kong Club 1980-84. Plans: Harry Seidler & Associates; Photographs: John Gollings, 1985 © Penelope Seidler; Perspective rendering drawing: Helmut Jacoby, 1981 © Penelope Seidler; Helen Frankenthaler ‘Hillside’, 1971 (cropped), Chau Chak Wing Museum, 2026. Photo: David James.
Applications are now open for University of Sydney students interested in leading a public floor talk at the Chau Chak Wing Museum in Semester 2, 2026. The floor talks will focus on the Museum's current exhibition Migrating Modernism: The architecture of Harry Seidler.
What does it involve?
If your application is successful, you will be invited to address an artwork or architectural project in the exhibition in a 5-10 presentation, followed by 5-10 minutes of questions from the audience.
A briefing session for participants providing information about the exhibition and advice for delivering a floor talk will be held with the exhibition curators on Friday 21 August, 12-2pm.
How to apply?
Applications are open to all current University of Sydney students.
To apply, please complete the online form. Applications are due at midday by midday on Monday 17 August.
Questions can be directed to museums.education@sydney.edu.au
The Exhibition
Migrating Modernism: The architecture of Harry Seidler is an interdisciplinary curatorial research project that brings together scholars in the fields of architectural history and late modernist art, to explore the work of Seidler & Associates, founded by Harry Seidler in 1960.
The project examines how Seidler’s transnational education and émigré identity would shape an architectural philosophy and cross-disciplinary collaborations during Australia’s post-war economic boom in the second half of the 20th century.
The exhibition showcases Seidler’s collaborations with major international architectural figures such as Pier Luigi Nervi and Marcel Breuer, alongside commissions with major American artists including Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthler, Frank Stella and Sol LeWitt.
These talks are organised by The Power Institute and the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney.
Click here to apply!