Past events

A conversation with the editorial team behind the journal Trans Asia Photography.

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This presentation explores the construction of socialist ways of seeing in Vietnam, focusing on the communist illustrated magazine, Vietnam Pictorial, which deployed color images as a means to project visions of socialist futurity, conjuring forth revolutionary renovations at a moment when victory had yet to be assured.

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The second 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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A workshop designed for scholars, students and curators of Asian art and photography.

This workshop will examine two photographically illustrated books on China: John Thomson’s Illustrations of China and Its People (1873-74), and Lang Jingshan’s (or Long Chin-san) catalogue, Exhibition of Pictorial Photography (1939). Though both books are apart in time and purpose, they are similar in using photography and text to depict China as a culture and concept at different geopolitical moments.

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Can China and the Chinese be encapsulated in an image?

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An conversation about Nyungar art, language and being in the world. 

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A lecture on the politics and aesthetics of New York’s underground queer and trans rave scene.

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The fourth and final lecture in the 2021 Sydney Asian Art Series, delivered on 25 October 2021.

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This event took place on 7 October 2021, as part of the Power Institute’s lecture series Linework: Lines, Lineages and Networks in Indigenous Art.

Artists Vernon Ah Kee, Julie Gough and Warraba Weatherall join the editors of Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings, Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh, to consider Bennett’s indelible impact. Moderated by the Power Institute’s Deputy Director, Stephen Gilchrist.

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The third lecture in the 2021 Sydney Asian Art Series, delivered on 16 September 2021.

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