Past events
Thu, 4 August 2022
9:00AM
The New Metaverse and Women of Color
Lisa Nakamura
Part of our 2022 series Image Complex, convened by Nick Croggon.
Wed, 3 August 2022
12:00PM
Gurindji Ways of Being
Stephen Gilchrist, Josephine Crawshaw, Brenda L Croft, Leah Leaman Yinpingali Namitja, and Felicity Meakins
A conversation with artists, activists and scholars about the Gurindji way of being in the world.
Thu, 19 May 2022
10:00AM
Trans Asia Photography: A Roundtable with Editors Thy Phu, Gu Yi and Deepali Dewan
Thy Phu, Yi Gu, and Deepali Dewan
A conversation with the editorial team behind the journal Trans Asia Photography.
Thu, 12 May 2022
10:00AM
Warring Images: Vietnam Pictorial and the Colours of Socialist Futurity
Thy Phu
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.
Thu, 28 April 2022
10:00AM
Sectional Thinking Circa 1850
Zeynep Çelik Alexander
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.
Wed, 20 April 2022
11:00AM
Workshop: China Through Two Photographic Books
Roberta Wue
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.
Thu, 14 April 2022
11:00AM
Photographic Chinoiserie: John Thomson and the Chinese Export Image
Roberta Wue
Can China and the Chinese be encapsulated in an image?
Wed, 6 April 2022
6:30PM
Nyungar Ways of Being
Dr Roma Yibiyung Winmar, Ken Hayward, Clint Bracknell, and Jarni McGuire
An conversation about Nyungar art, language and being in the world.
Wed, 23 March 2022
12:00PM
Refuge in the Unseen: On Queer Raves
McKenzie Wark
A lecture on the politics and aesthetics of New York’s underground queer and trans rave scene.
Mon, 25 October 2021
12:00PM
Wu Mali, Mending the Broken Land with Water
Wu Mali
The fourth and final lecture in the 2021 Sydney Asian Art Series, delivered on 25 October 2021.