Past events
Wed, 12 March 2025
11:00AM
Curating 3.11
Fuyubi Nakamura
A workshop on creative work and ethics of curatorial care in the wake of tragedy.
Tue, 11 March 2025
2:00PM
A Future for Memory: Care and Healing after 3.11
Fuyubi Nakamura
A lecture by Fuyubi Nakamura on her fourteen years of engagement with the people and landscape affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.
Wed, 5 March 2025
1:00PM
Colour Science
Paul Martin and Madeleine Kelly
A lecture on the psychophysics and physiology of colour by vision scientist Paul Martin, with a response by artist Madeleine Kelly.
Thu, 6 February 2025
5:00PM
Dystopia, Utopia, or … UStopia? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination
Ruha Benjamin and Andrew Brooks
A lecture on the role of imagination in transforming the oppressive status quo, with an introduction by Andrew Brooks.
Fri, 13 December 2024
5:30PM
Unnatural relations: Queer abstraction and the intercourse of forms in contemporary art
David J. Getsy
A lecture by David Getsy, one of the US's foremost thinkers of the relationships between art, performance and queer studies.
Mon, 18 November 2024
6:00PM
Celebrating our 2025 Paris Residency Fellows
Join us for food and drink, to congratulate our 2025 fellows!
Mon, 11 November 2024
5:00PM
Archive Stories
Simryn Gill, Yvonne Low, and Mary Roberts
A conversation with scholars Yvonne Low and Mary Roberts, and artist Simryn Gill, about the poetics and ethics of research.
Thu, 7 November 2024
1:00PM
Power Reading Group: Future History
The Power Institute's regular reading group, focusing on new ideas and research in art history and visual culture.
Wed, 30 October 2024
6:00PM
Against Precarity: Art Collectives and Creative Workers' Unions in Thailand
Thanavi Chotpradit
A lecture on the creative labour movement in Thailand, and the politics of precarity, solidarity and collectivism.
Thu, 24 October 2024
3:00PM
Haunting History: The art and (life-) writings of Mia Bustam and Katharine Sim
Yvonne Low
A presentation on the feminist model of life writing in the writings of painters Mia Bustam and Katharine Sim, and the art histories of Indonesia and Malaya.