Past events
Thu, 29 August 2024
1:00PM
Power Reading Group: Afro Asia
The Power Institute's regular reading group, focusing on new ideas and research in art history and visual culture.
Thu, 8 August 2024
12:00PM
Collective Grieving in Art: A Seminar on Transoceanic Collaboration toward Repair
Jung Joon Lee
A seminar on the multisensorial and affective experiences of art making and viewing in Asian diasporas.
Wed, 7 August 2024
6:00PM
Black Portraiture from the Streets of Dongducheon: Rethinking Race, Intimacies, and the Visuality of the Korean Camptown
Jung Joon Lee
A lecture on Korean photographer Yong Suk Kang’s long forgotten 1982 camptown photography series, From Dongducheon, and the racial capitalism undergirding camptown service economies.
Wed, 31 July 2024
4:00PM
Reading Group: Visions
The Power Institute's regular reading group, focusing on new ideas and research in art history and visual culture.
Wed, 24 July 2024
6:00PM
Screenic: Politicised Writings on Being Screened
Philip Brophy, Helen Hughes, and Ivan Cerecina
A conversation with Philip Brophy, Helen Hughes and Ivan Cerecina to mark the publication of a new anthology of Brophy's art writing.
Thu, 18 July 2024
6:00PM
Histories, Tactility and Material Culture: Studies on Chinese Belt Toggles
Chen Shuxia, Elizabeth Carter, and Min-Jung Kim
A panel conversation to launch the book Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature (2024).
Thu, 6 June 2024
10:30AM
Discussing Degrowth and/as Care Work
Justin Jesty
A seminar on developing and sustaining a degrowth culture through local community networks of care.
Thu, 30 May 2024
12:00PM
Japanese Art History: Research Seminar
A seminar with Japanese art historians Yukio Lippit and Melissa McCormick, presenting their recent research
Thu, 23 May 2024
6:00PM
Art and Work in the 21st Century
Alexander Alberro and Ann Stephen
A lecture about the 21st century politics of art, work and the artwork, to mark the publication of a major new volume of writings by artist Ian Burn, edited by Ann Stephen.