Past events

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.

Thu, 23 May 2024
3:00PM
Contemporary Art at the Nexus of Cultures
Alexander Alberro
A presentation on contemporary art's capacity to supplant Western art's illusion of universality.

Wed, 22 May 2024
10:30AM
Community and Care at the Edges of Modernity
Justin Jesty
A lecture on the importance of community-art projects in contemporary Japanese art.

Thu, 9 May 2024
3:00PM
Curating Archie Moore's "kith and kin"
Ellie Buttrose
A presentation about Archie Moore's work "kith and kin" at the 2024 Venice Biennale Australia Pavilion, "kith and kin", by its curator Ellie Buttrose.

Thu, 2 May 2024
3:00PM
Visions of Relationality and Community by Contemporary Korean Artists in Australasia
Soo-Min Shim
A seminar on contemporary Korean artists currently based in Australasia, with a particular focus on the practices of Lisa Myeong-Joo, Haji Oh, and Yona Lee.

Thu, 18 April 2024
6:00PM
The Machine Eye
Julie Cairney, Peter Tuthill, and Eleanor Zeichner
A conversation about the new limits of perception, from the microscopic to the astrophysical, and from the technological to the artistic.

Thu, 11 April 2024
3:00PM
The Remaindered Line: Kay WalkingStick, Postminimalism, and the Politics of Indigeneity
Luke Naessens
A seminar about the obscured relationship between Postminimalist aesthetics and Indigenous politics in the United States in the 1970s, through the lens of Cherokee painter Kay WalkingStick’s Chief Joseph Series (1975–77).

Tue, 9 April 2024
9:30AM
Art, Power, Inequality
Susan Banki, Jennifer Barrett, Tony Bennett, Jennifer Biddle, Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange, Christine Keys-Statham, Yvonne Low, Mike Savage, Nathan "mudyi" Sentance, Terry Smith, and Verónica Tello
A workshop on the concepts and theories of power available to art thinkers today.

Sat, 30 March 2024
2:00PM
LEGACIES x May Adadol Ingawanij
May Adadol Ingawanij
A screening at the Art Gallery of NSW of new moving image works by Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Pati Tyrell and Sriwhana Spong, curated by May Adadol Ingawanij.