Past events

As colonial regimes excavated and collected artifacts and disassembled monuments and transported them part-by-part to metropolitan museums, the promise they held out was of preservation: objects buried under the earth and buildings mouldering in the jungle would be rescued from the elements, from ignorant natives, from the ravages of time. In the museum, they would be kept safe for times to come. But the museum is not always hospitable to the objects it collects. This talk demonstrates this by tracking four significant architectural-scaled objects from India that were or are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum but can no longer be seen there.

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The fourth and final 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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In this seminar Miryam will introduce attendees to her new book, Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Aftermath of Art.

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Extending out of the work on women photographers and artists in my recent book, Miryam Sas will discuss the work of photographer Tokiwa Toyoko in the 1950s-60s, who photographed the “akasen chitai” (red light districts) of Yokohama, and how her work complicates our understanding of “realism” and gender in “snapshot photography.”

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“Art in Place” is a workshop program that aims to bring student attention to the important artworks by Indigenous artists on campus, to reflect on their mediation of place, and to provide a platform for students to write and publish their reflections.

It is a collaboration between the Power Institute and Honi Soit, the weekly print and digital student newspaper of the University of Sydney.

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This seminar will build on Christopher’s September 29 lecture, “Citizens of Photography: Demotic Visual Practices in South Asia”, to consider his broader Photo Demos project, and the associated pamphlet series.

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This presentation reports on recent ethnographic field research in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

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BARKINDJI WAYS OF BEING with Nici Cumpston, Zena Cumpston, David Doyle & Raymond Zada.

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“Art in Place” is a workshop program that aims to bring student attention to the important artworks by Indigenous artists on campus, to reflect on their mediation of place, and to provide a platform for students to write and publish their reflections.

It is a collaboration between the Power Institute and Honi Soit, the weekly print and digital student newspaper of the University of Sydney.

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This event took place on 13 August 2021, as part of the Power Institute’s lecture series Linework: Lines, Lineages and Networks in Indigenous Art.

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