Past events
Thu, 6 April 2023
9:00AM
Kānawāpātahmōwin: Introduction to Indigenous Visual Knowledge
Gerald McMaster, Postcommodity, Harald Gaski, and Leroy Little Bear
The first event in the 2023 series, Indigenous Ways of Seeing, which is co-presented by the Power Institute and the Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge. Learn more about the Wapatah Centre and the series here.
Tue, 4 April 2023
6:00PM
An Embarrassment of Riches: Indian Architectural Exhibits at the V&A
Kavita Singh
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.
Fri, 2 December 2022
12:00PM
The Afterlives of Images: A Correspondence
Tina Campt
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.
Thu, 17 November 2022
12:00PM
Feeling Media: A Seminar with Miryam Sas
Miryam Sas
In this seminar Miryam will introduce attendees to her new book, Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Aftermath of Art.
Thu, 10 November 2022
11:00AM
Realism and Media: Reconsidering Japanese Women Photographers
Miryam Sas
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.”
Thu, 20 October 2022
12:00AM
Art in place: jugama
Katrina Liberiou
“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.
Thu, 13 October 2022
6:00PM
Photo Demos: A Seminar with Christopher Pinney
Christopher Pinney
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.
Thu, 29 September 2022
6:00PM
Citizens of Photography: Demotic Visual Practices in South Asia
Christopher Pinney
This presentation reports on recent ethnographic field research in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Thu, 25 August 2022
6:00PM
Barkindji Ways of Being
Nici Cumpston, Zena Cumpston, and David Doyle
BARKINDJI WAYS OF BEING with Nici Cumpston, Zena Cumpston, David Doyle & Raymond Zada.
Thu, 18 August 2022
12:00AM
Art in Place: Spine - Workshops for thinking and writing about art on campus by Indigenous artists
Stephen Gilchrist and Ann Stephen
“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.