Past events
Mon, 23 November 2020
7:00PM
Yung Ma | Reimagining and Conserving the Disappearance of Hong Kong through Moving Image
Join us for our fourth and final Sydney Asian Art Series lecture of 2020 with Yung Ma, Artistic Director of Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2021, for his lecture “Reimagining and Conserving the Disappearance of Hong Kong through Moving Image”.
Tue, 10 November 2020
1:00PM
Yu-chih Lai | Mediating Tradition: Japanese Copperplate Printing and Art Reproduction in 1880s Shanghai
Scholars have long noticed how the ‘Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ (Walter Benjamin), following the invention of lithography, revolutionised the practice of art and its consumption in late-Qing China. However, few scholars have paid attention to copperplate printing, which was introduced to Shanghai commercially almost at the same time.
Fri, 30 October 2020
12:00PM
On migration, materiality and memory
Lisa Lowe
The “Image complex” lecture series proposes that the history of power in the United States can be told as a history of visual infrastructures: institutions and practices that govern how we perceive, and what we can do.
Thu, 15 October 2020
4:00PM
Changing Image Practices in South Asia
Archives collectively address our alternating visual expectations and provoke new dialogues on the notion of a stable or authentic discourse.
Thu, 17 September 2020
10:00AM
The Technological Sublime: An Ink Painter and a Coal Mine in 1960s China
The first lecture in the 2020 Sydney Asian Art Series. Delivered on Thursday, 17 September 2020.
Wed, 16 September 2020
6:00PM
Behemoth (2015)
To open the series, we welcome scholar Lisa Claypool, who will lecture on the theme of the “technological sublime” in the 1960s work of Chinese painter Fu Baoshi. In conjunction with this lecture, we will be hosting a special screening of Zhao Liang’s acclaimed 2015 film, Behemoth, with a short introduction by Lisa Claypool.
Fri, 11 September 2020
12:00PM
On Indigenous visual sovereignty
Jolene Rickard
The history of power in the United States can be told as a history of visual infrastructures: institutions and practices that govern how we perceive, and what we can do.
Wed, 18 September 2019
6:00PM
Displaying Reform: Exhibitionary Architecture and the Early Reform Era in the People’s Republic of China
Cole Roskam
We can think of design as an inherently anticipatory process. This lecture explores how a history of exhibitionary architecture that starts in the 1970s in China and abroad contributed to the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to reposition itself relative to the world at large.
Sat, 24 August 2019
6:00PM
A History of Japanese Photography: Images of the City After Disaster
Yasufumi Nakamori
Part of the 2019 Sydney Asian Art Series.
Tue, 21 May 2019
6:00PM
Kolkota “Rising”: The Politics of Place in Recent Bengali Cinema
Malini Guha
In May 2019, Malini Guha (Carleton University) presented a talk entitled ‘Kolkata ‘Rising’: The Politics of Place in Recent Bengali Cinema’ as part of the Sydney Asian Art Series.