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Image Complex: A lecture series about art, visuality and power

Image Complex 2023

This series argues that seeing and vision are not natural or timeless faculties, but rather deeply historical and political constructions.

Today, images and artworks are part of a vast visual infrastructure – what Meg McLagan and Yates McKee call the “image complex”. This series introduces four international scholars whose work tracks the history of the image complex, cracking open new paths in visual culture research and practice.

Series convened by Nick Croggon and co-presented by the Power Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

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Kānawāpātahmōwin: Indigenous Visual Knowledge

Kānawāpātahmōwin: Indigenous Visual Knowledge

This series, convened by esteemed Indigenous Canadian scholar, artist, and curator Gerald McMaster will introduce audience members to the concept of “Indigenous Visual Knowledge.”

Over a set of four conversations, two online and two in-person, Gerald will bring together artists, academics, activists, and community members from Indigenous communities in the global Arctic, North America, and Australia to discuss their different knowledge systems, and the role visual perception plays within them.

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Sydney Asian Art Series.

Sydney Asian Art Series

The Sydney Asian Art Series invites leading researchers from across the world to share their work on a critical issue in early, modern and contemporary Asian art.

From 2023, the series will pursue an ambitious new research agenda, entitled “Cūra: Collection, Community, Care”. Over three years, the series will gather together leading scholars on collecting histories, object provenance, shifting notions of custodianship, and the role of researchers and curators as agents of care for artworks and their communities.

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