EYES WIDE SHUT: A History of Photography
Lecture/seminar
A trend on Instagram involves celebrities posting photographs that capture them with their eyes closed. But, of course, such photographs are nothing new. Amateur photographers, for example, have regularly captured people blinking ever since the introduction of hand-held cameras. However, the…
Clocks for Seeing: Daguerreotypes and the materiality of time
Lecture/seminar
When we speak about photography’s material conditions, we usually mean to encompass the changing array of physical properties and capacities that have made the medium possible. However, it is important to also consider a crucial non-physical condition that has mediated the appearance of every…
The Price of Blood: Zhang Huan’s 65 Kilograms and China’s HIV/AIDS Crisis
Lecture/seminar
This lecture revisits Zhang Huan’s 65 Kilograms (1994), a visceral performance in which the artist hung suspended while his blood slowly dripped onto a hot plate, filling the room with the smell of coagulation. Situating the performance within China’s 1990s plasma economy and the HIV/AIDS…
Akomanga Raranga | Weaving Workshop with Alexander Sarsfield at Canberra Spinners and Weavers
Workshop
Join Alexander Sarsfield in a Māori weaving workshop to be guided through Māori cultural protocols and the making of a woven putiputi (flower). The only catch? Alex will be conducting this workshop entirely in the Māori language. No language or weaving experience required. Nau mai…
Unearthed | Ceramic Charms with Cathy Zhang
Workshop
Join local artist Cathy Zhang in making ceramic charms inspired by the Unearthed: Chinese Funerary Ceramics from the National Gallery of Australia exhibition. Bookings essential.Cathy Zhang works across fields of ceramics, sculpture and contemporary jewellery. Her practice explores how…
Shifting Space exhibition: In Conversation Event
Event
Join Shifting Space curators and exhibiting artists as they discuss the exhibition, their works and the expanded field of printmakingThis exhibition presents works by artists who have used print practices and methods to tell stories and ask questions about the sometimes steadfast, often shifting,…
Shifting Space
Gallery
Shifting Space presents works by artists who have used print practices and methods to tell stories and ask questions about the sometimes steadfast, often shifting, relations with the land, sea and skies of this continent. It considers the defining conditions of print - contact and pressure -…