Performance: Untitled (Death Song)
In this live performance, musicians activate Megan Cope's sound installation ‘Untitled (Death Song)’ 2020.
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2021
In Conversation: Melanie Jame Wolf with Miriam Kelly
Melanie Jame Wolf discusses her new work 'Acts of Improbable Genius' 2021 with curator Miriam...
In Conversation: Sara Morawetz with Miriam Kelly
Sara Morawetz discusses their ongoing project 'All My Anxieties' 2017– with curator Miriam Kelly...
In Conversation: Gerwyn Davies with Hamish Sawyer
Gerwyn Davies discusses camp as an aesthetic strategy in image-making with curator and writer...
John Fries Award: Artist Talks
As part of the John Fries Award opening weekend, join curator Miriam Kelly in conversation with...
Keynote: Art & Design in the Age of Ecocide
Climate activist and creative Suzanne Dhaliwal (UK) presents a keynote address on decolonial art...
2020
In Conversation: Macon Reed & Jade Muratore
Macon Reed discusses their installation 'Eulogy for the Dyke Bar' which revisits the legacy of...
Flesh Meet with Daniel Marshall: Archiving Queer Kinship
Daniel Marshall talks about the ways we try to connect to the queer past and build...
Flesh Meet: DJ Sezzo
Advocating for the importance of QPOC (Queer People of Colour) party spaces, DJ Sezzo reflects...
Flesh Meet with Paul Byron: Social Media as Queerspace
Digital media scholar Paul Byron talks Tumblr, TikTok and more, discussing how queer digital...
Flesh Meet: Dr Kerryn Drysdale & Dr Sophie Robinson
Part Two: Exploring the productive role of trans and gender diversity within lesbian and queer...
Flesh Meet: Dr Kerryn Drysdale & Dr Sophie Robinson
Part One: Traversing the rise, decline and transformation of lesbian and queer spaces
In Conversation: Dani Marti & José Da Silva
Dani Marti uses the body as a central subject in his work, exploring ideas of vulnerability,...
In Conversation: Helen Grace & José Da Silva
Helen Grace reflects on her extensive photographic archive, tracking life at the radical, women-...
Flesh Meet: Timothy Roberts
Leather historian Timothy Roberts discusses the politics, culture and histories of motor clubs...
Heart On My Sleeve
'Heart On My Sleeve' is a series of online graphic design and printing workshops. Learn to...
In Conversation: Frances Barrett & Kelly Doley
Exhibiting artist Frances Barrett discusses her practice with UNSW Galleries Deputy Director,...
In Conversation: Nikos Pantazopoulos & Madé Spencer-Castle
Reflecting on the public dimension of private experience, exhibiting artist Nikos Pantazopoulos...
In Conversation: Nick Henderson & Kelly Doley
Nick Henderson, Committee Member of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives (ALGA), will be in...
In Conversation: Ella Sutherland & Sarah Rodigari
Join artists Ella Sutherland and Sarah Rodigari, discussing the relationship between printed...
In Conversation: Holly Bates & Tay Haggarty
Holly Bates and Tay Haggarty form the collaborative duo, Parallel Park. Together they will...
Ngatu Learning Space
A ngatu workshop with members of the Fifita family, in partnership with IVI designs. The Ngatu...
The Practice of New Media Art
Paul Thomas, Mari Velonaki, Alex Davies, and Sean Cubitt unpack perspective on the practice of...
In Conversation: Samuel Hodge & Skye Wagner
Sydney-based artists Samuel Hodge and Skye Wagner discuss their two new exhibitions at UNSW...
Keeping it Live: Conserving Performance at Tate
UK-based conservator Louise Lawson discusses the documentation and conservation of performance...
Art Month Sydney: Paddington & Woollahra Precinct Night
UNSW Galleries hosts the Art Month Sydney opening party for the Paddington and Woollahra...
‘Every War is a Defeat’: Khadim Ali In Conversation
Leading artist Khadim Ali discusses his newly commissioned site-specific billboard on the...
Propaganda Art in the 21st Century
Internationally renowned Dutch artist Jonas Staal examines forms of 'emancipatory propaganda art...
In Conversation: Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Angela Tiatia & Léuli Eshrāghi
Artists Sarah Biscarra Dilley and Angela Tiatia are joined in conversation by curator Dr Léuli...
Shivanjani Lal In Conversation
Exhibiting artist Shivanjani Lal and poet Manisha Anjali discuss experiences of diaspora and the...
Wansolwara Symposium
This one-day symposium draws together diverse perspectives on the Great Ocean as a connector to...
2019
A&D ANNUAL 19 Symposium
Talks and performances from emerging artists and designers graduating from UNSW Art & Design...
Launch: Discipline no.5 / Más Allá del Fin no.3
'Discipline, Más allá del fin' represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between...
Gazing from the Sinosphere: Media Art as Border Crossings
How are cultural borders depicted and disrupted? This program discusses new media works by three...
Talk: Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera discusses recent projects and initiative, examining and exposing the nature of...
Talk: SOME OF IT IS FAMILIAR, SOME OF IT IS STRANGE
UNSW Galleries Director José Da Silva provides an intimate account of Debra Porch’s life and...
Lecture: Seth Kim-Cohen
In this lecture, Kim-Cohen considers recordings that unlike music, podcasts, or audiobooks, are...
Curating Grief: In Conversation with Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Daniel Mudie Cunningham and José Da Silva discuss the complex and intimate process of working...
Closing Weekend Artist Talks: 2019 John Fries Award
Join 2019 John Fries Award finalists on the closing weekend of the exhibition for a series of...
Talk & Workshop: Knitting Nannas Against Gas
Join the Sydney Knitting Nannas for a discussion on the use of knitting as a tool for non-...
Macarena Gómez-Barris
In the era of the colonial anthropocene how do we address histories of loss and disappearance in...
Guided Tour: Material Place
Tours of ‘Material Place’ will explore key works, themes and ideas from the exhibition whilst...
From Site to Place
This program convenes artists, thinkers and poets for a conversation about land and space within...
Opening Weekend Artist Talks: 2019 John Fries Award
2019 John Fries Award finalists present a series of artist talks to celebrate the opening...
In Conversation: Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer
Learn more about the work of Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer and the development of his practice in...
Lecture: On Critical Design History
Matthew Kiem explores politics and power in contemporary design in this keynote lecture.
Guest Talk: Pavel Pyś & Sara Cluggish
Minneapolis-based curators Pavel Pyś and Sara Cluggish discuss key projects that have informed...
Panel: On Women and Abstraction
Gemma Smith invites a range of Australian painters to discuss the influence of female...
Panel: On Pedagogy and Post-Conceptual Painting
This panel seeks to interrogate the discipline of painting by considering how contemporary...
In Conversation: Rose Wong with Yu-Chieh Li
Beijing-based visual artist Rose Wong joins Yu-Chieh Li for a discussion on her recent work.
In Conversation: Gemma Smith
Learn more about the work of Gemma Smith in a conversation between the artist and independent...
Radical Sydney
This program of talks, documentary screenings and performances engage with the histories and...
Sound Walk with Sonia Leber & David Chesworth
Exhibiting artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth lead a guided walk starting from UNSW...
2018
Earwitness: Jennifer Stoever, M J Grant And Andrew Brooks
An evening of talks with Jennifer Stoever, M J Grant and Andrew Brooks exploring the politics of...
Eavesdropping: Susan Schuppli, Sam Kidel & Jasmine Guffond
'Eavesdropping' is a major project exploring the politics of listening and being listened-to
Panel: Art, Identity & The Everyday Business of Changing the World
Exhibiting artists of 'Enough خلاص Khalas' and 'Christian Thompson...