The Sydney Asian Art Series, which was established in 2017, invites leading researchers from across the world to share their research on critical issues in early, modern and contemporary Asian art.
This year’s theme What/where/when is Asian art? tackles a central tension: how can the term ‘Asian art’ adequately encompass a vast diversity of peoples, geographies and cultural practices?
Over the past 30 years, artists and scholars have proposed various answers to this question, from the diasporic and postcolonial frameworks of the 1990s to today’s distinct yet intersectional concepts of the transcultural, culturally hybrid, Indigenous and decolonial. This series examines why the question of Asian art continues to provoke debate and how the stakes of defining it shift across nations and contexts.
Convened by art historian Dr Yvonne Low, University of Sydney, and the Art Gallery’s curator of Asian art, Dr Natalie Seiz, this year’s Sydney Asian Art Series engages with ideas explored in the exhibition And Still I Rise.
More information on this year’s series and scholars, and recordings from previous lectures are available on the Sydney Asian Art Series website.