The Power Institute at the University of Sydney

Please join us for our final event of 2025! DAVID J. GETSY Unnatural relations: Queer abstraction and the intercourse of forms in contemporary art Fri, 13 December 2024 5:30pm-6:45pm MCA Australia ✏ https://lnkd.in/gpVJPFvA David J. Getsy David J. Getsy writes to recover the queer and transgender capacities that have been lost or suppressed in histories of art and performance. His areas of research and teaching span modern and contemporary art and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, with a focus on queer and transgender histories and methods. He has published eight books, including Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (Chicago 2022; winner of the Robert Motherwell Book Award in 2023); Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale 2015; reissued in paperback 2023); and the widely-read anthology of artists’ writings Queer (MIT 2016; multiple reprintings).  Getsy is the inaugural Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. He studied at Oberlin College (B.A. Hons, 1995) and Northwestern University (M.A., Ph.D., 2002). His fellowships and awards include those from the Dedalus Foundation, the Terra Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Clark Art Institute, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Getty Foundation, Dartmouth College, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Kress Foundation. In 2023, he received a university-wide Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities from the University of Virginia. He previously taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2005 to 2021 and was, from 2011 onwards, the Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History and, since 2022, Professor Emeritus. 

Tomorrow/Wednesday night! Filmmaker and writer Philip Brophy in conversation with Helen Hughes and Ivan Cerecina, at Verge Gallery at the University of Sydney.

How do our visions shape the world, and how does the visual world shape us? Over three days, Visions brings international and local experts to the MCA to share their thoughts on the art, science, and politics of seeing. Co-presented by The Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture at the University of Sydney and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of the Visual Research Program. Tickets: https://bit.ly/3RV1zA4