Reading Group
Images of War, War of Images
Tue 18 Nov, Tue 25 Nov and Tue 2 Dec 2025
Artspace
43–51 Cowper Wharf Roadway
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
Facilitated by Donna West Brett
43–51 Cowper Wharf Roadway
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
Facilitated by Shankari Chandran
43–51 Cowper Wharf Roadway
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
Facilitated by Niro Kandasamy
In the opening weeks of Christopher Kulendran Thomas's Safe Zone, Artspace invites you to join a three-part reading group led by art historian Donna West Brett, author Shankari Chandran and historian Niro Kandasamy.
These intimate gatherings trace the ethical and aesthetic questions raised by images of war and the battlefield of representation itself during times of political conflict. Drawing from the ongoing concerns of Kulendran Thomas’s practice, this series explores the ‘postwar’—not as a shorthand for modernist art made after 1945 but as a generative category for any work emerging in the wake of violence or collective struggle. Through close readings of selected texts and artworks, this program considers the ethics of remembering atrocity, the limits or betrayals of its representation, and how certain images persist as unsettling and unsettled cultural objects.
Each session will focus on two texts and/or images selected by the facilitator. See reading materials here.
Session 1
Facilitated by Donna West Brett
Tuesday 18 November 2025
6-8pm
Session 2
Facilitated by Shankari Chandran
Tuesday 25 November 2025
6-8pm
Session 3
Facilitated by Niro Kandasamy
Tuesday 2 December 2025
6-8pm
