The US Studies Centre partnered with the Power Institute and Sydney Ideas at the University of Sydney to present a lecture by international guest speaker Michael Fried. In his lecture Fried showed Demand's two minute long stop-motion film Pacific Sun (2011) (the name of a cruise ship struck by seven powerful waves off the coast of New Zealand several years ago), and discussed the film and artist in detail.
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Michael Fried lecture: Thomas Demand's Pacific Sun
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24 May 2013. 7.00pm–8.30pm AEST
The Great Hall, University of Sydney
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