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CUMMINGS Neil
PROfESSOR
BiOgrAPhY Neil Cummings is Professor of
Theory and Practice at Chelsea. He was born in
Wales, and lives in London.
www.neilcummings.com
rESEArCh StAtEMENt I have evolved a multidis
ciplinary art practice that often requires
an intense period of research within the specific
contexts in which art is produced, distributed
and encounters its audiences. Principally, this has
meant working directly with museums, galleries,
archives and art schools.
I often work collaboratively with other artists,
curators, academics, researchers or producers to
create artworks, exhibitions and events from
existing collections or contexts. Each artwork or
event finds an appropriate form, and these
are as varied as creating exhibitions; enthusiasm
at the Whitechapel Gallery, curating film
programmes; Social Cinema at several temporary
locations in cen tral London, writing and
editing films; Museum Futures; Distributed, books;
The Val ue of Things, and convening partici-
patory events; Parade in the Rootstein Hopkins
Parade Ground.
Currently I am interested in the political economy
of creativity, and how art is instituted. While at
Chelsea, I contribute to the research cluster Critical
Practice. www.criticalpracticechelsea.org
SELECtED OUtPUtS AND AChiEVEMENtS
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2011 Self Portrait; Arnolfini, year-long residency and
exhibition, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2010 Parade (with Critical Practice), Rootstein Hopkins
Parade Ground, Chelsea, London.
2010 ArchivalProcess, ongoing since february 2009,
a research project with Intermediae, in Madrid.
2009 Lapdogs, installed at the Arnolfini, Bristol and
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt as part of Lapdogs
of the Bourgeoisie.
2008 Post Production, a special programme curated from
The Enthusiasts Archive for Manifesta 7, Bolzano, Italy.
2008 Museum futures: Live, Recorded, Distributed,
project commissioned by Moderna Museet, Stockholm,
Sweden, as part of their Jubilee celebrations.
2006 Launch of The Enthusiasts Archive.
www.enthusiastsarchive.net
2006 Social Cinema consists of a series of temporary
cinemas, each installed for one night only into London’s
urban fabric. Commissioned by the London Archi-
tecture Biennale, and in collaboration with architects,
51% studios.
2005–06 Screen Test 1/4, exhibited as part of The British Art
Show Six, touring exhibition.
2005–06 Enthusiasm, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery,
London and touring to Kunst Werke, Berlin and the Tapies
foundation, Barcelona.
SELECTED TEXTS
2010 ‘financialization’, in: Colin, A. & Einarsson, K. (eds),
A Prior, Belgium: Ghent.
2009 ‘Circulation’, in: Sander, K. (ed.), Circulation, Dublin:
Printed Projects.
2008 Selection of texts, The History Book: On Moderna
Museet 1958–2008, Germany: Moderna Museet and
Steidl Verlag.
2007 ‘from Capital to Enthusiasm’, in: Macdonald, S. &
Basu, P. (eds), Exhibition Experiments, Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing.
2006 ‘A shadow of Marx’, in: Jones, A. (ed.), A Companion to
Art Since 1945, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
PLACES ON COMMITTEES AND SELECTION PANELS
2009–ongoing Peer review college member, AHRC.
2007–ongoing Trustee, Nottingham Contemporary.
2006–ongoing Member of Editorial Board, Documents in
Contemporary Art, Whitechapel and MIT Press.
CUMMINGS Neil
Neil Cummings, Self Portrait; Arnolfini 2011; year-long residency and installation at the Arnolfini, Bristol
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