ANDREW CUMMINGS

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I am an art historian and cultural programmer specialising in queerness and contemporary art at the intersections of local and global. As an art historian, I am particularly interested in art’s capacity to reorient our relationship to ourselves, our bodies, and each other — including the other-than-human world of bacteria, microplastics, and technological prostheses. I have explored these topics in a range of publications, from peer-reviewed articles to creative non-fiction. They also informed my PhD thesis and my ongoing academic work, including as postdoctoral research fellow at the Decolonising Arts Institute, University of the Arts London, where I am reasearching the potential for Machine Learning to surface bias and connections in public collections of modern and contemporary art across the UK.  

My art historical interests also inform my work as a cultural programmer and facilitator. Past events include a conversation about contagion and imperialism between the artist Candice Lin and academic Neel Ahuja with Spike Island, and a dialogue on abolitionism and trans aesthetics with artist Wu Tsang and theorist Che Gossett for the Courtauld Institute. I am also deeply invested in the possibilities and limits for art spaces to open up conversations about grief and dying. I have trained as an End-of-Life Doula with Living Well Dying Well, completed a six-month peer inquiry group around death, grief, and endings, and Apprenticed to Grief with Sophy Banks, Jeremy Thres, Sarah Pletts, and Aama Sade.

Click the links to find out more about current and past research, writing, and programming. If you’re interested in working with me or would like to see a full CV, please get in touch.