neil cummings

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19 Sep 2013

I participated in the inaugural workshop

Utopography: Imaging, representing and critiquing imagined worlds organised by the Arts and Science Fiction research group, the Department of Things to Come at…

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23 Jul 2013

Draft storyboard/shooting script for Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, imagining…

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22 Jul 2013

In 1968, at the interface between minimal and conceptual art practices Richard Serra compiled a Verb List to account for actions that could be done to, or with specific materials. The list was published in The New Avant-Garde: Issues for the Art of the Seventies (1972).

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09 Jun 2013

As part of Estuary an exhibition at the Museum of London, Docklands, I lead a cycling tour

Sat 8 Jun 2013, 2pm-6pm Leaving from, and returning to the…

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29 Jul 2013

 

I'm part of a campaign for an Art Auction Transaction Tax (AATT).  It's inspired by the Art Workers Coalition (AWC)…

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17 May 2013

I've been visiting the Shabako Stone, at the British Museum, for as long as I have been living in London. It's a source of wonder.

In the twenty-fifth Dynasty, sometime around c700 BC, an Egyptian mythological text was incised for eternity in a basalt stele. The text contains an account…

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16 May 2013

I participated in a one-day conference For the love of it which explored some of the assumptions, expectations and myths about working as an artist today.

Date: Wednesday 15 May 2013Location: Cecil Sharp House,…

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01 Oct 2011

In 2011, asked to provide a Top Ten List of references that every art undergraduate should know, I offered these (not in order of preference):

 

01. Flash, Grandmaster - Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the…

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16 Apr 2013

As part of Critical Practice I participating in......... One Person's Trash in Another's Treasure

When:10am Monday, 15th - 5pm Tuesday 16th AprilWhere: Chelsea…

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01 Apr 2013

There are seminar chairs, abandoned in rooms and offices all over Chelsea College of Art and Design, they have a bug.

When stacked, the sharp bottom edge of the front top-rail eventually cuts…

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05 Feb 2014

I've been cycling since I can remember, and assembled, ridden and maintained bikes most of my adult life. I have never made a bicycle from scratch though.........

I was researching, and…

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21 Mar 2013

One day, some of the futures we currently imagine won’t be available to us. How can we encourage those we want and discourage those we don’t?

20th - 21st March 2013, I lead a  two day workshop Art Futures for the…

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01 Mar 2013

Museum Futures: Distributed was exhibited at ZKM as part of The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989

A year later a magnificent catalogue is…

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16 Feb 2013

As part of Critical Practice I’ve been working on a series of events/walking tours/discussions. Over the next two years, we will work with a wide range of international partners to explore…

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22 Apr 2006

Dragline stumbles across an autonomous machine, and via 1970's structuralist film, returns the logic of digital practice - find, copy, paste, repeat - to its industrial roots.

Commissioned as part of the British Art Show Six (2006), I collaborated with artists Marysia Lewandowska…

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13 Nov 2012
Education: Not Knowing

This public discussion based on Artist Placement Group’s discursive format The Sculpture explores Education: Not Knowing.

Inspired by APG’s working practices, I co-organised a Think…

05 Dec 2010

In 2010 I collaborated with 51architecture on an entry into a com­pe­ti­tion, A Room for London. The brief was to design a tem­po­…

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19 Oct 2012

As part of Critical Practice I helped facilitate Insatiable…

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13 Oct 2012

I made a presentation as part of: Artists Work in Museums: Histories, Interventions and Subjectivities Friday 12th and Saturday 13th October 2012 at the V&A Museum, London

This…

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29 Sep 2012

Museum Futures was exhibited as part of Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction Curated by Anselm Franke

The Taipei Biennial 2012 takes as its point of departure…

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26 Sep 2012

Critical Practice would like to invite you to join our p2p Exchange on Wednesday (2-4pm), as part of our contribution to the Truth is Concrete marathon.

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16 Sep 2012

Many, many years ago in 1991 I made a recycled cardboard version of Pablo Picasso's Still Life of 1914. It was displayed as part of an exhibition entitled…

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09 Sep 2012

Where: London, EC2


Why: This event initiates a series of walking tours and events that constitute Critical Practice's ongoing Research on Value 

What: Three walking…