a short partial CV: 2008 - 1995

Since 2009, Neil has been evolving new projects here

2008 - 1995

July - November 2008 Post production was a special programme curated from the Enthusiasts: archive for Manifesta 7, installed in the ex-Alumix factory in Bolzano, Italy.

Museum Futures: live recorded distributed was a project launched on the 6 June 2008; commissioned by Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sweden as part of their Jubilee celebrations. The Distributed component is a machinima record of the 2058 centenary interview with the Museum's executive Ayan Lindquist.

August - October 2007 Parade commissioned for the Contour Film Biennial was exhibited in Mechelen Belgium, and ArtLfe a simultaneous project for Transit Gallery.

From September - October 2006 Generosity was part of Protections, at the Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. In collaboration with Eileen Simpson and Ben White our Screen Tests DVD has been given away free throughout the year. A year long research project Industrialtownfurturism: 100 years of Wolfsburg and Nowa Huta opened at the Kunstverein Wolfsburg - December 05 and closed in Nowa Huta, Cracow in November 06. Commissioned by the London Architecture Biennale, and in collaboration with architects 51% studios architecture, our project Social Cinema consisted of a series of temporary cinemas, each installed for one night only into the existing urban fabric.

In 2005 - 2006 our evolving film project Screen Tests 1-4 was shown as part of the British Art Show Six at the Baltic in Newcastle, and then Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol. Also during the year, Enthusiasm: films of Love Longing and Labour was installed at the Whitechapel Art Gallery London, Kunst Werke in Berlin and the Tapies Foundation Barcelona.

In June 2004 Enthusiasts an exhibition involving the remnants of Amateur Film Clubs from socialist Poland was first exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. And The Commons a distributed series of events was our contribution to the International section of the Liverpool Biennial.

In 2003, Reprise was presented as part of Independence at the South London Gallery

In 2002, a documentary of Capital was part of The Gift an exhibition organised by ICI New York, toured to several American museums returning in December. Welcome was hosted by Galleria Zderzak Cracow, Poland, and the culmination of two years research Free Trade, was launched with the reopening of the Manchester Art Gallery with an exhibition installation, lecture program, series of guided walks and catalogue.

Modern Chairs 1918-1970-2000 was part of the Whitechapel Art Gallery Centenary Exhibition in March 2001. Capital a series of seminars, publication and gift was the inaugural project in the Contemporary Interventions series at Tate Modern, which involved the cooperation of the Bank of England Museum in May-September 2001. In June of the same year Trafficking was our contribution to Trade, a major exhibition at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur.

In May-June of 2000 Not Hansard: The common wealth was at the John Hansard Gallery, in Southampton. Our work was included in Voila at the Musee d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, and in October a long-term book project The Value of Things was published by August/Birkhauser. In December of the same year a series of events Documents marked the culmination of our year-long residency at the Design Council Archive at the University of Brighton. A Serpentine Gallery commission led to a sound installation entitled Use Value as part of Give and Take at the Victoria & Albert Museum London.

An exhibition and series of events Pour Les Curieux was at the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva in1998. The previous year we took part in Interarchiv a project at the University of Luneburg, and Gesichter und Dinge at the Neu Gesellschaft fur Billdende Kunst in Berlin.

We contributed Browse, a guide available at the British Museum and Selfridges Department Store to Collected an exhibition which took place in several museums, shops, and private houses across central London. The exhibition as a whole was curated by Neil and commissioned by The Photographers Gallery, London.

Contents:Tiensevest 31 is a cd rom catalogue of the extraordinary house which hosted Gallery Transit in Leuven Belgium in 1997. A slide-show version of Contents was included in Material Culture exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. The previous year Errata featured as part of Now/Here exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Denmark.

The first collaboration between Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings resulted in the publication Lost Property published by Chance Books and Public Art Development Trust in 1996.