David Cunningham - CV Summary
Since 1993 artist and musician David Cunningham has created a
continuing series of installation works based on real time exploration
of acoustics. 'The Listening Room', Biennale of Sydney (1998) was
followed by 2 installation works in "Days Like
These", The Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain
2003 and subsequent installations at ICC Tokyo, Ikon Birmingham
and Camden Arts Centre London.
David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954 and lives and works in
London.
His work has ranged from pop music to gallery installations, including
work for television, film, contemporary dance, and a number of
collaborations with visual artists. His first significant
commercial success came with The Flying Lizards' single 'Money', an
international hit in 1979.
Since his first album release 'Grey Scale' in 1976 he has worked as a
composer and record producer, engaging with an eclectic range of people
and music, from pop groups (This Heat, Owada) to improvisors (David
Toop, Steve Beresford) to Michael Nyman's music for Peter Greenaway's
films and work with Ute Lemper and others.
Live work has involved collaboration and performances with John Cage,
Kathy Acker, Michael Nyman, Yasuaki Shimizu, Peter Gordon, Panasonic,
Michael Giles, Scanner and others.
Music for film and television has included Ken McMullen's films 'Zina'
and (in collaboration with Michael Giles and Jamie Muir) 'Ghost Dance',
and a series of television collaborations with visual artists which has
included John Latham, David Hall, Stephen Partridge, Bruce
McLean. Related work has included the production and treatment of
sound for installation and broadcast artworks by Martin Creed, Cerith
Wyn Evans, Susan Hiller, João Penalva, Ian Breakwell, Gillian
Wearing, Thomas Demand, Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Sam Taylor-Wood
and many others.
FORMAL EDUCATION:
BA (hons) Maidstone College of Art 1977
TEACHING AND LECTURING:
Middlesex University 2008 (visiting lecturer, Sonic Arts)
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL 2007-2009 (external
examiner,
MA, MFA)
Middlesex University 2007 (visiting lecturer, Sonic Arts)
University of the Arts London, London College of
Communication 2006-2008 (Senior Research
Fellow)
Middlesex University 2006 (visiting lecturer, Sonic Arts)
London College of Communication 2004-2006 (external examiner, Sonic Art
BA and PostGrad)
Middlesex University 2004 (visiting lecturer, Sonic Arts)
University of Newcastle 2003-5 (AHRB Research Fellow)
University of Newcastle 2001 (visiting lecturer, Fine Art BA, MA)
London College of Printing 1998-2001 (visiting lecturer, Film and
Television, BA)
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside 1999 (external validator,
Fine Art, BA)
University of Sydney 1998 (visiting lecturer, Fine Art BA, MA)
Royal College of Art 1996-2000 (visiting lecturer, Photography, Film
and Television, Communications, MA)
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art 1995-98 (external examiner, Fine
Art BA)
University of Wales 1996 (visiting lecturer, Fine Art BA, MA)
Middlesex University 1992-2001 (part-time lecturer, Fine Art BA, MA)
University of East London 1992/3 (visiting lecturer, Fine Art BA)
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside 1991 (visiting lecturer, Fine
Art BA)
Slade School of Fine Art 1990/91 (visiting lecturer, Fine Art
postgraduate diploma, MA)
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art 1988,1991-93
(visiting lecturer, Fine Art BA, Electronic Imaging, postgraduate
diploma and MSc)
Derbyshire College of Higher Education 1986 (visiting lecturer, Fine
Art BA)
Maidstone College of Art 1983, 1987-96 (part-time lecturer, Fine Art
BA, Time Based Media BA, MA)
San Francisco Art Institute 1983 (visiting lecturer, Film School MA)
Middlesex Polytechnic 1983 (visiting lecturer, Fine Art)
London College of Printing 1979 (part-time lecturer, Film and
Television BA)
EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS:
'The Listening Room' installation, L'Exposition Continue, 1m3
Lausanne 2008
'Instructions for Films' n.o.w.here, London 2007
'alphabet' noshowspace.com,
London 2007
'Four silent films' LCC, London 2007
'A piano in a gallery' installation, Carter Presents, London
2006
'The Listening Room' installation, Camden Arts
Centre, London 2005
'Exterior' site specific installation, AA School of Architecture ,
London 2005
'Interior' site specific installation, Kanazawa 2004
'The Listening Room' installation, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2003
'Lift Corridor', Ikon offsite project, Birmingham 2003
'Listening to the Architecture' installation, Clerkenwell Magistrates
Court, London 2003
'Sounding Spaces' installation, ICC Gallery, Tokyo 2003
'Speech Radio' Radioartmobile, Venice Biennale
2003
'Where a straight line meets a curve' installation (with Karen Mirza
and Brad Butler), Lux Open, London 2003
'A position between two curves' Days Like These, The Tate Triennial of
Contemporary British Art, London 2003
'The Listening Room' installation, The Connecting Principle,
University of Newcastle 2002
'Transience', Kiasma, Helsinki 2001
'Sharing a Shadow' Three Colt Street, London 2000
'A Casa Di...', (with Martin Creed) Cittadellarte, Biella Italy 2000
'Bang', curated by Katherine Meynell, Standpoint London 2000
'Root' (with Thurston Moore) Chisenhale Gallery, London 1998
'The Listening Room' installation Biennale of Sydney 1998
'Open Square' installation City Hall Square Copenhagen 1997
installation within 'Disorders', curated by Beaconsfield at St Thomas'
Hospital, London 1996
'The Listener' gallery installation Mall Gallery, London 1996
SELECTED PRINT AND OTHER MEDIA:
David Cunningham interviewed by Mike Barnes – The Wire magazine August
2005
David Cunningham interviewed by Ika Johannesson
- Sex magazine issue 7, Stockholm 2005
Mercer Union - Mercersound - audio CD for Venice Bienalle 2005 (http://www.mercerunion.org/cd)
Toop, David: 'The art of noise' - Tate, Etc - issue 3 Spring 2005
Toop, David ed: "Haunted Weather" Staubgold, Berlin 2004 - Staubgold 52
(audio CD)
Toop, David "Haunted Weather" Serpent's Tail London 2004 ISBN
1-85242-812-0
Hatanaka, Minoru ed: "Sounding Spaces" ICC Gallery Tokyo 2003 ISBN
4-7571-7022-X bilingual publication including audio CD
David Cunningham interviewed by Toki Takumi - Sound and Recording
magazine Japan, August 2003 issue
David Cunningham interviewed by Naomi Tajitsu -
Yomiuri Shimbun 21 August 2003
'Days like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art 2003' ed
Judith Nesbitt and Jonathan Watkins, Tate Publications London 2003 ISBN
1-85437-457-5 (http://www.tate.org.uk)
'Transience' by Angus Carlyle, The Wire, London
2001
'Soundworks in Copenhagen' by John Wynne, Resonance Vol 6 No 1, London
1998
'David Cunningham Interview' by Kunizaki, Sound
and Recording, Tokyo 1998
'Every Day' by Jonathan Watkins, Every Day, 11th Bienale of Sydney,
Sydney 1998
'David Cunningham' by Felicity Fenner, Every Day, 11th Bienale of
Sydney 1998, Sydney 1998
'Out of Nowhere', Diffusion, London 1997
'Auteur Active' by Clive Bell, The Wire, London
1996
'David Cunningham' interviewed by Ken Nishigawa, Sound and Recording,
Tokyo 1996
'Listening and the Listening Room', Transcript Vol 2 No 2, Dundee
1996
MUSIC FOR FILM AND TELEVISION:
'The Space Between' (with Karen Mirza and Brad Butler), 2005
'Continental Drift' dir. William Raban -Bow Visions 2005
'Civil Disobedience' dir. William Raban -Bow Visions 2004
'MM' dir. William Raban -Bow Visions 2002
'Variety' dir. Ian Breakwell -BFI 2001
'Firestation' dir. William Raban -Bow Visions 2000
'This is Modern Art' incidental music dir. Chris Rodley -Oxford
TV 1999
'Confessions' dir. William Raban -Bow Visions 1997
'Island Race' dir. William Raban -Bow Visions 1996
FILM AND TELEVISION - MUSIC PRODUCTION:
'Non Places' dir. Karen Mirza and Brad Butler 1999
'Beating the Bridges' dir. William Raban -Bow
Visions/Carlton TV 1998
'Misfit' dir. Sam Taylor Wood -Arts
Council/BBC 2 1997
'Angel' dir. Mark Wallinger -Arts Council/BBC 2 1997
MUSIC FOR THEATRE AND DANCE:
'Life's a Monkey' Ken McMullen- Cochrane Theatre, London 2002
'Charlotte at 5am' Tiina Huczkowski -Helsinki 1997
PERFORMANCE ACTIVITIES:
Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin 2008
Le Bourg, Lausanne 2008
Sonic Recycler, Brentford 2007
Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, London 2007
Mister Motley Amsterdam 2006
Conjunction, Stoke-on-Trent 2006
Fondazione Spinola Banna, Torino 2006
G5, Zürich 2006
NOG Gallery, London 2005
Beaconsfield (with Karen Mirza and Brad Butler), London 2005
Sound Track (with Karen Mirza and Brad Butler),
London 2005
Supersonic, Birmingham,, 2005
Middlesborough Music Festival, 2005
Artfair, Basel, 2005
Super Delux (with Yasuaki Shimizu) Tokyo, 2004
Filmlab, London 2004
CAY, Tokyo 2004
Korinbo Harbor, Kanazawa 2004
ICC Tokyo, 2003
Tate Britain, London, 2003
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2002
BBC Mixing It, (with Scanner), London 2002
Performer Festival, Oslo (with Scanner), Norway
2001
Spitz, London (with Mieko Shimizu) 2000
Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy 2000
Sprawl, London (with Mieko Shimizu) 1999
Strike, London (with Mieko Shimizu) 1999
Albany, London (with 'Accidents and Emergencies) 1997
Beaconsfield, London (with Panasonic) 1996
Bath Pavilion (with Michael Giles) 1996
PUBLICATIONS:
Martin Creed: 'Work No. 211 A Collaboration with David
Cunningham' - Frieze London 2001
'Sonic Boom' -Art Monthly London 2000
'Noise, Water, Meat' -Art Monthly London 2000
'Listening and The Listening Room' -Transcript Dundee 1996
contributions to:
'Nothing' ed. Graham Gussin and Ele Carpenter -Northern Gallery for
Contemporary Art Sunderland 2001
'Writings on Glass' ed. Richard Kostelanetz -Schirmer Books New York
1997
'Sounding Spaces' ICC Gallery,
Tokyo 2003
'Yellow Magic Orchestra
x Sukita',
Tokyo FM Books, Tokyo 2010
DISCOGRAPHY:
CD Releases:
Novembre -Editions Circuit, 2008
Artificial Homeland (with Angela Jaeger) -piano
509, 1998
ext.night -piano 507, 1997
Ghost Dance (with Michael Giles, Jamie Muir) -piano 502 1996
The Yellow Box (with Peter Gordon) -piano 504 1996
CD Compilations and Collaborations:
'Musiques Electroniques en France 1974-1984" (with Pascal Comelade)
-Gazul 2007
'Oxalis' (with Peter Gordon) Miniatures 2 -Cherry Red
2000
Pan Sonic/Hayley Newman/David Crawforth -Rude Mechanic -piano 200, 1999
'Track 13' Root -lo recordings 1998
John Greaves -Songs -Resurgence 1996
CD Production:
Martin Creed -Thinking/Not Thinking Art Basel Conversations
2005
Martin Creed -I don't know what I want -Serpentine Gallery 2004
Martin Creed -I Can't Move -Art Metropole 1999
Michael Nyman -The Commissar Vanishes/The Fall of Icarus -Virgin 1999
Martin Creed -Everything is Going to be Alright
-Pier Trust 1999
owada -Nothing -piano 1997
(complete discography at http://www.stalk.net/piano/adiscdc.htm)