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Its a commonplace that all objects are signs for something else, what's unusual about the surrogate nipple offered to babies is that in English, the word that identifies the object, dummy advertises the fact.

SURROGATE Neil Cummings

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Twenty-odd ago, in 1997, I researched and curated a complex multi-site exhibition.....

Collected

26th April - 21 June 1997

Exploring the depth and diversity…

I'm part of an insurgent research group working on the Anthropocene Atlas of London (AAL). Sensing long term, slow, slow compared to human lifespans, climatic changes and understanding how our activities are influencing these changes is complex and challenging.  

As a result, we are…

Curated from the collection, a temporary exhibition #FromTheCollection #ObjectOfTheWeek pic.twitter.com/…

Cloud, cast plaster, London c1986 #FromTheCollection #ObjectOfTheWeek

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Documents was a year-long research and exhibitionary project, this is from the accompanying publications......

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In 1997, after several years of research I managed to curate a multi-site exhibition, this account is from a reassembled guide..

26th April - 21 June 1997

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I have a long-held fascination with the Great Exhibition of 1851, and more generally the means through which we structure value through things.

As part of London's Open House weekend 2016 I visited a remaining…

The Value of Things explores the evolution of the department store and the public museum as perfect technologies for the sourcing, transportation, accounting, stocking, and exhibition of material things and the people and values that swirl around…