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DANIEL MUDIE CUNNINGHAM ARE YOU THERE?

Are You There? surveys three decades of the artist’s prolific creativity in performance video, photographs, text, and archival material. Curated by James Gatt, and articulated within one double-height space at Wollongong Art Gallery, the exhibition is a vibrant and thought-provoking experience of self and queer identity, rich with emotional connections, trauma, loss and healing, sexuality, death, relationships, family, and friends.

Cunningham is well known as a Sydney-based curator and writer; his projects with contemporary Australian artists for Carriageworks and Artbank have been consistently rigorous and memorable. Hence, this survey of his thirty-year career as an artist is

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