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