Are You There? is a comprehensive overview of Daniel Mudie Cunningham’s artistic practice over the last three decades. It includes new and reworked essays by some of Australia’s most esteemed writers, curators and academics. Published by Brown Paper following Cunningham’s 2023 survey exhibition Are You There?, this richly illustrated monograph charts his lifelong practice of self-invention, documentation, and memorialisation as a form of durational queer self-portraiture.

By drawing upon art history, queer politics, pop culture, performance and music, Cunningham’s work grapples with personal experiences of love, loss and becoming as a queer person coming of age in the late twentieth century. Are You There? charts a practice that employs enactment and reenactment to relay the developing psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of identity through performance, video, photography and text.

Authors: Judy Annear, James Gatt, Fiona Kelly McGregor, Ann Finegan, Anna Gibbs, Carrie Miller, Helen Grace, Gary Carsley, José Da Silva, Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Editors: James Gatt, Elliott Bryce Foulkes
Designer: Elle Williams

Published by Brown Paper

ISBN: 978-0-6459304-3-6

Available November 2024
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208 pages

28 x 21.5 cm

Hardcover
Edition of 500

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. 

Cover: Daniel (16/49), 1991/2024 (detail)