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John Cussans

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John Cussans

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j.cussans@worc.ac.uk

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Fine Art

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Expertise:

Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Cultural History, Science Fiction Studies, Horror Studies, Anthropology

Job title:

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art

Biography:

John Cussans is an artist, arts educator and writer working across the fields of contemporary art, cultural history and critical art theory. His work explores the legacies of colonialism, psychoanalysis and surrealism in art, cinema and popular culture from ethnographic, science fictional and social psychology perspectives. He has written and taught on cultural constructions of the alien, inhuman and primitive and their subversions in art, anti-psychiatry and philosophy, with a specific focus on the cultures of British Columbia and Haiti. He is a member of SMRU (Social Morphologies Research Unit) a collaboration between artists and anthropologists based at University College London.

Qualifications:

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Art, Design and Communication, University of the Arts, London, 2007 PhD Cultural History, Royal College of Art, London, 1995 MA Art History and Theory, University of Essex, Colchester, 1987 BA (Hons.) Graphic Design and Illustration, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Polytechnic, 1986

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Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2020) A Taste for Blood and Truth: Bill Gunn’s Ganja and Hess (1973). In: Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film. House of Leaves, United Kingdom, pp. 303-339. ISBN 9781999373801
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2020) Sketch 2 for a Time Slip Installation. The International Journal of Creative Media Research. ISSN 2631-6773 (In Press)

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1	A Taste for Blood and Truth: Bill Gunn’s Ganja and Hess (1973)	1	1
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