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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

My Latest As Author

Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2025) Playing the Rules: A review of Anna Sebastian’s exhibition What We May Also Do at Verdurin. Atheneum Review. pp. 18-29. ISSN 2578-5168 (Print); 2578-5176 (Online)
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2025) Generative AI and The Creative Arts. In: Gen AI Lunchtime Sessions, 19th February 2025, University of Worcester.
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2025) 'Reimagining Arts Education: From the Education of the Senses to Creative Health'. In: Have Some Imagination: Towards a Manifesto for Arts Education, February 7th & 8th 2025, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle. (Unpublished)
Burrows, D., Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460, Kenning, D. and Yacoob, M. (2024) Drawing Analogies: Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London. ISBN 978-1-3503-3476-2 (online) 978-1-3503-3473-1 (hardback) 978-1-3503-3474-8 (epdf) 978-1-3503-3475-5 (epub)
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 and Peyre, R. (2023) Veve for Maman Brigit. [Show/Exhibition]
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 and Walsh, J. (2022) Deep discernment: A conversation between John Cussans and Joe Walsh. e-pub.
Peyre, R. and Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2022) Veve Kunigundis. [Show/Exhibition]
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2022) Beau Dick and the Ceremonial Art of Potlatch. In: Beau Dick and the Ceremonial Art of Potlatch with John Cussans - The Viktor Wynd Museum & The Last Tuesday Society, 19 January 2022, Online. (Unpublished)
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460, Newland, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8090-2965, Golz, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8179-3174, Evans, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2919-8167 and Taylor, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6525-9361 (2022) Arts for Health symposium. In: The Arts for Health Symposium, 12 January 2022, The Art House, Castle St, Worcester.
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460, Burrows, D., Kenning, D. and Yacoob, M. (2021) Diagram Research Group Delta (Δ) Research Placement at Flat Time House. [Show/Exhibition]
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2021) The Skullcracker Suit Pt.1:BC Time-slip (The Empire Never Ended). University of Worcester.
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 (5). ISSN 2631-6773
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 and Cutler, R.L. (2019) Special Investigations. In: Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research Creation. University of Alberta Press, Alberta, Canada, pp. 265-276. ISBN 9781772124859
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2019) In the House of the Man-Eater. In: Beau Dick: Devoured by Consumerism. Figure 1 Publishing, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 20-31. ISBN 9781773270869, 1773270869
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2017) WEIRD Commerce at the Ghetto Biennale (Proverbs from the Gossip Wall). In: Ghetto Biennale 2009-2015. No Eraser Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 188-196. ISBN 9781999864705
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2017) Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie Complex. Strange Attractor/MIT, United Kingdom. ISBN 9781907222474
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2016) Documentation of Chief Alan Hunt’s inaugural potlatch ceremony, Tsaxis Big House, Fort Rupert, September, 3rd. 2016. [Artefact]
Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460 (2016) The Skullcracker Suite: A Long-term Interdisciplinary Artistic Research Project Investigating Processes of Cultural Decolonisation in British Columbia (Portfolio). UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
Cooper, G., Leeson, V., Cussans, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-9460, Madden, H. and Cookman, C. Friends of the Future Collective. Friends of the Future Collective CIC.

My Most Viewed As Author

#	Item title
1.	A Taste for Blood and Truth: Bill Gunn’s Ganja and Hess (1973)	506	2
2.	Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie Complex	487	2
3.	Diagram Research Group Delta (Δ) Research Placement at Flat Time House	204	1
4.	Sketch 2 for a Time Slip Installation	202	2
5.	The Skullcracker Suite: A Long-term Interdisciplinary Artistic Research Project Investigating Processes of Cultural Decolonisation in British Columbia (Portfolio)	191	23
6.	Beau Dick and the Ceremonial Art of Potlatch	170
7.	Arts for Health symposium	165
8.	In the House of the Man-Eater	161	2
9.	Documentation of Chief Alan Hunt’s inaugural potlatch ceremony, Tsaxis Big House, Fort Rupert, September, 3rd. 2016	154
10.	Special Investigations	141	2
11.	Deep discernment: A conversation between John Cussans and Joe Walsh	137	2
12.	WEIRD Commerce at the Ghetto Biennale (Proverbs from the Gossip Wall)	130	1
13.	The Skullcracker Suit Pt.1:BC Time-slip (The Empire Never Ended)	120	35
14.	Veve Kunigundis	108	3
15.	Generative AI and The Creative Arts	103
16.	'Reimagining Arts Education: From the Education of the Senses to Creative Health'	103
17.	Drawing Analogies: Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice	98
18.	Playing the Rules: A review of Anna Sebastian’s exhibition What We May Also Do at Verdurin	97
19.	Veve for Maman Brigit	88
20.	Friends of the Future Collective	74

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