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September 2012 |
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Forthcoming in the book series MONOGRAPHIE, co-published by Dazibao and VU:
“a collection of indispensable volumes on contemporary image practices in Quebec.”
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March 2012 |
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Coming through the Fog: les rencontres de Matthieu Brouillard et Donigan Cumming
Curated by Erin Silver
FOFA Gallery
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
March 19 – April 20, 2012
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February 2012 |
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Workshop, École de Photographie de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland,
13-17 February |
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November 2011 |
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Pleasure Dome
Splitting the Choir: The Moving Images of Donigan Cumming
Book launch and screening
CineCycle, 129 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Saturday, November 5: 7:00 pm Book Launch; 8:00 pm Screening.
Program: Fountain (2005), Petit Jésus (1999), Cold Harbor (2003),
Pencils, Ashes, Matches & Dust (2009), Monument (2008), 3 (2007),
Too Many Things (2010)
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September 2011 |
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Centre Sagamie
Alma, Québec
Artists in Residence
Donigan Cumming and Matthieu Brouillard
September 6 to 9
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May 2011 |
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Canadian Film Institute
Retrospective, Part II:
Wednesday, May 11, 7:00pm
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
Screening: CUT THE PARROT, WRAP, FOUNTAIN, SHELTER, MONUMENT, TOO MANY THINGS |
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April 2011 |
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Splitting the Choir: The Moving Images of Donigan Cumming
Edited by Scott Birdwise
Published by the Canadian Film Institute, Ottawa
Essays by: Scott Birdwise, Mireille Bourgeois, Zoë Constantinides, Blake Fitzpatrick, Marcy Goldberg, Mike Hoolboom, Tom McSorley, Solomon Nagler, Craig Rodmore and
Christopher Rohde
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April 2011 |
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Canadian Film Institute
Retrospective, Part I
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas, Ottawa, Canada
Friday, April 29, 7:30pm
Screening: PETIT JESUS, ERRATIC ANGEL, KARAOKE, FOUR STOREYS, MY DINNER WITH WEEGEE, PENCILS, ASHES, MATCHES & DUST
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February 2011 |
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Master class, HAUTE ÉCOLE D'ART ET DE DESIGN GENÈVE,
Geneva,
Switzerland,
11-12 February |
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Workshop, École de Photographie de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland,
14-18 February |
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November 2010 |
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Contraste Magazine 4 (Paris, France): portfolio from The Stage |
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Oct/Nov 2010 |
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if only I and Too Many Things in “Selection from Cinema du réel," Taipei Film House, Taipei, Taiwan, 15 October – 14 November |
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October 2010 |
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New Giclée print released from The Stage |
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Exhibition review: Matthieu Brouillard, "Donigan Cumming: Kincora 2010," in Ciel Variable 86 |
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September 2010 |
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Galerie Michel Guimont, Québec (Québec) Canada: inaugural exhibition - new Giclée dyptich released |
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Too Many Things in “Dislocación,” Bicentenaire de Chili, Santiago, Chile |
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May 2010 |
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Selections from Pretty Ribbons in the exhibition
Bearing Witness: Works from the Collection
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
May 8, 2010 - January 3, 2011 |
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April 2010 |
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Too Many Things
Screening in International Competition at Vision du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland.
April 15-21 |
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if only I streaming on hotdocs Doc Library site |
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March 2010 |
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Donigan Cumming : preuves nouvelles et choses trouvées
Projections des vidéos que l’artiste a créées depuis 2003
Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, Québec
Mecredi 17 mars 2010, à 18 h 30 |
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February 2010 |
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Kincora 2010, une exposition présentée par les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois
et la Cinémathèque québécoise
Foyer Luce-Guilbeault
Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, Québec
DU 18 FÉVRIER AU 28 MARS |
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Too Many Things premieres in Montreal at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québecois
Saturday, February 20, 4:00 PM in the Salle Claude Jutra, Cinémathèque québécoise |
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January 2010 |
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Included in 100 Video Artists / 100 videoartistas, EXIT Publicaciones, Madrid, Spain. Essay by Jean Perret. Spanish/English |
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November 2009 |
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Installation/Intervention at L’état d’urgence 09
Projection and banners
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
November 25 - 29 |
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Fall 2009 |
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Prologue and Epilogue in EXIT Imagen y Cultura / Image & Culture, #35, "Cut and Paste," Madrid, Spain |
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June 2009 |
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Éditions J’ai VU publishes the book Pencils, Ashes, Matches & Dust / Crayons, cendres, allumettes et poussières in the series “Livres d’artistes” « Constitué de dessins, de photographies, de textes et de soliloques issus de ses films, ce livre dévoile une vibrante mosaïque de l’univers de l’artiste. » |
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May 2009 |
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Selections from Pretty Ribbons in the exhibition
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisianna, U.S.A.
May 16, 2009 - August 2, 2009
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April 2009 |
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Pencils, Ashes, Matches & Dust, a commissioned “film haïku” for Visions du Réel, International Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland
April 23 - April 29 |
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January 2009 |
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Monument, in Territories, part of Spectrum: Shorts, 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands. |
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January 2009 |
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Established artist’s residency for 2009 at the invitation of PRIM (Productions Réalisations Indépendantes de Montréal) for the production of a video titled Too Many Things. |
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November 2008 |
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Trip and Four Storeys, screening in the video program “Metamorphosis”, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, November, 2008 |
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November 2008 |
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“Alive,” commissioned artist project in BlackFlash 26.1: The Death Issue |
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November 2008 |
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Untitled, from Kincora (2008), commissioned artist project in Cinematic Folds: The Furling and Unfurling of Images. Firoza Elavia, editor. Linda Feesey, curator of art works. Published by Pleasure Dome, Toronto
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October 2008 |
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Lecture: Recent Works, Current Thoughts
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thursday, 30 October, 11 am, 2008 |
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October 2008 |
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Maquam Press announces the publication of Kincora, a limited edition artist’s book.
Available through Galerie Éric Devlin and donigancumming.com
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October 2008 |
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Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: Kincora
La Galerie Éric Devlin, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Opening October 16, 2008
until November 16, 2008 |

Gallery Tour |
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October 2008 |
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Monument premieres in Lisbon, Portugal. The work was commissioned by LX Films for "Distance and Proximity", a collection of short films funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, as part of a collective reflection on intercultural subjects. |
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Sept. 2008 |
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Petit Jésus screens as part of Hommage à Claude Forget (1949 - 2008). The film and video communities in Montréal were greatly saddened by the recent death of Claude Forget, a visionary and activist for filmmakers. I am honoured to have my work included in this tribute, “Une sélection de courts métrages chers aux yeux de Claude.” Screenings: Friday, September 19, La Casa Obscura, 20h30; 26-27 September at Vidéographe, as part of Journées de la culture.
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Sept. 2008 |
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Work from Pretty Ribbons in the exhibition DARKSIDE, Part 1: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
September 6 - November 16, 2008 |
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Sept. 2008 |
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P.O.P. Cinema Festival, A Prayer for Nettie, Karaoke, Petit Jésus, Culture, and My Dinner with Weegee in the program “Body Song”, SPOT-Taipei Film House, Taipei, Taiwan
September 5 - September 26, 2008 |
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July 2008
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Selections from Pretty Ribbons in the exhibition Ein Leben lang...
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
July 26 - August 31, 2008
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June 2008
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Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: Ex Votos
Prologue, Epilogue, The Stage and selected videos
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
June 21 - August 10, 2008
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May 2008
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Work from Reality and Motive in Documentary Photogrpaphy in the exhibition
Photography Centres Worldwide
Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia, Almería, Spain
May 29 - July 31, 2008
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May 2008 |
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Launch of Mike Hoolboom’s book of interviews, Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists, including his interview with Donigan Cumming
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tuesday, May 13, 7:00 p.m.
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Fountain and 3, screening in the program Twisted Tales
Raskolnikow Gallery, Dresden, Germany
April 17, 21:00
Karaoke, screening in the program Dix ans – au présent / Lumière, corps, vitesse
Grande Bibliothèque, Montréal, Québec, Canada
April 18, 20:30
The Stage, Christie’s, Fine Photobooks From An Important Private Collection, auction Thursday 10 April at 10am, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, U.S.A. |
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February 2008 |
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3 screening in
Les 26e rendez-vous du cinéma Québécois
February 23, 2008 4:00 PM
Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, Québec, Canada |
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Donigan Cumming: Prologue and Epilogue
Biennale internationale de la Photographie et des Arts visuels de Liège, Belgique
Du 15 février au 30 mars 2008 |
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January 2008 |
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Solo program of video work (1998-2007)
Petit Jésus, My Dinner with Weegee, A Short Lesson, Wrap, Fountain, 3 (Canadian premier)
Antitube , Quebec City
Screening evening of January 18, 2008, 8:00 PM |
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Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: Kincora
Galerie Vu, Quebec City
Opening January 18, 2008, 5:00 PM
until February 24, 2008 |
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December 2007 |
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Karaoke screening as a continuous video projection in "SWITCHER SEX: Video Works from the Teutloff Collection"
Slought Foundation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
December 12 - February 09, 2008
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Sept/Oct. 2007 |
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Donigan Cumming: “Controlled Disturbance”
reviewed by Video Librarian |
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Sept. 2007 |
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Donigan Cumming : “La somme, le sommeil, le cauchemar”
reviewed by Esse |
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August 2007 |
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Men asleep, A dream, Play, A song, screens at RAW: Video Art & Dining, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, New York, 7:30 & 10 PM, August 12, 2007[Premiere] |
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July/Aug/Sept 2007 |
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if only I screening in
« Quelques femmes vues par Raymond Depardon, Chrystel Egal, Donigan Cumming »
l'auditorium Bernard-Pierre Wolff
La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
à partir de 16 heures
21 juillet, 5 août, 8 & 29 septembre 2007 |
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Unique annotated copy of The Stage at Christie’s Rare Photobooks auction, May 31 in
the King Street sale-room, London, U.K. |
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Cycle « La lettre à l’écran » à la Cinémathèque québécoise
Petit Jésus screens in the program Alchimie du réel
May 30, 2007 |
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Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: Triptyque
[Séquence]
132, rue Racine Est, Chicoutimi, Québec
25 mai à 5 aout, 2007 |
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April 2007 |
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4e Festival du cinéma de Brive
Rencontres du moyen métrage, Brive, France
Erratic Angel screens in the program « Photographes en mouvement »
April 11 - 16, 2007 |
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March 2007 |
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Lecture: Created Communities/Fault Lines
Art Gallery of Alberta
2 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, Alberta
Thursday, 8 March, 7 pm, 2007 |
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February 2007 |
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Donigan Cumming: La somme, le sommeil, le cauchemar
Related reviews - Feb. 2007 (french.pdf) |

Photos Nouvelles
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Artpress
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Film Studies Association of Canada 9th Annual Graduate Colloquium
Limits of the Documentary in Canada
Scott Birdwise, Carleton University, “Of Exhaustion and Failure – Bare Life and the
Gesture in Donigan Cumming’s My Dinner with Weegee”
Session 6: 11.45 – 1.15, February 18, 2007 |
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Release of Giclée print edition of key images from Pretty Ribbons. 2007 |

DC prints |
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Fountain screens at the 20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter 1, Stuttgart, Germany
January 18 - 21, 2007 |
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Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: Episodic
Ace Art Inc.
290 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Opening 12 January; artist’s talk 13 January, 2:30 pm
until March 3, 2007 |
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cbc-review |
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November 2006 |
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Shelter screened in the program Six of One, Half-Dozen of the Other: Images from Canada at Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York, U.S.A., November 18, 2006, 8PM, 2006 |
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Cut the Parrot and Une prière pour Nettie will be presented in the exposition, Acquérir pour grandir at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec from November 16, 2006
to April 15, 2007 |
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Locke’s Way screened in Against Autobiography, a curated screening and discussion with Steve Reinke, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 13-15, 2006 |
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Docu-Duster screened in the program Video Burnout at Mix the 19th New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The New Old Art and Technology Center, New York, New York, U.S.A., November 10, 8PM, 2006 |
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Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: La somme, le sommeil, le cauchemar
Exposition présentée au Centre culturel canadien,
dans le cadre du Mois de la Photo Paris 2006
5 rue de Constantine, 75007 Paris - Du 10 nov. 2006 au 3 fev. 2007
Vernissage le jeudi 9 novembre 2006 , 2006
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22 October 2006 |
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Petit Jésus screened on Mange ta ville, ARTV Montréal - 20 hrs. , 2006 |
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September 2006 |
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The Stage is included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, eds.,
The Photobook:
A History, Volume II
(Phaidon, 2006) |
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27 July 2006 |
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Fountain is screened at Scanners:
The 2006 New York Video Festival, in The Mind/Body Program,
July 27th at 6:00 PM , 2006 |
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14 July 2006 |
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Mike Hoolboom, Interview with Donigan Cumming (20 pages), 2006 |
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27 June 2006 |
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Turtle: an anarchic salon by Michael H Shamberg, Chelsea space,
June 27 - August 5, 2006, London, UK , 2006 |
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May 2006 |
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Kathleen Woodward
"Performing Age, Performing Gender"
National Women's Studies Association Journal
Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring) - pp.162-189 , 2006 |
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May 2006 |
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Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, U.S.A.
Honorable Mention
Fountain - dir. Donigan Cumming, 2006 |
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