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Dr Francis Summers is an artist and writer. He has studied at Wimbledon School of Art, the Courtauld Institute and the Royal College of Art, with degrees in Fine Art, Art History and Photography. He has worked across photography and video, with an interest in appropriation, time-based media and subjectivity. He is interested in thinking about ways to explore photography as both a formal image-making technology and a communicative tool that cuts across a number of fields of social and aesthetic practice. Recently he has worked in collaboration with Louisa Minkin, as lmfs, on a number of projects looking at anomie and the digital, exploring banner forms and experimental writing. Recent publications and lectures address the work of Jenn Nkiru (situating her film ‘Black to Techno’ through Kodwo Eshun’s writings on Afrofuturism and Christina Sharpe’s notion of the Wake), the collage of Linder (in terms of feminism, festivity and food) and the fashion work of Hood By Air (looking at fashion as the performance of the sexual via the queer theory of Tim Dean and the psychoanalytical lens of Alenka Zupancic).
Recent publications and events include:
‘Non-Norm (Hard-)Core: Hood By Air’s Porn Archive’ book chapter for Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression, eds. Royce Mahawatte and Jacki Willson, Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2022
‘Conflictual Circulation: An Artists Talk’, online talk as lmfs (with Louisa Minkin) for Yes We Cannibal, 2021
‘The Machine of the Future as Heard within the Wake: Jenn Nkiru’s Black to Techno’, conference paper as part of ’Black Histories’ panel at 2021 Annual Screen Conference, 2021
‘Profanation in the Field of Vision: On Linder’s Food Porn’, conference paper at Radical Materialities: Linder and Companion Histories at Kettle’s Yard & Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, 2020
‘What a Body can Do: From the Frenzy of the Communicative to the Visual Bond’, book chapter in Photography Reframed, eds., Benjamin Burbridge & Annebella Pollen, London: I.B. Taurus, 2018
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