ANDY WEIR

Andy Weir is an artist, writer and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea UAL, London. His research explores relations of art to environmental toxicity. This has focused on deep times of nuclear waste as they relate to future imaginaries, planetary politics, materialist philosophies, myth and colonialism. Current work expands into personification of and anthems for fatbergs; object burials and unearthing as time loops for speculative ethics; material flows, snags and anomalies. He completed his PhD at Goldsmiths, Uni. of London, developing the Pazugoo art research project as intervention into deep geological repository marking strategy (future monuments for long-term storage of radioactive materials). Current research also tests the unpredictability of idiocy against predictive technologies of capitalism.

Recent exhibitions, publications and projects include co-curating Fiction Machines 4 with Charlie Tweed (2023), writing in Journal of Visual Culture (2022); Politics of Design Reframed (2022) and Beyond Modernity: Alternative Incursions into the Anthropocene (2022), and work in in Splitting The Atom, Vilnius Art Centre (2020); The Work of Time, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (2020), Neuhaus, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (2019), and Perpetual Uncertainty, Malmo Art Museum (2018). He is a peer-reviewer for various publications including Journal for Artistic Research, and member of Nuclear Culture Research Group. He previously studied at Goldsmiths, University of Edinburgh, and co-founded the art group allsopp&weir with Paul Allsopp. He is editor of the art research journal Self Moving Matter. 

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