CREAM News Issue 27: Summer 2018
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CREAM NEWS 27 MITRA TABRIZIAN GHOLAM, FILM STILLS AWARDS AND HIGHLIGHTS CREAM is delighted to announce practice in the region: itinerant film The Moving Image Review & Art several major funding application performances addressed to the spirits Journal (MIRAJ) had its official launch successes. We have won £600,000 in Thailand during the Cold War; as a CREAM-associated journal under from the AHRC for a three-year project and moving image practices since the the editorship of Lucy Reynolds ‘Documentary of the Imagination’, with 1990s by contemporary artists such as and Michael Mazière at Ambika Joshua Oppenheimer as Principal Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lav Diaz, P3 on 27 March. MIRAJ issues 6:1&2 Investigator and Rosie Thomas as and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook. Julian and 7:1 were launched and a panel Co-Investigator. This practice-led project Ross will be research assistant on this discussion on Writing the Moving will examine how the working methods project. Image, chaired by Catherine Elwes that Joshua developed in Indonesia may and Michael Mazière, took place with Congratulations to Sandra Gaudenzi be transferred to and adapted in new participants including Sean Cubitt, for winning the British Academy’s Newton cultural and political contexts, exploring Erika Balsom and Maria Walsh. Lucy Mobility Grant in partnership with Prof the different forms a ‘documentary of the Reynolds guest co-edited the special Andre Paz (Federal University of the State imagination’ might take and what kinds issue of MIRAJ: Moving Image Review of Rio de Janeiro) for their project ‘IF of histories can be narrated through this & Art Journal on 50 Years of British BUG LAB: an experimental methodology method. There will be three key outputs: a Artists’ Moving Image with Ben Cook. for developing interactive documentary monograph, an interactive documentary projects in the Brazilian context.’ The Mitra Tabrizian’s debut feature (i-doc) and a web portal, as well as an award (£10,000) enables Prof Paz to film Gholam screened to a full house edited volume of essays and two public travel to Europe to learn from the LAB at Regent Street Cinema on 6 April, symposia. pedagogical approach of the disLAB MA followed by a screentalk between May Adadol Ingawani received and to participate in IF Lab (Interactive Mitra and Rosie Thomas. It was the British Academy Mid-Career Factual Lab). The research collaboration featured as Film of the Week by Fellowship (£120,000) for her project will produce several articles and the co- Mark Kermode, The Observer’s chief ‘Contemporary Art and Animistic creation of an interactive workshop in Rio film critic. Alongside its UK-wide Cinematic Practices in Southeast Asia.’ de Janeiro this September. distribution, Gholam was picked The project, for which there will be up for streaming by the global VoD curatorial and publication outputs, platform MUBI. juxtaposes two moments of aesthetic CREAM NEWS EDITORS ISSUE 27/ SUMMER 2018 CENTRE FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION IN ARTS & MEDIA JULIAN ROSS FACULTY OF MEDIA, ARTS & DESIGN URIEL ORLOW DAVID CAMPANY DETAIL FROM ‘RICH AND STRANGE’, 2018 EXHIBITIONS David Moore had a solo exhibition University of Salford, Manchester, Thomson & Craighead, including Alison ‘Lisa and John’ at London Gallery West, December 2017 - March; A Lost Future: Craighead, had their solo exhibition The 9 March - 22 April, curated by Michael Shezad Dawood at Rubin Museum of Academy of Saturn at Douglas F. Cooley Mazière, which traveled to Belfast Art, New York, 23 February - 21 May, Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Exposed, 4 May - 16 June. Reviewed by where he was in conversation with Portland, February - April, as part of their The Observer, it included the performance neuroscientist Leah Kelly; and Leviathan at Ostrow Distinguished Visitors Award. They The Lisa and John Slideshow at Regent MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales, 3 March - also participated in the following group Street Cinema, 20 April, and at MAC 17 June. He participated in the following exhibitions: Life Time at MU Eindhoven, Theatre. His work The Velvet Arena group exhibitions: Ideal Types at HE.RO the Netherlands, December 2017 - (1994) was exhibited as part of the group Gallery, Amsterdam, 23 January - 18 February; Perpetual Uncertainty: Art and exhibition London Nights, Museum of March; Projections at Art Rotterdam, Radioactivity at Malmo Kunstmuseum, London, 11 May - 11 November. 8-11 February; Rendez-vous with Frans Sweden, February - August; Electronic Hals at Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Superhighway at MAAT, Lisbon, November Uriel Orlow had three solo exhibitions: Netherlands, 30 March - 16 September; 2017 - March; School of Time, organised Plant Echoes at Galleria Laveronica, and Lahore Biennale 01, 18-31 March. by Z33 House of Contemporary Art at Modica, March - July; Theatrum Milan Design Week in April; Anytime Botanicum at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Mitra Tabrizian was a finalist for the Now at TENT, Rotterdam, April - June; I St. Gallen, April - June; Imbizo Ka Rise Art Prize 2018. Two pieces from Was Raised on the Internet at Museum Mafavuke/Mafavuke’s Tribunal at The Leicestershire series were on view as part of Contemporary Art Chicago, June - Edge, University of Bath, April - June. of the exhibition at the House of Vans October, for which they also wrote a text He also participated in the following London, 9-25 February. for the exhibition catalogue. group exhibitions: Colours and Sounds Phoebe Cummings’ Model for a at Worcester Art Gallery, January - Shirley J. Thompson featured in the Common Room was on view at the February; There will come soft rains at exhibition Black Sound at Bernie Grant University of Liverpool Victoria Gallery Basis, Frankfurt, February - April; Healing Arts Centre, which opened on 28 March. and Museum, January - June. Phoebe also at Czech Centre, Berlin, February - April, created an environment as part of the Sarah Pucill participated in the group curated by Tereza Jindrová; Geometries group exhibition Material Environments, exhibition THREESOME: An Exhibition of at Agricultural University of Athens, The Tetley, Leeds, 3 May - 8 July. In three women painters and nine women March - June, curated by Locus Athens; a collaboration with TOAST, Phoebe photographers at New Art Projects, Kunst & Kohle: The Battle of Coal, presented the installation Season at Protein London, 11 January - 4 March. Skuplturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Studios, London, in March. Germany, May - September; Infected David Campany’s solo photo-video Landscapes at M1, Hohenlockstedt, May Emerita Professor Christie Brown exhibition Rich and Strange was presented - June; The London Open at Whitechapel presented Ludus Est (2017) for the four- at Istanbul Photobook Festival in May, Gallery, London, June - August; Yinchuan person exhibition Dream On at V&A and his photographic collaboration Biennale: Starting from the Desert Museum of Childhood, London, 10 with Polly Braden, Adventures in the at MOCA, Yinchuan, China, June - February - 20 January 2019. She did a Lea Valley, was presented at Fondation September; Subcontracted Nations at gallery talk on 12 May. She also exhibited A Stichting, Brussels, April - June. He Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine, in the group exhibitions Material Earth curated Yesterday’s News, a city-wide June - September; The Planetary Garden , II: Material, Metamorphoses and Myth public art billboards, for Vancouver’s Manifesta Biennial 12 in Palermo, June - at Mussums Wiltshire, 10 February Capture Photo Festival, April - May. His November. - 2 April, and The Shoe Box Show, exhibition The Open Road: Photography International Ceramics Research Centre, and the American Road Trip, co-curated Shezad Dawood had three solo Guldagergaard, Denmark, which opened with Denise Wolff, traveled to Milwaukee exhibitions: Leviathan Cycle: Episode 1: 14 April. Art Museum, January - April, and Telfair Ben at New Adelphi Exhibition Gallery, Museum, Savannah, May - September. CREAM NEWS ISSUE 27/SUMMER 2018 MICHAEL MAZIÈRE THE BATHERS AND THE SWIMMERS LUCY REYNOLDS REFRAIN FEMINISTE/A FEMINIST CHORUS SCREENINGS+PERFORMANCES John Wyver produced the dance film To accompany his exhibition opening Glover, which was live broadcast on BBC Winged Bull in the Elephant Case with at Galleria Lavernoica, Uriel Orlow Radio 3 with an introduction by Shirley. Studio Wayne McGregor, which was screened his films The Crown Against She was commissioned to compose a broadcast on BBC Two, 17 March, and the Mafavuke, Muthi, and Imbizo Ka new work, PSALM TO WINDRUSH for Almeida Theatre presentation of Hamlet Mafavuke at the Cinema Aurora, Modica, the Brave & Ingenious, to commemorate with Andrew Scott, broadcast on BBC Two, 31 March, followed by a conversation the 75th anniversary of the SS Windrush, 31 March. He also produced the cinema with art historian Gabi Scardi. He also which was performed at Westminster broadcast of Twelfth Night and Macbeth screened his film Imbizo Ka Mafavuke at Abbey, 22 June. Shirley J. Thompson for the RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon the Czech Centre, Berlin, 12 April, and Ensemble performed new works for a series. Whitechapel Gallery, London, 21 June, service at Westminster Central Mission, where he was in conversation with Emily 30 June, to commemorate the 175th year Michael Mazière was the subject of a Pethick and Shela Sheikh. He screened anniversary of the Jamaica National Bank. two-part retrospective screening organised The Visitor in the programme Fragments by Cineinfinito at Filmoteca de Canatabria, Lucy Reynolds presented her three-part