CREAM NEWS 25

SHEZAD DAWOOD’S SOLO EXHIBITION LEVIATHAN, VENICE HIGHLIGHTS

CREAM researchers were in Venice Uriel Orlow won a Sharjah Biennial Centre. International artists Jasmina for the 57th Venice Biennale. The Award at the 13th Sharjah Biennial for Cibic, Federico Díaz, Lynn Hershman Diaspora Pavilion commissioned Jane his multi-part body of work Theatrum Leeson, Rémy Markowitsch, Lindsay Thorburn to make a film combining Botanicum which was exhibited across Seers and Tunga were commissioned the sculptural work All the World two venues and has received numerous to produce new works. Michael is Now Richer by Sokari Douglas reviews. The biennial’s curator, Mazière, Natalie Kaoukji and Lauren Camp and the opera The Woman Christine Tohme, invited seventy artists Kassell published the catalogue Who Refused to Dance by Shirley to respond to the keywords water, CASEBOOKS, works towards an Thompson. The film All the World is crops, earth and culinary for this year’s exhibition at Ambika P3 (University Now Richer meets The Woman Who exhibition. of Cambridge). On 17 March, the Refused to Dance will be exhibited in ‘CASEBOOKS Artist and Curator Shirley Thompson won a pitch for Venice from 13 May - 16 November. Seminar’ was organised by Ambika BBC Radio to develop broadcasts Shezad Dawood’s solo exhibition P3. The panel consisted of Jasmina for Radio 3 on the African American Leviathan. An Episodic Narrative Cibic, Federico Díaz, Lynn Hershman symphonist, Florence B. Price. Four by Shezad Dawood opened at the Leeson, Rémy Markowitsch, Lindsay other academics will broadcast Palazzina Canonica and Fortuny Seers, Rana Saner and Michael research on ‘lost’ female composers in Factory, 7 May – 24 September, to Mazière, and was chaired by Lauren a series next year, to be launched on coincide with the Venice Biennale. The Kassell. The exhibition received International Women’s Day. first two episodes of the ten-part film glowing reviews from Time Out and cycle, which will conclude in 2020, is Michael Mazière curated the New Scientist. currently on view and the third will be exhibition CASEBOOKS – six The new co-directors of CREAM will shot on location in and around Venice contemporary artists and an be May Adadol Ingawanij and during the exhibition period and added extraordinary medical archive at Neal White. They will be supported on 1 September. He was interviewed AMBIKA P3 (17 March – 23 April) by Lucy Reynolds as deputy for a feature on the exhibition in collaboration with the University director. published in The Guardian. Leviathan of Cambridge and supported by The was supported by the University of Wellcome Trust, the Bodleian Libraries, Westminster’s Strategic Research Fund. Pro-Helvetia and the Czech

CREAM NEWS EDITORS ISSUE 25/ SUMMER 2017 CENTRE FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION IN ARTS & MEDIA JULIAN ROSS ISSN 1750-4929 (PRINT) FACULTY OF MEDIA, ARTS & DESIGN URIEL ORLOW ISSN 1750-4937 (ONLINE) PHOEBE CUMMINGS ANTEDILUVIAN SWAG, 2017

IWONA ABRAMS RUNN LAKE PROJECTION, 2017 EXHIBITIONS

Ingrid Pollard’s works were exhibited in at FACT Liverpool in the exhibition Triennial Exhibition at the Dalarnas the following exhibitions: The Place Is Here Recruitment Gone Wrong (22 June – 1 Museum of Graphic Art, Falun, Sweden in Nottingham Contemporary (4 February October). (Dec 2016 - April 2017). – 1 May); Making Jamaica: Photography Alejandra Perez exhibited Antarctica Ana Janeiro’s exhibition ‘retina of from the 1890s in Rivington Place (24 1961-1996, an interactive sound memory, a story of diaspora’, was on February – 22 April), for which she had installation, as part of the exhibition Otros show at Casa dos Mundos, Lisbon, 9 a work commissioned; Creating the sonidos, otros paisajes, the first exhibition February – 21 April. The works on show Countryside in Compton Verney, Wiltshire of Chilean sound art in Europe, at the were Album India Portuguesa 1951-1961 (until 18 June); and 56 Artillery Lane at Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, 5 and Studies about an archive. Album India Raven Row (21 April – 11 June). May – 11 June. Portuguesa 1951-1961 was also in Betwixt Shezad Dawood has collaborated and Between, a group exhibition at FoMU, Julie Marsh exhibited Lokomotywownia, with Brintons Carpets for a pop-up art Antwerp, 6 May – 2 June. a site-specific installation located in a train installation at 132 Goswell Road, London, repair depot in Krakow, 10-24 February. Christie Brown’s work featured in on 23-25 May as part of Clerkenwell Material:Earth at Messums Wiltshire, Design Week. His film Towards the Possible Phoebe Cummings exhibited as part of Tisbury, 12 March – 1 May. Her work also Film screened as part of the MAM Screen C’est le Bouquet at Fondation Bernardaud, featured in Concrete and Clay at Roaming series at ArtScience Museum, Singapore, Limoges, an exhibition that presented Room, London (4 - 30 April). to coincide with the exhibition The Universe seventeen international artists inspired by and Art (1 April – 30 July). His VR work the floral theme and who elected to work Mitra Tabrizian exhibited as part of Kalimpong was presented in the group in ceramics. Double Coding: a selection from Mudam exhibition HUMAN / DIGITAL: a symbolic Collection at Mudam, Luxembourg, Clare Twomey’s solo exhibition love affair at Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Wuthering Heights – A Manuscript is on Netherlands, 9 February – 2 April, where (17 June – 10 September), Iranian voices: view at Brontë Parsonage Museum, West he also gave an artist talk on 9 February. recent acquisitions of works on paper at Yorkshire, 6 April – 1 January 2018. the British Museum (26 November 2016 Thomson & Craighead, which includes An exhibition of Loraine Leeson’s work - 2 April), and Art on the Underground, Alison Craighead, had a solo exhibition on health issues undertaken with artist London. at Young Projects Galleries, West Peter Dunn in the 1970s was on view in Hollywood, in January. They also took Eva Masterman exhibited as part of the ICA Reading Room, 5 May – 2 July, in part in the following group exhibitions: the Royal British Sculptors Society (RBS) exhibition ‘The Things that Make You Sick,’ GLUT at Holden Gallery, Manchester (16 Bursary Exhibition at 108 Old Brompton curated by Juliette Desorgues. Their work January – 3 March); United We Stand at Road, South Kensington, 7 June – 4 from the 1980s Docklands Community Carroll/Fletcher, London (12 January – 4 August. Poster Project has also been on display March); REALTIME:Art en temps real at Lo at the new V&A Lansbury Micro Museum Uriel Orlow’s solo exhibition Geraniums Pati, Spain (27 January – 19 March). Their since February. Her arts/engineering Are Never Red at Corner College in Zurich modified computer game Triggerhappy, collaboration project undertaken with The opened with a conversation event with T J 1998 is available to play at I Want! I Geezers community group, Active Energy: Demos in April and continued into May. Want! Art & Technology at Birmingham Three Mills, was launched on 13 May at He also showed in Belong and Observe at Museum and Art Gallery (1 April – 1 the Three Mills heritage site, Bromley-by- FMAC, Geneva. October). Their new documentary Control Bow, during the National Mills Weekend. Room is on view at the Peacock Visual Arts project space, Aberdeen (27 April – 27 Two unique prints by Iwona Abrams, May), as part of Look Again Visual Art & Every Snowflake is a Hexagon and Design Festival 2017. A new commission Entropic Properties of Printing with Ice, by Thomson & Craighead will premiere were selected for the International Print

CREAM NEWS ISSUE 25/SUMMER 2017 LAV DIAZ MITRA TABRIZIAN SCREENINGS+PERFORMANCES THE WOMAN WHO LEFT, 2017 GHOLAM, 2017

Shirley Thompson’s solo opera precede an ‘Art of Improvisers’ exhibition together with Laura Mulvey, joined Questions Unanswered, based on and performances at Cafe Oto, Dalston, Babette Mangolte in conversation after a geneticist Anne Mclaren, went on a 15-22 June. screening of her works. On 28 March, Superwomen of Science Spring Tour: George Clark presented his lecture John Wyver produced three RSC Innovate Guildford as part of Guilford and film programme, which included his Live from Stratford-upon-Avon cinema International Music Festival on 4 March; film Sea of Clouds, and a post-screening broadcasts: The Tempest, Julius Caesar and Bath Taps into Science at The Edge, Bath discussion with Julian Ross and Antony & Cleopatra. He also produced University, on 17 March; and at the Fossil Taiwanese filmmaker Ya-Li Huang. May for the screen the Donmar Warehouse Festival in Lyme Regis, 28-29 April, which Adadol Ingawanij co-presented the Shakespeare Trilogy, directed by Phyllida included a workshop. Her Mandela Tales screening of Thai documentary Tongpan Lloyd, which is Julius Caesar, Henry IV and music theatre work was featured at the on 30 March, where she took part in a The Tempest. The Donmar Julius Caesar National Theatre Nairobi on 8 March, post-screening discussion with Graiwoot premiered at the Edinburgh International International Women’s Day, organised by Chulphongsathorn. Film Festival in June. the Kenya Conservatoire of Music with CREAM’s FD Zone hosted a screening an all-female orchestra, singer Maryolive Tereza Stehlikova staged a multi- of the documentary Cities of Sleep, on Mungai and conductor Keziah Ntwiga. sensory performance and a feast based on homelessness in Delhi, followed by a Q&A Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Steve Beresford was involved in a with Shaunak Sen, who first presented Earth, at the Kensal Green Cemetery and number of performances: a duo with on his work in progress at a CREAM Dissenters Chapel on 21 May. violinist Mandhira de Saram at The Cusp conference in 2014. The event, at the magazine party in The Crypt Gallery, Sarah Pucill’s Confessions to the Mirror Regent Street Cinema on 13 March, was Euston, on 1 February; with trombonist (2016) was screened alongside the first co-organised by Rosie Thomas and Sarah Gail Brand and drummer Mark film of her diptych, Magic Mirror (2013), CREAM PhD Sarah Niazi and ran in Sanders in Antwerp on 4 February; at a at Close Up Cinema, London, on 19 conjunction with the London Asian Film festival in St Johann in Tirol, Austria, on February, which included a Q&A with Festival, 9-19 March. 12 March; with singer Elaine Mitchener Laura Guy. It was selected for competition The 46th International Film Festival with sections of Jean Vigo’s film Zero de at Creteil International Women’s Film Rotterdam took place on 25 January Conduite in the Visual Voices programme Festival, Paris, 18-27 March, shown at – 5 February. As a programmer at the at La Monnaie, Brussels, 19 March; at the Alchemy International Film and Moving festival, Julian Ross organised the first Sound Disobedience festival in Ljubljana, Image Festival in Haiwick, Scotland, 2-6 international artist profile screening of Su Slovenia, on 25 March; with drummer March, and selected for the programme Hui-yu, an installation by Meiro Koizumi Julian Sartorius at the Intakt Records festival The Dream That Kicks, curated by Greg and an exhibition of works by Norio Imai at The Vortex, Dalston, on 25 April. The Pope, in Cinemateket, Oslo. It was also at Gallery Joey Ramone, which was also reconstituted group Alterations, which screened at the National Portrait Gallery presented at BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts involves David Toop, Peter Cusack, Terry on 17 March as part of the programme in Brussels, and Image Forum Film Festival Day and Steve, performed at Café Oto for of events complementing the exhibition in Tokyo. the release of Void Transactions, their new Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: CD, on 21 January. They also performed Behind the mask, another mask. Uriel Orlow’s film The Crown at Exploratorium, Berlin, on 9 March, and against Mafavuke was selected for the Several CREAM researchers took part in the Angelica Festival in Bologna, Italy, on 5 international competition at Oberhausen the BIMI Essay Film Festival in London. May. Steve co-produced various recordings Short Film Festival and Videoex Zurich The curatorial team included CREAM by David Toop, Sharon Gal, Terry Day, in May. He was also invited to screen PhD Treasa O’Brien, who was in Maggie Nicols, Gina Southgate, Rie Remnants of the Future at Close-Up cinema conversation with Ehsan Khoshbakht Nakajima, Blanca Regina, Mandhira de in London as part of a screening to mark after his screening of Filmfarsi. At the Saram and Steve himself, which became the 100th birthday of Jean Rouch. ICA on 26 March, Lucy Reynolds, a CD: ‘Art of Improvisers Compilation’ to

ISSUE 25/ SUMMER 2017 CREAM NEWS PUBLICATIONS AWARDS

Jane Barnwell’s book Production Design May Adadol Ingawanij’s article ‘Old Alexa Wright has been awarded for Screen: Visual Storytelling in Film and Undead Friends’ was published on an AHRC Research Network Grant to and Television (Bloomsbury) has been Asia Art Archive’s online journal Field bring members of the International, published. The book launch took place at Notes. Interdisciplinary Hybrid Bodies research Fyvie Hall on 18 May where she was in project together for an exhibition and Lucy Soutter wrote an introduction for conversation with Ian Christie (Birkbeck). symposium at London Gallery West in photographer Coco Capitán’s book Middle November 2017. Neil Matheson published his book Point Between my House and China. Surrealism and the Gothic: Castles of the Phoebe Cummings was shortlisted for Eugenie Shinkle’s essay ‘The Feminine Interior (Routledge). the Woman’s Hour Craft prize. As one of Awkward’ was published in Fashion the twelve shortlisted artists, she will make Sandra Gaudenzi co-edited the book Theory: the Journal of Dress, Body and work for an exhibition at the V&A opening i-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Culture, volume 21, issue 2. in September, after which it will tour in the Documentary (Columbia University Press) Mitra Tabrizian’s photographic work UK. with Judith Aston and Mandy Rose. was published in The Afkhami Collection The BBC Two programme Shakespeare David Campany published the book of Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art Live! From the RSC, on which John The Still Point of the Turning World: (Phaidon Press) and the magazines PYLOT Wyver was RSC Producer, was between film and photography (Kehrer), and BLACKQUBE. nominated for a BAFTA in the Best Live to accompany a major exhibition he has Loraine Leeson’s project West meets Event category. co-curated for FoMu, Antwerp. He has East was featured in the Turkish edition published essays in these books: Walker Mitra Tabrizian’s feature film Gholam of Artificial Hells by Claire Bishop (Koc Evans (Exh. Cat., Centre Pompidou); You received the Platinum Remi Award for First University Press). Are Looking at Something That Never Feature at the 50th WorldFest-Houston, Occurred (Zabludowicz Collection); Eva Masterman wrote book reviews 21-30 April. It was also screened in Seattle Lewis Baltz (Fundacion MAPFRE/Steidl); on Jenni Sorkin’s Live Form and Christie International Film Festival, East End Film Manhattan Transit: Helen Levitt’s Subway Brown, Julian Stair and Clare Twomey’s Festival and for the series ‘Break Through’ Photographs (Galerie Thomas Zander/ Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture organised by the BFI. Koenig Books); Greg Girard: Under for CFile Daily. Joshua Oppenheimer received script Vancouver: Photographs 1972-1982 Neil Matheson contributed his essay funding from the Danish Film Institute in (Magenta Foundation); Ed van der Elsken: ‘Desert islands: magic and modernity in the March for his fiction project, and new Camera in Love (Exh. Cat., Stedelijk work of Ithell Colquhoun’ for Intersections: grants from BritDoc and the Sundance Museum); Peter Fraser: Two Blue Buckets: Women artists/surrealism/modernism Documentary Foundation for his Photographs by Peter Fraser (Peperoni (Manchester University Press), published in documentary project. Books); Stephen Shore: Selected Works, September. 1973–1981 (Aperture). He also published Loraine Leeson’s Active Energy project essays in Aperture magazine, FOAM, Julian Ross became co-editor for the received the Best Arts and Green Energy Wallpaper, Unseen, The Photobook Review I.B. Tauris World Cinema Series. Recent award from Regen SW. and FT Weekend. publications include: Animation in the Massimiliano Fusari was awarded Middle East, edited by Stefanie van de David Bate guest edited the special UoW’s Strategic Research Fund to support Peer; Cosmopolitan Cinema: Imagining issue of the journal on ‘Psychoanalysis the publication of the photographic section the Cross-cultural in East Asian Film by and the Photographer.’ He published his for his upcoming monograph Aesthetics Felicia Chan; and Latin American Women image+text essay ‘Indexiphilia’ in the new as Storytelling. Other SRF recipients Filmmakers, edited by Deborah Martin and magazine Uncertain States. from CREAM were Shezad Dawood, Deborah Shaw. Clare Twomey, Uriel Orlow, Neal White, John Wyver published his article Iwona Abrams, May Ingawanij, Michael ‘Exploring the Lost Television and Mazière, Kerstin Mey, Shirley Thompson, Technique of Producer Fred O’Donovan’ Roshini Kempadoo, Mitra Tabrizian and in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Michael Goddard. Television. LUCY REYNOLDS AT THE MOSAIC ROOMS, LONDON

CONFERENCES AND TALKS

David Campany has given talks at the Media and Design seminar series. He also Landscape’ organised by Witte de With Rutgers University symposium Reinventing gave an invited talk ‘Guerrilla Television Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Documentary Photography in the Revisited: US Public Access Televison in on 29 January. 1970s; the Istanbul Photobook Festival; the 1970s as an Amateur Media Ecology’ Rosie Thomas presented her research PhotoLondon; the National Portrait Gallery, at the Birmingham City University, on 8 on Indian cinema’s Islamicate fantasies, London; Large Glass Gallery, London; The March. including new research on Indian Ali Baba Lure of the Archive symposium in Glyn Lucy Reynolds presented her talk films, at the Centre for Film Studies at the Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; The Ends ‘Researching and Writing Women’s University of St Andrews on 28 February. of Collage symposium in Luxembourg & Experimental Film’ at BFI Reuben Library Dayan Gallery, London. He convened the Joshua Oppenheimer gave a on 8 May. She took part in the panel symposium Notes on the Index on 17 June masterclass at the ICA, as part of Frames discussion ‘The Avant-Garde in Britain?’ to accompany his curated exhibition at of Representation, on 22 April. He was at Raven Row as part of the exhibition Whitechapel Gallery. in conversation with Olafur Eliasson at Gallery House on 19 April. She was Denmark’s Heartland Festival on 3 June. Joanna Boehnert was invited to speak in conversation with Patrick Hough for at the By Design or By Disaster programme the Jerwood Visual Arts/Film and Video Sandra Gauenzi gave a keynote ‘Why at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Umbrella awards at the Cinema Museum do interactive documentaries matter?’ Italy, and at the Aalto PhD Summer on 24 April and with Judy Price and at the East Doc Festival in Prague on 7 School in Helsinki. She was a speaker Anthony Downey on the occasion of her March, and gave a presentation at the at the workshop ‘Exploring the pervasive exhibition Still at The Mosaic Rooms on id_w workshop at Chateau de Bossy, use and rhetorical force of humanitarian 26 April. She also presented at the NECS Switzerland, on 22 April. She gave a statistics’ held at University of Manchester conference, 29 June – 1 July. masterclass at the University of Artevelde on 12 May and Corporate Watch’s in Ghent on 3 May, where she also held Ozlem Koksal was invited to give ‘Symposium on Green Capitalism’ on 8 the first week of the two-week Interactive her talk ‘Armenian Genocide and its May. She chaired a session at Westminster Factual narrative workshop, IF Lab, that she Representation’ for the Graduate Seminar Institute for Advanced Studies’ ‘6th ICTs organises and runs. In Ghent, Sandra also at University of Padova, Italy, on 8-9 May, and Society Conference: Digital Objects, organised the public event VR for Change and participated in the panel discussion Digital Subjects’ on 20-21 May and on 3 May. She organised and moderated ‘Understanding Steve McQueen’ at Black participated in the Climate Symphony Lab the panel ‘VR and documentary’ at Festival British Cinema 2017 conference on 19 at the #2DegreesFestival by ArtAdmin on du Reel in Nyon on 23 April. May. She gave her talk ‘History, Memory 17 June. and Representation: Minorities in Turkey’ at Gillian Youngs gave her opening May Adadol Ingawanij gave a keynote Screen conference, 23-25 June. address ‘Innovation and empowerment lecture at the symposium Reframing the as two sides of the same coin’ for the Julian Ross presented at the workshop Archive at SOAS, 22-23 June. She was Digital Social Innovation (DSI) Manifesto Intermedial Avant-gardes at University of invited to give a talk at the symposium Workshop in Rimini 23 May. Edinburgh on 24 February, where Lucy Escape Trajectories: Art History’s Runaway Reynolds also chaired a session. He Roshini Kempadoo had her book at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, also presented at the following events: launch for her recent monograph, Creole 30 June – 1 July. She also joined a the 1960s Japanese Expanded Cinema in the Archive: Imagery, Presence and discussion at Tate Modern with David Teh workshop at NYU on 10 March; the the Location of the Caribbean Figure, at and Lucy Steeds on 22 June. conference Underground Adventures: the Stuart Hall Library, hosted by Iniva, Michael Goddard was invited to Temporal Experimentation in Postwar on 23 February. On 4 February, she also present his talk ‘Destroying the Cinema Countercultures at Humboldt University contributed to the Tate Exchange as a guest Machine: The Radical 1970s Counter Berlin on 24-25 March; Screen conference, contributor for the panel ‘Exploring the Cinemas of Godard and Miéville, Straub 23-25 June; and NECS conference, 29 Nature, Art and Exchange’, convened by and Huillet and Harun Farocki’ as part June – 1 July. He co-chaired the panel 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, a of the University of West London’s Film, ‘Fukeiron, or the Politics and Poetics of Tate Exchange Associate. TEREZA STEHLIKOVA WORMWOOD

CONFERENCES, TALKS AND EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED

Ana Janeiro participated in the round- Moving Objects, Stories and Home at Allan Parker’s exhibition Material table discussion ‘Symptomatology: the National Museum of Immigration in Light, previously exhibited in University of Archive in its relation with the Arts’ at the Buenos Aires, Argentina, 6-10 April, Westminster and Belgrade, was presented conference What is the Archive?, Calouste where she also chaired the panel as a collateral event at the Kochi Biennale, Gulbenkian Museum, 23-25 March. ‘Immigration, Politics and Visual Arts.’ She India, on 15-24 March. The exhibition also presented at the conference Italian featured works by him and other artists Loraine Leeson gave the opening Post-War Migration to Britain – Film and including Ajit Bhadoriya, David Blackmore, address on creative approaches to The Second Generation at GeoMedia Ria Rajan, Slobodan Stosic and Sophy regeneration at the conference ‘Top 2017 - Spaces of the I-Between at Karlstad Rickett. down meets bottom up in post-industrial University, Sweden, in May. regeneration: Good practice and David Campany’s recent curatorial challenges in participatory approaches to Tereza Stehlikova presented her projects include A Handful of Dust at community engagement in city planning’ research on multi-sensory aesthetics at the the Whitechapel Gallery (7 June – 3 held at the Riverside Museum, Glasgow event Em-Em: Making Sense? at THECUBE, September); The Open Road: photography on 20 January. She was also on a panel London, on 9 May and at the Open Senses at the American Road Trip at the Museum Places in Flux and the Place for Art at Symposium at Senate House, London, on of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida the V&A Lansbury Micro Museum on 29 19 May. (9 February -4 June); The Still Point of April, and presented on the Docklands the Turning World: between film and Uriel Orlow presented his research Community Poster Project for the London photography at FoMu, Antwerp (23 as part of Theatrum Botanicum at the Festival of Architecture at Matt’s Gallery on June – 1 October); and Peter Fraser: Vegetal Meditations conference at Central 8 June. Mathematics at PhotoEspana, Madrid (1 European University in Budapest alongside June – 27 August). John Wyver co-organised the Michael Mader and others. international conference ‘Britain, Canada Tereza Stehlikova and SJ Fowler’s EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post- exhibition Worm Wood is on view at war Renewal’ at the School of Advanced The exhibition On Attachments and Kensal Green Cemetery’s Dissenters Study, University of London. He presented Unknowns took place at Sa Sa Bassac, Gallery, London (30 May – 1 September). papers at Tonite Let’s All Make Love in Phnom Penh (19 May – 19 August), Leicester: Peter Whitehead and the Long curated by Erin Gleeson with May 1960s at DMU Leicester; 20s30s Network Adadol Ingawanij and Ben Valentine. Workshop at University of Nottingham; Participating artists include Martha Tracing Entanglements in Media History Atienez, Kiri Dalena, Erika Tan, Nguyen at Lund, Sweden; and Shakespeare, Trinh Thi, Anocha Mai Suwichakornpong, Technology, Media, Performance at and Yee I-Lann. The exhibition follows a University of Exeter. He gave talks at curatorial intensive organised at Sa Sa Television Drama: Archives, Access and Bassac in January by Erin Gleeson and Research conference at BFI Southbank, the May, with participants including Lee Weng Royal College of Art, and the Donors of the Choy, Zoe Butt, Khvay Samnang, Lyno Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford- Vuth, Russell Storer, Ruth Noack, and upon-Avon. Julian Ross. David Bate presented his talk ‘Camera Michael Mazière curated the exhibition Phones and Mobile Intimacies’ at INSULA at London Gallery West (29 Humboldt University, Berlin. March – 21 May) a retrospective of painting, video and mixed media works Margherita Sprio was invited to present produced over the last six years by Ian at the conference Migration, Memories Bourn, pioneer of British video art. and Home – The Post-War Italian-British Experience at Heritages of Migration: ISSUE 25 / SUMMER 2017 CREAM NEWS LORRAINE LEESON BEST ARTS AND GREEN ENERGY AWARD

URIEL ORLOW SHARJAH AWARD CREAM EVENTS

Lav Diaz: Journeys (27 Jan-12 March) a Proving Grounds, a joint project between and a panel discussion on interactive series of exhibition and events around the initiative in Art/Science at CREAM stories with Mandy Rose and Judith Aston the works of Lav Diaz was co-curated by led by Neal White and the Institute of (University of West England) on 22 May. May Adadol Ingawanij, Michael Modern and Contemporary Culture led Lucy Soutter, Gavin Jack and Eugenie Mazière, CREAM PhD George Clark by John Beck in SSH was launched on 19 Shenkle piloted the Photography Forum and Julian Ross. London Gallery West May. In the first event ‘Biosphere 2: Then lecture series which ran across seven was transformed into a pop up cinema and Now’ Kathelin Gray, Biosphere 2 Wednesday lunchtimes in the Spring Term to screen a rotating programme of six of Co-Founder, was in conversation with Rob and featured talks by visiting speakers Diaz’s films. This was accompanied by a La Frenais. George Georgiou and Mark Neville, as series of gallery talks including with Lav 18 mid-career journalists and filmmakers well as by staff members David Moore, Diaz, Chiara Marañón (MUBI), Adam from top media houses in India, Pakistan, Ben Edwards, Lucy Soutter and David Roberts (A Nos Amours), Tiago de Luca Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and the Maldives Campany. The series also included a (Warwick), Dan Kidner (Reading), Lucia arrived in the faculty on 27 March for panel discussion on the legacy of John Nagib (Reading) and Ashley Thompson the eight-week Chevening South Asia Berger by David Bate, Graham Evans (SOAS). On 4 March, CREAM hosted Journalism Programme, funded by the and Lucy Soutter. an international symposium. Participants Foreign and Commonwealth Office and included Eva Bentcheva (SOAS), Graiwoot Photographies Conference: Critical Issues run by CREAM’s Rosie Thomas and Chulphongsathorn (QMUL), William Brown in Photography Today was co-organised CAMRI’s Jean Seaton. The programme (Roehampton), and Rebecca Shatwell by David Bate with Liz Wells,Plymouth included sessions with Sandra Gaudenzi (AV Festival). On 5 March, in an event University, at the University of Westminster and Joshua Oppenheimer, and in collaboration with MUBI, Batang West on 18-19 May. As part of the conference, culminated in a symposium organised Side was screened at the Regent Street Lucy Soutter presented her talk by Rosie, Jean and the journalists at the Cinema on 35mm followed by a Q&A ‘Photography and Cultural Translation.’ Institute of Contemporary Arts on 17 May with Diaz. on ‘Post-truth politics and the New West: Following support from Arts Catalyst and a Margherita Sprio co-organised the what does this mean for South Asia and its successful bid to University of Westminster CREAM and HOMELandS conference media?’ Strategic Research Fund, Neal White ‘Media, Arts and Hybrid Spaces – initiated a new Office of Experiments Members of CREAM and CAMRI joined Experience and Meaning in the Contact project in Poole Dorset. Workshops took forces with staff from the faculty of Social Zone’ with Mattia Lento at the University place in early June, led by SPUD and Sciences and Humanities to organise a of Westminster on 27 January. She Neal. conference and film festival, RIGHTS and also organised The Politics of Research PLIGHT: cultural counter-narratives of the – Impact, a University of Westminster migrant and refugee experiences, at the Researcher Network Symposium in June. Phoebe Cummings joined the Ceramics Regent Street Campus. The two-day film Research Centre in March. She did an Michael Goddard organised the Moving festival, programmed by Jane Thorburn Arts/Industry residency at the Kohler Images, Multiple Screens seminar series and CREAM PhD Cecilia Zoppelletto, factory, Wisconsin and a ceramics of three events with invited internal and took place at the Regent Street Cinema, residency at the V&A. She was winner of external speakers: Sarah Pucill and 24-25 June. the British Ceramics Biennial 2011 and Dorota Ostrowska (Birkbeck) presented Sandra Gaudenzi organised and Ceramics Fellow at Camden Arts Centre on 13 April; Christopher Hogg, Kim moderated four Westminster DisLAB public 2012-13. Akass (Hertfordshire) and Janet McCabe events: Hannah Gelbart (BBC Social (Birkbeck) spoke on 1 June; and Michael Media) on 27 February; Juliana Ruhfus (Al Mazière and Erika Balsom (King’s Jazeera TV) on 27 March; Ana Naomi De College) presented on 15 June. Susa (Forensic Architecture) on 24 April;

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Michael Mazière was awarded a re:publica & Media Convention, Berlin; where she also screened her film This is degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Poetics and Politics of Documentary, History (after all). Her film Gender Trouble Published Work from the University of University of Sussex; Being Ruby Rich: screened at B-Movie, Hamburg, in a Westminster for his thesis: Testing the Film Curation as Advocacy and Activism, programme curated by QueerAmnesty. Her Curatorial in Artists’ Film and Video Birkbeck Cinema. film Wormcharmer screened at Close Up Installation. Cinema, London, as part of UEL’s Moving George Clark presented part of his PhD Image Research Centre event 100 Years of Congratulations also to Silvia Angeli, project Untitled (Eyemo Rolls) at VISIONS, Jean Rouch. Her current film has received Manuela Graziol and Adina Montreal (30 April) and Birkbeck Institute support this year from The Elephant Trust Bradeanu for completing their doctoral of Moving Image with LUX, London (2 and Film London Artists Moving Image degree. June). Sea of Clouds, also part of his PhD Network (FLAMIN). project, screened at Fronteira International ‘Between here and then,’ the CREAM Documentary and Experimental Film Deniz Soezen was invited to present Caucus exhibition, opened on 21 June. Festival, Courtisane Festival, and Image a work-in-progress version of her PhD Showcasing the work of 19 CREAM Forum Festival in Japan. His feature film A project ‘Surya Namaz’ at Peer Session PhD candidates, the exhibition takes Distant Echo was shown Los Angeles Film 73 at Bond House gallery, ASC studios in place across two galleries, and includes Forum (15 January), Fronteira International January. Peer Sessions is a London-based screenings, discussions, and performances, Documentary and Experimental Film crit group founded in 2009 by artists Kate culminating with the CREAM Symposium Festival (24 March), Courtisane Festival (1 Pickering and Charlotte Warne Thomas, on 3-4 July. Participating researchers April), Images Festival in Toronto (22 April) as an educational support network include John Aitken, Andreia Alves and Edinburgh Film Festival (27-29 June). for postgraduate artists, curators and de Oliveira, Francesco Arese He contributed an essay to Workshop of academics. Visconti, Gilbert Calleja, Nina the Film Form / Warsztat Formy Filmowej, Danino, Sue Goldschmidt, Sunil edited by Marika Kumicz and Łukasz Gupta, Ana Janeiro, Matthias Ronduda (Fundacja Arton, Warsaw). Kispert, Côme Ledésert, David Leahy, Sarah Niazi, Ingrid Pollard, Three images from Francesco Arese Jini Rawlings, Catherine Roche, Visconti’s research project ‘GENUS- Valentina Signorelli, Arne Sjögren, Generational Shifts-Italian migration Deniz Soezen and Cecilia Zoppelletto. after World War II’ was on view at the Festival International d’Italie in Carouge, Treasa O’Brien received a Film Project Switzerland, 3-4 June. He also took part in Award from Arts Council of Ireland and the the conference ‘Immigrazione: iconografia Arts Act Bursary Award from Clare Council contemporanea e storia.’ to complete her main PhD film Town of Strangers. Her film Noor at Mytilini Port Matthias Kispert’s video essay No was screened at London Short Film Festival More Beyond was screened at The White (12 January), Berlin UK Short Film Festival Building in London on 6 May as part of (February), WANDA festival of Feminist an event called Violent Borders hosted by Moving Image, Belfast (11-12 February). STRIKE! Magazine. Another film in her PhD project, The Fotios Begklis performed live VJ for Blow-in, was selected for Puerto Vallarta The Frog Princess Punked, a hybrid Film Festival, Mexico, Sydney Irish Film performance, at Soho Theatre on 5 June. Festival and Melbourne Irish Film Festival. She gave presentations at the following Roz Mortimer presented at the events: Crossing Borders: Negotiation, symposium Poetics and Politics of Provocation and Transgression, Birkbeck,; Documentary at University of Sussex, June,