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CREAM News Issue 21 / Spring 2015 CREAM NEWS 21 REF BOXES AND FILES HIGHLIGHTS CONGRATULATIONS CRÈME DE LA CRÈME Josh Oppenheimer and Joram ten Brink’s Joshua Oppenheimer whose latest flm, flm project on the Indonesian genocide, The Look of Silence, a companion piece to In the 2014 Research Excellence John Wyver’s adaptations of Shakespeare the Award winning and Oscar-nominated Framework (REF), CREAM was rated on TV and Jane Thorburn’s flms on sickle The Act of Killing, has won a staggering the number one centre in the country cell disease. Our research environment 34 awards.Federica Chiocchetti who for research in visual and media art was similarly rated as 100% being received the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation and design, with 91% of our research either ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally Best Photography Book 2015 award for assessed as either ‘world leading’ (4*) or excellent’. her co-edited book Amore e Piombo: ‘internationally excellent’ (3*). According The Photography of Extremes in 1970s to the Times Higher Education league Congratulations to all CREAM researchers! Italy. Michael Maziere and Kate Heron tables, the overall rankings place CREAM It is a phenomenal achievement, which from FABE, who raised £41K from the within the top three departments in the confrms the excellence and dynamism Arts Council for the Ambika P3 exhibition country. This is an especially exceptional of our department and places MAD Potential Architecture. David Campany performance for CREAM because this research as the most outstanding in the who has won the Deutscher Fotobuch time, unlike in 2008, our panel included all university. Thanks are due to all those Preis for his book Walker Evans: the the Russell Group universities’ art history who submitted their research outputs magazine work. Loraine Leeson who has departments, all of which but one scored and impact case studies, as well as to raised nearly £25K from the Western lower than CREAM. This time our research CREAM’s core REF team—Rosie Thomas, Riverside Environmental Fund, supporting was also judged on its impact outside Tom Corby, May Ingawanij, Mirko Nikolic, biodiversity in the River Thames. Tom academia to account for its measurable Philip Lee—and also Jane Ure-Smith and Corby who was awarded £7,5K by the efects on culture, civic society, policy and Ray Watkins who designed and helped to Natural Environment Research Council the economy. The 2014 REF gave CREAM edit the fnal portfolios. to collaborate with the British Antarctic an impact rating of 100% of submitted Survey on animating the Arctic. Ruth research as either ‘world leading’ or Novaczek who was awarded her PhD. ‘internationally excellent’ placing us 8th in terms of research impact nationally. The impact case studies we submitted were CREAM NEWS EDITORS ISSUE 21/ SPRING 2015 CENTRE OF RESEARCH & EDUCATION IN ARTS & MEDIA CHRISTIE BROWN ISSN 1750-4929 (PRINT) SCHOOL OF MEDIA, ARTS & DESIGN URIEL ORLOW ISSN 1750-4937 (ONLINE) MITRA TABRIZIAN LOOKING BACK [LEFT] SHEZAD DAWOOD TOWARDS THE CENTRE ONCE MORE EXHIBITIONS Mitra Tabrizian’s photographs are on show Other major solo showings by Shezad fused contemporary art with architecture in a group exhibition The Great Game at the Dawood include The Anthropology of in four site-specifc commissions by artists Venice Biennale in the Iranian Pavilion (9th Chance, OCAT, Xi’an, China, 1 November Alexander Brodsky, Joar Nango and May- 22nd November 2015). Her work is also 2014 – 26 February 2015 and Towards the Apolonija Šušterŝič, and the architect Sean on show at the Los Angeles County Museum Possible Film, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, Grifths from the Faculty of Architecture. of Art in Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art 3 October 2014 – 11 January 2015. His From 13 March to 3 May 2015, Michael of the Middle East running from 1st Feb 2015 work also featured in several group shows Mazière also presented Zoetrope a series to January 2016. including The Vienna Biennial, Future Light, of site-specifc works by experimental 11 June to 4 October 2015 and The Great Uriel Orlow is presenting his work in a major flmmaker Nicky Hamlyn, working with guest Acceleration - Taipei Biennial 2014 curated by solo exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli in curator Carmen Billows for London Gallery Nicolas Bourriaud in Taiwan, 13 September Turin from 25th June, while his other solo West. Zoetrope features previously unseen 2014 - 4 January 2015. exhibition Uriel Orlow: Unmade Film was at works from the last decade of Hamlyn’s rich the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton Alongside Clare Twomey’s projects with artistic practice. from February to April. HMDT and York Art Gallery, she has Following on from the showing at the featured in two group exhibitions: Fragile, Uriel Orlow also co-curated a series of events International Symposium of Electronic Arts at the National Museum of Wales, Cardif, and an exhibition, The Poetics of Relation in Dubai last winter, Tom Corby’s work Terra (April - October 2015) addressing diversity held at Live InYourHead, Geneva. Uriel Incognita was exhibited at The Athens Digital and beauty in ceramic practice and has also shown work in several notable Arts Festival, Greece, in May 21 – 24, 2015. Flora, celebrating the power of fowers in international group exhibitions this year contemporary art at Oriel Davies Cardif, The single screen version of Jini Rawlings’ including Riddle of the Burial Grounds at (May to September), funded to the sum of site specifc video and glass installation Project Arts Centre Dublin, Sources Go £6,500 by the Arts Council of Wales. Amy, Emily Emma and the Four Times of Dark at Futura in Prague, Past Imperfect/ Day, originally shown May-Nov 2014 at the Future Present at the FADA Gallery in Clare Twomey also contributed to Acts of National Trust’s Uppark House as part of the Johannesburg, Say What? at Galeri Zilberman Making, a two-week festival that celebrated Unravelled exhibition, was shown in Leaving in Istanbul,Ce qui ne sert pas s’oublie at the contemporary craft through performances, Home at Contemporary Applied Arts, Musee D’Art Contemporain in Bordeaux and live installations and workshops which Southwark Street, London 17 April - 31 May Spectrographies at Depo in Instanbul. took place at Bilston Craft Gallery from 2015, which explored changes that occur 14 - 28 February and Shipley Art Gallery in Shezad Dawood’s animation The Room, when site-specifc installations are moved to Gateshead from 7 - 21 March. alongside new painting and accompanying a new setting, woodcuts, was the focal point of his week- David Bate’s photographic work was long showing as part of Fig-2, curated by exhibited in the show Quiet Moments Fatos Ustek at the ICA, London: 30th March at Freemantle Arts, Perth, Australia, June-July - 5th April 2015, 2015. Shezad Dawood’s Tate Visual Art Commission, David Campany’s exhibition of Walker the nine-panel installation entitled Towards Evans’s work, taken from his prize- winning The Centre. Once More was shown at Sadler’s book Walker Evans: the magazine work, Wells, London from 9 October 2014 - 26 was shown at Galerie Photographique, April 2015. Curated by Leyla Fakhr, this Pôle Image Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France multi-layered composition, suggestive of 13th March to 9th May. movement within an abstract landscape Michael Mazière presented Potential draws on elements of a ballet set designed Architecture (11 March – 19 April 2015), in by Graham Sutherland for Sadler’s Wells Ambika P3, a collaboration between Ambika in1941. P3 and guest curator David Thorp which CREAM NEWS ISSUE 21/ SPRING 2015 STEVE BERESFORD SET-UP FOR GREEN SLIPPER AT WHITE CUBE MICHAEL MAZIÈRE SILENT FILM SCREENINGS+PERFORMANCES John Wyver’s work as a producer of screen Tereza Stehlikova’s flm The Perpetual inspired In February 2015, leading British composers adaptations of stage productions continued by René Daumal’s unfnished book Mount & top scientists, including Shirley J. with broadcasts to around six hundred Analogue, was shown at the Whitechapel Thompson, joined forces to produce cinemas worldwide of the Royal Shakespeare Gallery on 21st February 2015, as part of the intriguing compositions in Minerva Company presentations of Love’s Labour’s Filming Abstraction programme. Scientifca: The Franklin Efect an evening of Lost in February and Love’s Labour’s Won music and debate at the Anatomy Museum, Tereza was also invited to present her (aka Much Ado About Nothing) in March, King’s College Cultural Institute in London. research and moving image work at the screened direct from the theatre in Stratford- The event was mentored by composer Haptic Narratives – Textural exploration in upon-Avon. Judith Weir and featured Shirley’s new work flm event, over 3 evenings in May as part Random Sequences, performed by The Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence of an extended session at the University of Electric Voice Theatre. is being shown in UK cinemas from 12 Greenwich. Shirley J Thompson was also one of three June 2015, and will play as part of a double As part of Christian Marclay’s major bill with The Act of Killing at University distinguished composers to join with dancers exhibition at White Cube, Bermondsey, Steve of Westminster’s Regent Street Cinema and choreographers for 1898: Contemporary Beresford was commissioned by Marclay to Dance Festival, a six-day festival of dance at throughout the latter part of June. write a new piece for a quartet of violin, cello, the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill Gate, to clarinets and percussion, drawn from the Shezad Dawood has screened his flm, celebrate the diverse histories of the famous London Sinfonietta. The piece - Green Slipper Piercing Brightness, in several high profle landmark theatre. venues this year including the Museum of - was performed twice, on March 1 and 15, Modern Art, New York (20 April 2015), the in two diferent versions, with Steve playing This spring Uriel Orlow performed Unmade Rhode Island School of Design Museum, (14 electronics and all fve musicians playing Film: The Proposal at the Bluecoat Centre May 2015) and the Yarat Contemporary Art small additional instruments.
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