CREAM NEWS 23

CLARE TWOMEY, HUMANITY IS IN OUR HANDS

HIGHLIGHTS CONGRATULATIONS

Joshua Oppenheimer’s film The openness and understanding of these Many congratulations to Shirley Look of Silence won four Cinema atrocities, while in Indonesia, a first Thompson for her prestigious Eye Honors (including Best Film), the government sponsored forum addressed University of the West Indies Luminary International Documentary Association the killings which resulted in the setting Award presented at a the UWI Toronto Award for Best Film, a Gotham Award up a formal investigation, pointing Benefit Gala in April. The Award is for Best Documentary, an Independent towards a growing national reckoning. presented to people of Caribbean Spirit Award for Best Documentary, heritage who have made significant Clare Twomey’s moving tribute to and the Ridenhour Documentary Prize, outstanding contributions on an survivors of atrocities, Humanity is in taking the film’s total number of awards international scale in their respective Our Hands, which began on Holocaust to 70 (the same number The Act of fields. Previous recipients of the award Memorial Day last January 2015, Killing won two years earlier). The Look include musicians Bob Marley and culminated in the gifting of 2000 of Silence was also nominated for an Harry Belafonte. Shirley is the first porcelain spoons to the public, over Academy Award at this year’s Oscars, woman in Europe in 40 years to a period of 12 hours on Westminster which has helped to deepen the compose and conduct a symphony. Bridge on 27 January this year. impact of both films in Indonesia where Responding to requests, given out last This academic year 2015-16 sees journalists now tenaciously investigate year at the same time and place, for an unprecedented number of PhD the massacres, and describe them as a texts which could offer better ways completions within CREAM including crime against humanity that established forward for humanity, Clare inscribed Laura Breen, Christine Douglass, Nina Indonesia’s current system of impunity these profound words onto the spoons, Mangalanayagam, Francis Joe Palmer, for human rights abuse, intimidation returning them randomly to the public as Miranda Pennell, Salma Siddique, and appalling corruption. In this new custodians of these thoughts and ideas. Wendy McMurdo, Anna Piva, Mila climate of openness, individuals are The spoon was chosen as a symbol Turajlic and Michael Szpakowski. less afraid to tell their stories. Joshua of caring, inspired by the experiences Congratulations to all! travelled to the USA in February, of Nisad Jakupovic, who survived the accompanied by the Human Rights notorious Omarska concentration camp Commission for Indonesia, to visit the during the Bosnian War, where the White House and US State Department inmates carved wooden spoons using in moves that will assist in this growing broken pieces of glass.

CREAM NEWS EDITORS ISSUE 23/ SUMMER 2016 CENTRE FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION IN ARTS & MEDIA CHRISTIE BROWN ISSN 1750-4929 (PRINT) FACULTY OF MEDIA, ARTS & DESIGN URIEL ORLOW ISSN 1750-4937 (ONLINE) DAVID CAMPANY FUNDING AWARDS EXHIBITIONS INSTALLATION VIEW: OPEN ROAD

Clare Twomey’s latest art project, Time are exhibited at St Pancras Hospital (2 active location on the planet. Present and Time Past, opened on 18 May-4 July) along with some of her own Uriel Orlow’s various recent exhibitions June at the William Morris Museum. In work. Alexa also organised a symposium include: Still the Barbarians, EVA Biennial, this project Clare has focussed on one on art and mental health to accompany the Limerick, Ireland, 16 April– 17 July, of Morris’s most compelling designs, exhibition at the hospital, on 16 June. curated by Koyo Kouo with works by the Chrysanthemum, from the Morris Alexa Wright’s book, A View From Inside, 50 international artists: Chronic at the archive. Clare invited 67 volunteer is on show in Prescriptions, Artists’ Books Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), in apprentices to paint a large tile panel in on Wellbeing and Medicine at the Beaney Cairo, 20 April– 4 June including works gold enamel over several weeks to create House, Canterbury. (21 April-14 August). by The Abbasiya Outsiders, Alberto Grifi, a transformative artwork which explores Dora Garcia and Mohammad Shawky Morris’s approach to making and how Alison Craighead, in collaboration with Hassan: Not All That Falls Has Wings, practicing a skill can connect us to others Jon Thomson (Thomson and Craighead) Arter, Istanbul, 8 June - 18 September, through time and space. opened a new solo show of their work, with works by Bas Jan Ader, Phyllida called Party Booby Trap at Carroll/Fletcher Christie Brown’s solo exhibition Barlow, Collective Void, Cyprien Gaillard, in . The exhibition ran from 14 Rara Avis was shown at Arthouse1 in Ryan Gander, Mikhail Karikis, and Anne April until 28 May. They also took part Bermondsey in April. The show featured Wenzel. this year in the following exhibitions: various ceramic hybrid portraits and This spring Tessa Peters was invited figures developed from collaged clay More Songs of Innocence And Of as guest curator in a rehang of the sections and free building. Large-scale Experience at The Whitechapel Gallery Antony Shaw Collection at the recently charcoal on paper collages were also as part of the survey show Electronic opened Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) shown for the first time. Christie’s bronze Superhighway (Jan - May 2016); A fly in York Art Gallery, (a 2016 Museum work was also featured in a group poster London Wall & narrative clock of the Year finalist). The Anthony Shaw exhibition at Gallery Pangolin in Stroud Horizon in Big Bang Data (extended until Collection provides a view of modern and in April entitled The Nature of the Beast 20 March) at Somerset House, London; contemporary art and craft in a domestic alongside works in bronze by sculptors Corruption lenticular lightboxes and setting and Tessa has highlighted recent Damien Hirst, Lynn Chadwick and Eduardo poetry machine Stutterer in Right Here contemporary ceramic acquisitions, such Paolozzi. Right Now at The Lowry, Salford (until 28 as work by 2013 British Ceramics Biennial February) and Horizon, their live webcam Christie’s work is also included in Exposed, Award winner, Nao Matsunaga, and clock in REAL TIME at Arts Santa Monica, Heads, Busts and Nudes, a group their connection to ceramic artists from an Barcelona (January to April). exhibition at Ferrin Contemporary, USA earlier generation such as Gillian Lowndes which opened in June and features several Michael Mazière curated the solo and Gordon Baldwin. key US figurative ceramic artists such as exhibition Data Trespass by the acclaimed David Campany has curated three Robert Arneson, Akio Takamori and Rudi Canadian artist Andrew Wright at London major exhibitions: The Open Road: Autio, as well as the UK ‘s Stephen Dixon Gallery West (11 March – 10 April). The Photography and the American Road Trip and Claire Curneen. artist’s international solo exhibition features for Crystal Bridges, Arkansas, USA, co- a new London Gallery West commission; a Alexa Wright has facilitated an curated with Denise Wolff, (27 February large site-specific photographic installation exhibition of collages and photo-text books to 30 May) which moved to the Detroit that adorns the 24 windows of the glazed made by service users at North and South Institute for the Arts in June; the Final façade of the entrance to The Forum. This Camden NHS Foundation Trust Acute Project for Richard Saltoun Gallery, London new work, Surge, consisting of never– Day Units, which promote recovery for (February to March); and Walker Evans: before–seen images of tumultuous geysers people who have experienced a recent Anonymous for the Fondazione Palazzo shot at night with high-powered flash, was deterioration in their mental health. The Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy, co-curated photographed in Wyoming’s Yellowstone works, made by participants during with Jean-Paul Deridder and Sam Sourdze. National Park, the most geo-thermically Alexa’s nine-month residency at the Trust, which opened on 7 May.

CREAM NEWS ISSUE 23/ SUMMER 2016 STEVE BERESFORD ALTERATIONS FESTIVAL JOHN WYVER AT RSC PHOTO BY HELEN MAYBANKS © RSC SCREENINGS+PERFORMANCES

On 24 April Shirley Thompson’s John Wyver was Executive Producer on a celebration of the 1980s improvising symphony, New Nation Rising: A 21st the Illuminations productions for Sky Arts quartet of Beresford, , Peter Century Symphony, and the premier of of Elizabeth, co-produced with the Royal Cusack and . The festival Odyssey, Viola Concerto, were performed Opera House, broadcast on 15 February, included talks, workshops, an exhibition by the African American Chamber and of Sir Simon Rattle conducts Haydn’s and performances by the re-formed group Orchestra and the Azusa Pacific Choir The Seasons, broadcast on 16 May. and guests, including Thurston Moore, along with vocal soloists Perry Hayes, , Rie Nakajima and Satoko The Illuminations production of Matthew Gertude Bradley, Sheila Judson and rapper Fukuda. Venues included Café Oto and the Bourne’s The Car Man, on which John DeSaree Scobey in Los Angeles as part of University of Westminster’s Portland Hall. Wyver was executive producer and which BritWeek. was screened on Sky Arts last year, has In April Steve Beresford performed Sarah Pucill’s ground-breaking film You been released in UK cinemas this spring. ’s Indeterminacy, with speaker Be Mother (1990) was screened on 12 Stewart Lee and pianist Tania Chen, first A short art film made in 1983 by Jane March at the Spring Psychoanalytic Poetry at the festival All Tomorrow’s Parties in Thorburn about the work of the painter Festival, the Freud Museum, London. Prestatyn and then at Cafe Oto in Dalston. Duggie Fields for the Channel 4 Arts The Oto performance was recorded for With the British Universities Film and Series Alter Image was screened as part broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Here And Video Council, Amanda Wrigley and of the 2016 BFI FLARE: London LGBT Now for 25 June transmission. John Wyver launched the first stage of Film Festival on 26 March. In February Screen Plays: The Theatre Plays on British Jane Thorburn’s film Joy, It’s Nina was On 30 March Steve Beresford recorded Television Database, as part of their AHRC- screened at the CinemAfrica Film Festival (on piano, celeste, Hammond organ and funded University of Westminster Screen in Stockholm, Sweden. electronics) for the Radio 3 programme Plays research project. Late Junction at BBC Maida Vale with the Michael Mazière’s work Swimmer was two-woman Japanese group Group A for For the Royal Shakespeare Company and exhibited as part of Analogue Precuring transmission on 28 April. BBC, John Wyver was RSC Producer at the ACE Hotel Venue in Shoreditch on on Shakespeare Live! From the RSC, 16 January. The 16mm analogue films Big Hello is a song-cycle, with lyrics and a two and a half hour celebration of in this programme, selected from the texts by Brian Eley and music by Steve Shakespeare and his influence on the London Filmmakers’ Co-op use a variety Beresford, sung by Christine Tobin with performing arts, broadcast on BBC Two of unique production techniques ranging a small group directed by Beresford at the and shown in around 300 cinemas on from optical printing, hand developing and Vortex, Dalston in two performances on 23 April. The programme was hosted by constructed apparatus. Filmmakers in the 23-24 May. David Tennant and Catherine and programme include Lis Rhodes, Alia Syed, On 12 April Steve Beresford played featured contributions from Judi Dench, Ian Nick Gordon-Smith, Vanda Carter, Tony piano and electronics in a trio with singers McKellen, Benedict Cumberbatch, Prince Bloor, Mike Dunford, John Tappenden and Phil Minton and Elaine Mitchener at Charles and many more. William English. Iklectik, London. On 31 March he played Also for the RSC, John Wyver produced It Was a Time That Was a Time, by a piano solo inspired by Schoenberg’s the Live from Stratford-upon-Avon cinema Shezad Dawood, was screened at Opus 19, #6 at the Austrian Cultural broadcast of Hamlet on 8 June. LOOP Barcelona, 4 – 6 June 2016 Forum in London for the series Kakania. In January at the Barbican in London, In the first part of the year Steve In May, as part of National Mills John Wyver curated a season of Beresford played numerous concerts with Weekend, an open workshop was held screenings of classic Royal Shakespeare a range of musicians, including the London outside the 18th century House Mill in Company productions of Shakespeare Improvisers Orchestra, Angharad Davies, Bromley by Bow, the world’s largest tidal and introduced each of these with guests, Rachel Musson, John Edwards, Sarah Gail mill. This was organised by Loraine including Janet Suzman, Ian McKellen and Brand and others. A key performance Leeson as part of her Active Energy Gregory Doran, from the RSC. included the Alterations Festival (13-18 project. June) curated by Steve with Blanca Regina, DAVID BATE PHOTOGRAPHY KEY CONCEPTS BLOOMSBURY, 2016

JOHN VAN AITKEN GUANGZHOU PUBLICATIONS WELCOME

4 June saw the launch at Stoke Newington contributions by Linde B. Lehtinen, Abigail In January CREAM welcomed three new Literary Festival of a complete one-volume Solomon-Godeau and Urs Stahel. post-docs to work on impact projects, facsimile reprint of Musics magazine, David Bate’s new edition of his book funded by the university’s Strategic edited by David Toop, Steve Beresford Photography Key Concepts was launched Research fund: Laura Breen (former and others in twenty-three issues between in February 2016, now published by CREAM PhD), Aislinn White (formerly 1975 and 1979. Ecstatic Peace Library, Bloomsbury. at University of Ulster) and Kim Bagley run by Eva Prinz and Sonic Youth’s (from University of the Creative Arts). Michael Mazière published a tribute to Thurston Moore, is publishing the reprint. the film-maker and artist Chantal Akerman CREAM also welcomed Ritika Pant, Sarah Pucill participated in an in the peer reviewed Journal, Moving a visiting PhD scholar from Jawaharlal Experimental Film and Feminism Round Image Review & Art Journal, issue 4. The Nehru University, Delhi, with whom Table discussion, to be published in 4.1 article entitled Au Revoir, Chantal will also WSMAD recently signed an MOU. Ritika issue of MIRAJ (Moving Image Review be published in French in the magazine was in London on a Charles Wallace + Art Journal April 2016) with Nina Mondes du Cinéma, Issue 8, Editions scholarship to research for her thesis titled Danino, Alia Syed, Jean Matthee, and Ruth Lettmotif, Paris. ‘Remote Access, Global Entertainment: Novaczek, chaired by Maria Palacios. Transnational Television in India’. Eight images from Mitra Tabrizien’s Margherita Sprio’s essay - Feminisms, project, Correct Distance, were published Mirrors: Claude Cahun and Sarah Pucill A in Actors, Networks, Theories/D’un Dialogue, was also featured in issue 4.1 of Discours qui ne Serait pas du Semblance, MIRAJ. by Vincent Bonin, published in June by Neil Matheson’s essay Fragments OPTICA, Centre d’art Contemporain in Anatomiques : Magritte, le Traumatisme et partnership with Dazibao and the Leonard la Gâcheuse, was published in the journal & Bina Ellen Art Gallery and edited by Mélusine (No.36. 2016). France Choinière and Michèle Thériault. John Wyver wrote the introductory essay David Campany has written for the British Film Institute’s DVD release monographic essays on Irving Penn, Robert Ken Russell: The Great Passions, and he Cumming, Andreas Gefeller, John Hilliard also contributed articles to The Stage and and John Stezaker and published in the Viewfinder. journals C Photo, the BJP, Source, Hotshoe and Frieze Masters. May Adadol Ingawanij’s article on artist-filmmaker Apichatpong Kerstin Mey’s book chapter Corpus Weerasethakul was translated into Delicti, was published in Abject Visions: Portuguese by film theorist Cecilia Mello for Powers of Horror in Art and Visual Culture, the publication Realismo Fantasmagorico, edited by Rina Arya and Nicholas Chare, published by the University of Sao Paulo. for Manchester University Press, 2016, pp. 144–159. David Bate was commissioned to write an essay on photography theory for the Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture, bi-lingual Austrian art journal EIKON a new anthology of essays edited by to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The Christie Brown and Clare Twomey essay on Habitation and Photography is was published in June 2016. The book published in a special publication 5x5 forms the final output of their successful Photo Tracks, a comprehensive reference AHRC project Ceramics in the Expanded book of contemporary photography, Field. published at the end of June. It includes

ISSUE 23/ SUMMER 2016 CREAM NEWS SHEZAD DAWOOD GALERIST EXHIBITION CREAM EVENTS EXHIBITIONS CONT.

As part of CREAM’s ongoing collaboration his two Oscar nominated documentaries, Shezad Dawood’s solo exhibition, Why with the Indian government’s Films The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, Depend on Space and Time, opened on Division, the fifth FD-zone London event with Francine Stock, presenter of BBC 28 January at Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey took place on 25 April around the theme Radio Four’s The Film Programme. To a running until 1 March. The exhibition of the Indian nuclear project. Curated by packed cinema, Joshua comprises two film works and a related doctoral student Fathima Nizaruddin, talked about the processes through which body of large neon and small textile works. it screened five films from the Films the films developed, some challenging The exhibition is conceptualized as a series Division archives produced between directorial decisions he faced, as well as of quantum configurations, or obliquely 1961 and 2012, including the iconic the impact of these films around the world. connected points, each of which manifest Child on a Chessboard, together with an a related but unique coming together of At Migration Stories, the CREAM winter excerpt from Fathima’s PhD film Nuclear concept and matter, form and colour. symposium, researchers from CREAM Hallucinations. Raminder Kaur (University and CAMRI came together on 15 In Anarchitecture, at the Jane Lombard of Sussex, author of Atomic Mumbai), and January to discuss their work-in-progress Gallery, New York (7 April - 14 May) Joram ten Brink discussed the films with around the theme of migration. Mitra Shezad Dawood took viewers on a Fathima, chaired by Rosie Thomas. Tabrizian showed extracts from her new thought-provoking journey that examined Now in its fourth year, the Chevening film Gholam about an Iranian exile in transcultural influences and the intersections South Asia Journalism Programme brought London; Rohini Kempadoo discussed between Eastern and Western schools fourteen leading Indian and Pakistani her screen-based artwork exploring of art, architecture, and philosophy. journalists to the university for an eight- how multicultural Londoners make use Shezad’s work was also featured in group week introduction to British media, politics of mobile technologies: and Mykaell exhibitions including: Thinking Tantra, and academia, including talks by CREAM Riley introduced his AHRC project Bass Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India (23 researchers, Joshua Oppenheimer and Culture on the history of black music in January – 19 March) and A Rotation of Six Clare Twomey. Run by Rosie Thomas Britain. From CAMRI, Nisrine Mansour Video Works by Six International Artists and Jean Seaton for the Foreign and discussed her work with Arab migrant from Collection (Anonymous), BMoCA’s Commonwealth Office, the programme has children in London, Casablanca and Union Works Gallery, USA (31 March - 12 been praised by the FCO for its important Beirut; and Roza Tsagarousianou June). work in strengthening the bilateral presented research on mediating the Shezad’s special project Towards The agreement between the UK and India. female body in European Muslim Centre, Once More, commissioned by cyberspace. Rosie Thomas gave her professorial Sadler’s Wells & Tate Visual Art in 2014, inaugural lecture Bombay Before On May 6th and 7th, Eugenie Shinkle continued at Sadler’s Wells, London until Bollywood on 9 February in the Fyvie Hall. co-hosted ‘Posing the Body: Stillness, 24 April. Curated by Leyla Fakhr, this work Focussing on India’s fantasy and stunt films Movement, and Representation[, a two- was made up of a nine-panel installation in the decades before and after Indian day symposium jointly organised by the that climbed up the entire three floors of independence in 1947, she argued that Courtauld Institute and the University of the exhibition space. the notion of a ‘truly Indian’ cinema had Westminster. The Friday keynote was given always been contested and that we need by David Campany; the Saturday event to remember and celebrate Indian cinema featured presentations by an international history in all its diversity, including its group of speakers. Arabian Nights heritage, its B-movies and its popular stunt heroes and heroines. On 10 May CREAM SCREENS ran a director’s masterclass at which Joshua Oppenheimer discussed the making of

CREAM NEWS ISSUE 23/SUMMER 2016 DENIZ SOEZEN COFFEE PROJECT

PHD NEWS FUNDING AWARDS Deniz Soezen exhibited a selection of Roz Mortimer presented a paper Ecstatic In collaboration with the University of 100 coffee cups and saucers as part of her Truths: Defining the Essence of Animated Cambridge, Ambika P3 raised £134,500 public art project Kahvehane (Coffeehouse) Documentary at a symposium at the Royal from the Wellcome Trust Provision for Kongresspark commissioned by SOHO College of Art, London (14 May). Public Engagement Fund. This will provide in Ottakring, an urban biennial two week financial support to the CASEBOOKS In March 2016, Valentina Signorelli’s festival in Vienna, ( 4-18 June). The project exhibition curated by Michael Mazière docu-film Anséra - Trace the Future, written explored the cultural history of coffee and in Ambika P3 in spring 2017 and directed with Lorenzo Giovenga, its migratory path, which is reflected on the won the Audience Award at the 23rd Loraine Leeson has been successful designs of the cups and saucers. A lecture Sguardi Altrove Film Festival - International in raising £10,000 from the Big Lottery performance in collaboration with British- Women’s Film Festival in Milan, the most fund to continue her Active Energy: born Bharatanatyam artist Shane Shambhu important feminist film festival in Italy. Three Mills project, an ongoing arts/ revisited many legends about coffee, In April 2016, Valentina was invited by engineering project with the Geezers, tracing its journey from Ethiopia, the Sapienza - University of Rome to hold a group of older men from East London Arabian peninsula through the Ottoman the screenwriting workshop American involving interdisciplinary, international Empire (Turkey) to Vienna and across Rom-Com: Screenwriting Theory and and intergenerational knowledge transfer the entire globe, shedding light on the Techniques, along with professor Andrea facilitated through a creative arts process. history of colonialism and questioning the Minuz. In May 2016 she completed conditions of contemporary trade. CREAM research staff, May Ingawanij, the filming of the feature film Il Passero Shirley Thompson, Christie Brown, As well as curating Imagining Facts: Rosso, written by Valentina and Lorenzo Clare Twomey and Michael Mazière Documentary Narratives and the Giovenga, directed by Giovenga and were all successful in their in-house Indian Nuclear Project as part of FD- produced by Daitona. Finally, in June funding bids to the University Strategic zone London (see above), Fathima 2016 she presented a paper on Pier Research Fund Phase 2, investigating Nizaruddin has screened her own film Paolo Pasolini’s Salò - 120 Days of internationalism and impact in the context Nuclear Hallucinations at the Alternative Sodom (1975-2015): Reconsidering Forty of their research towards REF 2020. Law Forum, Bangalore, (4 January); at Years of Censorship, at the 3rd Annual Downstairs@S47, News in Delhi (17 Jan); New Scholar Dean Hopper Conference, and as part of a workshop entitled Media themed Crafting Culture: Perspectives on Environments organised by the Media, Censorship which was held Madison, New Communications & Culture programme at Jersey, USA, between 10-11 June. Keele University (26 May). John van Aitkin delivered a paper at the conference Visualising Chinese Borders, at Manchester Metropolitan University (5-6 April) entitled Developing Frontiers: Photography as Border Work in the case of Xian Urban Village, Guangzhou. John also presented two other papers: Picturing Change: Photographic Discourses and Urban Transformation, at Contemphoto 16 in Istanbul (27 -28 May) and The War at Home - Gentrification, Photography and Salford at the conference Photography & the Left in Lisbon (16-17 June). LARA BLAZIC LGM LOGO

CHRISTIE BROWN CONFERENCES AND TALKS RARA AVIS

Joshua Oppenheimer recently Shanghai Film Academy. Alexa Wright was invited to present gave masterclasses at the Sundance her work and to act as a mentor at Roshini Kempadoo gave a paper Film Festival, in Doha, at the California Nine Evenings Revisited, a week-long entitled The ‘Burden’ of Photography: Institute of the Arts, at the International interdisciplinary Art/Science seminar at Memory and History, Autographs and Documentary Association, as well as at KKW Gallery, Leipzig Germany (11-15 Black Portraits, at Framing the Critical University of Westminster. April, 2016). She was also invited to Decade: After the Black Arts Movement speak at the Silent Signal Symposium, in In March Roshini Kempadoo was (16 March), convened by Dorothy Price Derby, 26 February 2016. invited to give an artist’s contribution to and Elizabeth Robles and supported the Visual Arts After Indenture project, by University of Bristol History of Art In June David Bate was invited to speak convened by Andil Gosine (York Department, the Transnational Modernisms at an international seminar, presented by University) and David Scott (Columbia Research Cluster, the Bristol Institute for the Copenhagen Photo Festival and The University), held at York University in Research in the Humanities and Art and National Museum of Photography, entitled Toronto. The project was supported by the Bristol University Alumni Foundation. Tendencies in Contemporary Photography. Small Axe Journal, Columbia University, Focused around the dispersed views on Roshini Kempadoo also presented Center for Feminist Research, Faculty of art and documentary photography in a paper entitled: Face Up (2015): Environmental Studies, Global Centre 2016 as well as the future of photography, Decolonising Imaginations, Memory for Labour Research, Graduate Program, photographers, critics, and academics from Narratives and Screen Media at New Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, the UK, Sweden, and Denmark presented Urban Multicultures: Conviviality and Department of Sociology at York University, their views on the current tendencies of Racism, held at Goldsmiths, University Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto the contemporary photography scene. The of London on 17 May and convened by and University of West Indies. seminar was split into two sessions, each Anamik Saha and Elizabeth Jackson and with their own themes; David’s paper was In February May Adadol Ingawanij supported by the Department of Media presented in the session entitled Body, took part in a conversation with artist and Communications, Department of Self, Fiction including Danish speakers, Nguyen Trinh Thi about her exhibition Sociology and the Centre for Urban and Ebbe Stub Wittrup Ulrik Heltoft and Nanna Letters from Panduranga at daadgalerie, Community Research, Goldsmiths. Lysholt Hansen. Berlin. She was also in conversation Lara Blazic organized the annual with artist Martha Atienza who showed David Bate was also a speaker at the international Libre Graphics Meeting a screening programme of Filipino Helsinki Photomedia biannual three-day 15-18 April held this year at WSMAD. experimental works, The Kalampag symposium, on the theme of Materiality in This year’s theme was Other Dimensions, Tracking Agency, as part of her residency Photography, in April 2016. encompassing time-based media and the at Gasworks Gallery, London. In March third dimension, new additions to LGM’s In April Loraine Leeson ran a workshop May was in conversation with pioneering established focus on graphics. The event at the CAMRI organised How to Do It Filipino experimental filmmaker Kidlat attracted over 150 participants and visitors (H2DI) conference at King’s College, Tahimik who had a retrospective at the from around the world. Lara also co- with Hilary Wainwright and members of Essay Film Festival, Birkbeck. curated the accompanying exhibition Libre The GLC Story archiving project on the In March May Adadol Ingawanij Graphics; Culture and Practice at London community politics of the 1980s Greater spoke at the Dutch Art Institute’s symposium Gallery West bringing together over 30 London Council (GLC) and its legacy and Failure to Transmit, organised by curator international artists and designers. lessons for today. Ruth Noack. In June she presented a paper Neil Matheson gave a paper, In May, Loraine Leeson spoke at the entitled Animistic cinema: movement, Remembering Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Public Exposures symposium in Toronto on dispositif, ritual, at the conference Film Cultural Memory, Haptic Visuality and the the art-activism of Canadian artists Carole Theory in Media History: Nodes and Skin of the Photograph, at the Association Condé and Karl Beveridge and also at The Edges, jointly organised at Shanghai of Art Historians’ annual conference held Practicing Feminist, Tate Britain in which University by the Shanghai-Berkeley Film at , 7-9 April. a multi-generational group of artists, art and Media Research Centre and the historians and cultural workers explored CRAIGHHEAD AND THOMSON MORE SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE CONFERENCES AND TALKS the ‘political turn’ in British Conceptual On 9 May, as part of the London Film- conversation with Shanay Jhaveri at the art, including its concentration on feminist makers Co-operative 50 year anniversary Jane Lombard Gallery, New York for concerns. celebration Michael Mazière presented a book signing and a talk with Jhaveri a paper on Writing, Undercut and the to celebrate the publication of Jhaveri’s Kerstin Mey was invited to give a lecture London Filmmakers’ Co-operative at the new book, Chandigarh is in India. He Symptoms of Neo-Liberalism – On the work British Film Institute’s Reuben Library. The was also in conversation with Iftikhar of AES+F, at the University of Huddersfield, symposium discussed Undercut, one of Dadi and Aphra Shemza, at Tate Britain, on 22 March. She also presented the the key publications to emerge from the discussing the current exhibition and recent Keynote: The Discipline of Art and the London Filmmakers’ Co-operative, which monograph on Anwar Shemza (11March). Making of Knowledge, at the Academy of Maziere co-edited. Undercut (1981- Fine Arts, Vienna, on 14 March. 1990) was published by a collective of In March Margherita Sprio was an filmmakers, artists, critics and writers and invited speaker at the conference Identities provided a unique platform for the debates and Identifications: Politicized Uses of and practices of experimental film and Collective Identities at the Cultural Centre video throughout the 1980s. Chaired Don Orione Artigianelli in Venice, Italy in by Kathryn Siegel from King’s College a panel entitled (En)Gendering Identities: London, the panel included Michael as Gendered Identities as Social Constructs well as filmmakers Peter Gidal, Nina and Narrations of Lived Experiences. Danino. In April Margherita Sprio was an As leader of the working group on the invited speaker at Cinema and Childhood, future of Austrian state arts universities the 21st International Bremen Film Kerstin Mey led a 2-day workshop with Conference in Germany, part of the panel international experts in Vienna on 10 and entitled Children on Screen: Images and 11 March. She also presented a series of Actors. Her paper was called Performing lectures on alternative modes of history at History: Childhood and The Apple (Samira the University of the Arts Zurich, in April. Makhmalbaf, Iran 1998). She also gave Jini Rawlings was invited as an artist a separate talk about The Apple and later to speak at the conference Britain’s introduced the film to a public audience at Child Migrants: Interpreting the Past and Cinema City 46, also in Bremen. Remembering Today on 11 June at the In May, Margherita Sprio gave another V&A Museum of Childhood, Bethnal paper that relates to her new book Green. Her visual presentation focused project called Negotiating Femininity on her previous work inspired by child and Feminism Through Carol Morley’s migration to Canada originally shown at Dreams of A Life (2011) at the Doing the National Maritime Museum. Women’s Film and Television Histories David Campany has given public III: Structures of Feeling Conference at lectures at SUNY Purchase NYC, Aperture Leicester University. In June, she gave a NYC, Crystal Bridges Arkansas, Gagosian talk, Migrant Memories Cultural History, Gallery London, the ICA London, Cinema and the Italian Post-War Diaspora Waterstones London, the Barbican London, in Britain, to the British Italian Society, Le Bal Paris, and Hepworth Wakefield. Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall. David also gave the keynote address at the Westminster/Courtauld symposium Posing the Body. In May Shezad Dawood was in ISSUE 23/ SUMMER 2016 CREAM NEWS