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 London. 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, David Toop, Peter Century Symphony, and the premier of of Elizabeth, co-produced with the Royal Cusack and Terry Day. 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, Evan Parker, 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. John Cage’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.