CREAM NEWS 22
CHANTAL AKERMAN AT AMBIKA P3
HIGHLIGHTS CONGRATULATIONS
CHANTAL AKERMAN NOW channel video installation with surround David Campany’s book, The Open at Ambika P3 30 October - 6 December sound. Road: Photography and the American 2015 Road Trip, published by Aperture Chantal Akerman (born 6 June 1950, (New York NY) in 2014, has won the We have all been profoundly shocked Brussels, died 5 October 2015, Paris) prestigious Alice Award, which comes and saddened by the tragic news of was one of the most unpredictable, with a prize of $25,000. the death of Chantal Akerman. She will farsighted, indefinable, rigorous and be greatly missed. The exhibition and playful film artists of her generation. Uriel Orlow has won the prestigious screening provide our collective tribute While showing the troublesome Fine Art Prize from the city of Zurich. to a great pioneering film-maker and complexity of human existence, This is the second time the prize has artist, and to Chantal Akerman herself. Akerman’s works are filled with been awarded and allows for the beautiful imagery, music, yearning development of new work. ‘Comparable in force and originality and hope, yet she also investigates to Godard or Fassbinder, Chantal hot-button themes such as racism in the Akerman is arguably the most important Mykaell Riley has won £530,000 American South, illegal immigration, European director of her generation’ J. from AHRC for his Bass Culture project, and terrorism in the Middle East. Hoberman. which will document the history of Chantal Akerman NOW was jointly Jamaican and Jamaican-influenced Ambika P3 presented a major curated by CREAM’s Michael music in Britain over the past six exhibition of work by the internationally Mazière and A Nos Amours (Joanna decades. celebrated filmmaker and artist, Chantal Hogg and Adam Roberts) and Akerman. Entitled NOW, this was Kerstin Mey has been reappointed as presented in association with Marian the first large-scale exhibition in the a member of the Austrian Science Board Goodman Gallery. It was supported English-speaking world of Akerman’s by the Austrian Parliament for another by Arts Council England, Marian installation work and coincided with the period of 3 years. Goodman Gallery and the University of UK premiere of her new film, No Home Westminster. Movie (2015) at the new Regent Street Cinema. There were seven installation The show is featured in Adrian Searle’s works at Ambika P3: the centrepiece 10 best art exhibitions worldwide in was NOW (2015), a powerful seven 2015 in the Guardian.
CREAM NEWS EDITORS ISSUE 22/ WINTER 2015 CENTRE FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION IN ARTS & MEDIA CHRISTIE BROWN ISSN 1750-4929 (PRINT) FACULTY OF MEDIA, ARTS & DESIGN URIEL ORLOW ISSN 1750-4937 (ONLINE) CLARE TWOMEY MANIFEST: 10,000 HOURS TOM CORBY SOUTHERN OCEAN STUDIES [LEFT]
EXHIBITIONS
Tom Corby’s Southern Ocean Studies portraits in a project entitled Portraits of a as CREAM members; David Bate, Christie (with Gavin Baily and Jonathan Global Law School, which was installed Brown, David Campany, Tom Corby, Mackenzie), a real-time animation of at the School and published online. The Alison Craighead, Shezad Dawood, Antarctic climate data, was installed at project brought together a group of over Joshua Oppenheimer, Mitra Tabrizian and Espace Fondation in Paris. The exhibition fifty alumni, staff and students from a Clare Twomey. Climats Artificiels opened on October diverse array of backgrounds to have their From 11 November 2015 – 3 January 5th 2015 and runs until February 28th, portraits taken by Eileen to celebrate their 2016, London Gallery West, curated by 2016. Tom’s CODEX, a series of large- achievements and to speak about their CREAM’s Michael Mazière, presented scale animations of social data describing time at the School. The project functioned, the work of two eminent American artists, alternative geographies (in collaboration not just as an opportunity for individuals Jeffrey Mongrain and Judy Moonelis. with Gavin Baily), was exhibited in Geo- to tell their personal stories, but also for an This two-person exhibition offered a rare Codes: Mapping a Practice in the Post- understanding of the School’s collective opportunity to engage with their sculptural Print Age, at the China Academy of Art in identity that goes beyond superficial preoccupations, where clay and mixed- Hangzou, from September 22th to October categories of gender, race and ability. media interact to inform contrasting 3rd, 2015. David Campany’s curated exhibition approaches to body and soul. Scientific Clare Twomey’s magnificent work Dust: Histoires de Poussière, opened in findings and religious philosophy are Manifest: 10,000 Hours, made in October at Le Bal, Paris and runs until the conceptual foundation of Jeffrey collaboration with people from all over January 17, 2016. It accompanies his new Mongrain’s emotive work while in contrast, the country, including our own staff at the book, a Handful of Dust, with works by for Moonelis, the human body provides Harrow site, was finally installed in the Man Ray, John Divola, Sophie Ristelhueber, the focus. A gallery talk was held on the newly refurbished York Art Gallery, which Mona Kuhn, Gerhard Richter, Xavier Ribas, 10 November and the artists were joined opened in August 2015. The installation, Nick Waplington, Jeff Wall and many in discussion by Christie Brown, Clare which represents the number of hours it others, alongside anonymous press photos, Twomey, Tessa Peters and special guest takes to achieve a high level of skill, will be postcards, magazine spreads and movies. Martina Margetts from the Royal College on show there for 2 years. The collection of Art, to focus on internationalism and site From the 15 October - 1 November 2015, also includes four works by Christie within clay practice. London Gallery West, curated by CREAM’s Brown, two of them acquired this year for Michael Mazière with assistance from Shezad Dawood opened a major solo the grand re-opening of the museum. Aviva Leeman, Venue Manager, hosted exhibition this year entitled - It Was a Time Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead a specially commissioned art exhibition, That Was a Time – at the Pioneer Works, (Thomson and Craighead) recently 25, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of New York, 11 September – 1 November screened A Short Film about War as the merger of the Polytechnic of Central 2015. This exhibition marked Shezad’s an installation in Art in the Age Of London with Harrow College of Higher first solo exhibition in the US. It borrows its Asymmetrical Warfare in Witte De Witte Education in 1990. The exhibition brought title from his new film of the same name, in Rotterdam, Holland. In November together Westminster alumni who have which was commissioned by Pioneer they showed two new works at the shaped the future of creative industries Works and made while he was an artist-in- Lowry in Salford in an exhibition entitled in the UK and informed the pioneering residence there. Right Here/ Right Now, which runs until role of the University of Westminster in Roshini Kempadoo was featured in February 2016. In December they were creative and media education in the UK a two-person show, Ghosts, with Keith commissioned by Somerset House to and internationally. The exhibition featured Piper at The Lethaby Gallery. Kings Cross. complete a new London Wall for the an impressive line up including; Rut Blees Curated by Paul Goodwin and supported galleries. Luxemburg Judith Dean, Des Hughes, by the University of the Arts, the exhibition Asif Kapadia, Malcolm Le Grice, Oscar Eileen Perrier was recently commissioned opened on 27th November running until Murillo, Zed Nelson, Max Schleser, Mark by The Dickson Poon School of Law, 11th December 2015. Wilsher and Michael Winterbottom as well Kings College, London, to take a series of
CREAM NEWS ISSUE 22/ WINTER 2015 SHIRLEY J THOMPSON THE LIFE OF QUEEN NANNY OF THE MAROONS
MICHAEL MAZIÈRE THE BATHERS AND THE SWIMMERS
SCREENINGS+PERFORMANCES
Shirley J.Thompson’s opera Sacred world. It is the best-reviewed film in the in Bethnal Green, London, (2 October Mountain: Incidents in the Life of Queen US cinemas this year, and opened in over 2015), Swollen Stigma (1998) at the Nanny of the Maroons was premiered at 100 cinemas around the UK. The Look Scottish Queer International Film Festival in the Tête A Tête Opera Festival in July to of Silence also had theatrical releases in November and December and Stages Of great acclaim. The Classically British dance Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Mourning at the Visiona Film Festival, in group performed Beholder of Beauty Korea, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Huesca, Spain in December 2015. with music by Shirley at the Tabernacle in Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium. Steve Beresford played in Joe Namy’s London. Her recent collaborative work The The film has been nominated for a Gotham piece Space, Breath, Time, for fourteen Franklin Effect premiered at the Fabrication Award and the Asia Pacific Screen Award. harmoniums in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Festival at Kings College in London in Julian Ross curated the film programmes foyer. In August he played in the Blow Out October, and her quartet for the on-going Takashi Ito: Moving Still, at the Eye Film festival in Oslo, Norway: at Cafe Mir with Minerva Scientifica project was played Institute in Amsterdam (December), and the group Will It Float? with John Edwards, at the Science Museum at the end of the In & Out of Japan at Camera Japan in John Russell and Ståle Liavik Solberg, month. Dreaming Rivers, a film by Martina Rotterdam (September). He also co-curated and in duo with Natalie Sandtorv. Also Attille and featuring music by Shirley J Spectral Presence: Expanded Cinema in August he made two appearances at Thompson was screened at Tate Britain on from Britain and Beyond with Art Cinema the Cram Records festival at 100 Years November 2nd. OFFoff at the Film Fest in Ghent (October). Gallery, London. In September, Steve Ambika P3, curated by Michael joined singer Leila Adu, multi-instrumentalist Shezad Dawood’s film Piercing Mazière, presented Martina Amati’s Terry Day and Tasos Stamou on electronics Brightness, was shown at various venues Under (26 September 2015 - 11 October in a quartet at Cafe Oto, London, and over the summer including Floating 2015), supported by the Wellcome Trust. contributed recorded and live sections for Cinema, UP Projects, London on August Under was a multi-screen film installation a sound installation at I’Klectik Gallery, 21st, the Aspen Art Museum, in the on the art of freediving. Ambika P3 London. Steve also played in a trio with USA, on August 31st and the Nighthawk also presented the Action Space Film David Toop and Terry Day at the launch of Cinema, New York, on 10 September Project on 9 July 2015, an inflatable the book The Art of Terry Day at the Oto 2015. cinema built as part of a film and Project Space, London, on September 26. installation project about the group Action In July 2015 two films by Sarah Pucill, In August Tereza Stehlikova was invited Space. Michael Mazière’s own works The Swollen Stigma (1998) and Phantom by the lab project to present the Haptic Bathers and Swimmer were exhibited on Rhapsody (2010), were shown at Attaque Visuality Salon at Kingsgate Community 6 December at the Movement in Colour le visible Projection No1 at La Mutinerie Centre, in which she projected a selection programme at the V&A Lydia & Manfred in Paris. In July, Sarah Pucill’s moving of moving image works, including her own Gorvy Lecture Theatre, programmed by the film Magic Mirror (2013), reflecting film, Across the Unseen Sea, (2014). V&A’s artist in residence Jamie Jenkinson. the work of artist Claude Cahun, has had several showings recently. It was John Wyver has produced three In August May Adadol Ingawanij screened at St Brelades Church Hall, Live from Stratford-upon-Avon theatre served as jury member of the 2015 Arkipel Jersey where Cahun lived and died (her broadcasts for the Royal Shakespeare Jakarta International Documentary and grave is in the graveyard) in an event Company: The Merchant of Venice (22 Experimental Film Festival. In September organised by the Liberate Group. It was July), Othello (26 August) and Henry V she was at the National Museum of also shown at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts (21 October). He has also produced for Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, de Nantes in October, Self-Representation the RSC a recording of Trevor Nunn’s where she curated the Forces and Volumes in Visual Culture at the Birkbeck Institue, production of Ben Jonson’s Volpone with screening programme for the Asian Artists and in Dancing Mamas at the Coreana Henry Goodman, which will be seen Film and Video series. Museum of Art, Seoul. Other screenings online on The Space, before the end of the Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of of Sarah Pucill’s work include: Queering year. Silence came out in cinemas around the Love, Queering Hormones at no.w.here DAVID BATE ART PHOTOGRAPHY TATE PUBLISHING, 2015 DAVID CAMPANY DUST MACK PUBLISHING, 2015
PUBLICATIONS
London Filmmakers’ Co-op – The Second November 2015 sees the publication John Wyver edited and wrote Television Generation, a Roundtable discussion of the Oxford Textbook of Creative and the Anti-Realist Theatricality of ‘Not was convened by Nina Danino and Arts, Health, and Wellbeing, for which Shakespeare’, as the introduction to a Michael Mazière. Participants included Loraine Leeson has written the case special issue of the journal Shakespeare Nina Danino, James Mackay, Michael study Engaging Older People in Creative Bulletin (33.4, December 2015). This Maziere, Vicky Smith, chaired by William Thinking: The Active Energy project, in issue includes a commissioned essay Fowler and published in the peer reviewed which she draws on her ongoing practice- about television versions of medieval Moving Image Review and Art Journal, based research exploring why the life mystery plays from Westminster colleague (MIRAJ) Collectives Volume 3 No. 2 experience of older generations is failing Amanda Wrigley. Summer 2015. to be used in the development of new John Wyver published several peer- technologies. May Adadol Ingawanij’s article on the reviewed articles in recent months, films of Locarno-prizewinning filmmaker In September 2015 Julian Ross including: Screening the RSC stage, Lav Diaz was published in the autumn published An Infant with Four Breasts? the 2014 Live from Stratford-upon-Avon 2015 issue of Afterall Journal. Slide Projectors in Postwar Japanese Art, cinema broadcasts, for Shakespeare, in a special issue on slide projectors in the August 2015; The Myriad Mediations of Eugenie Shinkle contributed an October edition of Photoresearcher. Henry Moore: The Artist and his Works on interview with Roger Ballen for the Screen, 1937-1983, for the Henry Moore fashion and photography magazine Pylot, David Bate’s latest book Art Photography Tate Research website, September 2015; under her pseudonym of Ethel Bess, for was published in November by Tate The Filmic Fugue of Ken Russell’s Pop Goes the November/December 2015 issue. Publications. It’s the first independent book the Easel, for the Journal of British Cinema Along with other members of the editorial Tate have ever published on photography, and Television, in October, and Between team, she also put together an edit of and it gives an overview of the history Theatre and Television: Inside the Hybrid Ballen’s early work, which re-imagines his of art photography over the last decade. Space of The Wars of the Roses, for photographs in a fashion context. His essay The Geocultural Image, was Critical Studies in Television, in December. published in photographer Yan Preston’s A Handful of Dust by David Campany John has also written an article about new book called Mother River. was published by MACK in October, a television documentaries of the 1950s and speculative history of the last century told Texts by Sophie Cavoulacos and Michael ‘60s for Sight & Sound and contributed from the perspective of dust, containing Vazquez in conversation with Shezad booklet notes for the BFI DVD box set a visual journey through some of its Dawood around his exhibition, It Was a Visions of Change. unlikeliest imagery. Time That Was a Time, were published by Sarah Pucill’s work was reviewed by Pioneer Works, New York, in the autumn David Campany’s Walker Evans, Caroline Koebel in an article entitled 2015. (Aperture 2015), was published alongside Mattuschka and Pucill: These Films Cannot a major exhibition of Evans’s work Margherita Sprio contributed a chapter Be Proved, focusing on Mirrored Measure curated by David, for the Rencontres de entitled Performing History: Girlhood and (1996) and a film by Mara Mattushka, la Photographie in Arles, France (July- The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998), in in OEI Swedish Cultural Magazine, September). International Cinema and The Girl - Local October 2015, a publication devoted Issues, Transnational Contexts, September to multi-disciplinary cultural art practice. David Campany has recently published 2015. Margherita also published an An interview with Sarah Pucill for Moving essays in the journals C Photo, Frieze artists’ catalogue essay, The Politics of Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ) was Masters, Aperture, BJP and Hotshoe, as Movie Memories - The Pre-Code Series published in the November/December well as the Financial Times. He has also by Nina Mae Fowler, in Measuring Elvis: 2015 issue. published monographic essays on the work Nina Mae Fowler. Other essays included of the photographers Lise Sarfati, Irving were by Sandy Nairne and John Maybury Penn, John Hilliard, John Stezaker and for The Cob Gallery, autumn, 2015 Andreas Gefeller
ISSUE 22/ WINTER 2015 CREAM NEWS TEREZA STEHLIKOVA SENSORY WORKSHOP
CHRISTIE BROWN THE DOUBLE LIFE OF OBJECTS [RIGHT]
CONFERENCES AND TALKS
Shirley J. Thompson presented a paper Universities of Cambridge, Bristol and In November May Adadol Ingawanij at Bournemouth University in October UCL on 26th September, 2015. He also was invited to the Singapore International entitled Diversity and Equality in Sport and presented Approaching Sites of Climate Film Festival where she gave a lecture Classical Music for Bournemouth’s Equality Change through Un-Visualisations, at and taught on the Youth Jury & Critics & Diversity & BBA. She took part in a the Value of Culture and Environmental Programme. In October and November panel discussion of BASCA composers at Sustainability symposium, convened by the she was invited to teach, with curator Ruth Equator’s Women of the World Festival, AHRC and Julie’s Bicycle on 7th October Noack, at the Dutch Art Institute’s Roaming held in King’s Place, London in October 2015. Academy programme, Arnheim and which was followed by a programme of Jakarta. John Wyver’s recent presentations music, including Shirley’s Sunbeam Child. include: The Early Imaginary of Event Mitra Tabrizian gave a paper at the Shirley was also a panel speaker for King’s Cinema, 1878-1953, the Keynote Urban Encounters conference at Tate College London, at the Women in Arts & lecture at the Live Theatre Broadcast Modern in October 2015. the Media Festival on October 31st. Symposium, University of York, in the David Campany has recently given In November Michael Mazière spoke summer; Screening the RSC Stage at the public talks at MoMA New York, The at the Artists’ Moving Image Practice in RSC Summer School, Stratford-upon-Avon, School of Visual Arts, New York, the Britain: From 1990 to Today, a conference in August; curator and speaker at The Rencontres in Arles, and Le Bal, Paris. He organized by the Whitechapel Gallery. Road to Civilisation?:The Arts on TV in gave the keynote address at this year’s the ‘50s and ‘60s, for the BFI Southbank At the newly established European Centre Delhi Photography Festival in October programme, 10 November and Screens for Press and Media Freedom’s inaugural 2015 in which he explored the tension and Stages for the Annual Conference conference in October, Kerstin Mey that exists between affection and suspicion of the British Universities Film and Video chaired a panel of experts on European in our relationship with contemporary Council, 27 November. Journalists Under Threat: How To Fight photography. Back. In the summer Margherita Sprio gave a Shezad Dawood was in conversation paper entitled Migrant Memories - Cinema In November 2015 Loraine Leeson with Jenny Jaskey of The Artist’s Institute and Diaspora, at the Film and History led a panel considering the legacy and at the Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, USA Association of Australia and New Zealand continuation of community art practices in September 2015. Shezad also gave Conference at Queensland University, at a daylong conference convened by an artist’s talk at the Parsons New School, Australia, followed in July 2015, with Liverpool Biennial and Andrea Phillips. New York, USA, in September and a a paper called Silence as a Mode of The conference, entitled Community Arts? Second Sundays September Streamcast Resistance - The Terrain of Subculture Learning from the Legacy of Artists’ Social for Clocktower Radio, a non-profit arts in Silences of the Palace (Mofida Tlatli, Initiatives, formed part of a weekend organisation based in New York. 1994) at the International Association For of programmes that considered current Media and Communication Research, Tereza Stehlikova ran a Sensory approaches in socially engaged art. . at Universite du Quebec and Montreal, Workshop at the Atsukobarouh gallery, Julian Ross was invited to participate in Canada. In October Margherita Sprio Tokyo, in September 2015, working in the panel, Internationalization of the Short, gave a talk called Diaspora in the Field of collaboration with Japanese artist Asa at Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal in July Vision, at the Westminster Forum, in the Hiramitsu. and in the symposium, DCP Projection of Modern Languages and Cultures Research In September Uriel Orlow participated Independent Film, at Yamagata Museum of Seminar Series, in collaboration with in the panel discussion Fighting History Art as part of the Yamagata International HOMELandS. at Tate Britain with Alex Farquharson, Documentary Film Festival in Japan in Christie Brown was invited to give a new director of Tate Britain, Chloe Dewe October. lecture entitled The Double Life of Objects, Matthews and S. I. Martin. Tom Corby recently presented a paper, and to present an on-stage demonstration Blood and Bones, at the Dying Well, at the International Ceramics Festival held Enacting Medical Ethics symposium at bi-annually in Aberystwyth in July. Bart’s Pathology Museum, organised by LORRAINE LEESON AT CHELSEA SPACE
EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND SCREENINGS CONTINUED
Shezad Dawood’s other solo exhibition Uriel Orlow had a major solo exhibition, Jane Thorburn’s short drama The Towards the Possible Film (2014) opened entitled Uriel Orlow: Made/Unmade, from Family Legacy about the myths and taboos at the John Hansard Gallery, University of June - September at the Castello di Rivoli, surrounding Sickle Cell Disease continued Southampton on 18 July until 5 September Turin.Uriel was also part of the group to be shown in London and in Grenada. 2015. Shezad also featured in several exhibitions, Europe: The Future of History, In October, Uriel Orlow performed group exhibitions including Own Land/ Kunsthaus Zurich in June, and Darker and Unmade Film: The Proposal at Accademia Foreign Territory, at the 7th Moscow Darker grows the Landscape, at Bâtiment dell’Arte, Turin. His work was also part Biennale 15 September – 26 October d’art contemporain, Geneva in July. His of the programme Different Screen at 2015, and the Vienna Biennial, Future work featured in The Vanishing Point of the Arnolfini, Bristol in September. In Light, Museum Angewandte Kunst (MAK) History, Centre d’art et photographie, December he performed Grey, Green, and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna: 11 June – 4 Lectoure in July, Sightings at KZNSA, Gold at the independent space Corner October 2015. Durban and From Within the Giant’s Belly College in Zurich. at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Loraine Leeson was featured in CAN Art Rijeka, in August, as well as the DO: Photographs and other material group exhibitions Music for Museums at from the Women’s Art Library Magazine Whitechapel Gallery London, Maps & Archive at Chelsea Space, Chelsea Territories at Mor Charpentier, Paris and College of Arts, London. Moving Image Contours: Points for a Tereza Stehlikova was among several surrounding movement at Tabakalera, San artists invited to take the essay, Time and Sebastian. Eternity by D.T. Suzuki, as a starting point John Wyver produced the live cinema to examine the universal concept of time presentation of Richard O’Brien’s The and its relationship to eternity. The resulting Rocky Horror Show (17 September) for group exhibition Jikan Towa (Absolute ATG, Picturehouse Entertainment and Now) was held at the Atsukobarouh Illuminations, and for Illuminations and Sky gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Tereza’s video Arts he wrote and produced Ai WeiWei installations From You to Me with Love, at the RA, a 70-minute film about the (2015) and Between Jirina and Anna, Chinese artist’s major London exhibition. (2015) explored the relationship between John was Executive Producer for a Sky Arts family members, family roots and sense of production of Matthew Bourne’s The Car belonging to a place, as well as the role of Man recorded at Sadler’s Wells and Bryn sensory perception and embodied memory Terfel’s 50th Birthday Concert, also for Sky in our experience of these ties. Arts, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. During July and August 2015 Julie Jane Thorburn’s mixed genre Marsh conducted a 6-week research documentary Joy, It’s Nina, enjoyed a residency at Pestera Monastery, an third year of international screenings. Orthodox dwelling at the entrance to Jane started work on the film in 2010, the Ialomicioara Cave in Romania. The originally in response to the migrant crisis resulting artworks (a series of installation in Lampedusa, Italy. The film was screened pieces) were exhibited at the monastery at: the VOW (The Voice of a Women) Film from the 16th-28th August 2015. The Festival at the Hospital Club, London on documentary Pestera (2015) made during the 4th October; the Open Doors Newark. and completed shortly after the residency Exhibition in New Jersey USA on 16-18 was screened as part of The Biennial for October and Black History Month. London Emerging Arts in Romania, 16th-19th School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, October 2015. London on 19th October 2015. ISSUE 22/ WINTER 2015 CREAM NEWS MAY ANADOL INGAWANIJ CREAM NEWS MASTERCLASS WITH APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Julian Ross joined CREAM in September Un-Data, Un-Visualisations, at the stretch of river. A micro reed bed has 2015 as a Research Fellow, and began conference Transforming Data: Creative been constructed along the hull of the his Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research and Critical Directions in the Arts and Tamesis Dock barge as a prototype for Fellowship entitled The Image Appears: Humanities, organised by CREAM, how moving structures can be utilized Slide Projections in International University of Westminster and the Oxford to provide a haven for these creatures. Contemporary Art 2004. The research Internet Institute, University of Oxford. The The public’s attention was drawn to the analyses the afterlife of the slide projector conference was held at the Regent Street issues via large scale moving projections ten years after its technological demise and site on 24 October 2015. Other speakers along the embankment pavement of the seeks to internationalise the field of study. included Gavin Baily, Mark Graham, organisms, identified through the university CREAM also welcomes two new members Hannah Redler and Christian Fuchs from microscopes. The launch was opened by of staff to our School and CREAM research CAMRI. the Vice Chancellor Geoff Petts. Other fold. speakers included Thames 21 expert Chris The 7th African Film conference organised Coode and Dean of the Faculty of Science Roshini Kempadoo joins us as Reader by the Africa Media Centre as a joint and Technology, Professor Jane Lewis. in Transmedia. She has also taken on CREAM/CAMRI event was held on 7th Picture the role of Co-Director of the CREAM & 8th November 2015. Organised by PhD programme with May Adadol Jane Thorburn, the theme this year was Michael Mazière raised £36,000 from Ingawanij. African Film and Social Change, with two Arts Council England and £25,000 from keynote speakers, film-makers Newton the Marian Goodman Gallery for the Julie Marsh has been appointed as Aduaka and Tunde Kelani. Chantal Akerman Exhibition NOW. Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Media Practice and is currently completing a On October 27th, the FD-zone London Sarah Pucill was awarded £15,000 practice-based PhD on site integrity at (a collaboration between CREAM and Arts Council funding for Confessions To University of the Arts, London. the Films Division, Government of India) The Mirror, which will be a 16mm colour organized a screening of What the feature length sequel to her successful film CREAM Screens is a newly launched series Fields Remember, a documentary on Magic Mirror. of screenings and conversations featuring the 1983 Nellie massacre in Assam, the best of contemporary global film and Tom Corby received an Arts Council India. The screening was followed by a artists’ moving image. The series launched England award of £10,000 for Deep Time panel discussion with the director of the with a masterclass by Cannes-prizewinning Landscapes. film Ms Subasri Krishnan, director of the filmmaker and globally acclaimed artist Media Lab, Indian Institute for Human Uriel Orlow has raised over £100,000 Apichatpong Weerasethakul at Regent Settlements, Delhi. The other panelists from the Wellcome Trust, Arts Council Street Cinema, 13 October. Speaking were Prof. Neepa Majumdar (Associate England, Stanley Thomas Johnson to a packed auditorium, Apichatpong Professor, University of Pittsburgh) and Foundation, Film London and others to was in conversation with May Adadol Daisy Hasan. Rosie Thomas chaired develop Theatrum Botanicum an ambitious Ingawanij. The audience was treated the discussion. multi-part project and film on the politics of to a magical afternoon of wide-ranging plants in South Africa and beyond. conversations about his latest film 15 September saw the launch of Loraine Cemetery of Splendour, artistic practice Leeson’s Lambeth Floating Marsh, an Sarah Pucill completed her PhD by under censorship, and the affinity between arts/science collaboration with scientist publication. the moving image, collective memory, Nithin Rai and support from the Faculty In October Mitra Tabrizian’s photograph spirituality, sleep and hypnosis, as well of Science and Technology. They have Surveillance was acquired for the as a rare screening of his recent video been examining the microscopic life that collection of the Islamic department at the Fireworks (Archives). lives in the urban reaches of the Thames British Museum. with a view to creating new habitat for Tom Corby presented a paper entitled organisms along this challenging urban
CREAM NEWS ISSUE 22/WINTER 2015 CECILIA ZOPPELLETTO LA BELLE AT THE MOVIES
PHD NEWS The first CREAM Caucus Show opened Ingrid Pollard participated in a number diffracted with the above mentioned in the Harrow Project Space. Entitled In of exhibitions recently including Consider #copperlove project. Process: An Exhibition of Media and Arts the Light and the Dark, at the Ateliers Miranda Pennell’s video Tattoo (9 Doctoral Research, the exhibition opened D’Artistes de Sacy, Sacy-le-Petit, France minutes) was exhibited as part of Europa, on Thursday 10 December 2015 and runs in September, VARC in The City at the at KunstHaus Museum in Zurich (June- until Sunday 3 January 2016. Abject Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, September 2015). Her 60-minute film The in November and Carte de Visite, at the CREAM Caucus, which began a year ago Host (2015), a reflection on the image of Hollybush Gardens Gallery in London, until with PhD Director Tom Corby’s support, the past, produced by the Anglo-Iranian 8th January 2016. Ingrid Pollard was also is a monthly student meeting discussing Oil Company, was completed as part In-Situ Artist in-Residence at the Briefield the practice of undertaking research in of her practice-led PhD research on Film Mill, Lancashire, from July to September arts and media. From a series of working as an Archive for Colonial Photographs 2015. research questions that emerged from these and it received its first public screening meetings, one in particular caught the Valentina Signorelli’s research explores at the London Film Festival in October. researchers’ collective imagination: how to the circulation of Dante’s infernal imagery Planned UK screenings include The exhibit research in progress? Participating on the cinematic screen in the digital era. Maltings Cinema at Berwick on Tweed practice-based PhD students and alumni In October she gave a talk at Sapienza – in November, and then at Close Up include: Estéfani Bouza, Cinzia Cremona, University of Rome on the importance of Cinema, London on February 4th, and as Sue Goldschmidt, Alexa Raisbeck, Milano Films’ Inferno (1911) in Italian film part of The Essay Film Festival in March. Alexandra Jönsson, Mirko Nikolic, Fatima history. Also in October, she presented The Host is showing internationally at Nizaruddin, Bhavna Rajpal, Arne Sjögren the latest short-film to which she has the forthcoming Turin Film Festival and and Steve Smith. collaborated as a script editor, Gemma di Rotterdam International Film Festival. Maggio, directed by Lorenzo Giovenga Picture La Belle At The Movies (2015) Cecilia and Giuliano Giacomelli at Cinema Zoppelletto’s debut documentary Su Fahy participated in Readers Art: Detour, Rome. feature has been selected for a number Concealed, Confined and Collected, May of prestigious film festivals: Royal Africa The exhibition P.H. Emerson: Presented – July 2015, showing Oh Yeah Decca! an Society’s Film Africa in London (30th Oct by the Author opened on November 20, original artist bookwork, (single edition), to 8th Nov15), AFRIFF Africa International 2015 at Nottingham Castle Museum at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Film Festival in Lagos (8th to 16th Nov) curated by Federica Chiocchetti and Minneapolis, USA. Su also presented and Festival du Film D’Amiens in France organised in partnership with the V&A via her research in a paper entitled Material (13th to 21st Nov). Cecilia directed the their Curatorial Fellowship Programme and Culture In Action, at Glasgow School of film whilst in the DRC preparing her thesis supported by the Art Fund. Art in September 2015, as part of the for the MA in Film and TV. Alternative Poster Presentation, for The During September-October, the second Reading Room, an Artist Led Archive In September John Aitken participated phase of Mirko Nikolic’s project, we Research and Artist Practice Presentation. in an event at the Centre for Chinese heart copper & copper heart us, was Contemporary Art in Manchester, developed in a research residency with Deniz Sözen has been selected for West initiating a temporary research space for KC ‘Grad’ (Belgrade, Serbia). In October Balkan Calling, an Artist-in-Residence researchers from the UK and China to Mirko Nikolic presented the paper, A Exchange Programme, organized by the share and exchange ideas around The Flat Ecology ‘Must Be Made’: Situated