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