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.