Affective Labour: confronting images of motherhood 31 January 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain Challenging the demands of reproductive labour has long been at the heart of the feminist struggle, and the basis for many arresting works by artists across the decades. This is also the case for feminist artist filmmakers. The ground-breaking exploration of women’s […]
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CREAM PhD researcher Lucy Rogers presents her paper ‘Landscapes of Myth, Memory and Imagination: Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s Memoryscapes’ at The International Conference on Photography Studies: Photography and Site on Wednesday 6 December. In this paper, Rogers explores the cold war or more specifically, the Soviet Union and its imperial ambitions, as one of multiple overarching narratives […]
Prof. Roshini Kempadoo and alumni Sunil Gupta are part of the group exhibition, The World that Belongs to Us opening on Thursday 24 November at The New Art Gallery Walsall in Birmingham. Curated by Aziz Sohail with Head of Exhibitions, Deborah Robinson, this exhibition brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists from the South Asian […]
Matthias Kispert’s 30-minute documentary The Social Life of Food: Movements for Justice & Local Resilience will be screened at cooperatively-run community hub The Hornbeam Centre in Walthamstow, London. The film features interviews with a number of London-based initiatives involved in non-capitalist food provision: Sutton Community Farm works along agroecological principles, which include respect for the land and […]
David Campany has edited and written ‘Very Pictorial Conceptual Art’, the first posthumous book of the work of Robert Cumming, an American artist who defied easy classification. A painter, sculptor, photographer, and printmaker he is perhaps best known for his painstakingly constructed conceptual photographs. This new publication explores Cumming’s highly influential photographic works from the […]
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Ceramics Research Centre UK is pleased to invite you to the fifth in their Clay in Conversation series; DIFFERENCE with Sam Lucas and Laura Johanna König, chaired by Tessa Peters and curated by Julia Ellen Lancaster. This is an ‘in person’ event held at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, Regent Street, W1B 2HW on Friday 22nd September, 5-7pm. Please do […]
Living Archives Episode 3: Jacob V Joyce & Roshini Kempadoo Listen to Roshini Kempadoo in conversation with fellow artist and CREAM PhD researcher, Jacob V Joyce, in the latest podcast episode of Living Archives, an oral histories project co-produced by the Stuart Hall Foundation and the International Curators Forum. Hosted by ICF Deputy Artistic Director Jessica Taylor, Living Archives […]
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Matthias Kispert will present his paper ‘Representing Digital Platform Work through Delegate Performance’ at the conference Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image at King’s College, London, on 23 June. The conference builds on the long-established political history and theory around labour – especially that associated with German critical thought, such as the work of Karl Marx, […]
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A long table discussion in person/online on artmaking and historical narratives with thinkers/makers providing speculative interventions. This iteration of Creating Interference/Itinerant Imaginaries will be online and at Portland Hall, University of Westminster. 4-12 Little Titchfield Street London W1W 7BY on Tuesday 27 June, 14:00 – 17:30 BST. Artists have consistently been at the forefront of challenging […]
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Psyche Abandoned is a 17 minute film, written, filmed and edited by Jane Thorburn and narrated by Juliet Stevenson. The screening is for an audience of local people and groups interested in the history and architecture of The Crystal Palace and its sculptures. The film tells the story of how a moment in the life of a young […]