CREAM’s Julie Marsh is part of the new publication, Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces (Multilingual Matters, 2024). This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer a starting point […]
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Join us for an engaging discussion on expanded photography and the (hauntological) potential of AI, centering around the project #end_of_empire by artist Eva Sajovic in collaboration with musician Nicola Privato, commissioned for the British Textile Biennial 2023. #end_of_empire was a large scale, site-specific installation featuring knitted photographs embedded with touch sensors and AI generated sound. The […]
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A podcast series that accompanies the Women In Revolt exhibition at Tate Britain. This 6-part mini-series explores art, activism and the women’s movement in the UK in the 1970s and 80s. From early struggles for equal pay, to punk, Thatcher and the AIDS pandemic, this was a time of extreme social, economic and political change. […]
Sarah Pucill’s latest film Double Exposure (2023) has been awarded Best Experimental Film at this year’s Toronto Women Film Festival. Double Exposure re-stages photographs of Pucill and her once partner, filmmaker Sandra Lahire that were made collaboratively shortly before Lahire’s death from anorexia in 2001. Set inside an otherwise quiet studio, black and white interior scenarios […]
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8 March 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain The ground-breaking films of Pratibha Parmar have been raising issues central to feminism over many decades: from the rights of marginalised women and the LGBTQ community, her work has made the voices and experiences of women of colour heard through feature film works, television documentaries and short films. […]
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28 February 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain Carole Enahoro’s rarely screened triple-screen film Oyinbo Pepper (1986), ‘uses archive footage and photographs from Nigeria and the UK to explore the experience of being biracial and bicultural, navigating between vigilance/obliviousness, entanglement/rupture. It ends by mapping hidden networks that exploit the effects of persistent uprooting and rerouting and drive the […]
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21 February 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain From legendary protest singer Peggy Seeger to contemporary artist filmmaker Sarah Wood, the experience of the women’s peace camp at Greenham Common is a secret thread running through British feminist art making. Club des Femmes set up camp at Tate Britain to learn from Greenham’s feminist art practices, histories […]
7 February 2024, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain Riddles of the Sphinx, made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen in 1977, portrays the experience of motherhood through the prism of psychoanalysis, using experimental film techniques and staging to address the difficulties of affective labour, seen through the narrative of a mother caring for her young daughter. […]
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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 […]