Ciné Lumière is offering two screenings of works by feminist filmmakers and artists from France and Belgium, giving a perspective of Women in Revolt as shaped on the continent in the same time period as the UK activists of the 1970s and 1980s. The film programme Through a Radical Lens takes up the themes of the current […]
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Sunil Gupta and Roshini Kempadoo were in conversation as part of the Westminster Photography Forum, London in 2021. The conversation, entitled ‘From Here to Eternity: 35 years of Image Making‘ will feature in the exhibition Soundscapes of Intersectional Encounters: Exploring Identity Through Sound in Vienna, Austria. Curated by Zehra Baraçkılıç and Ruby Sircar, the Academy of […]
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CREAM PhD researcher, Mary Martins will be discussing her research and practice in the Animate Projects – Accelerate Sessions: The Personal Archive on Tuesday 12th March at 6pm. This session looks at ‘the personal archive’ where Mary will be joined by artists and animators, Jessica Ashman, Maybelle Peters and Keith Piper as they all discuss and […]
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The last decade has seen a clear shift in the operational frameworks for the production, dissemination and consumption of photographs in contemporary computerised societies. The representational apparatus of photography is being progressively converted into algorithmic and generative processes through computer automation, connectivity and algorithmic control. Recent developments of AI systems and expanded technologies exponentially transform […]
Registration is now open for Women in Revolt: radical acts, contemporary resonances. This conference will take place in the Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March 2024 (10.00-18.00), following an opening reception at Chelsea Space, University of the Arts, London on Thursday 21 March 2024 (18.00-20.30). Bringing together papers in response […]
Shining Lights reflects the work by Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s. Editors are Joy Gregory and Taous Dahmani. Edited and researched by Joy Gregory, alongside art historian Taous Dahmani. Roshini Kempadoo has contributed an essay entitled: Doing it All Again: Re-imagining Blackness, Memory, and History, a joint portfolio with Claudette […]
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David Campany contributes a major essay to ‘American Glitch’ the new book by artists Caleb Stein & Andrea Orejarena. The book explores the friction between fact and fiction and how this is manifested in the U.S. landscape. An ocean of information leaves us questioning what is real — and what isn’t. In an era defined by screens, the notion that we’re […]
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. […]