Creamfields Host CreamTVfields

• 15th Aug 2008

At the forefront of new culture Creamfields can now reveal the interactive on-site art programme that will captivate revellers this year. Following the success of last years ‘Cream Show’ Exhibition at Liverpool John Moores University’s Site Gallery, the two organisations join forces again. Site have been invited to the festivals 10th anniversary and have teamed up with Grizedale Arts and independent curator/producer Sam Skinner to produce a dedicated two day festival of visual arts at this years Creamfields.

CreamTVfields will have a dedicated TV set on site in the fields amongst the crowd, providing the backdrop to a unique blend of street culture mixed, mashed and blended with the work of some of the UK’s most cutting edge contemporary artists. All this will be churned up and re-presented in a digital stream of online film, moving image, videocasts and sound.

With the help of FACT.TV, CreamTVfields and Cream News will be broadcasting live and direct throughout the weekend, online and on itunes. The station will capture the magic of the fields as an interactive experience with contributions by musicians, artists and festival-goers to be broadcast on the Main Stage big screens throughout the weekend.

The CreamTVfields open air studio has been designed by curator/producer Sam Skinner with architect Ken Martin and incorporates a chicken house facade by the bang-on-trend Pablo Bronstein. Sam has also devised Paint Jam which will see the brightest stars of Merseyside’s graffiti, illustration and graphic art scenes battling it out to paint the studio’s walls live over the two days. Revelers will witness and inspire an extraordinary unfolding of creative folly. Artists from Zap Graffiti will create work encompassing bugged-out characters, swirling psychedelic forms and general wonderment, reflecting and celebrating the heady and colourful mix of Creamfields. There will also be the opportunity for festival goers to make their mark alongside other artists, for what promises to be a unique expression of the festival.

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To provide the content for CreamTVfields, international art organisation Grizedale Arts are commissioning a jaw dropping live performance by Marcus Coates and bringing artists from its stable of international projects to contribute and collaborate with sound, video and graphics. These artists will include: –

William Pope L, Nathaniel Mellors, Pablo Bronstein, Jen Liu, Nina Pope and Tim Olden, juneau/projects/, Guestroom, Bedwyr Williams link, Myvillages link, Harold Offeh, Kai Oi Jay Yung, Gelatin & MOMS

All of the projects produced by Site and Grizedale for CreamTVfields will enable festival-goers to get creative like never before and the talented bunch of artists on board can’t wait to get going.

Sam Skinner: “It’s going to be madness, all the artists for Paint Jam can’t wait to get busy and create some dazzling eye candy for the party.’

CreamTVfields is a collaboration between Cream, Site (Liverpool School of Art and Design/LJMU), Grizedale Arts, FACT and Sam Skinner (Big Romantic)

CreamTVFields is curated by John Byrne (Site/LJMU), Adam Sutherland (Grizedale Arts), and Sam Skinner (Big Romantic). It is supported by Arts Council England, Liverpool John Mores University, ACME and FACT