Living Organism – A Film Screening

30th August 2018
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Part of the public programme to the exhibition Women Artists of the North East Library at Workplace Foundation, this screening situates Newcastle-based artist Kate Liston’s film ‘Treatment’ alongside a selection of work influential to her practice, including ‘Hand Tinting’ (1967) by Joyce Wieland and a live performance of ‘Mutualism’ by Tess Denman-Cleaver, written around Liston’s film.

In dialogue with Liston’s ‘Film for EBM’, currently exhibited at Workplace Foundation, the screening will include Ella Bergmann-Michel’s ‘Wo Wohnen Alte Leute’, (Where the Old People Live, 1931), which observes a working day in an old people’s home in Weimar Germany. Modernist architecture moves in tandem with its inhabitants and becomes a social being—a ‘living organism’.

A discussion with Adam Pugh (Director of Projections at Tyneside Cinema) and Kate Liston, Tess Denman-Cleaver and Holly Argent followed the screening.

Kate Liston's Treatment (2017) Image courtesy of the artist
Kate Liston’s Treatment (2017) Image courtesy of the artist

 

Materials provided at the screening to download:

Programme Notes, including full film listings

 

A3 poster/crib sheet

Joyce Weiland, Handtinting (1967) Image courtesy of the artist and Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Joyce Weiland, Handtinting (1967) Image courtesy of the artist and Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Ella Bergmann-Michel, Where Old People Live (Wo Wohnen Alte Leute) (1931)
Ella Bergmann-Michel, Where Old People Live (Wo Wohnen Alte Leute) (1931)