Tuned
City - Symposium and Screening
Programme
BALTIC Project Space, BALTIC
39, Newcastle upon Tyne
The programme will include contemporary and historical film and video works by: Clemens von Wedemeyer and Maya Schweizer, Steven Ball, Jennet Thomas, Riccardo Iacono, Sarah Dobai, Beatrice Gibson, Patrick Keiller,Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone, William English, Cédrick Eymenier, Anne Tallentire, Neil Beloufa.
Tuned Cities: Screening
Programme
Framed by Eleanor Wright’s
exhibition Thin Cities at Gallery North, this
two-day event presents the work of artists whose
practices' explore themes of architecture and
transformation.
“To be lifted to the summit
of the World Trade Centre is to be lifted out of
the city's grasp.” - Michel de Certeau, The
Practice of Everyday Life
High-rise brand-focused
developments have become the corporate building type
for an increasingly global industry and
architecture. Eleanor Wright's current project, Thin
Cities showing at Gallery North until 17
October, made following a year-long fellowship with
BxNU Institute of Contemporary Art examines the
socio-political, architectural and visual discourse
surrounding these constructions and questions their
relationship to cities and people.
This collaborative event,
curated with Sam Watson (CIRCA Projects), will
expand on themes of the exhibition via a programme
of contemporary and historical film and video work.
The
works selected have been chosen to correspond with
themes that will be explored within the two-day
symposium, also presented at BALTIC 39. The program
will address the importance of visualising and
critiquing imagined worlds in order to better
understand realities of the present. The selected
works explore this through allegorical representations
of architecture, and the built environment operating
as an expression of social and political ideals.
Over
the last few years the precise question of what should
be privately owned and publicly shared in society has
animated intense political struggles and social
movements around the world. In this shadow the works
in this screening offer models of practice and
interrogate diverse sites, from the body, to the
river, to the server, to the museum.
