Tue 27 September // doors 19:00, film starts 19:30 / Cinema Tickets: £7/£5

Fieldworking (2020) 16mm transferred to video, colour, 5:1 sound, 29’19

Laura Harrington with Chris Bate, Ludwig Berger, Sarah Bouttell, Luce Choules, Simone Kenyon, Fiona MacDonald, Lee Patterson, Meredith Root-Bernstein and Moor House-Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve

Fieldworking is a co-commission by Tyneside Cinema (Projections) and MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art). Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Additional support from Natural England, Northumbria University and The Arts and Humanities Research Council. -

Programmed as part of the exhibition Habit, Ability! The NewBridge Project (Shieldfield).

Fieldworking is a short film made during a five-day residency camp in the uplands of Moor House Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve during August 2019. Six artists, an ecologist and two filmmakers were brought together to a former scientific field station to cultivate multifarious practices of artistic fieldwork. Together they found ways of existing and working within this remote location.

The film will also be accompanied by Layerscape (peat bogs), 2012 a 16mm film made in 2012 by the artist Laura Harrington and a short made in Shieldfield the day before this event by Harrington and a workshop group, applying the 'boggy knowledge' of upstream and downstream consciousness to our urban surroundings.

The event will include an in-conversation between curator Adam Pugh and Laura Harrington. Habit, Ability! learns from nature, looking at landscapes considered uninhabitable by humans, looking at the survival tactics of life there and applying this thinking to our urban and human-dominated local area.