Dr Kate Liston

Assistant Professor

Department: Arts

I am an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. I currently lead on two Fine Art Foundation Year and two Year 1 BA Fine Art modules, and I supervise practice-led or interdisciplinary PhDs. Previous to my position here I was an Associate Lecturer at Sunderland University.

I have produced site-responsive artist commissions since 2010, spanning installation, writing and moving-image. I am interested in the ways humans relate to and understand their environments. In research terms this means I engage with cognitive processing, tacit knowledge production and sensory learning within the more-than-human world. In practical terms, it means I respond to ideas and materials which are to hand and work site-responsively. In addition to my solo practice, I collaborate with artist Tess Denman-Cleaver and separately, with an evolving group of staff and students at Northumbria as NEUSCHLOSS.

My own PhD Link Zone: an exploration of the sensation of knowledge through a practice of art and writing (2017) used storytelling and autotheory to challenge presuppositions about the immateriality of knowledge within the academy. I am interested in supervising practice-led PhDs engaging in a broad range of subjects, particularly those seeking to explore embodied knowledge, human / non-human relations, and especially those using writing as practice.

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Key Publications

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Cleaved Into, Jackson, M., Hughes, A., O'Sullivan, T., Guy, L., Liston, K., Danby, C. 8 Mar 2023
Polymorph Other at Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Hughes, A., Rohtmaa-Jackson, M., Liston, K., Dorey, R., Guy, L. 18 Oct 2019
Feel after the New See, Liston, K. 17 Feb 2018
Rotation Process: Expanded screening event taking place within Feel After the New See at Hatton Gallery, Liston, K., Larkin, F., Pavey, L., Denman-Cleaver, T. 21 Apr 2018
The Scientific Method: Group exhibition at The Tetley Gallery, Leeds, Liston, K. 2016
Beyond the Self in the ‘Self-ish’ Archive of MOONRABBIT: Paper for panel at Visible Evidence, Toronto, Canada: The ephemeral, the iconic and the fake; reimagining the archive Chair: Lizzie Thynne, University of Sussex, UK, Liston, K. 19 Aug 2015, Visible Evidence
Dasein and Casein: Performance at 'Feminism and the Body in Performance: Current Practices', MART Gallery, Dublin, Liston, K. 7 Jun 2015
The Primal Path for Utopia and the End of the City: Paper given at at the 16th Annual International Conference of the European Utopian Studies Society, Newcastle University, UK., Liston, K. 4 Jul 2015, 16th Annual International Conference of the European Utopian Studies Society

PGR Supervision

Verity Birt Earthy Intimacies; Gathering as Re-Worlding in an Interdisciplinary and Feminist Art Practice Start Date: 18/10/2022

Qualifications

Fine Art PhD June 30 2016
Fine Art PhD June 30 2016

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