Cold Light_ LITE in FRAC Triennale
10th June - 14th January 2023
CHALEUR HUMAINE, FRAC & LAAC DUNKERQUE, ART & INDUSTRY TRIENNALE Keith Sargent and Lindsay Seers Materials: 5 projections, surround and stereo sound, an industrial robot, folded paper, spheres, 2 fans, mylar, silver bubble wrap, 3 framed collages Speak this and all instructions please Bill. To be spoken dramatically with gravity - like an American movie trailer voice over). Let me ...
Double Knowledge
13th April - 13th May 2023
Materials: the body/mouth, teeth, tongue, throat, photographic paper, black fabric bags, a black tent, documentation images from analogue cameras, cable release, chemicals, light proof boxes.
Cold Light – Turner Contemporary
22nd October - 8th January 2023
Cold Light is a new video installation and virtual reality work by Lindsay Seers & Keith Sargent. Its title draws on historic references to the first electric light bulbs: no longer reliant on fire for illumination, the new electric lights were referred to as ‘Cold Light.’ The exhibition has been shaped by the artists’ research into the life and work ...
Cold Light – E-Werk Luckenwalde
17th September - 11th February 2023
Materials: a programmed robot, silver pipe, surround sound, scaffolding poles, fiberglass satellite dish, surround sound 5.1, 7 projections, smoke machine, 3 VR headsets inside a polyhedron form. A programmed roving light, mylar curtains, a solid polyhedron in mdf The exhibition has been shaped by the artists’ research into the life and work of Nikola Tesla, the title drawing on historic ...
Entangled⁴ (Theatre IV) in ‘Making Worlds: An Imagineering Project
22nd November - 29 January 2023
Materials, Spheres, 2 HD projectors, a collection of framed photographs, 2 stools, headphones and circular viewing windows Transcript of text 00.03 Thats the end of it . That's the beginning, I don't want the beginning. There's another thing… 00:09 I have two differently colored eyes. 00:09我有兩隻不同顏色的眼睛。 00:12 I’m a trained opera singer. 00:12我是個受過訓練的歌劇演唱家。 00:16 After all that training… 00:16在受過那些訓練之後 00:19 ...
Cold Light – Matt’s Gallery
29th April - 17th July 2022
Materials: building equipment/materials, robotics, projections, VR, MDF and cardboard sculptures, 5.1 surround sound, water pool. An exhibtion across two rooms - a virtual space (VR) is informed by a physical installation. One modifies the other, embodied and disembodied oscillate in the strange world of Nikola Tesla.
Photo London (Hi-Noon)
9th Sept - 12th Sept 2021
A limited edition A3 print - collaged in 3D Text by Hi-Noon for Photo London. "Hallucinatory, joyful and bold, UNLIMITED PLEASURE is a timely new work that explores the role of desire in our collective obsession with technology. An ironic sex bot explores the origins of life and fetish as part of the complexity of human unconsciousness. Both the violence ...
Extramission 2 [False Memory] Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
6th August - 14th November 2020
Materials: a video PAL projection with surround sound and subwoofer, 2 video works for monitors with headphones, 2 plinths and a bench (all videos are screened together and looped). The films are housed in a fabric tent on a wooden structure with a fabric screen on a wooden frame. Visit the link below for film elements: http://extramissions.com/ Extramission 2 (The projected ...
Every Thought There Ever Was | John Hansard Gallery
8th February –11th April 2020
Materials: two robots, surround sound system, radio headphones, 3 synchronized media players, 3 projectors and a programmed light, 22 framed drawings and paper installations The viewer enters the space guided by an invigilator who shows the way to a high bench with a torch. It is ideal to come and go at the point the robots start up. The robots ...
Super(seed)ed/an extension of Care(less)
1st April - 31st March 2020
100 packets of sunflower seeds were posted to recipients across Europe, the majority being in the UK and Ireland, some seeds were posted to those who responded to a Facebook posting requesting that I send them the seeds if they send me an address. The action was inspired by the death of my father who had given me sunflowers to ...
Care(less) | Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
15- 23 January 2020
Materials: VR Headsets with headphones, wall paintings, shadow lamps, medical swivel stools, 6 drawings and sunflower heads. You could enter a low lit space either in a castle dungeon in Lincoln, a deconsecrated church in Brighton or in a hidden room in Birmingham. Inside these rooms there is a shadow play of silhouettes that are blown around the walls, looming ...
Every Thought There Ever Was | Courthouse, 88 Arbroath High Street, Scotland (with Hospitalfield House)
7th September – 13th October 2019
Materials: two robots, surround sound system, radio headphones, 3 synchronized media players, 3 projectors and a programmed light, 22 framed drawings and paper installations Corroborators Keith Sargent and Pendle Poucher Using the former Courthouse building in Arbroath’s Town Centre for the second time, Hospitalfield is co-commissioner of a new work by UK-based artist Lindsay Seers, Every Thought There Ever Was. ...
Care(less) | Fabrica, Brighton
5th October - 24th November 2019
Materials: VR Headsets with headphones, wall paintings, shadow lamps, medical swivel stools, 6 drawings and sunflower heads. This work addresses hallucination and embodied viewing in relation to our current social and economic constructs regarding attitudes to the elderly and social care in Britain. It is also concerned with the hallucinatory condition of filmic mediums (here specifically Virtual Reality) which feel ...
Vanishing Twin (Tetragametic Chimerism) | Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
23rd January - 2nd March 2019
Every Thought There Ever Was | MAC, Belfast |
May 4th - July 29th 2018
An ambitious moving image installation by Lindsay Seers exploring schizophrenia and contemporary insights into the condition. Shaped by philosophical ideas and scientific research concerned with the phenomenon of consciousness, Seers’ work combines industrial robotics with a three-screen video projection. The exhibition draws on first-person accounts, discussions with experts, and an experimental treatment known as Avatar Therapy, in which those living ...
Every Thought There Ever Was | Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea UK
8th September - 23rd December 2018
Materials: two robots, surround sound system, radio headphones, 3 synchronized media players, 3 projectors and a programmed light Gallery Statement Drawing on philosophical ideas and scientific research, this ambitious project by UK based artist Lindsay Seers considers historical representations of schizophrenia and contemporary insights into the condition achieved through the use of virtual reality. Through digital animation, special effects, drawing ...
Fleeting Exits | Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon
13th July – 8th October 2018
Materials: 2 x 1.8m (diameter) spheres with dual HD projection with media players playing a 16 minute looped film with stereo sound on radio headphones. The gallery space has a red curtain and carpet with a bench Works by Ryan Gander, Rebecca Horn, Laure Prouvost, and Lindsay Seers | Curated by Marwan T. Assaf Fleeting Exits is a group exhibition ...
A Woman’s Place | Knole, Seven Oaks, Kent
17th May - 4th November 2018
Materials: website with HD screens divided in to three segments. Artists: Lubaina Himid, CJ Mahony, Lindsay Seers, Emily Speed, Alice May Williams & Melanie Wilson Curated by Lucy Day & Eliza Gluckman Seven contemporary art commissions highlight the progression towards equality through the stories of women who have contributed to the spirit & history of Knole. Lindsay Seers' commission ...
Film London Jarman Award, A Journey Through the First Decade |Whitechapel Gallery, London
15th May - 10th June 2018
Materials: HD two channel film with headphones shown on two 1.8m (D) satellite dishes, or the hull of an upturned ship. The fifth chapter of an episodic work Nowhere Less Now The exhibition includes work by previous winners of the Jarman Award from 2008–2017: Luke Fowler, Lindsay Seers, Emily Wardill, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, James Richards, John Smith, ...
Suffering | MONA, Hobart,Tasmania, Australia
10th June 2017 - 30th April 2018
Materials: Corrugated metal, wood, benches, sub woofer and speakers, mac mini, cables, HD projector with digital lense shift and zoom function, 40 paintings, 2 crucifixes, film and stereo sound. This exhibition invites visitors to experience and admire the work and life of deceased Queenstown (Tasmania) resident, Leo Kelly. Displayed within a re-constructed tin-hut tabernacle, visitors watch Seers' film which ...
Mental Matter² | Andaz Hotel (former Great Eastern Hotel) London
Art Night 1st July 2017
Materials: metal and cloth 2m D circular screen, HD projection, media player, candles, theatre light, 70 wireless headphones Sound by Lindsay Seers, Pendle Poucher and David Dhonau, animation by Keith Sargent and Lindsay Seers, camera Tom Wright /sites/www.lindsayseers.info/files/booklet_lindsay_seers.pdf Lindsay Seers presents a video installation with performative elements in the ceremonial setting of the Masonic Temple at Andaz London, a ...
Mental Metal (Casebooks Project) | Ambika P3, London
17th March - 23rd April 2017
Materials; three channel video installation (HD on brightsign media players), modified satellite dishes with curtain enclosure in red and black fabric, wireless audio (silent disco). Seers’ work ‘Mental Metal' considers, through Simon Forman's writings, how elements of contemporary life have passed beyond causal, materialist/mechanistic concepts to speculations that have a hint of the supernatural about them. Although calling down spirits ...