Nowhere Less Now3 [Flying Saucer]
26th September - 26th December 2020
Materials: 3 synchronised monitors, 5.1 surround sound, mylar curtain, 6 geometric forms, folded paper, seating and carpet. You enter a building called the Flying Saucer, which originally stood on the edge of an old army camp, but now the city engulfs it. It is hot outside but the building is cooled and you feel the relief from the opressive heat ...
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 ...
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 enter a low lit spac,e either in a castle dungeon in Lincoln, a deconsecrated church in Brighton or in a hidden room in Birmigham. Inside these rooms there is a shadow play of sihouettes that are blown around the walls, looming and ...
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
Materials: 23 framed photographs, 4 monitor works and a projection with stereo sound In the morass of general political/social ideas about the world and its current state, each one of us has to navigate this excess of divergent information with our fleshy ageing bodies and our own specific and local perceptions. How do we conceive of a "race" or of ...
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 ...