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 ...
The World Made New | PiArtworks, London
14th April - 20th May 2017
Materials: paper, card, paint, ink, felt tip, pencil, inkjet prints, box frames 70cm x 56cm Curated by Oliver Sumner. Artists: Sovay Berriman, Ilana Halperin, Iz Öztat, Lindsay Seers, and Michelle Williams Gamaker Almost twenty years ago, a set of events unfolded which I could believe are the origin of these drawings/paintings. A talented art student whom I taught was diagnosed ...
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 ...
Nowhere Less Now⁷ | Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
15th October - 15th March 2017
Materials: wood, cardboard, polystyrene, metal, plaster, HD dual projection, stereo sound on headphones. Sound in collaboration with Pendle Poucher (additional music David Dhonau); production and animation with Keith Sargent Lindsay Seers spent her early childhood in Mauritius (a formerly uninhabited island off Madagascar). With the island’s mix of British, French, African and Indian cultures this colonial start to her life has ...
Suffering | The Unconformity | Tasmania
14th October - 16th October 2016
Materials: wood, corrugated metal, benches, paint, HD dual projection onto a house shaped screen, stereo sound with amplifier and subwoofer, objects and paintings by Leo Kelly Text from a review in Artlink by Andrew Harper UK artist Lindsay Seers has been to Queenstown before and made vital work from her visits, but her latest work Suffering is an experience that ...
Seeing Round Corners|Nowhere Less Now⁵|Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
20th May - 25th September 2016
Nowhere Less Now⁵ Materials: satellite dishes, projections x 2, wired headphones Sound in collaboration with Pendle Poucher (additional music David Dhonau); production and animation with Keith Sargent Seers gathers her materials within the reveries of interviewed subjects, who are filmed or voice recorded. First she finds the people, those with stories to tell, then she tells the tale; the ultimate ...
Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf | New Art Exchange, 39-41 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham
2nd April - 19th June 2016
Materials: wood, fibreglass, artex, cloth, paint, LED lights, astro turf, metal. Golf holes by artists: Lindsay Seers, John Akomfrah, Ellie Harrison, Candice Jacobs, Hetain Patel, Yara El-Sherbini, Yinka Shonibare, Eyal Weizman and Doug Fishbone. Lindsay Seers’ golf hole (originally conceived of for the Venice Biennale 2015) features a figurehead upside down and pregnant being attacked by two enormous snakes. ...
Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf | Venice Biennale
6th May – 26th July 2015
Golf holes by artists: Lindsay Seers, John Akomfrah, Ellie Harrison, Candice Jacobs, Hetain Patel, Yara El-Sherbini, Yinka Shonibare, Eyal Weizman and Doug Fishbone. Materials: wood, fibreglass, artex, cloth, paint, LED lights, astro turf, metal. As a critique of European colonialsim Lindsay Seers’ golf hole for Venice features a figurehead upside down and pregnant being attacked by two enormous snakes. The ...
It has to be this way|Cricoteka, Kraków
23rd January - 15th March 2015
It has to be this way¹˙⁵ Materials: cardboard and wooden structure, 22 minute DVD projection with 5.1 surround sound onto two masked MDF circular screens on mobile TV arms, monitor with headphones, MDF plinth, 16 minute DVD, free novella to take away. Sound in collaboration with Pendle Poucher; production Keith Sargent Artists: Jill Magid, Cheng Ran, Lindsay Seers Lindsay Seers’s ...
Nowhere Less Now⁴ |Hayward Gallery
14th October - 4th January 2015
Materials: cardboard and wood ship; figurehead (mixed material); tetrapods (mixed materails); hemisperical and spherical screens on metal structure; folded paper; HD projections x 2, wired headphones. Sound in collaboration with Pendle Poucher (additional music David Dhonau); production and animation with Keith Sargent "Seers’ work does not accept the dichotomy of fact and fiction, as nothing seems entirely factual or entirely ...
Monocular⁵|Sámi Dáiddaguovddáš
14th June - 20th July 2014
Materials: wooden structure, parts of a hut, window frames, reclaimed door, tree trunk, metal chimney, deer skins, 20 minute HD projection, 5.1 surround sound. Sami Center for Contemporary Art/Sámi Dáiddaguovddáš (SDG) Jeagilvármádii 54, NO-9730 Karasjok, Norway Monocular, shown originally in Something in the way at the Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway, is a prefabricated wooden structure, the interior of which ...
Urban Visionaries|Canary Wharf Screen. Art on the Underground
12th January - 13 February 2014
The Urban Visionaries programmes Part One of FLAMIN's Urban Visionaries series presents a programme of short films commissioned for Channel 4's 3 Minute Wonder and Random Acts short-form arts strand. Canary Wharf Screen, Canary Wharf Station, London These artworks for television include: Films by Lindsay Seers, winner of the 2009 Film London Jarman Award Work from Michael Landy, stemming from ...
Nowhere less now² (The Red Queen)|MONA Tasmania
18th June 2013 - 16th September 2014
Materials: wood, cardboard, polystyrene, metal, clouts, 2x HD projectors, metal masks, 2x macmini, 2 x 27minute HD films, stereo sound delivered through headphones on internal gallery system (The O). 22 minute 5.1 sound installation in the tunnel and a collection of 16 figurehead drawings. MONA, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Nowhere less now² is the second chapter in a trilogy, the first part ...
Entangled² (Theatre II)|Matt’s Gallery London
9th October - 1st December 2013
Materials: Inflatable spheres, HD projection from Blu-ray, wood, glass, carpet, framed photographs, ventriloquist dummy, stools, stereo sound ampified with radio headphones Matt's Gallery, 42-44 Copperfield Rd, London E3 4RR In Entangled²(Theatre II) Lindsay Seers returns to androgynous themes present in her 2009 work It has to be this way at Matt's Gallery. The Renaissance 'theatre of the world' motif of ...
One of Many|Toulouse International Art Festival
24th May - 23 June 2013 2013
Materials: 4000 scallop shells, wooden structure with benches and confessional grill, black curtained walls, 2 x 1.8 diameter inflatable spheres, 2 HD projectors, 2 x 24 minute films, radio headphones with stereo soundtrack, an original newspaper from 1875 Toulouse International Art Festival, Hôtel-Dieu, Toulouse, France One of Many was a newly commissioned work conceived specifically for a chapel in the ...
Reality Bites|Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
2 November - 10 March 2013
Materials: Cardboard and wooden structure finished with clouts, metal chimney, screen, 13 minute video projection with sound from three channels. Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Review of Altermodern - Tate Triennial 2009, by Jorg Heiser, Frieze, April 2009. p.108-109.pdf [Extract] Lindsay Seers, on the other hand, presents a film in which the camera generates experience. Extramission 6 (Black ...
Nowhere Less Now|An Artangel Project
8 September - 21 October 2012 2012
Materials: Wood, cardboard, scaffolding poles, polystyrene, dexion, HD video projection, headphones, an independent sound work, a model of Kilburn Tin Tabernacle, wooden fetish sculpture, photographs and a novella. An Artangel Project (http://www.artangel.org.uk/) Tin Tabernacle, Kilburn, London The Tin Tabernacle in Cambridge Avenue, London became the site of the film installation Nowhere Less Now by Lindsay Seers during September and October ...
Entangled²|Turner Contemporary
7 July - 27 August 2012
Materials: Vinyl spheres inflated with air, cord, HD video projection, radio headphones with stereo sound track, metal projection mask. Secret location within Turner Contemporary, Margate Lindsay Seers’ work operates in a world where everything is connected, and not just by chance. In her new film installation Entangled² she returns, as she often does, to her family history. Seers is fascinated by ...
Møte (Meeting)|Galleri Festiviteten
2 May - 30 August 2012 2012
Materials: Prefabricated/portable corrugated metal and wooden structure, screen and 13 minute HD projection with 5.1 surround sound. Galleri Festiviteten, Oslo, Norway Curated by Tor Inge Kveum Review from a previous exhibition of Linsday Seers' Monocular: "In Tønnefabrikken (The Barrel Factory) we also find a video installation by the English artist Lindsay Seers who tells a story where the differences between ...
Ich ist ein anderer |Kunstverein Freiburg
23 March - 6 May 2012
Materials: Prefabricated/portable corrugated metal and wooden structure, screen and 13 minute HD projection with 5.1 surround sound. Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany Artists: Becky Beasley, Laura Horelli, Martin Kippenberger, David Meskhi, Lindsay Seers, Stephen Shore, Susanne M. Winterling The title translates to "I is another" The title of this group exhibition refers to the famous saying by Arthur Rimbaud: Je est un ...
A Trip To The Moon (Extramission 6)| Bonniers Konsthall
8 February - 8 April 2012 2012
Materials: Cardboard and wooden structure finished with clouts, metal chimney, screen, 13 minute video projection with sound from three channels. A collaboration between Bonniers Konsthall and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Artists: Rosa Barba, Marco Brambilla, Douglas Gordon, Alex Reynolds, Lindsay Seers, Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch, Ming Wong Excerpt from Press Release: "The film Extramission 6 (Black Maria) recounts ...
Monodrome (Athens Biennale), Monocular³
23 October – 11 December 2011 2011
Materials: Two inflatable spheres suspended on cords with a masked SD projection of a doubled image. Amplified stereo sound from two sources (radio microphones and DVD). Two wooden platforms, a ventriloquist dummy dressed as a sailor, a sailor's uniform, long auburn wig. Athens Biennale, Greece Lindsay Seers’ work for the 3rd Athens Biennale, titled Monocular³ took place on Wednesday 9th Νovember ...
Something in the way | Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway
11 August - 3 September 2011 2011
Materials: Wooden structure, parts of a boat hut, window frames, reclaimed door, moss, tree trunk, metal chimney, deer skins, two synchronised 13 minute HD projections, 5.1 surround sound, drawing. Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway Monocular, shown in Something in the way at the Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway, is a prefabricated wooden structure, the interior of which is rendered as ...
Persistence of Vision | Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
20 November 2010 - 30 January 2011
Materials: Cardboard and wooden structure, 22 minute DVD projection with 5.1 surround sound onto two masked MDF circular screens on mobile TV arms, monitor with headphones embedded in structure wall, free novel to take away. Lindsay Seers' work is concerned with photography, a seemingly innocent medium which saturates our daily lives but which she believes is an underestimated, powerful tool ...
Rugby Collection | Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
22 March - 28 August 2011 2011
Materials: 2 video works for monitors with headphones, 2 plinths and a bench, I video projection with surround sound and subwoofer (all videos to be screened together), 12, 13 and 14 minutes duration, looped. Fabric tent on a wooden structure, fabric screen on a wooden frame. Rugby Art Gallery and Museum Collection Extramission 2 (The Trilogy), 2005/10 – The World ...
























