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 ...
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 ...
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 ...