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 ...
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 ...