Lindsay Seers

Materials: Cardboard and wooden structure finished with clouts, metal chimney, screen, 13 minute video projection with sound from three channels. TPW  Gallery, Toronto, Canada Tate Collection Review: ARTFORUM 04.13.11 (04.02.11 – 04.30.11 Gallery TPW).  Author: Jen Hutton. The primary component of Lindsay Seers’ installation Extramission 6 (Black Maria), 2009, is a profound video that ruminates on memory and perception by ...

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Materials: Series of mouth photographs mounted in box frames. Galerie Raum Mit Licht, Vienna, Austria Catalogue Essay: The Fatal Kiss Of The Shutter. Author: John Hilliard. If Henry Cornelius's 1955 film I Am A Camera (based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories) does not literalise the title's proposition in its on-screen action, then Dziga Vertov, speaking of his seminal 1929 avant-garde ...

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Materials: 2 synchronized DVD projections with 5.1 surround sound projected onto 4m wide wooden projection screens built at an angle to the wall. Arts Council Collection Excerpt from: Human Camera. Author: M. Anthony Penwill. The Truth Was Always There is Seers' most technically ambitious film. It is presented as a split screen narrative that traces the skein of connections between ...

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Materials: Cardboard and wooden structure, two masked circular  MDF screens on mobile brackets, DVD projection with 5.1 surround sound, cardboard star,  monitor with headphones, DVD with stereo sound, bench, free novel to take away. Exhibition text: Persistence of Vision, FACT With so many technologies for recording and archiving visual information, it is not clear whether our memories are better or ...

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Materials: Cardboard and wooden structure with steel platform. Cardboard tubes, cardboard star and diamond forms, wooden stairs, 22 minute HD video with 5.1 surround sound, masked projection onto an elevated circular screen. Monitor work on a plinth, free novel on shelves to be taken away. Essay: Escaping the Fortress of Memory: Archive Pathology in Lindsay Seers’ art. Author: Louise Wolthers, August ...

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Press release: Whitechapel Gallery, Thursday 16 September 2010 JARMAN AWARD-WINNER LINDSAY SEERS 3 MINUTE WONDERS COMMISSION ON NATIONAL TELEVISION Winner of the 2009 Film London Jarman Award Lindsay Seers uses a dark combination of performance, film and installation to interweave history, literature and philosophy in works founded on strange truths. For her 3 Minute Wonders commission Seers has produced four ...

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Materials: Cardboard and wooden structure, steel platform with iron balcony, wooden stairs, cardboard tubes, cardboard star and diamond, HD projection with 5.1 surround sound, monitor with DVD and headphones, bench, free novel to take away on shelves. This filmic work set in a model of an African slave fort implicitly critiques European colonialism through the specifics of individual biographies set ...

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Materials: Cardboard and wooden structure finished with clouts, metal chimney, screen, 13 minute video projection with sound from 3 channels. Tate Collection Essay: Travelling beyond reason. Author: Ole Hagen As she stands in the doorway with her suitcase, for a brief moment I’m unsure of whether the artist I’ve come to know so intimately is just arriving or just leaving this ...

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Materials: Cardboard and wooden structure, 2 masked circular  MDF screens on mobile brackets, DVD projection with 5.1 surround sound, 2 cardboard stars, 2 monitors with headphones, 2 DVDs with stereo sound, bench, free novel. From a tangle of manuscripts, research notes and fateful box of photographs, Lindsay seers tries to make sense of her step-sisters strange and desperate variant of ...

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Materials: 2 screen synchronised DVD projection with surround sound; wooden and cardboard structure with DVD projection and 3 channel sound, monitor DVD work on headphones, ventriloquist's dummy with electronics and cameras, series of photographs. Excerpt from: Richard Grayson's text in Smart Paper ‘Swallowing Black Maria’ Seers’ recent interest in Thomas Edison’s first film studio continues a path of convergence. The ...

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Materials: DVD installation with 2 projections and 5.1 surround sound. Excerpt from: Richard Grayson text in Smart Paper ‘Swallowing Black Maria’. "Seers takes this logic of projection further. With Bill and the other dummies her recording function is externalised and she expands this into an undertaking to turn herself into a projector. This development is hinted at in the drawing ...

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Materials: Ventriloquist's dummy with two heads, two cameras and electronics; 2 monitor works on DVD with headphones; DVD projection with stereo sound, book and shelf, mouth photograph in perspex case. The exhibition featured a newly commissioned DVD work for Grundy, entitled Under the Influence of Magicians, which specifically draws on the ventriloquist phase of Seers work. The film plots the ...

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Materials: Video projection, 22 minute DVD with stereo sound (Extramission 5), series of colour mouth photographs, ventriloquist dummy with electronics (Sailors Bill – commissioned by Arts Council and Gallery of Photography), book and shelf, monitor with headphones, 12 minute DVD (Intermission). Gallery Statement The work for this exhibition at the Gallery of Photography incorporated a performance, a publication as well ...

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Materials: framed R-Type photographs mounted on aluminium. Excerpt from: Lindsay Seers' 'We saw you coming'; 20,000 leagues Under the Sea, Apollo 13 and '2001'. Author: Lisa Panting. Beyond the innumerable resources of science, Verne invented an excellent novelistic device in order to make more vivid this appropriation of the world: to pledge space by means of time, constantly to unite ...

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Materials: photographs 25cm²  mounted on aluminium, ventriloquist dummy; 2 x 12 minute VHS video work on a monitor; one night screening outside of 12 minute VHS work. Whilst in Paraguay Seers documented the room in which she was staying, recording details which she believed would almost certainly be erased by time from her memory – quotidian things such as how ...

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Materials: Camera obscura in fabric and cast iron, paper trees, fan; negative photographs (cross-processed cibachromes), VHS projection and VHS monitor work, two headed dummy with electronics. Excerpt from: gallery booklet. Author: Lindsay Seers. "The whole difficulty of the problem that occupies us comes from the fact that we imagine perception to be a kind of photographic view of things, taken ...

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Materials: Ventriloquist's dummy with electronics, negative photograph, looped VHS monitor work. Catalogue essay: Nausea: encounters with ugliness. Excerpt from essay: Matter Over Mind? From nausea and disgust to the sublime (and back). Author: Mark Hutchinson. The trouble for the ego as Mark Cousins puts it, is that everything exists twice: once as an outside and again as an inside. Normally ...

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Materials: Fibre Glass pod, bolts VHS projection. 'Flow': Tim Head, Simon Faithful, Lindsay Seers. Curated by Richard Milner. Excerpt from: We saw you coming; 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, Apollo 13 and 2001. Author: Lisa Panting In 2002 Lindsey Seers made a work called Photoscoptopus in response to a location, Pirates Castle on Regent’s canal, London. London’s canals have until fairly recently ...

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Materials: Camera obscura in cast iron and fabric with papier mache trees, fan; large scale mouth photographs. For the Dead Travel Fast is a camera obscura/carriage, which looks out onto a constructed landscape of white paper trees. The viewer is given two very different versions of the work, one as object and the other image. The image is inverted and ...

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(with Thomas Ruff, James Reilly and Alice Maher) Materials: Ventriloquist's Dummy with stool and electronics, vacuum formed wall mounted sculptures, curtain, R-Type photographs and cibachromes mounted on aluminium. Exhibition catalogue: The Double  (Art at the Lowry), Gilda Williams (2000) Excerpt from introduction by Emma Anderson "Lindsay Seers’ work takes ambivalence to extremes. Preoccupied by using herself as the subject of her ...

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