Lindsay Seers

Broadcast commission ‘3 Minute Wonder series’, Channel 4

27, 28, 29, 30 Sept & 18, 19, 20, 21 Oct 2010

Channel 4 TV broadcast

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 films that chart aspects of her life and artistic practice, related through a myriad of tales told by those who have known her.

Part one (Serios/Seers) features an occult photography expert who recalls meeting psychic photographer Ted Serios and how this led him to the work of Lindsay Seers.

In part two (The Necromancers) a theatre director talks about the pervasive  influence of Seers' aunty Barbara, a female ventriloquist, and her Uncle Patrick, a stage performer with alternative personas.

Part three (The Paramnesiac) recounts the total memory loss of Seers’ stepsister Christine after a moped accident which makes her confuse her identity with that of the seventeenth century Queen Christina of Sweden.

Part four (The Projectionist) witnesses Seers' journey unfold towards becoming a performance artist. She talks intimately of her inability to speak until the age of 8 and of her photographic memory.