Lindsay Seers

Reality Bites|Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art

2 November - 10 March 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

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 Maria) 2009 tells the story of the artist as a child who grew up mute due to her vivid photographic memory, later transforming herself into a living camera – by placing photo paper in her mouth and exposing it through her lips – before deciding to become a projector. The deadpan tale is like a cross between a BBC documentary and the dream logic of a David Lynch movie. At one point a black model hut flies through the air, and you realize you’re watching Seers’ projection in a hut based on Thomas Edison’s first commercial film production studio of 1893. Bourriaud contrasts this with Walead Beshty’s prosaic glass cubes displayed on the cardboard boxes in which they were sent around the world; unpadded, registering every fissure like seismographs of global trade (‘FedEx Sculptures’, 2005–ongoing). Both Seers and Beshty present unorthodox ways of recording the world around them with very different means.

LINDSAY SEERS’ EXTRAMISSION 6 (BLACK MARIA) by MICHAEL NEWMAN.pdf (filesize 3MB)

Please refer to the Reviews pages and also to previous exhibitions of Extramission 6 at TPW Gallery and Tate Britian, as listed on the Exhibitions pages.