Exhibitions
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 form of the work emerges out of the intersections of these ‘true’ stories. But the direction of the creative process may also be...
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. It is a clear critique of British colonialism past through the specifics of individual biographies. The...
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
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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 figure is Princess Salme (b.1844), daughter of a Circassian concubine in the Sultan of Zanzibar's harem. Circassian...
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 refuses the distinction between fact and fiction in subtle and sophisticated ways. It brings to light the fictional constructions on...
2014
Materials: wood, cardboard, polystyrene, metal, clouts, 2x HD projectors, metal masks, 2x macmini, 2 x 27minute HD films, stereo sound delivered through headphones on internal gallery system (The O). 22 minute 5.1 sound installation in the tunnel and a collection of 16 figurehead drawings.
MONA, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Nowhere less now² is the second chapter in a trilogy, the first part of which was exhibited in the Tin Tabernacle, Kilburn, London. The history of this prefabricated corrugated church leads us to...
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 is rendered as if it is the exterior surface, giving...
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 his Acts of Kindness On The Underground project
Recent films by Gillian Wearing and Shezad Dawood.
Films...
2013
Materials: Inflatable spheres, HD projection from Blu-ray, wood, glass, carpet, framed photographs, ventriloquist dummy, stools, stereo sound ampified with radio headphones
Matt's Gallery, 42-44 Copperfield Rd, London E3 4RR
In Entangled²(Theatre II) Lindsay Seers returns to androgynous themes present in her 2009 work It has to be this way at Matt's Gallery. The Renaissance 'theatre of the world' motif of this previous work is bastardised by Seers into vaudeville. For Seers this...
Materials: 4000 scallop shells, wooden structure with benches and confessional grill, black curtained walls, 2 x 1.8 diameter inflatable spheres, 2 HD projectors, 2 x 24 minute films, radio headphones with stereo soundtrack, an original newspaper from 1875
Toulouse International Art Festival, Hôtel-Dieu, Toulouse, France
One of Many was a newly commissioned work conceived specifically for a chapel in the Hôtel-Dieu in Toulouse. The installation was co-produced with Le Jeu de Paume (Paris) and selected by Penelope Curtis (Tate...
The photographs were not indicative of a memory. She simply did not have this capacity to access any of her past, nor even any understanding of this as a lack. Instead, the photographs could only be memory in the making. 
(It Has To Be This Way¹)