'Lindsay Seers tells seductively tall tales.'
Laura McLean-Ferris, guardian.co.uk, February 27, 2009
Lindsay Seers's Extramission 6 (Black Maria) [is] one of the real finds of [the Altermodern: Tate Triennal exhibition, 2009]. Seers shows a semi-autobiographical, quasi-documentary film about her life, screened in a mock-up shed whose design is a copy of Thomas Edison's Black Maria, his New Jersey film studio. The story is implausible, troubling, and beautifully told by different narrators.As a child, Seers is so overwhelmed by visual stimulus that she cannot speak. As soon as she sees a photograph, she decides she wants to be a camera. She uses her mouth as the camera, and goes about with a black bag over her head. As she grows up, Seers stops being a camera, and wants instead to be a projector. She wears a model of Edison's studio on her head, projecting the movies in her mind. She struggles to illuminate the world.
The whole story is both dreamlike and moving. How much of it is true? There are interviews with Seers's mother and with a psychologist. Are they really who we think they are? As I staggered out, someone muttered "What is she on?" Adrian Searle, guardian.co.uk, February 3, 2009
Film Studies For Free is very happy to add its congratulations to the many being deservedly delivered today to Lindsay Seers following the award to her yesterday of this year's Jarman prize for artists working with the moving image. Seers, whose hypnotic work as an artist includes film practice-based research produced as a lecturer in arts practice at London's Goldsmiths College, receives a cash prize, but also a very valuable broadcast commission – to make four artworks for Channel 4’s acclaimed Three Minute Wonder slot (3MW). FSFF looks forward to watching those.
The Jarman Award was inspired by British avant-garde film-maker Derek Jarman, one of the most innovative, esteemed and visionary artists of the last century. Interviews and features on this year’s award shortlist and Jarman's legacy can be found at Engine, an online forum from Animate Projects.
Below are some further links to online and openly accessible resources, reviews and information about Lindsay Seers' work.
- David Berridge, 'Lindsay Seers: It has to be this way, More Milk Yvette: A Journal of the Broken Screen, February 9, 2009
- Chris Fite-Wassilak, 'Lindsay Seers', Frieze Magazine, Issue 122, April 2009
- Rebecca Geldard, 'Lindsay Seers: It Has to Be This Way', ArtReview magazine, 21 April 21, 2009
- Tom Morton, 'Remember Me [monograph on Lindsay Seers]', Frieze Magazine, Issue 124, June-August 2009
- Jennifer Poole, 'Lindsay Seers: Eyes of Others...', Circa Arts Magazine, 2005
- Lindsay Seers at the Event Horizon exhibition (2008) webpage at the Royal Academy
- Lindsay Seers' webpages at Smart Project Space
- Lindsay Seers, 'Artist's Text', Arts Council England website, 2003
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