Exhibition

Lindsay Seers: Every Thought There Ever Was

8 Feb 2020 – 11 Apr 2020

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
Closed

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John Hansard Gallery

Southampton
England, United Kingdom

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​Through the use of digital animation, robotics, film, drawing and sound design Lindsay Seers has created a complex and layered environment that explores a world experienced differently.

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Inspired  by Avatar Therapy, Seers draws on philosophical  ideas and scientific research to consider historical representations of schizophrenia, alongside contemporary insights into the condition and how  this relates to the hallucinatory and potentially psychosis-inducing technology we live with.

The Mezzanine Gallery contains works from  the series entitled The Letter Pictures. These have evolved from exchanges between Seers and  a small number of individuals, resulting in ongoing conversations based purely on the posting of  letters and drawings to one another. 

In Barker-Mill Gallery, Every Thought There Ever Was reflects on the otherworldly brain functioning that occurs in schizophrenia as an organic difference. The artwork is layered with intense subjective experiences relating to the historic and contemporary understanding of hallucination and psychosis. When you enter the exhibition, two screens, supported by robot arms, move with the images bringing agency to them as active elements in the work. The screens themselves become robotic protagonists, moving with coloured lights which animate paper sculptures, alongside a dense audio-track from seven channels seeming  to be both inside and outside of the viewer’s mind. 

Has the virtual overwhelmed the actual?

Every Thought There Ever Was is supported by Wellcome and is co-commissioned by John Hansard Gallery, the MAC, Focal Point Gallery, Hospitalfield  and Matt’s Gallery.

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