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ART FICTIONS is fortnightly programme, created by artist Jillian Knipe. Each guest artist selects a piece of fiction, which we both explore, then use as a lens through which to view their artwork. We delve into the book‘s themes, context and characters, which opens up and steers a rich conversation about the artist‘s practice. The podcast bounces back and forth between art and text, all the while focussing on the ideas which govern both. It is a way of talking alongside art, rather than directly at it, getting close and personal with the origins of artistic ideas. Follow @artfictionspodcast Instagram for images of works and links, and see the podcast notes for all the references mentioned. Support via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST.
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Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Guest artist LINDSAY SEERS
joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via Russell Hoban's 1980 novel 'Riddley Walker'. A child of sorts in a futurist, post-nuclear explosion setting which harks back to the iron age, far from walking, the narrator Riddley is on the run. His patriarchal heritage has deemed him 'connexion man' and alongside his role of puppeteer, interpreter and propaganda pusher, Riddley begins to uncover the truth of past cleverness which is officially prohibited under religious conjecture. He throws himself to the dogs and together they journey through danger and forbidden knowledge in a story held together by a fragmented new language.
Layering ideas and various time zones, Lindsay Seers and Elizabeth Fullerton explore imposter syndrome, hunger for power, problems with articulation, excess of language, confusion, the puppet who overwhelms the puppetmaster, the search for new forms of artwork, becoming a camera, character instability, non normative brains, compassion, discomfort, connections, coincidences, blips, misunderstandings, signs, traces, unknown causes, unknown effects, mass hallucination, states of becoming, constant evolution, multitude of narratives, grand historical narratives, personal history, quantum theory, quantum biology, metaphysics, unified consciousness, the impossibility of identifying origin, and eye gouging.
(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)
LINDSAY SEERS
lindsayseers.info
instagram lindsayseers1
'Entangled'
'Every Thought There Ever Was'
'Nowhere Less Now'
The following references are mentioned on Podcast Episode 22 or suggested by guest artist Lindsay Seers :
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange' 1962
Arto Paasilinna
Brian Massumi 'What Animals Teach Us About Politics' 2017
EE Cummings
Frances Yates
Gerard Manley Hopkins
James Joyce
Jim Al-KKhalili & Johnjoe McFadden 'Life on the Edge : The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology' 2014
Jeremy Cooper 'Bolt From the Blue' 2021
Kevin Breathnach 'Tunnel Vision' 2019
Lindsay Seers 'Human Camera' 2007
T S Eliot
Virginia Woolf
THEORISTS
Benjamin Libet - Libet's Clock
Carl Jung, psychiatrist
Giles Deuleuze
Henri Bergson
Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst
John Dee
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Samuel Barclay Beckett, novelist and playwright
ARTISTS & GALLERIES & ART ORGS
Artangel
Derek Jarman 'Jubilee' 1978
Ewerk, Berlin
Fabrica Gallery, Brighton UK
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea UK
Hospitalfield Gallery, Arbroath, Scotland UK
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham UK
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK
MONA (Tasmania), Australia
Nine Elms site, Matt's Gallery, London UK
Robin Klassnik, Matt's Gallery, London UK
Sharha Art Foundation, UAE
Sursock Museum, Lebanon
Tate, London UK
TELEVISION & FILM
Everything by Adam Curtis (English documentary filmaker)
'The Bridge' series 2011
'The Fly' film series
'The Quartermass Experiment' series 1953
'Twin Peaks' series 1990
'Twin Peaks : The Return' series 2020
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