In this performative talk, Lindsay Seers will take Anne Haaning on a journey of associations.
The conversation will unfold from ideas around chance-encounters as a way of orchestrating the formation of a work of art. Through personal and specific associations, Seers and Haaning will try to uncover the seeds that anchor their individual practices and how these inform the narratives around their work.
Perhaps as a strategy useful for escaping the comfort of a too-familiar method. Or as an exercise to counter the compulsion to comprehend the incomprehensible. Or perhaps in order to get closer to the level of consciousness on which our artistic decisions occur.
The conversation is part of the Jutland Art Academy’s series of talks between the Academy’s teachers and invited guests. This time, Professor Anne Haaning has invited the British artist Lindsay Seers for a talk around the subconscious as a generative working tool.
The talk will be in English.
Lindsay Seers
Lindsay Seers works in London and lives on the Isle of Sheppey. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (BA Hons, Sculpture and Media 1991-94) and at Goldsmiths College, University of London (MA Fine Art 1999-2001), where she now works as a lecturer on the MA Fine Art (0.3). Her works are in a number of collections including Tate collection, Arts Council collection, Artangel collection, collection of MONA, Tasmania and MTA Collection, Lebanon.
She has won several prestigious grants and awards such as the Sharjah Art Foundation Production Award, UAE; Le Jeu de Paume production award for the Toulouse Festival, France; the Paul Hamlyn Award; the Derek Jarman Award; AHRC Award; a number of Wellcome Trust Awards and Arts Council and British Council Awards in support of her works and she also received the Wingate Scholarship from The British School at Rome 2007/8.
She has shown her large scale works internationally at a number of museums and art centres including SMK (National Gallery of Denmark); Venice Biennale 2015; Hayward Gallery, UK; MONA, Tasmania; Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden; Smart Project Space, Amsterdam; Kiasma, Finland; Turner Contemporary, UK; Tate Triennial, UK, TPW, Canada; Sami Centre for Art; Norway; Centre for Contemporary Art Poland and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Sharjah Art Foundation. She has shows with Keith Sargent in 2022 at Matt’s Gallery, Turner Contemporay and E_Werk (Germany).
Anne Haaning
Anne Haaning (1977) is a visual artist currently based in Copenhagen – most of her professional life has been lived in London, UK and Tromsø, NO. Haaning’s practice is situated in the field of video and installation art with a strong focus on technology. Her work usually employs CG-animation and video editing in combination with architectural composition and archival research.
In 2020 Haaning defended her practice-based PhD at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She also holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, London and an MA in architecture from the Royal Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen. Haaning has exhibited in among other venues: National Gallery of Denmark, Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Die raum, Berlin, Tromsø Kunstforening, Jing’an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, The Jerwood Space, London, Whitechapel Gallery, London, the Icelandic Biennial: Sequences Vll, CPH:DOX, Nottingham Contemporary, FACT, Liverpool and CCA, Glasgow International.
The event is part of a series of artist conversations organised by Jutland Art Academy in a collaboration with ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.
The talks are supported by the city of Aarhus and the Salling Foundation.
Lindsay Seers