Theatrical Forms and Shifting Times (LINDSAY SEERS)

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