Lindsay Seers for Artangel

  04.10.2012 by Lucy Lopez

Artangel‘s commissioned projects provide a platform for innovation, offering site-specific works from some of the most exciting and relevant contemporary artists at a key point in their career, consistently succeeding in taking art out of the gallery space and into more inspiring frameworks.

Their newest project, Lindsay Seers‘ Nowhere Less Now at the Tin Tabernacle in Kilburn, is Seers’ first new work to be shown in London since Extramission at the Tate Triennial 2009, and the two projects share a sense of dislocation as the viewer becomes lost within Seers’ narrative crafted from fact and fiction.

On entering the Tin Tabernacle, viewers are given a handset and led into what seems to be the inside of an upturned ship to watch a video on two circular screens. After the screening there is a small amount of time in which to explore the building, and on departure a book is given out which extends the story, allowing it to follow you home…

For Nowhere Less Now, Seers has created a story which melds history, science and folklore into something both unnerving and believable, a story of lost truths, combining performance, video, animation and photography. Unlikely connections and global histories form a journey between present, past and a future where photography is no longer considered useful, manufacturing a searching narrative where nothing is clear and everything is relevant.

The venue itself is remarkable, a corrugated iron chapel built in 1863 by James Bailey. The chapel was intended as a temporary structure, but remains untouched; it was taken over in 1947 by the Willesden & St Marylebone Sea Cadets Charity, and in 1950 the inside was transformed to look like a Royal Navy ship. Within Seers’ narrative, the chapel plays a key role, becoming a part of the experience and a character in the story.

Nowhere Less Now at the Tin Tabernacle is open Wednesday – Sunday until 21st October. Booking is essential as spaces are limited.

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