Linderism at Home

While Kettle’s Yard was temporarily closed, we created this collection of resources relating to the Linderism exhibition, that can be explored at home.

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Exhibition Tour with Curator Amy Tobin

You can also see a selection of installation images of the exhibition in our Facebook album.

Online Panel Discussion: Formae Mutatae – A discussion on image, transformation and myth in Linderism

During Linderism we were delighted to host an online panel discussion looking at transformation and otherness through Linder’s mythic and classical references in her photomontages. Artist Linder Sterling was in conversation about her work with classicist Professor Katherine Harloe and curator Dr Amy Tobin, chaired by Alina Khakoo.

You can read a transcript of the panel discussion here.

The Bower of Bliss at New Hall Art Collection

Linder staged the performance Bower of Bliss: An Improper Architecture at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, which hosts the New Hall Art Collection as part of the exhibition.

Watch the documentation of the performance here.

Bower of Bliss: An Improper Architecture, 2020
Performers, Lauren Fitzpatrick, Kirstin Halliday, Gia Jones, Lilian Wang and Ashley Young. Music composed and performed by Maxwell Sterling with Kenichi Iwasa and Inter Alios choir of Murray Edwards College and Churchill College. Costumes designed by Louise Gray. Cinematography by Fatosh Olgacher. Commissioned by Kettle’s Yard with New Hall Art Collection as part of Linderism.

You can view the programme for the event here

Read more about the performance here

Performance and Moving Image Works by Linder

As part of Linderism, a number of performance and film works by Linder are on display across the galleries and the Edlis Neeson Research Space.

You can watch 5 minute clips of the works here.

The Six Senses: a series of talks

Explore the sensory dimensions of Linder’s work through these multimedia discussions.

Extra Sensory Perception

Frank Bowles, Archivist at Cambridge University Library, pulls out material Linder examined in the archives of the Society for Psychical Research, and discusses the influence of extrasensory perception on her work.

Smell

Lizzie Marx, History of Art PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, explores the role of smell in the history and experience of art by way of Linder, Jim Ede and seventeenth-century Dutch art.

Click here to read the article

The Lower Senses

Mark Bradley, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham, and Linder’s academic consultant on the history of the senses, uses the ‘lower senses’: smell, taste and touch to draw connections between classical bodies and Linder’s photomontage.

Hearing

Read an interview with composer Maxwell Sterling, who produced the sound works for the Linderism exhibition which you can listen to below.

The One Who Benefits in Every Way, 2020, Composition by Maxwell Sterling

Hacienda Redux, 1982/2020, Composition by Maxwell Sterling

Read an interview with Maxwell Sterling here.

Sight

Emma Wilson, Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge, responds to the Linderism publication in her text on ‘Scopophilia: At home with Linderism.’

Click here to read the article.

Shop

Browse the ‘House of Helen’ range designed by Linder exclusively for Linderism at Kettle’s Yard, including stickers to make your own photomontages from home.

Order the Linderism publication, featuring essays on Linder and balletomania, surrealist flora, modernist theosophy and feminist politics by James Boaden, Alyce Mahon, Sarah Victoria Turner and the curator of Linderism, Amy Tobin.

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Images: Linderism at Kettle’s Yard, 2020 and Linder, Bower of Bliss: An Improper Architecture, 2020. Photos: Matthew Booth and My Linh Le.