Linder

Linder was born in 1954 in Liverpool. She has recently presented solo shows at Linn Luhn, Cologne (2008), Baltic, Gateshead (2007) and PS1/Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007). Recent group shows include ‘The Dark Monarch’ (Tate St Ives, Cornwall, 2009,; ‘After Twilight’ (Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2009), ‘Crossroads’ (Salamanca Institute of Culture, Salamanca, 2008), ‘Cohabitation’ (Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, 2008) and ‘Punk. No One is Innocent’ (Kunsthalle Vienna, 2008). She is currenlty working on a major new thirteen hour performance, ‘The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the house of FAME’ for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art at the Arches in April then touring to The Chisenhale, London in July. She will also have her first solo show at Sorcha Dallas in April and her work is included in both the Tate Britain and Tate Modern collections. Linder is based in Heysham, Lancashire.

Over the last three decades Linder has used music, performance and collage as a vehicle for the examination of self through which she questions the commodification of the female form within society. She was involved in the Manchester music scene in the 70s and 80s through performing in her band Ludus, collaborating on the fanzine The Secret Public with Jon Savage and creating album artwork including the 1977 Buzzcock’s sleeve Orgasm Addict. This infamous sleeve was from a series of collages combining naked images of glamour models with household utensils, creating monstrous hybrids which reflected the apathetic sexism of the time. In recent performances she has adopted the personas of Ann Lee and Clint Eastwood as a way of combining cross-historical identification with the disruption of gender norms.