It is 2023, and time keeps on ticking into the future (Space Jam song). A ticking however, not like the hands of a clock, but like a soft, irregular tapping of acrylic nails on a phone screen. And tapping into a future that is no longer “cancelled,” (Berardi:2011) nor presenting mere “apparitions” (Derrida:1993) of the past. It has, in fact, materialized as a distinct and unprecedented “concave future of grief,” (Kholeif:2020) and it's hilarious.

Linn Phyllis Seeger is a cloud-based artist and LAHP-funded PhD Candidate at the Royal College of Art in London.

In her large-scale screenshot architectures and episodic moving image works, Linn Phyllis Seeger explores the circulation and retention of mourning rituals online, and the collective (unpaid) labor of history-writing through the sad post.

After being invited to a research residency hosted by CAD+SR at Casa do Povo (Sao Paulo, BR) in April 2023, Linn Phyllis Seeger has just joined the Derek Jarman Lab at Birkbeck University (London, UK) for the academic summer term. Selected as Foam Talent (Amsterdam, NL), and as the winner of the Lucy Art Residency (Kavala, GR) in 2022, Seeger‘s work has been exhibited and screened in the UK and abroad, including Foam Museum (Amsterdam, NL), ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, UK), Fondation Vincent van Gogh (Arles, FR), Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Biennale Architettura di Venezia (Venice, IT), Kuenstlerhaus (Vienna, AT), and others.

Her two artist books, ‘You I Everything Else’ (2020) and ‘0N0E’ (2022), were published by Skinnerboox.

Since October 2021, she is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, and has held guest lectures and talks at IED Milan, during Offprint Projects at Tate Modern, and at the London School of Economics.

Screening at Iklectik London, March 2023

Installation view at Callirhoe Berlin, October 2022

Screening at Kuenstlerhaus Wien, Juni 2022

Top: Bob the cactus and I, self-portrait in Josh's studio, February 2023; right: snippets of 'Doomscrolling: Mourning and premenstrual melancholia. Okay. From dusk till dawn: Shitposting your way through the abyss,' Episode 1+2 (2022), ~9 Min