http://lindsayasitcontinues.info/index daily 1.0 2023-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1560185547576-W91QO2J0F1BERPDPR8T4/IMG_8911.JPG paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1654881194361-IKO497T9OCWBKNQR1ESA/IMG_0013.JPG paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1362275852351-MAA22T8ADQ7FXO3K5Y2A/IMG_2050_WEB18.jpg paintings - Acrylic on archival 300g paper 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1389808132420-I4GE3V08ZM35PLD6OP8V/IMG_0926_WEB2.jpg paintings - 001_Acrylic on archival 300g paper 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1362275760680-ZIG0MEV8PQPEM4HHT4C8/IMG_1905_WEB.jpg paintings - Acrylic on archival 300g paper 19 x 24 inches SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1402412002214-LDZV3WVLXRB5BYJZX8ZE/IMG_1606bluewords3WEB.jpg paintings - poster 1606 38 x 50 inches, Oil stick on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1389808308076-3K5RQ4XUCPGUSU1TCZVR/IMG_0955_WEB.jpg paintings - 013_Acrylic on archival 300g paper 24 x 18 inches (installed on the wall) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1362275879560-ZAQ92K1DY5J2BT0UCWC3/IMG_2108_WEB.jpg paintings - Acrylic on archival 300g paper 19 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1402417432121-2OK7MI9KDRCJQJHJE6VB/IMG_1297_newWEB.jpg paintings http://lindsayasitcontinues.info/performance daily 0.75 2023-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/33079bf4-b1f6-4829-9200-bd1e8450c53e/public+instruction.jpg performance - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/e520049c-26e6-4bba-b6de-3ef4097893fe/maternal+durability.png performance - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/dd0ea9ce-ea40-4ee4-bfd8-53c489fac728/KINDREDS.png performance - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/de59568e-3cae-43c5-9e39-5a7838e1d521/VECCHO+MERDA.png performance - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/e038f973-5779-4597-bdab-a88daa65da0b/monster+in+the+woods.png performance - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/7b80a261-bf25-4d7f-a86f-01d5d43c3293/baby+i+just+wanna+dance.png performance - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/dd966c21-4fca-436e-b61d-ef30045f1ce3/Territory.png performance - Make it stand out Nadia Bongo and Lindsay Benedict have been exploring authority in relationships through spatial possessiveness. They created exercises that play with imposing a gaze, using a voice and commanding the body. One of their main questions was "Who is able to tell someone else's story?” The dynamic is between two people but they denied the limitations of dualism and pushed into more complex patterns of exchange. By questioning what is watched, they present their bodies on stage and challenge the desire to look. Everything in culture is learned, including physical movements like common everyday gestures. For this reason, the dance is performed by untrained bodies, people without a technical dance background, in an effort to see the cultural traces that are carried and performed in bodies and language. They improvise movements to show the impossibility of natural gesture. However, through our intellectual struggle to understand constructed desire, in overseen/unseen in Territory, the body remains a source of pleasure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/4d01fba6-3c4e-4250-a4e2-93138a3e2afc/swimming+exercises.jpg performance - Make it stand out In “What I do without you (Swimming Exercises)” the public was invited to come to an area of Lake Como to do water aerobic exercises together. I used the concept of repetitive physical gestures, like basic exercises, as a strategy to allow everyone to share a simple activity in a common space that could permit a social interaction. The reason for creating the project was to allow me, as a foreigner, to intermingle with Italian people and local regulations. The research forced me to be in uncomfortable, vulnerable positions quite often. Instead of being in control and self-sufficient, I often needed to ask people for help, get very lost, and culturally misstep, all on my way to creating the artwork. I like to orchestrate awkward and messy interactions in order to break or fracture the rigid and emotionally distancing social constructs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/ec9ec327-c9c8-4556-ae31-e961d00a2d66/seulle+etoile.png performance - Make it stand out Seulle ★ was a structural project that I created for myself in order to get over a break-up. Every Friday morning for a month, I would go to the sound studios of Le Confort Moderne and record myself in-real-time singing while playing a used Roland D-20 from the 1980s. Without preparation for the sound sessions and without any training in singing or playing a synthesizer, I used this process as an exercise to be present with myself. And, without the constraints of technique, these exercises became a safe-place for me to be vulnerable and fumble towards something to hold. Combined with the permanence of live recording, my hidden interiority was forced to the surface. The recordings would also capture the state of my voice on different mornings after staying up late. Seulle ★’s first album, “fall-followings”, was a place for awkward scrawlings and longings. https://vimeo.com/39311402 Performance includes guest players: synth-♥-duo MaTér and synth-exorciser Riccardo Giacconi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927960209-HB2M54UI676UWZ1TN9LK/public+instruction.jpg performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681928158520-ICNEXM6A1TSZS2A2HIWV/maternal+durability.png performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681928211420-8YCGN16ZOE6BNHTIIF9O/KINDREDS+insta+baby+w+poops.jpg performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681928423037-P8HQKTLIPO4O7084LVJH/all4linnysing+%281%29.png performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681928522408-0UW44KUMQMX49LLHZBTW/monstre.jpg performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681929799994-QTITNGYFZEBFPN2YF250/danser.png performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681929867274-E88G7Q20JGBKD5Z3A07T/Territory.png performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681929928563-AC53SB8196JYN808STKO/swimming+exercises.jpg performance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681930042302-WTYQBQ36D3FEUQCTQSZZ/seulle+etoile.png performance http://lindsayasitcontinues.info/films daily 0.75 2023-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/f8940601-c4c6-4ea0-8c49-5a04a7a28aca/brooklyn+burrow.png films - Make it stand out A short film exploring inscriptions of collective knowledge and body archive in which the intimate frictions of history and memory - decoloniality/modernity/coloniality - are transformed. The film asks: What habits of living does your body remember, and have you forgotten? What are the sediments and hidden histories uncovered across cartographies of those ancient and future places mapped by your/our knowledge? https://youtu.be/3FstznHU3oQ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/aa2c9883-a36d-4bcb-817c-ff3e4e61f1c7/waking+temps.png films - Make it stand out A documentation project filmed for 28 days in Turin, Italy, where the artist took her Basal Body Temperature (waking temperature) every morning and used the reading to designate which of her daily quotidian tasks she would record and film that day. Structuralist in nature, for 30 seconds everyday she filmed her morning rituals with her Super 8 camera in one hand and the intention to do the task with the other. This limitation (doing tasks with one hand) highlights the fact that the artist is alone making this film (and a baby) and pushes her to perform the tasks one-handed. Basal body temperature (BBT) is one’s morning body temperature; it stays stable for men and changes for women. Charting this temperature is a way for women to determine ovulation. A woman’s waking temperature will vary between 35.4o and 36.8o degrees Celsius, depending on the individual. https://youtu.be/khn1FiMDzro 36.8o C – put the blinds up 36.7o C – leave the apartment 36.6o C – put shoes on 36.5o C – hot beverage, drinking 36.4o C – hot beverage, making 36.3o C – breakfast, eating 36.2o C – breakfast, making 36.1o C – get dressed 36.0o C – do hair 35.9o C – put in contacts 35.8o C – shower 35.7o C – pee 35.6o C – wash face 35.5o C – brush teeth 35.4o C – drink water https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/6033f051-bd90-49c0-ad10-5027c5834549/i+miss+u.jpg films - Make it stand out A performed film portrait of the artist with her four friends. The artist (as camera operator) engages and escalates a brawl with four women on her rooftop in Brooklyn. Playing with the boundaries between hostility & closeness and performance & documentation, the film was shot unrehearsed and with unknown consequences. The interaction was shot on 16mm film in an effort to fix the shared connection on archival medium. The original should be projected with amplified sound. https://vimeo.com/101462095 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/7f846fc4-6122-4378-8e32-6367614b8ec0/ballad+intended.jpg films - Make it stand out Two rolls of 16mm film shot in one long take of my friend Julia doing repetitive exercises in her apartment in Brooklyn. Three minutes of sit-ups and three minutes of push-ups. https://vimeo.com/101462096 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/0b1bcd35-ef20-4bed-bb35-136a454c56b4/Summer+Inferno+2.png films - Make it stand out Performed film portrait of an intense love and heartbreak on the weekend before leaving the country. The film is an unsent birthday gift and a question mark, seared into time amidst the tumult of a fight for life over love. The image of stacking wood and stoking the fire is a performed action and a metaphor for Abraham’s trust in offering his only son to be burned. https://youtu.be/1YRlFeaovJs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/44ae95c3-a28a-45c9-8880-97f955885b19/my+Savior.jpg films - Make it stand out Video of the artist writing names onto her corporal scars. The names of past partners – Matthew, Mark, Peter, John – are also the names of Western Christian Disciples. The work explores the marks made by the failure of personal relationships to reach a God-like, in human, perfection. https://vimeo.com/22407867 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/15308c52-5f9b-4cd7-aa9a-c2f4294fcde3/my+hand.jpg films - Make it stand out A film essay performed and filmed by the artist, in which letters of the phrase “Roughing Up the Lips” are spelled out in short vignettes around her Bushwick apartment. She has used this medium and structure as an exercise to intimately explore the home as if it is her own body. The creation of each letter is made with the tools and objects found around the house. The work is a careful deliberation of self-communication within physical spaces and mental spaces. She imagines it as a measured exploration of female sexuality as navigated through her quiet (loud!) domestic space. “Not knowing much about my own body and what gives it pleasure, I used this filming process as a play-space, a parallel investigation.” There is ritualized devotion to the attention of seemingly meaningless tasks all around her apartment. There is an urgency of relation between the camera operator and subject. https://vimeo.com/22406960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/0408c9dc-0a4b-43b7-b002-eb91d8e55deb/have+another.jpg films - Make it stand out This is a hand-spliced 16 mm film of two men facing each other across a small table. A lamp separates them. The two men ritually pour each other drinks in reverence. As the silent “conversation” escalates, they reveal intimacy and aggression in their relationship through simple gestures. https://youtu.be/l11JLsLojg4 or https://vimeo.com/4038452 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/8f49bf6f-f751-40bd-a47b-2abca30e8977/BENEDICT+PFA+film+still+two.jpg films - Make it stand out A film essay about clutching onto loved ones while they try to pry you off for their own safety, the resilience of human relationships and their possibilities of destruction. The reliability of the images as truthful documentation are thrown into question by the addition (and contradiction) of the text/voice. The fragments act as a strategy to discuss a shifting hidden whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/5839c355-caa6-482b-a11b-eaa35ea99584/01_You+Coated+Me_2006.jpg films - Make it stand out A performed film portrait of my friend as she navigates her architectural confinement. https://vimeo.com/101462097 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/4a18b180-aab1-4e15-8917-fd3a4fd9c166/laidieswaiding.jpg films - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/ff6061f0-5371-43e7-a2bd-7862fde18f6a/bandObutchers_chicken.jpg films - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1667581368832-6WVXQZTBWUCLJ22BOKT9/10_i+miss+u_antenna+stillPNG.png films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927107921-DHHX7HJ1J0BQITUL4CHA/brooklyn+burrow.png films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927156066-2USXP1RQQ8WI8XXT57TM/waking+temps.png films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927194615-I7F28FE5K3B7CFLW55HJ/10_i+miss+u_antenna+stillPNG.png films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927234179-ZT8I0ZJIPSXWBPQISE4P/my+hand.jpg films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927288352-HNAGCM650CY4N52MH0X8/ballad+intended.jpg films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927340393-57UM1DCF7OB7VVIQKFVR/Summer+Inferno+2.png films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927431962-HS7HX4I78RQ0CWOSUVCS/my+Savior.jpg films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927538002-RZFM8M20AJOTXF4AHDCV/02_Thank+You+Sir_2006.jpg films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927633572-P2TAW2X4U9JE4A40EW97/BENEDICT+PFA+film+still+two.jpg films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927685023-JI6ULJS2IM33LOEH8JO1/01_You+Coated+Me_2006+%281%29.jpg films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927728263-0A3HSK2S37SID2V0B6QF/laidieswaiding.jpg films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1681927801838-3WPXXGFMVIYWS9FH3A5K/bandObutchers_chicken.jpg films http://lindsayasitcontinues.info/about daily 0.75 2024-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1362279785760-LGRGV21M0ZKG8TRPHZJV/LLBartistProfileREDweb.jpg about Image of Lindsay Benedict http://lindsayasitcontinues.info/paintings-drawings daily 0.75 2022-11-04 http://lindsayasitcontinues.info/photograph-essays daily 0.75 2022-10-25 http://lindsayasitcontinues.info/about-copy daily 0.75 2022-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5132a69ee4b066ad532c5c16/1362279785760-LGRGV21M0ZKG8TRPHZJV/LLBartistProfileREDweb.jpg about (Copy) PUBLICATIONS 2016 Carey, Brainard, Interview with Lindsay Benedict, Yale University Radio, WYBCX fm “Dictionary of the Possible”, curator Rit Premnath, SHIFTER 22, PS1 book fair, NYC 2015 “a small book named artless”, curated by Adrienne Rooney, jenaeveeve press, NYC 2014 Radice, Elena, “Vieni anche tu a suonare le alpi”, Music by VICE, Noisey.Vice.com Marchi, Valeria, “Vecchio Merda Danzband”, Art * Text * Pics, atpdiary.com Magers, Susannah, “Lindsay Benedict … at Martina }{ Johnston”, DailyServing.com 2012 “precarious torino” series of articles written by Lindsay Benedict, HyperAllergic.com “Wolves & Peasants” contributor, Mousse Publishing, ITALY Derrien, Marianne “De toute façon ils recommenceraient demain.” text for LAH 2011 “Lindsay Benedict in Conversation with Will Rawls”, Critical Correspondence, NYC 2010 Cinéma & Poésie, contributor, September 2010, Action Poétique 201, Paris, FRANCE “P.A.S.T. Projects Library and Archive”, contributor, The Woodmill, London, UK Pluripotential, curated by Rit Premnath, SHIFTER 16, Printed Matter, NYC 2009 Naked Attic, Performance Blog contributor, http://nakedattic.blogspot.com/ Will, curated by Rit Premnath, SHIFTER 15, Printed Matter, NYC On Certainty, SHIFTER 14, distributed by Bose Pacia and Printed Matter, NYC 2008 Unassigned, curated by Rit Premnath, SHIFTER 12, Printed Matter, NYC 2007 “Lectures with Lindsay”, Art, Technology + Culture Colloquium, atc.berkeley.edu “I Called to You Your Name”, artist book, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA COLLECTIONS Art History & Classics Library, University of California, Berkeley, USA La Bibliothèque de l’École européenne supérieure de l’image, Angoulême, FRANCE Media Resources Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA