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Linder Sterling
Linder
The working class goes to paradise, 2001
Courtesy The Artist
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The Working Class Goes To Paradise was the performative strand of The Return of Linderland - a body of work that includes photography, film, print and artefact - some of which was exhibited at Cornerhouse, Manchester in 2000. Comprising three rock bands playing simultaneously for four hours, and a group of women re-enacting the gestures of nineteenth century Shaker worship, the piece explores ecstatic states, outsiderdom and religious non-conformism.
Linder assumes various identities: as a figure from one of her own early photomontages; as Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers; and lastly as a super-heroic fusion of Lee and Clint Eastwood, becoming the' Woman with No Name.'
Biography
Born in 1954 in Liverpool
1974–1977 Manchester Polytechnic
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2006
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We who are her hero, Galerie LH, Paris
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2004
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The Lives of Women Dreaming, British Council, Prague
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2000
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The Return of Linderland, Cornerhouse, Manchester
The Working Class Goes To Paradise, Manchester (performance)
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1997
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What Did You Do in the Punk War, Mummy?, Cleveland Gallery, London
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2006
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Dereconstruction, Barbara Gladstone, New York
Audio, Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva
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2003
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Glamour, British Council, Prague
Plunder, Dundee Contemporary Arts
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2001
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DEAD, The Roundhouse, London
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1998
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Destroy, Royal Festival Hall, London
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Lives and works in Lancashire
See also:
 Live works: Linder
Linder performance documentation
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