Linder: The Working Class Goes to Paradise
Saturday 1 April 2006 19.30–21.30
North Duveen galleries

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 explored ecstatic states, outsiderdom and religious non-conformism. Linder assumed 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.'

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

 
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