The Protagonist

CT Editions publishes in print and digital media. The Protagonist is a new digital initiative where an artist or creative practitioner is invited to keep a digital diary in the run up to, and over the duration of, an exhibition or artwork they are producing. From a strictly autobiographical point of view they are requested to share with us their research, thoughts and documentation of the work.

Through The Protagonist Linder publishes daily collections of images, memoirs, video and sound that come about through the making of The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME; a 13 hour performance that will take place at The Chisenhale in London on the 10th July.* The Darktown Cakewalk is an epic invocation of glamour and fantastical pageantry. Witch trials and beauty queens, rag-time and Euro Pop merge to enfold the viewer in a secret history of diversity and dissent. “Linder has already gone on record to declare The Darktown Cakewalk more Hex Factor than X-Factor, and, besides this fascination with fame, both body image and the institutionalised misogyny of judging women either on the catwalk or at the gallows, is crucial to the show’s own execution … All of which morphs into an ever-expanding amalgam of Linder’s artistic and political pre-occupations over the last thirty-odd years writ large.“ Neil Cooper, The List

As a consequence of Linder’s shared moments from this epic piece we, the audience, gain an intimate understanding to her creative processes through the images, thoughts and movements that ultimately manifest themselves in the art.

“The Protagonist has highlighted a pressing issue in my practice, how to represent and contain all my varied strands of research/development/experimentation. It’s something that I give much thought to – for my own sake as much as anything. It feels like precisely the time to instigate a method or format – an eternal one maybe, something I adopt now until the grave. A container, a catch all for ideas. “ Linder

• It is a re-staging of the work that took place in April for Glasgow International, developed in residency with the support of The Work Room and produced by Sorcha Dallas.

For more information on the artist and her work please visit: http://www.sorchadallas.com/ and http://www.modernart.net/artists/linder