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The MIT Museum and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) are pleased to present "Pia Lindman: Embodiments" a solo show of work by Finnish-born performance and video artist Pia Lindman. The show includes material from The New York Times Project, 2003, Corpcomm: The Global Consulting Group, 2004, and The MIT Project, 2005-ongoing, which was conceived during her 2005-6 fellowship at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
On April 18th 2006, Lindman will perform Domo and Its Double, in which she re-enacts the movements of a robot built at the Humanoid Robotics Group (head: Rodney Brooks) at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Domo is part of The MIT Project, in which Lindman approaches the affective relationships expressed and mirrored in interactions between human and machine through sketches, video, and finally—and most importantly—physical embodiment.
Lindman’s work contributes to the tradition of minimalist performance and community-oriented art, and suggests new perspectives in merging artistic, social, and scientific research. Internationally known for her interactive performance and installation Public Sauna, first developed during graduate work at MIT and later presented at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 2000, Lindman explores how our bodies become the loci of interaction between private and public.
Born in Espoo, Finland, Lindman received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland and her MS at MIT”s Visual Art Program in 1999, where she was lecturer in 2004-2005. A 2005-6 Fellow at CAVS, Lindman will be artist-in-residence at CSAIL in 2006-7. She has exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Sculpture Center, Artists Space (PERFORMA 05), the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Luxe Gallery in New York; and internationally at Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City; Kiasma and the Kunsthalle, Helsinki; Galleri QQ, Krakow; and Jutempus, Vilnius among others. Her essay on her artwork New York Times 09/02-09/03 was published in Art in the Age of Terrorism: Gestures in the Space of the Unspeakable (2005). Her video series Thisplace is in the collection of MoMA, New York.
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The MIT Project was funded in part by Council for the Arts at MIT. Special thanks to MIT’s Visual Art Program.
Thank you for making this exhibition possible: Lijin Arayananda, Rodney Brooks, Jennifer Chia, Aaron Edsinger, Larissa Harris, Andrea Mattiello, Caitlin Mueller, Kriss Ravetto-Bagioli, Dan van Roekel, Johanna Torkkola, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.
The Center for Advanced Visual Studies is an artist’s fellowship program founded in 1967 that commissions and produces new artworks and artistic research within the context of MIT. A working laboratory for interdisciplinary art practice, the Center facilitates exchange between internationally known and emerging contemporary artists and MIT’s faculty, students, and staff through public events, support for long-term art-based projects, and student residencies.
The MIT Museum is a place that explores invention, ideas, and innovation. Home to renowned collections in science and technology, holography, architecture and design, nautical engineering and history, the Museum features changing and ongoing exhibitions, unique hands-on activities, and engaging public programs.
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