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NOMADS & RESIDENTS

A forum for visitors in the arts: making connections, supporting
networks, setting up meetings



Saturday April 8, 3.00 PM at the PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Studio
wing (2nd floor).

Body-memory, nakedness, body politic

with: Pia Lindman and Stephan Wright

Pia Lindman is an artist from Finland living in New York. Her art work
often takes the form of architecture and/or performance involving social
interaction: She has recently constructed a functioning sauna for the
"Greater New York" exhibition at PS1. In her words "In Finland (...)
bathing naked in a sauna is understood as a 'real encounter - human to
human' without the social and hierarchical symbols that define the body.
The weekly ritual of sauna that Finns practice through their whole life,
inscribes into the sensing self an experience and understanding of one's
own body as well as everybody else's bodies that allows simultaneous
respect and intimacy between people".

Stephen Wright is a writer and curator based in Paris, and an editor for
the magazine Parachute. His next project "L'incurable mémoire des
corps", is a group show that will take place in the fomer "Hňpital des
Incurables Charles-Foix" in the parisian region. "From its earliest age
the body is 'civilised', incorporated into a body politic: it is taught
to stand upright, to walk, wave and interact within the norms of a given
culture, nation and religion. If only we knew how to look, the body's
loyalty to its past and to the political realms of its history could be
seen faintly echoed in every gesture. Hardly there at all, such embodied
memory is indeed hardened within the deepest recesses of the self.
Situated 'north' of consciousness, such bodily memory is shed only with
great effort, unlike the verbal cant about one's national belonging"

After the presentations and the discussion, the audience will be offered
an opportunity to bathe in Pia Lindman's sauna.

NOMADS & RESIDENTS makes connections with people who live here and with
people who visit, by setting up an active network of collaborators, and
creating and organizing public events in a variety of places. NOMADS
&RESIDENTS invites artists, guests, curators, critics, activists,
travelers and passers-by to present insight into their practice, their
ideas, histories, and drives.The curatorial and organizing group of
NOMADS & RESIDENTS
consists of New York based and temporary residents. They actively seek
out information about who is coming to New York and when, they invite
guests to present their ideas and solicit the involvement of spaces
where these
presentations can take place. They welcome advice, ideas and the support
of others. The events will be partly informal and casual, and will focus
on exchanging ideas, initiating new projects and networks. They will
also include short presentations, lectures, talks, sideshows, small
exhibitions, performances, discussions. Priority will be given to
proposals that could become projects that will be shared among the
participants, to a practice that can make resources and ideas available
for common use.

Liesbeth Bik (artist, The Netherlands), Catherine Cruello
(curator/organizer, New York), Andrea Geyer (New York based artist),
Gordon Knox (New York based initiator and organizer), Jan Kopp (artist,
France), John Menick (New
York based artist), Phill Niblock (New York based artist), Olu Oguibe
(New York based artist/curator), Cesare Pietroiusti (artist, Italy), Jos
van der Pol (artist, the Netherlands), Annette Schindler (New York based
curator), Shelly Silver (New York based artist).

For more information or suggestions for the program, please contact us
at nomadsresidents@hotmail.com




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