Poison and Play/Pia Lindman

A Kalevala Duo, Playing Bones commissioned by CS1 Projects

Pia Lindman, an internationally recognized performance artist, Professor of environmental art at Aalto University, and a certified practitioner of Kalevala bone-setting, will create a new piece with music ensemble Wooden Cities: A Kalevala Duo, Playing Bones. By once again treating this ancient healing technique as an art form, the wellspring of cultural knowledge that helped found Finland comes full circle. The Kalevala is a 2000 year-old epic poem, which inspired the great Finnish modernists like Eliel and Eero Saarinen, who designed Kleinhans Music Hall. Performed on this stage, Playing Bones celebrates the rich spectrum of the wisdom contained within this text. A result of many years of investigation into the body and its place within the cultural space, Lindman's performance piece responds to a contemporary desire to mend the fission between science and art, healing and creativity. Conceived as a “Studio on the Stage” project, CS1 Projects’ commission will be the only collaboration between a Finn and Buffalo artists for FinnFest USA 2015. Check out video sample of the performance HERE and photo documentation HERE.

Currently and until end of May, Poison and Play visits the Stay Hungry exhibition and occupies allotment garden and cabin number 9 in the Gleisdreieck allotment gardens, Berlin, Schöneberg.

In July 2011 Poison and Play reopens at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as Labor Berlin No 6. Stay tuned for more!

Berlin was first introduced with Poison and Play on the 20th of January 2011
at the first Stay Hungry event.

Stay Hungry Gleisdreieck directions:
U2 Bülowstraße
Entrance allotment gardens / Zugang Schrebergärten
Corner Bülowstr./Dennewitzstr.
Link to MAP

Welcome!

"Stay Hungry" is curated by Anna Redeker and Theo Ligthart, in collaboration with Dellarowe Galleries

Articulations of Forces at Play

Subsensorial sessions in the Carelia House, Helsinki

Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities, 9-14 September, FRAME 2019

During the week of Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities artist Pia Lindman is holding a series of one to one healing sessions with her collaborator Anna Matveinen.

During the session, Lindman will utilise various ancient healing techniques and her own subsensorial sensitivity to treat the participant, while her collaborator Anna Matveinen utilises her voicing skills and subsensorial sensitivity to sound off and support the space and process of the session.

Each session can be characterised by four main stages:

1) Each session begins with all three participants reporting on their subsensorial state by writing, drawing, or other means of self-expression.

2) Healing session

The subsensorial session will be conducted on the individual terms of the receiver of the healing. We agree on this treatment by an initial discussion. The receiver of the healing is asked to prepare for the session in advance in the following manner: Depending on the agreed treatment, the receiver may be asked to undress to their underwear. At no point during the session will there be anyone else present in the room, except for the three participating in the session (Pia Lindman, Anna Matveinen, and the receiver).

3) After each session, participants re-report on their subsensorial state.