ever have one of those days… Pia Lindman will be doing some performances at The Storefront
Fascia refers to the body’s connective tissue, to a sheath or protective membrane surrounding wheat or bodily organs, a collection of objects that gives the appearance of a band or a stripe, an opening or doorway, or the layered surface that creates the illusion of dividing architectural structures. Engaging with many of these meanings, Pia Lindman’s Fascia project unfolds as a series of live performances, video recordings and drawings, that engage in a visual dialogue with Steven Holl’s and Vito Acconci’s renowned design of the Storefront for Art and Architecture façade. Like Acconci and Holl, she challenges the traditional notion of façade as constituting a membrane that simultaneously separates and erotically joins the inside with the outside. Fascia departs from the definition of the membrane-wall as both a marker and an embodiment of space…