User:Joc28/gap analysis

Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?OUR ANSWER HERE

Pia Lindman
 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

Pia Lindman while internationally known for The New York Times Project, performed in cities

around the world, does not have a Wikipedia page dedicated to her. I found out about Pia

Lindman and her work through The Brooklyn Museum Sackler Center for Feminist Art Base, a

subsequent google search revealed few useful links about Lindman and her work, and there was

not a Wikipedia page about her. The gap in literature about Pia Lindman is significant despite the

fact she’s accomplished notable work in performative art. This gap in literature limits knowledge

further information about the artist is very hard to find and therefore barriers towards her work

and the proliferation of her art become stagnated. This limit on knowledge is crafted around

structures of power, as a women artist Lindman’s work is easily relegated into the obscure.

Her work isn’t afforded the same recognition as a male artists who have garnered similar or even

less measurable accomplishments. As a white woman from Finland, there isn’t an intersection of

race though the argument can be made that her nationality has contributed to a gap in knowledge.

Nationality is an axis of power in that those from nations with a history of imperialistic or

colonialism benefit from being citizens of that nation, they have more exposure or credibility in

the international stage. Finland as a small northern European country is not a powerful contender

in the international stage.


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Pia Lindman

Pia Lindman is an artist from Finland who is currently a lecturer at Yale University School of Art. Her work is in interactive performance, exploring how our bodies are at the intersection of public and private.

Bibliography

Pia Lindman was born in Espoo, Finland, in 1996 she received her Master’s in Fine Art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland, three years later as a Fulbright Scholar she received her Masters of Science in visual studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited internationally from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to Mexico City, Helsinki, and Tokyo and across many major cities worldwide. One of her most notable pieces is The New York Times in which she performs images portraying grief from The New York Times . After her performance which are recorded she draws sketches her gestures, this sketches have been arranged into four books titled “Black Square”. Her work seeks to portray how grieving becomes public especially in the context of war. Representations of violence through the body are explored in her work. Lindman’s states that her art “evolves around the themes of social context and space, as well as the performative aspect of making and experiencing art”, she credits her interest in social spaces to her training in architecture and subsequent her education at MIT.


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 * "Pia Lindman." Brooklyn Museum:. Accessed February 18, 2016. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/pia-lindman.
 * "Embodiments and Monumentality, a Performance by Pia Lindman." The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics. Accessed February 18, 2016. http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/event/20/embodiments-and-monumentality-a-performance-by-pia-lindman/.
 * Yale University School of Art: Pia Lindman." Yale University School of Art: Pia Lindman. Accessed February 18, 2016. http://art.yale.edu/PiaLindman.
 * Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss. "The Visual Grammar of Suffering: Pia Lindman and the Performance of Grief." PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 28, no. 3 (2006): 77-92.
 * "The Shape of Color: Bradley Rubenstein Pia Lindman." Dusty Wright's Culture Catch. Accessed February 18, 2016. http://culturecatch.com/art/pia-lindman.