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Silke Lindner is pleased to announce Actualization Machine, the second solo exhibition with New York-based artist Nina Hartmann.
Hartmann’s new body of work, comprised of shaped pieces of encaustic panels, resin sculptures, and lightboxes, carry images collected during her research into the U.S. government’s attempts to understand and develop methods of mind control, telepathy, and other mysterious phenomena during the Cold War.
In 1979 former State Department officer turned journalist John Marks published The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”. This explosive book laid out evidence of the controversial U.S. government efforts to develop methods of behavioral control under the umbrella of MKUltra and its subprojects in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Through a Freedom of Information Act request, the author gained access to a trove of declassified CIA documents revealing investigation into the potentials of LSD, “truth serums”, hypnosis, and other psychological and chemical mind control…
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Press Release
Silke Lindner is pleased to announce Actualization Machine, the second solo exhibition with New York-based artist Nina Hartmann.
Hartmann’s new body of work, comprised of shaped pieces of encaustic panels, resin sculptures, and lightboxes, carry images collected during her research into the U.S. government’s attempts to understand and develop methods of mind control, telepathy, and other mysterious phenomena during the Cold War.
In 1979 former State Department officer turned journalist John Marks published The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”. This explosive book laid out evidence of the controversial U.S. government efforts to develop methods of behavioral control under the umbrella of MKUltra and its subprojects in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Through a Freedom of Information Act request, the author gained access to a trove of declassified CIA documents revealing investigation into the potentials of LSD, “truth serums”, hypnosis, and other psychological and chemical mind control…





































