About Maid Out Of Ice



Maid Out Of Ice is a global, hydro-feminist situated, radio-based program that incorporates participatory, performative filmmaking and broadcasting infrastructure in forming an effective pedagogical public forum, to bridge and communicate opaque knowledge separated by boundaries such as land-based thinking, information latency, and existing eco-social-political conditions. This radical initiative by Lin Ni, partners with LungA Radio School, University of Lapland, The Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD) of University of the Arctic, and is supported by Kone Foundation.


About Lin Ni

Lin Ni is an artist-researcher whose practice spans moving image, installation, participatory performance, writing, and fieldwork. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland, Finland. She holds an MA in Sustainable Art and Design from the University of Lapland and a RIBA Part 1 qualification in Architecture from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London.

Through her long-term artistic research on Planetary Water, Lin investigates the continuously evolving relationships between water, bodies, infrastructures, colonialism, and the more-than-human world. Approaching water as a medium of perception, her work explores how embodied practices—including freediving, swimming, walking, and listening—reshape the ways bodies move across scales, geographies, and histories, rethinking identity, memory, and place through water. Her research is particularly concerned with cross-species relationships and the ways different forms of life are classified, excluded, and governed within existing structures of power. Through artistic research, she reimagines the possibilities of co-existence and re-inhabitation, examining how artistic practice can cultivate new forms of ecological awareness and collective ways of inhabiting planetary waters.

Lin has presented her research through lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and artistic presentations at international forums including the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW), the UArctic Congress, and the Relate North symposium. Recent projects include the I am Salmon series, exhibited at the UrbanApa Festival at the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki and the Research Pavilion at HIAP Augusta Gallery. Her short film The Water Dress (2022), which she directed and performed in, has been screened internationally. Her documentary The Water Carries Me (2024) was nominated for the Chi Po Lin Documentary Film Award in 2023. Other works have been presented at Haus der Statistik, Kunstkraftwerk, Helmut Space, and Herðubreið Gallery, as well as at independent festivals and international exhibitions.