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The film was created by the Open Art project funded by the Polish National Centre for Research and Development as part of the Social Innovations Programme. M...
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On New Year’s Eve 1984, Krzysztof Wodiczko projected on the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch an image of two missiles connected by a chain. The representations, of a US missile and a Soviet missile, were used in the context of planned arms-reduction talks between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Created in response to a growing number of homeless people, approaching 100,000 in New York City in the late 1980s, the object we see here is the result of a series of consultations with homeless persons and modified according to their suggestions, with the overarching goal to create a vehicle that offered mobility and security.
The cart’s creator, Krzysztof Wodiczko, was not on camera that day. He is a Polish-born artist who in the late 1980s began making several of these houses-on-wheels, which he called Homeless ...
Feb 15, 2018 · One of these, “Homeless Vehicle No. 5” will be featured in “Brand New” and further ties the artist’s projection to the rest of the exhibit. Krzysztof Wodiczko
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