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Krzysztof Wodiczko collaborated with twelve refugees who have been resettled in the United States; their filmed likenesses and spoken narratives are superimposed on the historic 1881 monument to Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, lauded in his day as a Union naval hero during the Civil War.
Jan 23, 2020 · Using video projections, the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko reclaims public spaces for marginalized viewpoints. by Hilarie M. Sheets. As published in the New York Times on January 23, 2020.
Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko was invited to create a two-evening public projection on Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square. As it happened, while Wodiczko was in London preparing for the performance, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher approved a large donation of money to the government of South Africa, despite the country’s legal ...
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Nov 17, 2021 · Conceptual artist Krzysztof Wodiczko aims to give voice to the voiceless through his projections on buildings, statues. For much of the past 40 years Krzysztof Wodiczko has made famous monuments come alive to amplify the hopes and fears of real people.
He has realized more than 80 such public projections in Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. War, conflict, trauma, memory, and communication in the public sphere are some of the major themes of his work.
This essay discusses two projections by Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko carried out in Union Square in the city of New York. The Homeless Projection: A Proposal for Union Square (1986) and Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection (2012) address major ailments of modern society: homelessness and the psychological effects of war.
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Film footage presented at the exhibition are meant to remind monumental projections presented since the mid-1990s using the video technique, where Wodiczko enlivened buildings and monuments with images and voices of homeless people, immigrants, victims of violence and abuse, war veterans.
