Krzysztof Wodiczko
Japanese projects: the documentation
June 7–14, 2019
Tuesday–Saturday, 12 noon–7 pm
Profile Foundation, Franciszkanska 6 street, Warsaw
The show accompanies the international conference “Jikihitsu. Signature of the artist. Japanese tradition in contemporary polish art”
June 10-12, 2019, Association of Polish Architects (SARP), Foksal 2 street, Warsaw
Krzysztof Wodiczko has since the early 1980s been undertaking projects aimed at the democratization of the public space of contemporary cities. He has realized over ninety projections on buildings and public monuments, animated with the voices and gestures of homeless people, immigrants, victims of violence, or war veterans. Sending a socio-political message, the projections raised issues of human rights, democracy, violence, alienation. Underlying both the projections and Wodiczko’s performative Instruments and Vehicles is the idea of including in the public discourse those who are unrepresented in it. In recent years, the artist has taken up the anti-war problematics, initiating a debate on the role culture plays in the commemoration of wars. Remaining true to the Avant-Garde tradition, Wodiczko works to develop technologies to express dissent and transform the status quo.
Winner of the Hiroshima Art Prize in 1998, Krzysztof Wodiczko is the author of a number of projects produced in association with Japanese institutions, activists, and urban communities, such as The Hiroshima Projection (1999) with the participation of victims of the 1945 atomic bombing, The Survival Projection in Yokohama (2011), with the participation of victims of the Tohoku earthquake, or Dis-Armor (2000), a psychocultural instrument designed as a communication device for alienated Japanese school youths.
