| Krzysztof Wodiczko's
work is an ongoing aesthetic research on how design, performance,
and media interact to encourage dialogue for social change.
This research
has taken
the form of projections on public monuments and buildings,
and "vehicles",
such as the Homeless Vehicle and Poliscar. Wodiczko's last
solo exhibition
in New
York was "Xenology: Immigrant Instruments" in 1996 at Galerie
Lelong. In
the last seven years, Wodiczko has been the subject of several
retrospective
exhibitions:
Hiroshima City Art Museum, Polish Pavilion – Biennial
of Architecture-
Venice, Fundacio Tapies - Barcelona, Walker Art Center -
Minneapolis,
Centrum Sztuki
Museum – Poland and De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam.
He has also been included
in several international group exhibitions, such as Ars
95 in Helsinki
and La
Ville at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Recent video
projection: "Let
Freedom Ring" for ICA Boston in 1998, projected upon Bunker
Hill monument.
Krzysztof
Wodiczko is currently Director of the Center for Advanced
Visual Studies
at M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts. An anthology of Wodiczko's
writings,
entitled
"Krzysztof Wodiczko: Art Public/Art Critique" was published
by the Ecole
Nationale Suprieure des Beaux Arts, Paris in 1995. A collection
of his
writings, "Critical
Vehicles", the first book in English, was published by MIT
Press in
March 1999. |