Critical vehicles : writings, projects, interviews
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Critical vehicles : writings, projects, interviews
MIT Press, c1999
- : pbk.
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Bibliographical references: p.[220]-227
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Krzysztof Wodiczko, an avante-garde artist, is perhaps best known for the politically charged images he has projected onto buildings and monuments from New York to Warsaw - images of rockets projected onto triumphal arches, the image of handcuffed wrists projected onto a courthouse facade, images of homeless people in bandages and wheelchairs projected onto statues in a park from which they had been evicted. In projects such as the "Homeless Vehicle", which he designed through discussions with homeless people, Wodiczko has helped to make public space a place where marginalized people can speak, establish their presence and assert their rights. This book collects Wodiczko's own writings on his projects. He has stated that his principal artistic concern is the displacement of traditional notions of community and identity in the face of rapidly expanding technologies and cultural miscommunication. In these writings he addresses such issues as urbanism, homelessness, immigration, alienation and the plight of refugees. Fusing wit and political insight, he offers the artistic means to help heal the damages of uprootedness and other contemporary troubles.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Destinations: designing for the city of strangers
- interrogative design
- beyond the hybrid state?
- avant-garde as public art - the future of a tradition
- for the de-incapacitation of the avant-garde in Canada. Part 2 Projections: public projection
- memorial projection
- the Venice projections
- the homeless projection - a proposal for the city of New York
- projection on the monument to Friedrich II, Kassel
- City Hall Tower illumination, Philadelphia
- speaking through monuments
- City Hall Tower projection, Krakow
- voices of the tower. Part 3 Vehicles: vehicles
- vehicles
- homeless vehicle project
- conversations about a project for a homeless vehicle
- poliscar. Part 4 Instruments: the personal instrument
- alien staff (xenobacul)
- alien staff, variant 2
- voices of the alien staff
- identity and community - alien staff
- the mouthpiece (porte-parole)
- the mouthpiece, variants
- voices of the mouthpiece
- xenology - immigrant instruments
- aegis - equipment for a city of strangers. Part 5 Questions: a response to the new museum
- a response to Maria Morzuch
- a conversation with "October"
- an interview by Roger Gilroy
- an interview by Jean-Christophe Royoux
- an interview by Bruce W. Ferguson
- an interview by Bruce Robbins
- an interview by Jaromir Jedlinski.
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