In the Open: Art in Public Spaces
dal 28/10/2007 al 28/10/2007
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28/10/2007
In the Open: Art in Public Spaces
Sculpture Center, New York
Known for his projections of images into architecture and public monuments, the artist highlights the disparity between the history and the object itself. Wodiczko's work creates a space to highlight socially significant issues while simultaneously illuminating contradictions of spatial politics and the surrounding architecture.
Krzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno
Join BOMB Magazine at SculptureCenter for the first in a series of staged interviews between architects,
urban theoreticians, and artists working in the public realm.
Known for his projections of images onto architecture and public monuments, Krzysztof Wodiczko
highlights the disparity between the history and the object itself. Wodiczko’s work creates a space to
highlight socially significant issues while simultaneously illuminating contradictions of spatial politics
and the surrounding architecture.
Krzysztof Wodiczko, known for his twenty-five years of socially and politically charged public projections,
explores the fundamentals of democracy in works designed for public space. Addressing such issues as
homelessness, militarization, and xenophobia, Wodiczko uses public monuments, structures of
symbolic power and collective memory, as integral foils for his iconic imagery. Wodiczko lives and works
in New York City and Boston.
Giuliana Bruno is Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author
of Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, winner of the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz award
for "the world’s best book on the moving image," and Streetwalking on a Ruined Map, winner of the
1993 Kovacs prize for best book in film studies. Her latest book, Public Intimacy: Architecture and the
Visual Arts, was published by MIT Press in 2007. For more information please visit http://www.bombsite.com
About BOMBLive!
Off the page and onto the stage, BOMB Magazine presents an ongoing series of live conversations
between artists in a variety of settings throughout New York City.
BOMB was founded in 1981 as an artists’ and writers’ quarterly dedicated to presenting work in its own
light, and artists’ and writers’ conversations in their own words. It has become one of the leading
magazines on American culture and is still edited and written by the people who make that culture.
In 2001, we expanded our long-standing practice of matching significant cultural figures in conversation
to produce an ongoing series of staged interviews.
This fall, BOMB premieres In the Open: Art in Public Spaces, a series of conversations between visual
artists, architects and urban theorists at SculptureCenter in Long Island City and elsewhere.
October 29, at 7pm
Sculpture Center
Purves Street 71, Long Island City
Free admission