Krzysztof Wodiczko: Guests

Krzysztof Wodiczko
...Out of Here: The Veteran's Project now on view at the ICA November 4, 2009- March 28, 2010.

This book offers a lavishly illustrated critical overview of the latest work from renowned installation artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. Krzysztof Wodiczko is originator of more than 75 public projections, presented since 1980 in various places around the world. In 1996, he started to stage video-and-sound projections, animating public monuments with the images and voices of homeless people, immigrants, war veterans, victims of violence, marginalised minorities. The notions of 'others' and 'strangers' are key to his artistic practice, in both his projections and the technologically advanced instruments he uses to enable those who have been deprived of rights and remain mute and invisible to be seen and heard in public space. In his latest work, the video installation "Guests", the protagonists are illegal immigrants, people who remain 'eternal' guests, trapped between the borders of belonging.