"Overground Dialogue". Skiba Review

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He is an art lecturer at 2 American universities and the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, and he works in fresh York all day. He's a visual artist and art theorist. In the 1970s, he made innovative artistic attempts involving large-format projections of paintings and films on buildings and public buildings. Today, this form is widely known and utilized during already powerfully commercial events specified as the Light decision Festival in Łódź.

Krzysztof Wodiczko was besides the author of the celebrated action, not entirely legal, erstwhile after Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, he displayed a fascist symbol on the South African Embassy building in London. utilizing movie techniques with a political message, and then displaying them on buildings, has late been a hit by protests against PiS governments. Oppositionists (possibly not full aware that they are continuing the experiments of Wodica years ago) e.g. on the building of the Office of the Council of Ministers displayed the "enemy" sign "Constitution". Wodiczko himself present is already a classical avant-garde (80 years old) and is inactive very active. Just before the election silence, he organized a visual performance with the Centre for Contemporary Art of Łaźnia in Gdańsk entitled “Overground Dialogue”. She frequently directs her work to marginalized environments. In fresh York City, for example, he built a universal vehicle for homeless people to cross a bicycle, a workplace and a bed.

In the Gdańsk project, he decided to give voice to people from opposing backgrounds, but in specified a way that they would not argue, but to talk, due to the fact that the conversation gives a chance for contact and agreement, and the quarrel is the beginning of war. It took months to prepare for this project. First, thanks to Monica Popow, a group of people were chosen – among them they discussed with each other, e.g. a young gay female and an aged woman about conservative views, a non-believer with a individual active in the life of the Church; and there was talk about motherhood, being disabled, generational differences, exile problem, and freedom. The aim was to let dialog in a highly polarised society.

The most interesting parts of the talks were filmed and displayed on large balloons, which was presented on the roof of Shakespeare Theatre in Gdańsk. Until recently, spy balloons from Belarus flew over Poland. In the performance of Krzysztof Wodiczka, balloons smelled like dialog between free and listening people.

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