Third Thursday with Krzysztof Wodiczko

NOV 17th

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1:30 PM

VIRTUAL EVENT

Join us on November 17th at 1:30 PM for an exciting conversation with Krzystof Wodiczko, an artist whose avant-garde projections and slides have graced architectural facades around the world, engaging publics in the challenging social topics of war and its aftermath, and the effect of gendered violence and gendered silence in public life. He will join in conversation about two of these projects, "The Tijuana Projection" and "Loro" with Ken Lum, The Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and Chair of Fine Arts at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Krzysztof Wodiczko

Speaker

Krzysztof Wodiczko is born 1943 in Warsaw, Poland, lives and works in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Warsaw. His projections on architectural facades, and monuments as well as especially designed performative instruments give a public voice to the marginalized city residents. Krzysztof Wodiczko has held retrospective exhibitions at numerous museums and his work has been presented at Documenta, Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, and many other art festivals.He received the 4th Hiroshima Art Price "for his contribution as an international artist to the world peace". He is a former director of the MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and Professor of Art, Design and the Public Domain, Emeritus, at G.S.D, Harvard. His is presently teaching as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Weitzman School of Design, UPenn .

​The film documenting his artistic work.The Art of Un-War directed by Maria Niro and released in 2022, is distributed by New Day Films.Krzysztof Wodiczko’s books include Critical Vehicles, MIT Press, Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Abolition of War, and The Transformative Avant-Garde, published by Black Dog Press. ​

KEN LUM

Discussant

Ken Lum was born in Vancouver, Canada but presently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he is the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

From 2000 to 2006 Ken Lum was head of the graduate program in studio art at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he taught from 1990 until 2006. Lum joined the faculty of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, in 2005 and worked there until 2007. He has been an invited professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and the China Art Academy, Hangzhou.

Lum is co-founder and founding editor of Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. He has published extensively; and recently completed an artists’ book project with philosopher Hubert Damisch that was launched with Three Star Press, Paris.

Lum was Project Manager for Okwui Enwezor’s The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945 – 1994 (2001). He was also co-curator of the 7th Sharjah Biennial (2005), and Shanghai Modern: 1919 – 1945 (2005).

Lum has exhibited widely, including São Paulo Biennial (1998), Shanghai Biennale (2000), Documenta 11 (2002), the Istanbul Biennial (2007), and the Gwangju Biennale (2008), Moscow Biennial 2011 and the Whitney Biennial 2014.  He has published many essays on art.

He has also realized permanent public art commissions for the cities of Vienna, Vancouver, Utrecht, Leiden, St. Moritz, Toronto and St Louis.