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Krzysztof Wodiczko's Veterans Project at Institute for Contemporary ArtNov 4 2009 - 8:00am to 8:00 pmKrzysztof Wodiczko The Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston (ICA) has invited Krzysztof Wodiczko to create a new project focusing on veterans returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan . This new project will go on view at the ICA November 4, 2009, just prior to the observation of Veterans Day, and continues through March 7, 2010. Krzysztof Wodiczko, a leading artist known world-wide, has grappled with urgent, humanistic topics in his work for several decades. His artistic work has centered on a life-long investigation of the relationship between art, democracy, trauma and healing. It often takes the form of public projections in which real people who have suffered various forms of trauma tell their stories, through which the particular reveals the universal. http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wodiczko/index.html Wodiczko and the ICA are seeking currently and previously enlisted men and women from Greater Boston who have experienced active duty to work with the artist to shape this exhibition. Ideally this group will include family members of the enlisted, especially parents of recent veterans who are veterans themselves, as well as teen-age children, and Iraqis now in the United States . Members of the group will be invited to share stories to be incorporated into the project, and to advise on overall visual strategies and plans for related public programming. As with Wodiczko’s other major works, The Veterans Project (working title) seeks to amplify voices usually not heard, as well as to heal and to increase pathways to understanding. His new project aims to bring as full a comprehension as possible to civilians of the impact of combat in order to lessen the isolation of those now struggling with combat’s aftermath. While we live in troubling times that have largely created the urgency of the work Wodiczko proposes, it is offered in the spirit of a non-partisan, humanistic investigation of the experiences of ordinary men and women who have assumed the responsibility of enormous challenges. For more information, please contact Carole Anne Meehan, Curator, The Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston at cmeehan [at] icaboston [dot] org or by telephone at 617-478-3160. Chapter: Boston MA | Chapter 17 Contact: Ian LaVallee/Carlos Harris Contact e-mail: boston@ivaw.org Location: |