Saturday, May 19, 2012

Krzysztof Wodiczko in "Power"/ One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity


With Krzysztof Wodiczko, I feel his work is mainly towards democracy.

He lived through rough times throughout his childhood. During the interview Wodiczko's art uses public space he debates on public space and site specific art.  Wodiczko uses progressive technology in his work in order to attract an audience within these public spaces, and powerfully convey a social-political message rooted within the artwork. 
By using immersive technology, he is able to massively distribute his message to the public and worldwide, instead of confining the artwork solely to a gallery space.

With this project in Claude Lefort's importance of democracy and he says that democracy is found on empty public spaces that belong to anyone that can bring meaning to them. Wodiczko's art evidently demonstrations his work to the fullest. His style adds statutes and buildings that are essentially meaningful such as he shows his stories through art form

With this reading, it had been much easier to read and understand what had actually happened.
I feel that Claude Lefort's observation on democracy is very good. In artists having the tendency to use a group of people in a project, Philips‘s facts were well too.

Miwon Kwon’s One Place after Another art can be other forms rather than be painting.
Kwon makes several points though her most important thesis is merely that site-specific art has changed greatly. It does not always have to appear at fancy places. Public art is established on location.
It can be formed and drawn in a place where it can hold significance to those artists.
Site specificity should address the modification of adjacency and distances between objects, places, people and ideas and not their relationship in similarities.

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