Wodiczko's multi-media, large-scale projection the Veterans Vehicle Project gives voice to Veterans who struggle with homelessness. Working intimately and collaboratively with Denver-based Veterans, Wodiczko's current projection will premeire on 14th & Grant Street. The Veterans Vehicle Project illustrates the complexity of social reintegration into civilian life for returning soldiers, by presenting the stories of veterans who have experienced homelessness, in addition to helping us learn from their war and postwar experiences. This projection aims to empower this community by raising the level of public discourse on the variety of impacts direct and secondary impact creates. The veteran collaborators are "co-authors" advising and activating the project. The Veterans Vehicle Project "shoots" text and sound from a redesigned Humvee, making a truly mobile social theater.
Wodiczko has created more than seventy public projections that have been displayed throughout the world. Since 1985, he has been honored with eight major retrospectives at such institutions as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum Stuki, Lodz; Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford; and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. His work has appeared in many international exhibitions, including the São Paulo Bienale (1965, 1967, 1985); Documenta (1977, 1987); the Venice Biennale (1986, 2000); and the Whitney Biennial (2000). Wodiczko received the 1999 Hiroshima Art Prize for his contribution as an artist to world peace, and the 2004 College Art Association Award for Distinguished Body of Work. Currently, Wodiczko heads the Interrogative Design Group and is Director of the Center for Art, Culture, and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Download the exhibition guide for The Veteran Vehicle Project (PDF)
