Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Monument

Thu Jan 16, 2020 - Sat May 9, 2020
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Repeating every week — Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through May 9, 2020.
5:00pm to 8:00pm ET
Age: All
Price: Free
Location:
Madison Square Park
23rd Street and Madison Avenue, New York, NY,
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Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko (American, b. Poland 1943) collaborated with twelve refugees who have been resettled in the United States; their filmed likenesses and spoken narratives are superimposed on the historic 1881 monument to Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, lauded in his day as a Union naval hero during the Civil War.

With footage of people from Africa, Central America, South Asia, and the Middle East, the bronze monument emerges as a surrogate for refugees whose diverse plights, harrowing journeys, grueling fortitude, and quest for democracy have recently brought them to this country.

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