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Sharing Strangeness: Krzyszt of Wodiczko's Ægis and the Question of Hospitality

Sharing Strangeness: Krzyszt of Wodiczko's Ægis and the Question of Hospitality Krzysztof Wodiczko. Ægis worn by Kelly Dobson, 1998. Gallerie Lelong, New York and Interrogative Design Group, MIT. Sharing Strangeness: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Ægis and the Question of Hospitality ROSALYN DEUTSCHE For nearly a decade, in a project he calls Xenology, Krzysztof Wodiczko has designed equipment for immigrants, including refugees, those seeking protection from the threat of violence or injustice. Xenology, says Wodiczko, is “the art and science of the stranger” and also “the immigrant’s art of survival.”1 The term reaches us from ancient Greece, where xenos referred to both guest and foreigner, to, that is, the stranger who imposes an obligation to hospitality. Wodiczko is head of the Interrogative Design Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Interrogative design, he explains, “responds interrogatively to the needs that should not, but unfortunately do, exist in the present ‘civilized’ world. In the unacceptable world, interrogative design should present itself and be perceived as unacceptable.”2 Questioning the existing design of the social world, interrogative design offers solutions that cannot be regarded as proper or taken without protest. In 1992 Wodiczko produced his first immigrant instrument, the Alien Staff, which recalls the tool for wandering used by Old http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Grey Room MIT Press

Sharing Strangeness: Krzyszt of Wodiczko's Ægis and the Question of Hospitality

Grey Room , Volume Winter 2002 (6) – Jan 1, 2002

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© 2002 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1526-3819
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10.1162/152638102317406489
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Krzysztof Wodiczko. Ægis worn by Kelly Dobson, 1998. Gallerie Lelong, New York and Interrogative Design Group, MIT. Sharing Strangeness: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Ægis and the Question of Hospitality ROSALYN DEUTSCHE For nearly a decade, in a project he calls Xenology, Krzysztof Wodiczko has designed equipment for immigrants, including refugees, those seeking protection from the threat of violence or injustice. Xenology, says Wodiczko, is “the art and science of the stranger” and also “the immigrant’s art of survival.”1 The term reaches us from ancient Greece, where xenos referred to both guest and foreigner, to, that is, the stranger who imposes an obligation to hospitality. Wodiczko is head of the Interrogative Design Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Interrogative design, he explains, “responds interrogatively to the needs that should not, but unfortunately do, exist in the present ‘civilized’ world. In the unacceptable world, interrogative design should present itself and be perceived as unacceptable.”2 Questioning the existing design of the social world, interrogative design offers solutions that cannot be regarded as proper or taken without protest. In 1992 Wodiczko produced his first immigrant instrument, the Alien Staff, which recalls the tool for wandering used by Old

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Published: Jan 1, 2002

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