0:00:08.316,0:00:10.080 ANNOUNCER: Live in downtown St. Louis with more on 0:00:10.080,0:00:11.920 our first story at six.[br]NEWSCASTER: Washington 0:00:11.920,0:00:15.822 University is sponsoring the event[br]called The St. Louis Projection. 0:00:16.080,0:00:20.520 In this case, the movie shows crime victims[br]and inmates sharing their stories, 0:00:20.520,0:00:22.109 showing only their hands. 0:00:22.560,0:00:25.118 The building representing [br]the other parts of the body. 0:00:26.580,0:00:30.120 KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO:[br]In St. Louis I turn to the 0:00:30.120,0:00:35.000 very beautifully designed building[br]of the central public library. 0:00:35.440,0:00:37.483 SPEAKER: Check, check, check. 0:00:39.719,0:00:40.933 SPEAKER: Yeah, that’s very nice. 0:00:41.255,0:00:45.720 WODICZKO: Inside the building, [br]participants were sitting 0:00:45.720,0:00:49.749 with cameras pointed on the person’s hands. 0:00:51.230,0:00:52.880 SPEAKER: Hi, my name is Diana. 0:00:52.880,0:00:54.448 SPEAKER: Hi Diana. 0:00:54.448,0:00:58.160 WODICZKO: Outside, it’s a kind of open mike. 0:00:58.160,0:01:01.720 Anybody can come forward to [br]speak back to the building 0:01:01.720,0:01:05.960 trying to prevent perpetuation of the murders, 0:01:05.960,0:01:10.000 killing, and gun violence in St. Louis. 0:01:10.560,0:01:17.320 This type of projection brings more opportunities[br]for more people to join each other 0:01:17.320,0:01:21.909 in an attempt to speak up and open up. 0:01:24.080,0:01:28.321 Open up and share in public space, 0:01:28.600,0:01:32.349 something that is usually [br]relegated to private domain. 0:01:34.047,0:01:38.560 SPEAKER: We never expect [br]to bury our grandchildren, 0:01:38.560,0:01:44.560 and when we do, it’s the most [br]horrible feeling in the world. 0:01:45.635,0:01:48.500 SPEAKER: And when I see [br]Riley’s two little children, 0:01:49.034,0:01:53.560 growing up, without their daddy, 0:01:53.560,0:01:56.240 it just breaks my heart. 0:01:56.240,0:01:56.881 SPEAKER: Yes. 0:01:58.880,0:02:02.880 When it’s your loved one, it’s not an easy thing. 0:02:02.880,0:02:04.232 You don’t forget. 0:02:07.585,0:02:10.320 SPEAKER: Now that it’s been a couple years, 0:02:10.320,0:02:15.280 how are you and your family handling birthdays, 0:02:15.280,0:02:18.020 holidays, family get-togethers? 0:02:19.568,0:02:21.520 SPEAKER: You always have that empty space, 0:02:21.520,0:02:22.680 but it never goes away 0:02:22.680,0:02:25.958 because there’s a hole in your [br]heart that nothing can ever fill it. 0:02:26.560,0:02:29.960 People don’t have a clue of how we feel, 0:02:29.960,0:02:32.520 because on the outside it looks like we’re okay, 0:02:32.520,0:02:36.760 but on the inside we’re [br]slowly in little bit every day 0:02:36.760,0:02:38.443 like we feel like we’re dying. 0:02:42.528,0:02:48.360 SPEAKER: This eternal flame burns [br]in memory of Christopher King, 0:02:48.360,0:02:53.054 age 20, murdered on August 26, 1986. 0:02:54.000,0:02:56.447 It burns in memory of J.A. King, 0:02:56.920,0:03:02.402 murdered on April 7, 1991, age 27. 0:03:03.240,0:03:05.440 It burns in memory of Adam Enis.... 0:03:05.440,0:03:08.842 WODICZKO: The Revolutionary battle on Bunker Hill 0:03:09.680,0:03:14.160 somehow connected with the daily struggle of 0:03:14.160,0:03:20.742 Charlestown residents who are living [br]in the shadow of this monument. 0:03:22.763,0:03:27.383 Overlooking the area in which [br]on weekly or monthly basis 0:03:27.920,0:03:30.760 someone was murdered, killed. 0:03:32.160,0:03:38.080 So the battle perhaps continues [br]not that it should of course, 0:03:38.080,0:03:44.940 but unfortunately it does for life, [br]liberty and pursuit of happiness. 0:03:46.294,0:03:48.600 SPEAKER: When I was 17 my brother Kevin was found 0:03:48.600,0:03:51.411 hanging in a prison cell, Bridgewater. 0:03:52.378,0:03:55.098 The gangsters knew that he knew too much, 0:03:56.280,0:03:57.578 and I believe that they killed him. 0:03:58.760,0:04:00.597 It was made to look like a suicide. 0:04:02.080,0:04:03.575 And it was never investigated. 0:04:04.800,0:04:07.870 But everyone in the streets has [br]always told me that he was killed. 0:04:08.880,0:04:14.000 We no a lot more in the streets than we [br]tell the outside world or the police. 0:04:14.000,0:04:17.314 And everyone knows the truth [br]about things that go on. 0:04:18.840,0:04:20.357 But we just keep quiet. 0:04:22.198,0:04:28.800 WODICZKO: They eventually develop some [br]trust to break the code of silence. 0:04:28.800,0:04:34.221 To open up and speak about what’s unspeakable. 0:04:36.220,0:04:38.640 SPEAKER: I think a lot of you people wonder why… 0:04:38.640,0:04:40.280 why am I up here. 0:04:40.280,0:04:41.920 I’m no special person. 0:04:41.920,0:04:44.021 Just an ordinary person, just like you. 0:04:45.160,0:04:48.880 But all I can say is just [br]take a look at your family. 0:04:48.880,0:04:50.600 The ones that you love. 0:04:50.600,0:04:54.320 And what would you do if one [br]of them was taken from you? 0:04:54.320,0:04:55.720 How would you fight back? 0:04:55.720,0:04:58.800 Still try to have a heart that can still love, 0:04:58.800,0:05:00.560 and be a person that can care. 0:05:00.560,0:05:02.240 It’s not very easy. 0:05:02.240,0:05:06.546 My son, Adam, all I can say is that [br]I love you, and I will do my best. 0:05:07.320,0:05:09.019 And some day I’ll see you. 0:05:15.555,0:05:17.560 WODICZKO: I need to make sketches. 0:05:17.560,0:05:23.040 I need to make sure the body of [br]the speaker fits well the outline, 0:05:23.040,0:05:26.000 the character of the body of the monument. 0:05:26.000,0:05:28.680 So they both are integrated. 0:05:28.680,0:05:31.880 But I realize with time that [br]there must be another reason why 0:05:31.880,0:05:35.880 I’m preoccupying myself so [br]much with those drawings. 0:05:35.880,0:05:40.355 I need to keep certain [br]distance from what people say. 0:05:42.440,0:05:47.440 Somehow, the process of [br]making sketches keeps me sane. 0:05:47.440,0:05:52.644 Because I can not relive each time what I hear. 0:05:53.267,0:05:55.280 In case of anybody my position, 0:05:55.280,0:06:01.852 it will trigger my own experiences [br]or perhaps even trauma. 0:06:03.120,0:06:06.885 So I need to have something in between. 0:06:07.680,0:06:12.576 Something in between for them [br]is the camera and the monument, 0:06:14.317,0:06:18.785 and what it is for me, perhaps, the sketchbook. 0:06:22.520,0:06:25.880 I receive Hiroshima Art Prize, 0:06:25.880,0:06:31.386 the condition was that I will organize[br]retrospective exhibition of my work. 0:06:32.160,0:06:37.200 This gave me motivation to [br]do a large public project 0:06:37.200,0:06:41.920 in Hiroshima I propose a projection. 0:06:41.920,0:06:50.000 Which was to take place the night [br]after the anniversary of bombing. 0:06:51.038,0:06:58.198 My mother being a Jew whose entire family[br]was killed during ghetto uprising in Poland 0:06:58.520,0:07:02.879 gave birth to me in the midst of all of this, 0:07:04.040,0:07:07.720 my childhood was on the ruins of war. 0:07:07.720,0:07:12.120 Physical, political, and perhaps moral, 0:07:12.120,0:07:13.919 definitely psychological, 0:07:15.080,0:07:20.080 so I started working on my [br]projection with this assumption. 0:07:20.080,0:07:30.453 That we’re going to re-actualize one of [br]the few structures that survive bombing, 0:07:30.453,0:07:32.440 that is just underneath of [br]the epicenter of explosion. 0:07:32.440,0:07:36.840 To re-animate it with the voices and gestures of 0:07:36.840,0:07:42.251 present day inhabitants of [br]Hiroshima from various generations. 0:07:46.920,0:07:52.789 I started to talk to associations [br]of survivors of bombing. 0:07:53.520,0:07:56.840 I need to quickly develop some trust, 0:07:56.840,0:08:01.400 so they can really open up towards me. 0:08:01.400,0:08:03.520 Without developing of trust, 0:08:03.520,0:08:06.334 there is no possibility for my work. 0:08:07.600,0:08:12.120 The participants could not speak very long, 0:08:12.120,0:08:14.797 interrupted by their own tears. 0:08:20.817,0:08:23.280 SPEAKER (in Japanese): I saw many dead [br]or dying children. It was horrible. 0:08:23.280,0:08:29.440 WODICZKO: I seem to be working with people[br]who managed to survive, 0:08:30.480,0:08:37.920 and heal themselves to the point towards[br]reconnecting with society, with others. 0:08:37.920,0:08:42.760 Helping others to understand [br]at least a little bit, 0:08:42.760,0:08:45.301 a small part of what they went through. 0:08:46.400,0:08:51.171 To open up and share with [br]the world what is so painful. 0:08:55.840,0:08:59.920 The memorial should be a vehicle through which 0:08:59.920,0:09:04.280 the past and the future converge. 0:09:04.280,0:09:12.092 The river became a graveyard for both [br]people and buildings in Hiroshima. 0:09:15.160,0:09:22.948 As both a tragic witness but also [br]as a hope, because it’s moving. 0:09:24.560,0:09:26.825 There is new water coming. 0:09:36.440,0:09:40.360 Tijuana, it’s a border for many people 0:09:40.360,0:09:43.880 who came from poor provinces 0:09:43.880,0:09:48.101 who tried to advance their life moving north. 0:09:49.360,0:09:53.550 This building is a very important [br]symbolic structure in Tijuana. 0:09:54.840,0:09:57.400 It’s almost like a symbol of the city. 0:09:57.400,0:09:58.920 Landmark. 0:10:04.480,0:10:09.240 So here we have the kind of [br]variable television studio 0:10:09.240,0:10:13.280 with camera and lights and microphone, 0:10:13.280,0:10:19.396 to project the face with [br]precision onto the façade. 0:10:20.320,0:10:25.280 So the camera would be always in the same position 0:10:25.280,0:10:31.520 in relation to human head no matter [br]where this person is looking. 0:10:31.520,0:10:38.184 So the boundary between architecture [br]and projected body would be blurred. 0:10:39.560,0:10:42.734 The skin of the building [br]and the skin of the person 0:10:43.720,0:10:47.920 will be background and [br]foreground at the same time. 0:10:47.920,0:10:49.734 Will be shifting focus. 0:10:50.640,0:10:56.430 In Tijuana, ninety percent of [br]labor are young women, girls. 0:10:57.440,0:11:03.840 They work in ways that we don’t [br]even imagine some of them. 0:11:03.840,0:11:08.131 The issues that were brought were taboo, 0:11:09.120,0:11:14.300 were issues of incest, rape. 0:11:15.301,0:11:19.539 SPANISH SPEAKER: He closed the [br]door and then came into the room. 0:11:21.248,0:11:27.430 He grabbed me by force. He threw me on the bed. 0:11:27.586,0:11:30.687 He covered my mouth. I could not scream. 0:11:32.106,0:11:35.924 He abused me and he told me [br]that if I were to say anything, 0:11:35.924,0:11:41.634 he would hurt my family, my [br]grandmother, my mother, my uncles. 0:11:42.160,0:11:47.360 WODICZKO:  I think that people were there to [br]support what they were hearing, 0:11:47.360,0:11:51.903 even if what they were hearing [br]and seeing was unbearable. 0:11:57.434,0:12:02.658 SPANISH SPEAKER: Sometimes I have nightmares. 0:12:05.840,0:12:08.555 That I am always there. 0:12:09.437,0:12:12.919 That I can’t do anything. That no one can help me. 0:12:14.792,0:12:17.631 WODICZKO:   Sometimes it’s easier to be honest 0:12:17.631,0:12:20.200 speaking to thousands of people through monument 0:12:20.200,0:12:23.200 than to tell the truth at home, 0:12:23.200,0:12:24.667 to the closest person. 0:12:25.527,0:12:29.098 SPANISH   SPEAKER: He hit us with the butt of his gun. 0:12:31.054,0:12:35.648 We saw Hector lying there [br]on the ground, all bloody. 0:12:41.375,0:12:44.709 We spoke to him but he didn’t answer. 0:12:47.260,0:12:53.134 Then we told Wendy’s mother [br]that they had taken her away. 0:12:53.462,0:12:57.312 She was found half-naked. The [br]doctor us she had been raped. 0:12:58.612,0:13:01.176 She lasted two months in a coma. 0:13:15.344,0:13:23.748 He had become a vegetable from [br]the blows he had received.