March 29, 1976: Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko arrived at school to give a presentation on his work. It wasn’t clear to us how he got here, but he had arrived from Warsaw and seemed to be trying to emigrate to Canada. Though a little worn, he dresses very formally, wearing a dark suit jacket and white shirt.
We had just opened a small gallery called The Shooting Gallery, in a basement space we renovated on Duke Street to the left of the library. He exhibited drawings for a walking machine that he had designed, a treadmill with bicycle wheels. It appeared that as you walked on it, it moved forward.