The showing of the "Poznań Projection" in the tower of the former Imperial Castle announces the second stage of the project in which the tower is used as an instrument for social communication.
The symbolic meaning of the tower, its monumental size and historical prestige is intended to be used as a tool to detraumatize the city.
Krzysztof Wodiczko would like the tower, which he metaphorically calls a lantern, to serve not only to signal socially important matters but also as a tool to build sensitivity to small positive life experiences, functioning thus as an instrument for expanding public space.
In the "Tower-Lantern" project both the inhabitants of Poznań and guests to the city will be able to determine the contents of the messages transmitted by the "tower-lantern" by supplying concrete information. The visual form of the tower as an instrument for social communication is kept as a surprise. The Signum Foundation will take care of the functioning of the tower-lantern in cooperation with "Zamek", the Cultural Centre and the local media.
The "Poznań Projection" and the idea of the "tower-lantern" place the viewers in the role of co-creators of art and social reality, shaped through art. Krzysztof Wodiczko firmly believes that art is irreplaceable as a form of putting social and aesthetic ideas into practice in a public space. It is a form of "showing facts of progression from a private confession, through public testimony to an act of transformation that is to metamorphosis".
Wodiczko's Monument Therapy is an example of art which is judging, evaluating and changing reality /Janusz Marciniak