An immersive lake that visitors can traverse
When: October 5, 2018 — January 28, 2019
Where: The Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th St., New York, NY 10011
Price: $15
Tags: #installationart
Get No Proscenium’s stories in your inbox
Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer.
SubscribeSubscribe
The three-part exhibition A Lost Future challenges existing histories and speculative futures across cultures and in Bengal — a culturally rich region divided between present-day India and Bangladesh. The three contemporary artists featured in the exhibition — Shezad Dawood, the Otolith Group, and Matti Braun — engage an evocative range of mediums that spans virtual reality to an immersive lake along with painting, film, sculpture, and photography. Through rich storytelling, A Lost Future explores themes of virtuality, modernity, and world-making in ways that are universal as well as interconnected and specific to this region.
A Lost Future: Matti Braun (October 5, 2018–January 28, 2019) transforms the central gallery into an immersive lake that visitors can traverse. R.T., S.R., V.S. (2003–present) references the lotus pond in the first scene of Satyajit Ray’s The Alien, in which a friendly, catalytic alien from another time and place lands in a village. It also draws inspiration from the first scene in Steven Spielberg’s E.T., which may have been directly influenced by Ray’s script.
No Proscenium is a labor of love made possible by our generous Patreon backers: join them today!
In addition to the No Proscenium web site, our podcast, and our newsletters, you can find NoPro on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, in our Facebook community Everything Immersive, and on our Slack forum.
Discussion