An interactive virtual reality experience of the Indian hill station Kalimpong
When: February 23–May 21
Where: The Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th St., New York, NY 10011
Price: $15; timed ticket required
Tags: #virtualreality, #installationart
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: Shezad Dawood (February 23–May 21, 2018) features an interactive virtual reality experience of the Indian hill station Kalimpong, linking a haunting nostalgic portal to a future alternative reality. Expanding on some of the sites and stories in Dawood’s paintings and sculptures on view, the virtual reality work allows visitors to travel from the mythic Himalayan Hotel into the mountains, an adjacent monastery, and beyond. The VR experience allows a visitor, aided by a gallery guide, to virtually travel from the mythic Himalayan Hotel into the mountains, an adjacent monastery, and beyond. Timed tickets will be required for the experience.
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