Oscar-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu’s project is at Fair Park through May 8.
Lauren SmartOver the last 20 years, virtual reality has been heralded as the future. Its uses range across medicine, education, military training and endless commercial sectors. One of its more complicated applications, and one that is at the heart of “Carne y Arena,” an art exhibition open since January in Fair Park, is in “empathy building.” In this case, audiences are asked to walk, quite literally, in the footsteps of migrants crossing the border from Mexico into Texas.
It’s in that first room that discomfort, or some kind of emotional response, starts to sink in. But you’ll also be faced with the dissociative duality of this experience. This room, this isolation, you’re being led to imagine, is what it feels like to be vulnerable in an unfamiliar place. Those shoes scattered around you are the shoes of someone desperate enough to make a long treacherous trek from one country to another.
If you’ve never participated in VR before, this is a wild, eye-opening experience. To have a 360-degree view of the desert and look up into the sky and feel the wind off the blades of a helicopter is unlike anything that can take place in a movie theater., said he had wanted to experiment with VR for a decade before he created “Carne y Arena.” As a Mexican American, he has long been interested in stories of treacherous border crossings, even including a scene of one in the 2006 film.
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