New works of art to catch this month in San Diego by Christina Kim, El Anatsui, Ivonne Garcia, Chitra Gopalakrishnan with The House of Resilience, and youth at MOPA.
Chitra Gopalakrishnan: 'We Are All Made Of Starstuff'
On view concurrently in the windows of You Belong Here and The Hill Street Country Club, Sept. 8-12, 2021
Part of the second annual San Diego Design Week, Chitra Gopalakrishnan has designed an AR exhibition that can safely be viewed from the sidewalk. Gopalakrishnan interviewed trans women from The House of Resilience, an organization that focuses on housing insecurity and equity for San Diego and Tijuana LGBTQ+ communities, particularly trans women.
Gopalakrishnan recorded the women as she asked them a series of questions — including "what would you tell your 10-year-old self?" A QR code posted in the gallery windows at both You Belong Here and The HIll Street Country Club will trigger an bright augmented reality animation to appear before a viewer, in an empty frame mounted in the window.
"I'm using AR to allow viewers to suspend their disbelief (literally as they look at animations that do not exist in front of them except via their mobile devices), but also metaphorically to suspend disbelief and accept that trans lives matter and are very real," Gopalakrishnan explained over email.
Risograph posters will also be available as part of the installation. The exhibition is named after this first piece — a Carl Sagan quote, "We Are All Made Of Starstuff." This piece has Paris DaSilva speaking.
Details: Event information. On view outside You Belong Here (3619 El Cajon Blvd., City Heights) and The Hill Street Country Club (530 S. Coast Hwy, Oceanside). Free.