Look Up Mumbai: exhibition invites public to experience city's architecture lying down
In a 2013 Tedx talk, media artist and University of NSW professor Sarah Kenderdine spoke about the threats faced by cultural heritage around the world, from politically motivated destruction to climate change and mass tourism. 'We must find strategies not only to preserve our heritage but to let its stories be rediscovered and reinvented,' she said. 'This is both an artistic and technical challenge.'
Kenderdine's latest collaborative work, Look Up Mumbai, is an immersive, site-specific installation which opens at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya museum on Wednesday, and celebrates the city's spectacular architectural heterogeneity.
The public is invited to lie down in the 3D DomeLab - the highest resolution touring full dome in the world - look up and experience 65 fish-eye images of some of the finest heritage buildings in Mumbai.
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