An AR experience that speaks ‘truth to power’
... Next week will see the reveal of award winning public arts company Aswarm’s Holding The Flame, a prominent AR-Statue of civil rights campaigner Marcia Rigg.
Led by McIntyre-Burnie, the statue was specifically created to be in dialogue with its site – the square outside Brixton Police station; a place significant both for its role in the Brixton uprisings of 1981, and for Marcia’s brother Sean Rigg, who died in Police custody there in 2008, in circumstances resonant with George Floyd. ...
The App is audio visual, they can listen to Marcia speak to the emotions and intentions embodied in her statue and as the statue appears so does the sound of her breath; “for this is not a statue of someone who can no-longer breathe”. ...
Holding The Flame will mark the culmination of a year-long programme of events commissioned by 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance, an initiative designed to raise questions and stimulate discussion about the state of race relations 40 years on from the 1981 Brixton Uprisings. ...
See the full story here: https://www.voice-online.co.uk/entertainment/2022/09/06/an-ar-experience-that-speaks-truth-to-power/
