At the Drive-In

At the Drive In video shows the projected animation “dive” into the viewer’s upheld cell phone (right) from a parked car across the streetKate Sikorski on Vimeo.

I was invited to exhibit a “socially-distanced” solo show at an artist-run space just East of DTLA. The show opened the week that George Floyd was murdered and LA went into lockdown from the protests. The sunset curfew aside, projecting a video through a window at night requires the window to appear empty during the day. That didn’t sit well with me, so I threw together a daytime display consisting of a brightly colored protest sign, tie dye shirt, and ink drawing of Trump as a 14th century Black Death era gargoyle. In the other gallery window I projected part of the experimental project I had planned: an interactive animation that fit the site of the gallery. Parked across the street, a viewer could scan a giant QR code on a poster next to the gallery window, so that the screen of their phone was positioned to “receive” an animated sheltering-in-place figure escaping the “cage” of the barred gallery window to receive a hug from her baby nephews.