MILAN - She was arrested on March 2, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, during racial segregation in the United States, nine months before a similar episode made Rosa Parks famous.
A revolutionary and little-known gesture, to which the immersive installation 'Noire.
The unknown story of Claudette Colvin', produced by the Novaya production house and the Center Pompidou, which from 3 February will be hosted by the Meet Digital Culture Center in Milan.
The use of augmented reality - it is anticipated - allows spectators to relive the exploits of the student Claudette Colvin, then 15 years old, who in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, despite threats;
she was arrested for this, but she decided to sue the city and plead not guilty.
An exhibition that also aims to be a redemption for the young Claudette Colvin (now 84 years old), whose name, despite her courage, is not remembered like that of the more famous Rosa Parks, who again in Montgomery nine months later - thanks also to the gesture of Claudette and the fortunate meeting with the young pastor Martin Luther King - became an icon for civil rights.
The Noire installation can be enjoyed in groups of 10 people;
each visitor is provided with a pair of AR Hololens 2 glasses (which allow you to see real and virtual at the same time) and headphones with which they enter a 250 square meter set created for the occasion.
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