With the help of students in a University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design class and the U-M Synchronized Swimming Club, New York-based multimedia artist Claudia Bitran will recreate scenes from director James Cameron’s “Titanic” at U-M’s Canham Natatorium this week.
Since 2014, Bitran, who is Chilean-American, has been reinterpreting “Titanic” with an intentionally experimental shot-for-shot recreation. Her dynamic, long-term project has involved more than 500 participants from 15 cities across Chile and the U.S.
Students in U-M Stamps Professor Rebekah Modrak’s “Dressing Up & Down” course have created elaborate costumes and wearable props re-imagined from the scene in which passengers are thrown into the frigid waters around the sinking ship.
