VR installation Carne y Arena is an experience machine: stand among distraught migrants in the Arizona desert

To really feel the desert sand between your toes, you have to go in barefoot. The desert is the no-man's land between Mexico and the United States where nearly a thousand hopeful migrants lose their lives every year. A crossing as dramatic as the trip in wrecked boats across the Mediterranean. That sandy plain looms large in the virtual reality installation Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible) by Alejandro González Iñárritu, best known as director of Birdma...