Museum without Walls

David Hall, A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II (Cultural Eclipse), 1988-90. Video documentation of VR experience presented at the NEoN Festival, Dundee, 2017. Development by Rhoda Ellis, curating by Adam Lockhart (© Rhoda Ellis).

untitled (Levino Fanzeres, oil on agglomerate, undated) - access in augmented reality

Demolition of houses at Vila Autódromo by the city government (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - Rio de Janeiro, 2011.

Vitória 18,35 horas (Raphael Samú, screen printing on paper, undated) - access in augmented reality

What happens then in the future if an artist, collector or gallery wishes to re-exhibit an artwork where the original equipment has not been collected or the equipment required is entirely obsolete and unavailable?

untitled (Regina Chulam, oil on canvas, 1982) - access in augmented reality

In opposition to the objects collected from the rubble of Providência, the archaeological finds that a century ago had been thrown there as leftovers now performed singularity, flaunting the strength of those who, in a gesture of insubmission to gravity and oblivion, had returned to the surface.

"Oracles" plate - Introdução ao Terceiro Mundo, 2011.

David Hall, TV Interruptions: The Installation, 1971. VR setup at Besides the Screen Conference, Kings College, London, 2018 (© Adam Lockhart).