Museum without Walls

Riverine Archive, VR screen capture (© Antonopoulou & Dare).

In indigenous time there is a notion of sequence, a before and an after, but this does not imply a fixed boundary between the past and the future, which, instead of being separated by the present, would be both contained within the now.

JOÃO ME-PRO-METEO, Um-PEXi (Elpídio Malaquias, synthetic enamel on chipboard, 1992) - access in augmented reality

Dja Guata Porã exhibition, Museu de Arte do Rio, 2017-8.

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?

Reproductions of “artworks” which come with a glossary create a new perspective, add another meaning, or simply mix up the first meaning when facing what was initially appropriated by the artist.

Subway (Norton, acrylic on wood, 2002) - access in augmented reality

Polivisão XLIV X4 (Maurício Salgueiro, mixed media, undated) - access in augmented reality