Museum without Walls

Making of sculptures from the rubble of house demolitions at Vila Autódromo (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).

Macrophallic amulter recovered from the fire at the National Museum (© LAPID).

Today, the ruins of houses and collective equipments that were destroyed became part of the museum's collection and of what the residents call a memory route, along which several signs were installed to evoke spaces that existed in Vila Autódromo before the evictions.

DiMoDA 2.0 - RISD Museum, 2017. Works on display by Miyö Van Stenis (War Room), Rosa Menkman (DCT Syphoning The 64th Interval) and Theo Triantafyllidis (Self Portrait (Interior)) (© RISD Museum).

Fragmentos Rítmicos (Dionísio del Santo, oil on canvas, 1995) - access in augmented reality

David Hall, A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II, 1989-90. VR simulation presented at NEoN Festival, Dundee, Scotland, 2017. VR model by Rhoda Ellis, curated by Adam Lockhart (© Estate of David Hall/Rhoda Ellis/University of Dundee).

Perhaps the act of appropriation has an element of appreciation, but it is much more than that. Tutorship implies concern, but such response is not the only way (or the best one) to demonstrate care.

Map of the Third World's south-southeast island, 2011.