David Hall, TV Interruptions: The Installation, 1971. Schematic showing 3D construction of Hantarex monitor in Maya software by Sang Hun Yu (© University of Dundee/Estate of David Hall).
JOÃO ME-PRO-METEO, Um-PEXi (Elpídio Malaquias, synthetic enamel on chipboard, 1992) - 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?
David Hall, TV Interruptions: The Installation, 1971. VR setup at Besides the Screen Conference, Kings College, London, 2018 (© Adam Lockhart).
Envensão nova urso con cachorro (Elpídio Malaquias, synthetic enamel on chipboard, 1992) - access in augmented reality
Map of the exhibition route across the Museum of Removals (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).
Phi Books (© Antonopoulou & Dare).
Perceptions of the real in museums run the risk of creating a reality of fragmented discourses that, when removed from their original context, prevent us from perceiving an another reality, entirely diverse from our own, building a distorted image of the "other".
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.
Third World encyclopedia.