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Museum without Walls

Museum without Walls

Museum without Walls

Third World flag.

Stratigraphic Turbidities exhibition, by Yuri Frimeza - Museu de Arte do Rio, 2013 (© Wilton Montenegro)

The Space Expanding Room: AFAAB in VR - The virtual Ant Farm Antioch Art Building is a digital space constructed from 1971 archival architect’s drawings. In this virtual space, avatars can meet, chat, graffiti, attend events, and make art, just as students were once able to interact in the real space, before it was abandoned in 2008. An AFAAB production. Concept, curating, and direction by Catalina Alvarez and Liz Flyntz. Construction and design by Ty Clapsaddle.

Dossiers, Magazines, and Reports

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

Phi Books presentation at the University of Copenhagen.

Venus I of Willendorf cast, lost during 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.

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).

Torre (Heide Liebermann, 1981) - access in augmented reality

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

Dja guata porã is a saying in the Guarani language that means “walk well” and “walk together.” It is also the title of an exhibition held at the Rio Art Museum between May 2017 and March 2018.

Dedicated to the presence of indigenous people in the Rio de Janeiro state, the exhibition further developed the Museum’s agenda of shedding light on local history and culture from a multiple and contemporary perspective. However, more than that, it attempted to distend and expand the position from which the Museum builds its vision.

The exhibition was conceived based on a series of visits and open meetings, which sought to establish public dialogues and engage representatives from local indigenous villages (among which Guarani, Pataxó and Puri, in addition to the multiethnic community of Aldeia Maracanã) in the construction of their own narratives.

Aligned with the mission of new museology, this collective curatorial process demonstrates how efforts to unsettle the museum must go beyond challenging stereotypical constructions of the other and their cultures. It is also necessary to open institutional devices to conflict and alterity, thereby transforming the very structures of museological work.

Dja Guata Porã is here shown in the perspective of other projects coordinated by curator Clarissa Diniz that play with the permeability of institutional collections and the kinds of histories and subjects they seek to produce.

Dja Guata Porã

Ongoing