Museum without Walls

Since the community was being used as a construction site for the Olympic Park - one of the strategies used to pressure residents and compel families to accept the proposal of the City of Rio de Janeiro -, the sculpture “Suporte dos Males” and part of the sculpture “Espaço Ocupa e Casa da Dona Conceição” were destroyed by tractors.

David Hall, TV Interruptions: The Installation, 1971. Original installation plans (© Estate of David Hall/University of Dundee).

Donation of pieces from the Museum of Removals' collection to the National History Museum (© Museum of Removals collection).

The processes that culminated in the independence of the former European colonies affected disciplines that, directly or indirectly, legitimized colonial power. The New Museology movement provoked actions that brought the museum closer to the community, making it possible to include groups related to the safeguarded collections within the institutions.

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

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

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.

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

contidonãocontido exhibition - Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães, 2010.

Rigor Mortis - In this exhibition, the museum is turned into a horror movie setting, where the feeling of reality is distorted: logic falters, the body is shredded, inert objects become animated - life and death, dream and reality get confused. Creation & research: Renato Pera. 3D art: Caio Fazolin. Collaboration: Jye O'Sullivan and Marcos Pavão.

DiMoDA 3.0, 2018. SIGGRAPH Asia partnership.