Três Casas para a Humanidade: Casa de Ar

The HOUSE OF AIR project is the third in a trilogy of installations (HOUSE OF WATER, HOUSE OF TIME and HOUSE OF AIR).

CASA DE AR problematises what is already the present and will dominate humanity’s future – the ever-increasing virtuality of our lives. From social networks to video games, we are moving towards a progressively more virtualised world (e.g. immersive experiences). If contemporaneity is already largely virtual, the preponderance of virtual (as opposed to real) experience will tend to grow.

This new domain of life in society – virtuality, let’s call it AR – is dominated by a restricted set of interlocutors, private monopolies that obey other interests, not necessarily the public interest. The CASA DE AR project addresses the need to urbanise AR, the whole of virtual experience that is taking on increasing importance in contemporary times.

CASA DE AR is an immersive project in collaboration between visual artist Rui Soares Costa, architect Pedro Campos Costa and multimedia artist, performer and choreographer João Galante, carried out as part of the GARANTIR CULTURA Programme – Portuguese Republic – Ministry of Culture.