A TRAVEL TO THE PALA ISLAND

The action that consisted of a guided travel in search of a mythical island Pala, was a result of an invite by Kunsthalle Bratislava to give a new, artistic life to a common bus stop.  Based on a book The Island by Aldous Huxley, the action was an attempt to find the utopic island of happiness and harmony in Bratislava city, in the middle of it's urban lifestyle and historic scars. The travel to the Pala Island is my own reconstruction of Huxley's symbolics: instead of building a better society in remote area, we should look for it in the place, we live in. The action started with announcement of a guided tour on a light-box of the bus stop and ended with a construction of Pala station that participants of the tour found on the same place they departed from.

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