Aula: Area of Universal Latency

The Area of Universal Latency (Aula) belongs to an intertwined system of specific sites rooted in the historical reality of the environment located in Northwestern Slovakia. Its dominant feature is a building – the House, a sort of family monument for the author, a formerly romantic spot that is now a miasmic and deserted ruin surrounded by a rotting apple orchard. Uncoordinated and external human or natural intervention organically transform Aula and constantly update it. Aula thus functions within its own, strange, post-human, latently apocalyptic biosphere. The reality of the cycle of birth and decay, which are always under way at the Aula, means utopia – utopia not in the sense of an impossible future, but utopia as the present that we live in. (MFFK Febiofest)