year: 2025
place: Prague
concept and intervention: Savka Marenić
photos: Nika Datiashvili
sound design: Jonáš Balcar
collaboration: UMPRUM
Lectors: Adina Voldrábová, Aneta Bočková, Tereza Melková, Milena Raičević, Jasmína Lustigová
What if a neglected public space became a place for celebration, imagination, and care?
For one day, a parking lot hidden under Nusle Bridge, at the corner of Oldřichova and Svatoplukova streets, was transformed into a public space for a collective dreaming. The
participants and inhabitants were invited to dream, write, draw, move, and play— exploring the space through imagination, gestures, and shared creativity. This participatory, performative installation is part of an ongoing artistic research project exploring how fiction and performative gestures can help reimagine and recover urban public spaces, while strengthening their communal potential. It follows the project Whisper in the Valley, an interactive audio walk that used the fiction of the Cloak to uncover hidden stories of the Nusle Valley.
The fairy cloak is just a piece of fabric—without body, name, or gender. Yet it becomes a symbol of connection, care, and exploration, not only with the space itself but also within ourselves.
The installation is also part of the development of an upcoming book, The Fairy Cloak, a speculative fiction work that blends collective imagination, performative events, narrative, and ecological awareness. Through personal, collective, and more-than-human perspectives, the Cloak invites readers, participants, and residents into a sensory engagement with overlooked and vulnerable spaces in the Nusle Valley. It demonstrates how small gestures, imagination, and shared creation can transform our perception of these places.
The book embraces a community-based approach, inviting local residents to co-create narratives and deepen their connection with the environments and spaces around them.
The fairy cloak is just a piece of fabric—without body, name, or gender. Yet it becomes a symbol of connection, care, and exploration, not only with the space itself but also within ourselves.
The installation is also part of the development of an upcoming book, The Fairy Cloak, a speculative fiction work that blends collective imagination, performative events, narrative, and ecological awareness. Through personal, collective, and more-than-human perspectives, the Cloak invites readers, participants, and residents into a sensory engagement with overlooked and vulnerable spaces in the Nusle Valley. It demonstrates how small gestures, imagination, and shared creation can transform our perception of these places.
The book embraces a community-based approach, inviting local residents to co-create narratives and deepen their connection with the environments and spaces around them.
