INSÒLIT Festival of Ephemeral Interventions in Palma de Mallorca

‘’Tell me a secret’

Shh! Watch out! The patio walls have ears! The patio has always been conceived as the central point of the building; the place where opinions are exchanged and anecdotes are told. A patio is much more than an open space; it's a place that is good for meeting up.
We invite you to come into the "TELL ME A SECRET" booths: a different way of communicating with others, meeting people and telling that secret you never dared to tell anyone straight to their face. But be careful, these individual booths are randomly connected. You never know who you might be talking to.
Would you dare to tell us a secret?

‘’Melodías del viento’’

Palma's rural landscape is characterised by old windmills that once made it a productive and dynamic territory. Over the years, new technology took their place, leaving them destined to abandonment and in ruins.
However, the mobilisation of the neighbours in defence of the windmills led the City Council to draft a Restoration Plan in order to reassert the value of these elements, suggesting new uses for them that could promote rural tourism in the Pla de Sant Jordi area.
The aim of this installation is to pay tribute to the windmills of Palma, celebrating their recognition as a genuine symbol of Mallorcan culture by constructing new outlooks on this invention. From now on the windmills are open to a reinvention of their roles and meanings in our imagination.
Why not think of them, for example, as musical mills?

‘’Picarols’’
The patio door opens and all our senses begin to transport us through time and space: What can you see? What can you feel? What can you touch? What scents does it evoke?
We're entering a new space where the rural landscape of the countryside features merges with the architectural beauty of the city's stately palaces.
The red colour scheme of the agricultural land, the yellowish cloisters, the blue tones of the vineyards throughout the plain and the green olive trees of la Serra de Tramuntana clothe the architectural backdrop to recreate the scene developing the features.
Plunge into this bucolic landscape and dance to the beat of the sleigh bells, incorporating you as an essential component of the rural scene.

‘’Se abre el telón’’
A certain magic is created when a theatre curtain lifts for the first time...
That's when we see and appreciate what is hidden behind it. Before our very eyes opens a space we must adapt to. New elements and people moving inside the space appear and when we come into contact with them, they help us to understand its set-up. The simple game of interaction gradually reveals this new place.  
Perhaps the light and shade piercing the curtains, the summer air and the sound of the ropes moving as if they were on a sailing boat... will transform this patio into your favourite Mediterranean scene, by playing at being the puppet in the scene and the puppeteer of everything else at the same time.