The building of the primary school Komenského 1 in Trebišov in Eastern Slovakia has become an abandoned architecture in the recent years (the school building was sanitized in 2010). Last two years I have been systematically working with this place as a part of my urban explorations. I myself attended the school in the years 1988 – 1996 therefore I do not detach my own personal experiences connected with this place. They are intertwined with a documentation of a current status quo.
After deconstruction and dismantling of all the recyclable materials, interior and exterior equipment only a derelict skeleton was left. The only material that I found in the empty interior was located in the cabinet of humanities. Subsequently I projected few of found transparencies directly on the location. Using an analogue camera I took images of the transparencies again, this time using 35 mm transparency. Thus I created copies with a shift in colour – quasi patina in reference to paint on the walls.
The found slides – nowadays a redundant didactic tool – represent a certain ideology of the institution of the former school which after a forced abort of its period of service has been layered with a particular architecture. The projection in a new space animates the vanishing building, its micro-history, time, space, ideology and institution. Nowadays non-existing address of Komenského 1 is updated in the context of new spatial coordinates.

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