OH TO GET LOST WITHIN TIME - OR OUTSIDE OF.
TO FLOAT THROUGH THE UNIVERSE IN THE INSULA FAR, FAR AWAY.
THERE IS SO MUCH OF IT - UKNOWN.
THE NEBULOUS NATURE OF THE INSULA - A HAPPENING

                           
Space Kid is an outcasted entity, searching for a space that accepts her.         
               
Living as a Kuipernite in Alcyone, Space Kid never belonged, as her Kuipernite upbringing contrasted those of the Alcyonians. Space Kid yearned for a place that could be a home for wandering souls, and she rarely was welcomed by anyone other than other displaced entities.

 

Situated in Mare Tranquilitatis, or The Sea of Tranquillity, The Insula is a place for wandering souls, the hidden immigrants. It is a region dedicated to entities who feel displaced everywhere else in the universe. A place that is both stagnant and in constant flux, a liminal space for those stuck in limbo. 

The Insula is a happening rather than a physical space; a visual representation of what it may feel like to be on a journey with no set destination. 

She decides to embark on the journey to The Insula and upon arrival, is greeted by a strange yet familiar place. It is quiet, still, and seems simultaneously frozen in time and floating within time. Has she found the home for the wandering souls she was searching for?

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This is a story of displacement and disorientation. It is embedded in migration and citizenship, time and transportation. Through worldbuilding and narratives of a strange yet familiar fictional place, it reflects the decontextualisation of “third culture kids” -  people with multiple cultural contexts and identities who are unable to integrate into any group due to misaligning backgrounds and locations. Into the Insula is set in empty man-made rooms and spaces in limbo like the Top Star Drive-In mine dump in Central Johannesburg and Funda Community College in Diepkloof, both of which are liminal spaces left in a state of stagnation and uncertainty after their histories. It draws on space imagery, the history and representation of the Space race, the Moon landing of 1969 and interstellar transportation. Into The Insula is a narrative based on the imagery and imagination found in retrofuturism, a movement of optimistic prophecies of what the future would look like constructed by citizens of the past.

In these empty man-made spaces in the universe, one is given the physical and metaphorical space to exist and orientate.