Gakona is a small village in the center of Alaska. Gakona, that’s a few houses, a service station, a post office – and the American research program HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program). Inspired by the work of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), researchers there are studying the possibility of the wireless transmission of electricity by means of ionizing the high strata of the atmosphere. But because of its military funding and the phantasms associated with electromagnetism since the 19th century, HAARP has also become an inexhaustible source of rumours: Climatic disruption, influence on human behavior, etc.
Gakona at the Palais de Tokyo lies at the intersection of fact and rumor, reality and phantasm, science and imagination. It is made up of four solo exhibitions: Micol Assaël, Ceal Floyer, Laurent Grasso and Roman Signer.
