Peekskill, NY
2015
site-specific action, photographic documentation taken from weather balloon, Peekskill meteorite fragment
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Curators: Xavier Acarin & Roxana Fabius. A project commissioned for The Peekskill Project 6, and sponsored by The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.
Peekskill, NY was a site-specific action that sent a fragment of a meteorite that crashed into a red 1980 Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, NY on October 9th, 1992 back into space. Using a weather balloon and a vessel equipped with GPS and cameras programmed to take a photograph every 15 seconds, the fragment of the Peekskill meteorite that I purchased on eBay was launched back into space. Reaching the edge of Earth's atmosphere the weather balloon burst and, again the meteorite crashed back to Earth.
Futilely attempting to free the Peekskill meteorite from Earth's gravitational and market forces, the Peekskill meteorite now continues its 4.4 billion-year old journey as an artwork circulating within the art world.