Felix Kiessling

Erddurchstechung CH–IT
Oasi Monumento Natural Palude di Torre Flavia (Italy) – Emablse El Yeso (Chile), 2019
permanent installation, 2 metal poles, each 260cm, fine art inkjet print

Thank you Mario Iannelli, artq13, Patrocinio del Comune di Cerveteri e Ladispoli and Ximena Moreno, Matucana100 and Goethe Institut Chile.

Erddurchstechung is an idea. It is free from material laws and physical restraints. It has no rule to follow. It can do the impossible. For Erddurchstechung, Felix Kiessling travels to two distant points of the world, each time anchoring a metal pole in the ground. Both poles are angled and precisely calibrated to form one common line and imaginary connection.

Erddurchstechung BA–BER
La Ira del Dios, Buenos Aires / Matthäikirchplatz, Berlin 2018
temporal installation, 2 metal poles, each 260cm, fine art inkjet print
The project was part of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires 2018
Felix Kiessling installed one metal pole in Buenos Aires, Argentinia, and one pole in Berlin, Germany. Both poles were angled and precisely gauged to form one single line. With 2,5 meters of material on both sides, the Vektor was able to overcome thousands of kilometers of distance and connect. Tangental angle to earth surface: 43.9058° / celestial direction (from centre of the earth): BerlinNorth–East 54.8525° and Buenos Aires South–West 37.2234°

Thank you Kevin McElvaney for documenting, Jan Philipp Pade for your mathematical help. This project was part of ‘Die Informale: Videoramas’ part of Übermut Project, an initiative of visitBerlin and Hamburg Marketing, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

Erddurchstechung
Rangipo Desert, New Zealand & Parque Nacional de Cabañeros, Spain, 2017
intervention, 2 metal poles, each 230cm, fine art inkjet print

For Erddurchstechung (global piercing) Felix Kiessling traveled to two places located precisely on opposite sides of the globe – namely the Rangipo desert in New Zealand and the Parque Nacional de Cabañeros in Spain. At these antipodean points, he vertically anchored a metal pipe in the ground to form one common line. He created an imaginary link between two positions that are furthest apart from each other. (Lydia Ahrens)
Thanks for your support: Holly Paynter, Kim Annan and Marietta Auras.

Der Vektor (Erdserie) / Vector (Earth Piercings), 2012
Berlin, Tegler Forst - Krasnoe Znamya, St.Petersburg, Russia, 2012

Berlin, Tempelhof - Galera, Ibiza, Spain, 2012
"The Vektor cuts right through the interior of the sphere all this is standing on. It‘s piercing through and protruding out on the other side, establishing real connections between 2 places on planet Earth."
backmade with Lay Theme