Crater X


Since 2006 Faivovich & Goldberg have dedicated themselves to Campo del Cielo, a region in northern Argentina that experienced a meteorite impact about 4,000 years ago. Crater 10, a crater at Campo del Cielo that has been extensively studied since the 1960s, serves as the jumping-off point for the proposed land art project: a 1:2 reconstruction of the crater in BOKU’s experimental garden. The artists depict the crater’s topographical strata in the form of sitting steps, while a beam of light in an acrylic glass tube illustrates the meteorite’s trajectory. Crater X not only serves to visually and spatially represent the scientific research carried out into the meteorite impact at Campo del Cielo; its main purpose is, in fact, to be a space where BOKU students can meet and discuss ideas and lectures can be held.