AstroArtist of the Month - Federico Delfrati (2 of 4)

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Feb 10

2016

by Andrew Fazekas

Published: Wednesday, February 10 2016 01:34

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This work consists out of a 24 hours long performance about astronomical observation.

Within the four walls of a hotel room, I followed for 24 hours the movement of the star ‘Vega’ in the sky with the help of a computerized telescope (telescopes that can be programmed to lock on and follow any celestial body for as long as needed).
Using the telescope as a tool to spot where Vega would be at any given moment i marked the star’s path around me in the room with post-its.
Each post-it contained the time of the day/night and the degree of its angle related to our four Cardinal Points.

Alongside this tracking project i created a journal of observation for the entirety of the performance.

Each note corresponds to one degree of rotation of planet Earth. The journal ends at 360°: 24 hours after the beginning of the performance.
Within this journal i collected the entirety of thoughts and actions that accompanied me during this journey and the struggle of the infinitesimally small human dimension to keep up with cosmic scales and rhythms.