Lifted only by the sun and the energies of the atmosphere – without lithium, solar panels, helium or fossil fuels – Tomás Saraceno's flying sculpture, a synthesis of art, science and environmental activism, took off on 28 January 2020 at Salinas Grandes, in the province Jujuy, Argentina.
Aerocene Pacha and her pilot Leticia Marques, could set six world records in both the ‘Female’ and ‘General’ category (monitored by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) for:
Distance: 1,7 km carried by the winds
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes on air free from fossil fuels
Altitude: 272.1 m lifted by the sun
Fly with Aerocene Pacha
28 January 2020, Salinas Grandes, Jujuy, Argentina
Tomás Saraceno
* 1973 Argentina, lives in Berlin, Germany.
For over a decade, he has been imagining a world free from borders and fossil fuels. In this age of climate emergency, his work envisions a new era of our earth that emphasises the atmosphere, called the Aerocene.
This record-making flight could be experienced via live-stream at aerocene.org and live-streamed to Seoul for the band BTS, who commissioned this work for their world-wide art project CONNECT, BTS.
More information:
https://pacha.aerocene.org/
Saraceno’s film of the flight is shown at Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, 31 January – 22 March 2020