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Klaus Pfeiffer's Daedalus flight
October 23, 1960 YVES KLEIN did his famous
"UN HOMME DANS L´ESPACE" in Paris.
June 2001, while participating at the
"INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM - ON THE EDGES -
Japan & the Eastern culture in discussion
with the West" in LITHUANIA,
curated by SAULIUS VALIUS, Lithuania &
sponsored by "EWALD HEIN FOUNDATION", Germany,
Ay-O from Japan asked
Klaus Pfeiffer, Greece
...if he would LIKE TO FLY!?...
...so leaflets were printed:
*Klaus Pfeiffer, Naxos/Cyclades, Greece*
FLIES!!!
He will fly Friday June 22 - 12:16 am
for EMMETT WILLIAMS
Nida, Lithuania 2001
took place next day as announced on the
DUNES OF NIDA!
The weather on that special day:
Northwesterly wind 6-7 Beaufort
Overcast - Rain
Visibility 600 - 700 m
Flight assistant: FRANCISCO FELIPE, Spain
Camerateam: YOSHIKO MARUYAMA, Japan
Photographer: DIANA RADAVICIUTE, Lithuania
- the flight -
- the landing –
FOR EMMETT WILLIAMS!
a)Length of the strides
on the dune: 2,20 m each
b)Depth of the hole, where
taking off: 0,50 m
c)Trajectory: 4,00 m
d)Height: 1,50 m
e) In: 1,2 sec
flies in a speed of v = 29 m/sec
-BUT FLUXUS IS STILL IN FLUX
LET US HOPE THE FLUX REMAINS
IN FLUXUS - Emmett Williams
- AFTER THE FLIGHT -
(Being in ZERO GRAVITY)
Nida/Lithuania, June 2001
Copyright 2009-2012 Klaus Pfeiffer: Artist, Sculptor, Painter, Naxos, Greece. All rights reserved.
620 Marco Sanudo St
Castro
Naxos 84300
ph: +30 22850 24893
alt: +30 6948 181750
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