Voyager Ø
A timeship that will travel the Earth to record, collect and archive sequences of our collapsing world.
Voyager Ø is an artistic mission that aims to travel the world, recording and collecting images of everything worth keeping forever, which will be physically archived in a time capsule called Chronos Cube.
Unlike Voyager 2 and 1, whose mission was to photograph the solar system planets furthest from Earth, Ø will travel across our planet to record what will change drastically or disappear with climate change, before it's too late.
Built in 1977, the same year the Voyager probes were launched, a GMC Motorhome converted to electric is the vehicle for this mission.
Voyager Ø mission was launched at Burning Man 2023, Black Rock City, Nevada, United States of America.
A fictional journey into the future year 2077, on a planet in collapse, with a society surviving to difficult conditions with ingenuity and radical self-reliance, but still highly dependent on fossil fuels. In this almost post-apocalyptic setting, this project had the opportunity to lay the foundation for a highly participatory collection of images that will integrate the Chronos Cube.
After Burning Man, phase 1 of the mission will start in Sagres, in the extreme far southwest of Europe. In the first year it will tour Portugal, south of the Tagus river.
Phase 2 will be carried out throughout the European Union, with several partnerships with institutions related with memory, archive, time capsules, space exploration, the Voyager program, climate change and collapse.
Then it will return to Portugal to complete the remaining 198 Portuguese municipalities. At the end of phase 3, a major exhibition will be held at a museum of contemporary art. Afterwards, the project will move on to the other continents.
To help us achieve all these ambitious goals, any support or donation is greatly appreciated.
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Chronos Cube
Chronos Cube is an artistic project that will store all the sequences recorded or collected by Voyager Ø mission.
An archive of humanity and the planet we call home.
All the images, registered and gathered in a world in imminent collapse, will be deposited in different places on planet Earth. A duplicate of all cubes will later be sent to space, as a time capsule, similar to the Golden Record included aboard of Voyager probes.
To serve as memory to possible survivors of our species or for any other extraterrestrial being that might have the ability to see.
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