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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.

Voyager 0 - GMC Motorhome 1977

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.

Voyager 0 - Burning Man Map

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.

Voyager 0 - Europe Map

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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Join the growing list of amazing people who, in different ways, are making this project a reality:

Voyager Ø contributors

Chronos Cube

Chronos Cube is an artistic project that will store all the sequences recorded or collected by Voyager Ø mission.

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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.

More info:

www.chronoscube.com

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"The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures; if we are to avoid them, we must understand that they are possible."

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

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Henrique Frazão is a portuguese artist and climate activist.


The fear of amnesia led him, from an early age, to want to record and keep much of what he saw, learned, thought and felt. Thus photography played an increasingly role, being used as a medium to immortalize concepts.


Since 2017, he has been developing a time capsule where he intends to exhaustively archive sequentially recorded images. The clash with data from climate science, in 2018, made him see this project with an even greater urgency. In recent years he has been preparing an ambitious project called Voyager Ø which was launched at Burning Man 2023.


The world as we know will disappear in a few decades.

Let some memory remain.

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