Ruimtevaart

Natasja van Kampen presents her sound installation ‘Hello from the Children of Planet Earth’. In 1977, Voyager 1 was launched into space, bound for an unknown destination. The spacecraft is still traveling through space, carrying an audio recording of sounds from Earth. Nearly fifty years later the sounds from back then ring out more like a cry for help than the originally intended proud representation of our planet. This sound installation, lasting approximately ten minutes, offers a way to view Earth through the eyes of those who have never been here; in an absurd attempt to introduce ‘Planet Earth’ to potential extraterrestrial life, we welcome ‘them’ in 55 different languages.