Europa Project Lander_Prototype 1 – 2008

Europa is a satellite of Jupiter. It is the third planet that humans should live in the future. Europa project is the plan to send an artwork to Europa before human beings or something human-made arrive. It's not meaning of sending picture or sculpture to the planet, but sending a device with only a function that can be sent. In the history, Art has been flourishing after resolving necessary issues to live for humans. If we send an artwork to the planet before humans arrive, what will happen in there when humans immigrate?How will this behavior affect our future in there?

I also intended to remind the viewer of the meaning and value of contemporary art. This project provokes a cynical underlying question:

‘Why should we do this?’