Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Participant
etoy.CORPORATION, CH
etoy.CORPORATION, Mission Eternity, 2008 © Manifesta 7/Wolfgang Träger.
Shipping container, test environment for time capsule exhibited at Ex Alumix in Bolzano
Five members of the Swiss collective etoy.CORPORATION lived and worked inside a shipping container to encapsulate their own data for Mission Eternity (missioneternity.org), a digital cult of the dead. With this project, etoy.CORPORATION questioned the role of storage technology, archiving strategies and loss in the digital age.