Carnayo

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University of the Aegean | Department of Products and Systems Design (2013)
Created by: Karaoglou Vanessa, Larozas Frank, Rapakoulia Klio, Sagioglou Savvas

This work is part of a large commission that is a public artwork portrait of a place, for the Petrie Museum UCL in London UK. For the island of Syros, it has been defined as the shipbuilding sector.

Through documenting shipbuilders’ movements, we designed an interactive story about the industry, through the lens of the man as a machine.

The exhibition was a one-night pop-up museum, named "Carnayo" after the island's shipyard.

Participants were encouraged to engage physically with the structures created, and discover stories of the ship laborers, which are about movement and industry.

This installation is a pendulum, which consists of three weights, each one free to swing back and forth when displaced from its resting equilibrium position. It is meant to represent the decay of the island's shipbuilding industry through time; swinging slowly between abstraction and realism.

The following is also an interactive installation. Participants were welcomed to use the brushes and the paint provided and draw on the wooden board, mimicking the shipyard workers painting a boat.

An archive table was created consisting of 15 small tools used in shipbuilding. These tools were lying around in the shipyard, abandoned and were collected during site research.