2016 — Cargo
Cargo is an installation that aims to revisit our perspective on everyday goods. It is an exploration, focused on the complex system of transported materials and objects around the globe, which essentially enable our living standards.
The idea of the project is for objects to become the collected traces of the shipping system, through which they’re going in between production and consumption, from an Icelandic viewpoint.
The pieces are designed to be the carriers of their own story, revealing the journey of two representatives of the Icelandic economy: aluminium and fish, across borders and continents to their destination. At the same time, they objectify the complex mechanisms of consumerism.
The project consists of a short movie, unveiling the industrial aesthetics of the shipping industry, and a collection of four artifacts made from cod leather, aluminium oxide, and aluminium, as well as the illustrated journey of a regular aluminium can from it’s mining in Brazil via smelting in Iceland to the Netherlands, processing in Germany and Great Britain, back to the Icelandic supermarket.
The project is a collaboration with Björn Steinar Blumenstein.
The idea of the project is for objects to become the collected traces of the shipping system, through which they’re going in between production and consumption, from an Icelandic viewpoint.
The pieces are designed to be the carriers of their own story, revealing the journey of two representatives of the Icelandic economy: aluminium and fish, across borders and continents to their destination. At the same time, they objectify the complex mechanisms of consumerism.
The project consists of a short movie, unveiling the industrial aesthetics of the shipping industry, and a collection of four artifacts made from cod leather, aluminium oxide, and aluminium, as well as the illustrated journey of a regular aluminium can from it’s mining in Brazil via smelting in Iceland to the Netherlands, processing in Germany and Great Britain, back to the Icelandic supermarket.
The project is a collaboration with Björn Steinar Blumenstein.
Concept, DesignJohanna Seelemann and Björn Steinar Blumenstein
Special Thanks toGarðar Eyjólfsson, Thomas Pausz
Context
Johanna Seelemann and Björn Steinar Blumenstein
Special Thanks toGarðar Eyjólfsson, Thomas Pausz
ContextIceland Academy of the Arts, 201
