KAVENGA is the name of the twin types of sailing yacht that Mr. Deutsche built for four years for his trip around the world, which actually launched from the Seogwipo port of Jeju Island on March 8, 2012. The video recorded the seven-day process of moving the yacht to the port, assembling the parts, and launching it. In the 2 channel video the left shows what was seen from Mr. Deutsche’s internal view, whereas the right is about making processes viewed from an outsiders’ perspective taken by the artist. The German national ship KAVENGA, built in Seogwipo, was shipwrecked by the typhoon Bolaven (2012) while waiting to be registered as a Korean ship in order to sail in the sea of Jeju Island. KAVENGA, in this way, has become a symbol of man-made disaster occurring in the name of natural disaster. KAVENGA, in Polynesian, means “sailing following the paths of the stars.”
