#gelguda

We made some editions for mumok:

http://www.pakuihardware.org/index.php?/ugnius-gelguda-with-neringa-cerniauskaite/transactions-podium-oslo/

TRANSACTIONS by Pakui Hardware Solo show at Podium, Oslo

Materials: UV prints on PVC Pentaprint, cutouts from images selected from NASA digital archive, spring clamps, Mini Magic Wand Humidifier, plastic cups, USB battery charger, edible pigment (Sky Blue), water, germination containers, neon, print on transparent sticker

This show can be seen as a cube. Not a very large one. Part of it is immersed under the crust of earth, beneath the ocean’s floor; the other part is filled with water of extreme cold. And there is a chunk of a fat cable – the one connecting the North Americans and Europeans attached to their shiny screens via the so called Internet. It is a cube of transactions. Flows of information run through the guts of the cable, which is surrounded and clothed with extremophiles. High resolution images of the surfaces of celestial bodies move side by side with cat videos in the traffic of zeros and ones. Or these surfaces are actually close-ups of bacteria bodies? Inversions are inevitable in transactions. Intraterrestrials know it better than anyone else – their quiet life in the cracks of rocks beneath the floor of the ocean has been recently disturbed by the nosy scientists. They are too now put in transactions – inversed extraterrestrials that have not meant to be discovered, captured and became profile pictures. Notions of life, and space, and survival redefined. Again.

Oh, and there’s plastic. Loads of it.

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Special thanks to Vytautas Volbekas

http://artviewer.org/fenetreproject-and-pakui-hardware-at-exo-exo/

Pakui Hardware in collaboration with Fenêtreproject

Exhibition title: Dawning

Venue: Exo Exo, Paris, France

After a few hours she dozed off and dreamed of bacterial buildups inside the bodies within the trench braves. Biofilms, what most people thought of as slime: little industrious bacterial cities reducing these corpses, these once-living giant evolutionary offspring, back to their native materials. Lovely polysaccharide architectures being laid down within the interior channels, the gut and lungs, the heart and arteries and eyes and brain, the bacteria giving up their wild ways and becoming citified, recycling all; great garbage dump cities of bacteria, cheerfully ignorant of philosophy and history and the character of the dead hulks they now reclaimed.

Bacteria made us. They take us back in the end. Welcome home.

Greg Bear, Darwin’s Radio, 1999

http://artviewer.org/fenetreproject-and-pakui-hardware-at-exo-exo/

Pakui Hardware in collaboration with Fenêtreproject

Exhibition title: Dawning

Venue: Exo Exo, Paris, France

After a few hours she dozed off and dreamed of bacterial buildups inside the bodies within the trench braves. Biofilms, what most people thought of as slime: little industrious bacterial cities reducing these corpses, these once-living giant evolutionary offspring, back to their native materials. Lovely polysaccharide architectures being laid down within the interior channels, the gut and lungs, the heart and arteries and eyes and brain, the bacteria giving up their wild ways and becoming citified, recycling all; great garbage dump cities of bacteria, cheerfully ignorant of philosophy and history and the character of the dead hulks they now reclaimed.

Bacteria made us. They take us back in the end. Welcome home.

Greg Bear, Darwin’s Radio, 1999

Pakui Hardware in collaboration with Fenêtreproject

Exhibition title: Dawning

Venue: Exo Exo, Paris, France

After a few hours she dozed off and dreamed of bacterial buildups inside the bodies within the trench braves. Biofilms, what most people thought of as slime: little industrious bacterial cities reducing these corpses, these once-living giant evolutionary offspring, back to their native materials. Lovely polysaccharide architectures being laid down within the interior channels, the gut and lungs, the heart and arteries and eyes and brain, the bacteria giving up their wild ways and becoming citified, recycling all; great garbage dump cities of bacteria, cheerfully ignorant of philosophy and history and the character of the dead hulks they now reclaimed.

Bacteria made us. They take us back in the end. Welcome home.

Greg Bear, Darwin’s Radio, 1999

Pakui Hardware in collaboration with Fenêtreproject

Exhibition title: Dawning

Venue: Exo Exo, Paris, France

After a few hours she dozed off and dreamed of bacterial buildups inside the bodies within the trench braves. Biofilms, what most people thought of as slime: little industrious bacterial cities reducing these corpses, these once-living giant evolutionary offspring, back to their native materials. Lovely polysaccharide architectures being laid down within the interior channels, the gut and lungs, the heart and arteries and eyes and brain, the bacteria giving up their wild ways and becoming citified, recycling all; great garbage dump cities of bacteria, cheerfully ignorant of philosophy and history and the character of the dead hulks they now reclaimed.

Bacteria made us. They take us back in the end. Welcome home.

Greg Bear, Darwin’s Radio, 1999

PAKUI HARDWARE, Crave that mineral, 2015. Magnesium and aluminium alloy rims, silicone, Fiji mineral water, edible Sky Blue pigment, PVC hose pipe, water pump, plastic liquid container, LED lighting system

Crave that Mineral installation winds around as a narrative, or a band, or a loop: from the invention of digital computer coding (which appeared through weaving that is woven in the windows of this building), to synthetic life forms that synthetic biologists seek to create through programing and design. In addition, in the middle of this loop runs a material which bounds the organic nature of human and its environment – minerals. A system that constantly fills itself with and lacks of minerals. Magnesium – one of many minerals – is the most abundant element both in human body as well as in its surroundings. Alloy rims are no less organic magnesium bodies shaped through design as function than are human bodies, through which magnesium runs via liquids. The interweaving of human with its organic environment keeps dissolving, until synthetic life forms gain autonomous lives and ecosystems.

Threads: Fantasmagoria about Distance, group show curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, KAUNAS BIENNIAL, 2015