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
Pakui Hardware presented two projects in a former post-office building in Kaunas that was built in 1931, and is a part of architectural heritage.
