PAKUI HARDWARE / TRANSACTIONS
February 12 – 22, 2016
images:
Pakui Hardware, Transactions, 2016. 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. Exhibition view at Podium, Oslo. Photo: Pakui Hardware
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.
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.
***
Pakui Hardware is the name (coined by curator
Alex Ross) for the collaborative artist duo Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius
Gelguda, which began in 2014. Solo shows of the artists’ duo include venues of
MUMOK, Vienna (forthcoming), Exo Exo, Paris (in collaboration with Fenêtre
Project) (2016), kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga (2015), Jenifer Nails,
Frankfurt (2014), Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius (2014), 321 Gallery,
Brooklyn, New York (2014), NADA New York (2014). Other latest projects include
Threads: A Phantasmagoria about Distance, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud Kaunas,
Lithuania, Popcorn, Pepsi, Petabytes: Intro, Cage, New York. The artists have
participated in selected group shows at Bid Project, Milan (forthcoming), Valentin,
Paris (2015), Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (2014), CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of
Art, New York (2014).
Alex Ross) for the collaborative artist duo Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius
Gelguda, which began in 2014. Solo shows of the artists’ duo include venues of
MUMOK, Vienna (forthcoming), Exo Exo, Paris (in collaboration with Fenêtre
Project) (2016), kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga (2015), Jenifer Nails,
Frankfurt (2014), Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius (2014), 321 Gallery,
Brooklyn, New York (2014), NADA New York (2014). Other latest projects include
Threads: A Phantasmagoria about Distance, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud Kaunas,
Lithuania, Popcorn, Pepsi, Petabytes: Intro, Cage, New York. The artists have
participated in selected group shows at Bid Project, Milan (forthcoming), Valentin,
Paris (2015), Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (2014), CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of
Art, New York (2014).
With support from Nordic-Baltic Mobility
Programme for Culture
Programme for Culture