Pakui Hardware
Hesitant Hand. Automated Efficiency
Thu, 27 Apr 2017, 7 pm
Pakui Hardware is the label that Neringa Černiauskaitë (*1984, Lithuania) und Ugnius Gelguda (*1977, Lithuania) run together. They investigate the interaction of materials, technology and bodies as well as the economical forces behind them. Their arrangements, consisting of synthetic materials that can also include organisms or machines, encourage speculative visions of the future. Within these visions, natural and artificial increasingly merge into each other and man is merely one of many participants. Such post-human scenarios are central to their lecture-performance Hesitant Hand. Automated Efficiency.
Over the past years we have been gradually delegating our routine tasks to our tools: the private environment and the industry is becoming increasingly automated, when people both at home and at work act among programmable non-human beings. In contemporary theory this automation was named a fourth technological revolution, when machines operate with each other in a network without a visible human intervention. Mechanical human work is substituted here by the robotic choreography, while the man took more virtual role in the system by being responsible for programming and providing connectivity and energy supply for their automated colleagues. It is an autonomous ecosystem, a post-human collective which is rapidly expanding by including more and more mechanical beings.
An edition has been released as part of the exhibition, available exclusively to Kunstverein Freiburg members.