Pakui Hardware

Since 2014, Neringa Černiauskaitė (born in 1984 in Klaipeda, Lithuania) and Ugnius Gelguda (born in 1977 in Vilnius, Lithuania) have been operating together as an artist duo under the label Pakui Hardware. This name derives from Pakui, the extremely quick servant of the Hawaiian fertility goddess Haumea. Legend has it that the children of the goddess were all born from different parts of her body. The fertility symbolism of this myth, based on fragmentation and acceleration, and the term hardware raise the question as to how today’s world determined by technical and economic rationality might still be based on myths that are constantly renewed – or even newly created.

Pakui Hardware are particularly interested in the close relationship between technology and economy. At the center of their work is the question how this relationship changes our real, physical and bodily worlds and thereby blurs the dividing line between the natural and the artificial worlds. “In all our projects, we test the real vs. the fake or the real vs. the more real—in a sense that we attempt to create a specific twist where this distinction is troubled.” (Pakui Hardware)