| Duration: | 45 minutes |
Non-human regeneration makes humans scratch their heads: how to regenerate cells for technological beings such as us? The lecture will keep you on your toes, guiding you through pathways of regenerative medicine, bio-capitalism, shamanism and immortal sea creatures.
‘My name is T. Dohrnii. I’m an itty-bitty jellyfish, but I have a secret power no humans have.’ – so the Japanese scientist sings swinging his head with a jellyfish hat on. Longevity and tissue engineering are equally rational and esoteric, like that blue blood of horseshoe crabs, which finds itself partly in contemporary medicine and partly in their armoured bodies.
Pakui Hardware is an artist collective established in 2014 by Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda. The artists are based between Vilnius and Berlin. Their latest solo shows include Avoider of Disorder, Future gallery, Mexico City (2019); Extrakorporal, Bielefelder Kunstverein (DE), The Return of Sweetness, Tenderpixel gallery, London (all 2018); Creatures of Habit, Trafó Gallery, Budapest; SIC, Helsinki, and Artissima, Turin, IT; On Demand, EXILE, Berlin (all 2017); Vanilla Eyes, MUMOK, Vienna (2016); Lost Heritage, Kim?, Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2015); The Metaphysics of the Runner, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius and 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (both 2014). Among many others, the artists participated in group shows at Kunsthalle Basel, CH; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; MAXXI, Rome; 13th Baltic Triennial at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Museum of Art in Lodz (PL); La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Domaine Pommery, Reims, (FR); Kunstverein Braunschweig and Kunstverein Freiburg (DE); 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, BR; National Gallery of Art, Vilnius; Zacheta National Gallery Showroom, Warsaw. Upcoming projects include solo exhibition at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK) (DE).
