Artist Interview: Pors & Rao | Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014

Soren Pors, b. 1974 in Esbjerg, Denmark.
Aparna Rao, b. 1978 in Bangalore, India.
Pors & Rao live and work in Bangalore, India.

Aparna Rao and Søren Pors crossed paths in 2002, during a two-year research scholarship study in Italy. Since 2004, the two have been working collaboratively, and have since developed a multi-disciplinary art practice involving mechanical and electronic engineering, programming and manufacturing processes.

In 2009 they began to show their works at ARCO Madrid, Spain; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway; and at the 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukoka. They have also exhibited their work at the De Caja De Burgos, Burgos; Gallery SKE, Bangalore; and Hilger Next, Vienna.

In this video, Pors & Rao discuss how they build mechanical creatures that invoke in the viewers emotions and reactions reserved for living beings. These objects peep, hide, tire, fall; their behaviour often responds to the audience as well.