COMING SOON
Anna Franke · Ankita Shah · Diane Giraud · George Shaw · Guy Ben-Ary · Ivo Nikić · James Newitt · Katya Ev · Mohammed Chiba · Nany · Samar Khan · SPHERE · Renea Behluli · RnA Studio · Aishwarya Kumar · Suruchi Pawar
“Modernity is the incessant creation of hybrids. Understanding the world requires tracing associations between humans, nonhumans, and machines.”
— Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern
“Music begins where the possibilities of language end.”
— Jean Sibelius, speaking to music’s power beyond spoken or written articulation
The Stage Rabbit Pavilion joins the 7th edition of The Wrong Biennale by expanding the frame of inquiry beyond AI to consider how intelligence, language, and presence are mediated, trained, and transmitted under the current acceleration of digital and networked conditions. Stage Rabbit’s engagement with gestures and encounters—embodied, hybrid, and diasporic—serves as an entry point to examine how such practices are reframed, displaced, or intensified in digital contexts and under machinic logics that increasingly shape cultural production.
While the Biennale foregrounds the artistic side of artificial intelligence, our pavilion treats AI less as a tool and more as a context—one that collides with performance traditions, corporeal knowledge, and posthumanist critiques of what intelligence can mean – and looks at how it affects practices rather than form alone. The pavilion resists narrow dualisms of human versus machine, instead opening a living site where artists reimagine intelligence, training, and collaboration beyond anthropocentric frames. While the focus of the programme remains on the processes and works of the artists of Stage Rabbit, we also bring to stage the practices, archives, and events of artists associated with the studio in varying capacities.
Background
Works of Guy Ben-Ary, such a CellF and Music for a Surrogate Performer examine how analogue networks continue to challenge the discourse that artificial intelligence and networked systems reconfigure performance, visual art, and language, intersecting with ontologies rooted in presence and embodiment. Rather than reinforcing phobias or affirmative hope in the digital, the curatorial – initially titled ‘Echoes of Language not Yet Spoken’ – "Down The Rabbit Hole" delves into the anxieties, frustrations, and despair of over communication. The Pavilion challenges Enlightenment-centered ideas of dialogue by embracing biotechnological and ecological intelligences at the same time turns to the considerations of humanistic posthumanism. Through collaborative, evolving experiments in performance, visual art, and discourse, it interrogates language (primarilary the verbal) as a political category and cultural legacy.