Contextualising the Curatorial
Down The Rabbit Hole with Guy Ben-Ary
“Between the petri dish and the performance, there is always a trembling — the moment life becomes a collaborator.”
For years, Guy Ben-Ary has challenged the limits of what it means to be alive, sentient, and creative - born only out wanting to be a musician.
Working at the intersection of bio-art, sound, and robotics, his practice often transforms living cells into agents of expression, giving voice to materials that are neither fully human nor entirely machine.
In their current explorations through their piece Revivification — the act of reawakening or giving form to the once-living — Ben-Ary and his long-time collaborators Nathan Thompson, Peter Gee, Andrew Fitch, and Dr. Mark C. Lee blur the boundaries between laboratory and stage. Their work meditates on how memory, consciousness, and agency might persist beyond biological time, asking whether technology can host a kind of soul, or if the gesture of revival remains a deeply human desire.
For The Wrong Biennale 2025–26, the team opens their process within the Down The Rabbit Hole Pavilion, transforming it into a porous site where sound, matter, and living systems converse — a rehearsal for the future of empathy under digital conditions.
Over the coming months, we will programme talks, video productions, and the production of Revivification in Europe.
Curated by
@aikuiye_ with
@s.uu.p and
@stage_rabbit
Part of
@thewrong.biennale (Nov 2025 – Mar 2026)
Images copy write with the artist.
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