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Episode #4: Sidelining Victor features artist Ivo Nikic in conversation with Suruchi Pawar. The episode explores how absurdity, failure, and humor function as forms of knowledge in artistic practice. At its center is a speculative creature—not AI, but a personification of the cultural effort to make intelligence socially legible. Awkward, excessive, and tender, it performs humanity with too much care and not enough intuition, reflecting the emotional simulations and overtraining behind anthropomorphism. The discussion unfolds during a walk in a park, a space of leisure and non-productivity, where failure, absurdity, and human unpredictability are celebrated. Intersecting Nikic’s engagement with Eastern European avant-garde humor and speculative performance, the episode asks: what kinds of creatures emerge from our desire to make intelligence emotionally relatable—and why are we so attached to them? Produced during @thewrong.biennale ft @s.uu.p Sound design by @thesunsofficial Full episode out on 27.05.

part 2 all links to longer pieces on my are.na

a fun discovery from this v short language inquiry has been the correlations between high altitude+dry climate and consonant+ejective heavy language spoken there as well as influence of diet on our teeth structure and therefore the evolution of f and v sounds in language. links to the reads/ podcast these things are excerpted from on my are.na (link in bio). part of the Wrong Biennale pavilion for @stage_rabbit more coming in another carousel later

After 5 months of becoming a pavilion, we now transition back to being (Studio) Stage Rabbit Pavilion as we close Down The Rabbit Hole chapter. But while the pavilion is deinstalled the website will continue to be the studio’s home as we continue operating beyond a physical site. Home to 10+ worlds—where artistic intelligence met machinic conditions, gestures became data, and encounters turned networked, we saw multiple new collaborations emerge. The Down the Rabbit Hole podcast language, presence, and digital conditioning in partnership with @antecamara__galeria and@institution (ing)s published talks with Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson, Diane Giraud, and N▲N▼ Anna Franke’s Mudar took shape as a sculpture and she now works with performers and filmmakers towards a showing at the end of the year. James Newitt continues working on the archives which reveal and hide the man behind the camera. More on this soon! Aishwarya Kumar became the creative director of a new creative Europe project “Sobremesa” as she and Suruchi develop two new projects for 2027-2030. Write to us to know more! The studio enters into a new partnership with Zabra as they work towards enhancing the discourse and practice in posthuman thought in Portugal. Ivo Nikic’s piece is being developed for a commission and exhibition for the later part of the year. A collaboration between Nithya Iyer and Samar Khan will be released in the coming weeks as they each continue to travel across different borders. Having written about the pavilion for Umbigo Magazine, Dela Meissen continues her collaboration with the curators for the ongoing Sobremesa project where she will lead the Greek chapter. Overall, we fit bigger shoes than we did half a year ago and I couldn’t have done it without a friendship which did work out as a working relationship with @s.uu.p and @thewrong.biennale for giving us the time! #StageRabbit #DownTheRabbitHolePavilion #ArtAndTechnology #RehearsalAsResearch DigitalCorporeal CollaborativePractice NewMediaArt LisbonArt ContemporaryArt PodcastLaunch (P.S. Swipe to meet the worlds that breathed here—and keep asking: What does presence mean when we’re networked?)

Aishwarya Kumar with N▲N▼ Doing All the Wrong Things the Wrong Way As part of the broader programme of The Wrong Biennale, Doing All the Wrong Things the Wrong Way is a podcast series that brings together artists and curators from Down The Rabbit Hole Pavilion, Antecâmara, and Institution(ings) to examine how emerging formats of artistic research, spatial affordance, and institutional reconfiguration critically unsettle conventional modes of exhibition-making. Episode #3: Untranslatable Encounters features multidisciplinary Brazilian artist N▲N▼ (pronounced: Nany) in conversation with Aishwarya Kumar. Moving across performance, ritual, language, and black feminist thought, the episode reflects on artistic practice as a site of refusal, opacity, and ongoing negotiation rather than resolution. Framed by the provocation that four decades after Sister Outsider, white feminist platitudes continue to circulate unchallenged, the conversation draws on Audre Lorde’s call for an “ample, spilling” feminism—one that centres anger, care, and lived contradiction as critical forces. The discussion unfolds along two trajectories in Nany’s most recent work: Orin Ifê, which engages ritual practices from the Ketu and Ngô regions to question the fragile boundary between performance and appropriation; and Reciprocation, an upcoming performance work that exposes the dramaturgical, technical, and ethical negotiations involved in making live work. By placing a completed work alongside one still in formation, the episode foregrounds process, vulnerability, and responsibility as central to artistic research. Situated within Down The Rabbit Hole Pavilion, the episode attends to untranslatability as method—where meaning emerges through proximity, repetition, and partial understanding, and where black histories are approached not as fixed narratives but as living, contested, and continuously remade. By Aishwarya Kumar with (studio) Stage Rabbit and Suruchi Pawar

Work in progress @ivonikic

created another hybrid character stages of the project presented during the Wrong Biennale @thewrong.biennale Curated by Aishwarya Kumar @aikuiye_ Suruchi Pawar @art.suup @stage_rabbit Project co-created with Sebastian Perchel @fotopericon Actor Helena Smo @helensmo___ #humanhybrid #contemporaryart #performanceart #artvideo #posterotic

In light of the 7th edition of @thewrong.biennale , Dela Christin Miessen spoke with Aishwarya Kumar and Suruchi Pawar on the programming for the pavilion - Down The Rabbit Hole. Interview for @umbigo.space Artists of the pavilion @annafranke.studio on Mudar @ankita.shah_ on Who are we before language and more @ntriangulontriangulo on the ritualisation of creations @gshawrips on music speaking for itself @james_n81 on reanimating celluloid ghosts @studio_diane_giraud on burnt paper and memory @mohammedchiba_ on Machinic echoes of a marking @ivonikic on perverted pleasures @guybenary and @nathan_john_thompson on sentience @nvmiyer on the line dance @spokentwice on building homes for rabbits @reneabi on queer thinking and history in the balkans Doing All The Wrong Things The Wrong Way with @antecamara__galeria and @institution.ing.s Something new with @zabra.co

Aishwarya Kumar with Diane Giraud Doing All the Wrong Things the Wrong Way As part of the broader programme of The Wrong Biennale, Doing All the Wrong Things the Wrong Way is a podcast series that brings together artists and curators from Down The Rabbit Hole Pavilion, Antecâmara, and Institution(ings) to examine how emerging formats of artistic research, spatial affordance, and institutional reconfiguration critically unsettle conventional modes of exhibition-making. Episode #2: Ashes From A Burning Life II* features artist Diane Giraud in conversation from within her studio. A continuation of an article written for Artecapital in 2024, the episode engages with questions of memory, archiving, and obsolescence, approaching the archive not as a stable repository but as a mutable, generative, and often fragile system. The discussion unfolds through Giraud’s practice, which navigates the afterlives of images, technologies, and materials that persist at the edges of visibility and functionality. At its core, the conversation considers archiving as a temporal and material process rather than a preservational one. Giraud’s work treats digital artefacts, residual data, and obsolete media as sites of excavation, where meaning is produced through acts of retrieval, degradation, and reassembly. Memory emerges not as something to be secured against loss, but as something continuously rewritten through technological mediation and material decay. Situated in the studio as both site and methodology, the episode reflects on how artistic practice can operate as a form of digital archaeology—attentive to fragments, glitches, and discontinuities, and resistant to narratives of progress, optimisation, or permanence. Read Part 1 at https://www.artecapital.art/perspetiva-286 References Voltaire. Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne, ou examen de cet axiome : Tout est bien. 1756. Voltaire. Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, or Examination of the Axiom: All is Well. 1756. Part of the programming for Down The Rabbit Hole Photo credits: Guy Danieli @guydanieli_creative

New soundtrack for the pavilion is under construction by one of our artists @gshawrips and the rabbit hole stayed sinister. Coming soon!

In December 2023 @aikuiye_ watched O Último Dia De Leão. Since then she has reheard the seven chapters of this piece by @ntriangulontriangulo on and off stage, building a friendship along the way. One of the first artists to be a part of stage rabbit, working with @ntriangulontriangulo is as much about being a part of her life as it is about her practice. Just as @aikuiye_ researches systems that are ordered through performance in her doctoral research, she and @ntriangulontriangulo have been considering how performance art is a way of encountering your tacit knowledge. Violinist, DJ, and a storyteller, this session is about re-encountering memories through performativity. Coming soon is an audio series of the performance which the pavilion separates from its strong visual aesthetic to examine what emerges when encountering the same piece in a different way - a question which emerged during COVID, when the performing arts experienced a crisis of intentionality. Photographs by @leabreyer_ #stagerabbit #downtherabbithole #thewrongbiennale #dtrhpavilion #contemporaryart

Doing All The Wrong Things The Wrong Way Aishwarya Kumar and Suruchi Pawar with Guy Ben-Ary and Nathan Thompson Episode #1: Body as Architectural Space features Guy Ben-Ary and Nathan Thompson, in posthumous collaboration with Alvin Lucier, discussing their project Revivification, which forms the conceptual and methodological bedrock of Down The Rabbit Hole. The conversation unfolds around communication, creativity, and cognition in relation to artificial intelligence, while reflecting on Lucier’s longstanding engagement with resonance, duration, and the spatialisation of sound. At its core, Revivification proposes the body as an architectural condition rather than a bounded biological entity. The work centres on a large-scale installation—Lucier’s in-vitro brain—that, over time, learns how to play a sonic environment much like a musician learns to interpret a composition. In doing so, the project collapses distinctions between performer and space, instrument and architecture, life and afterlife, foregrounding time, learning, and resonance as architectural processes. Find links in bio! As part of the broader programme of @thewrong.biennale , Doing All the Wrong Things the Wrong Way is a podcast series that brings together artists and curators from Down The Rabbit Hole Pavilion, Antecâmara, and Institution(ings) to examine how emerging formats of artistic research, spatial affordance, and institutional reconfiguration critically unsettle conventional modes of exhibition-making. Down The Rabbit Hole Down the Rabbit Hole, a pavilion by Stage Rabbit foregrounds its artists who discuss how artistic intelligence, language, and presence are trained and transformed under machinic and digital conditions. Gestures become data, encounters turn networked, and bodies navigate porous boundaries between the human and the algorithmic. The pavilion inhabits a living site of rehearsal and reconfiguration—where the relationship between knowledge and communication is felt through the confrontation of the digital and the corporeal. Opening score credits to Down The Rabbit Hole by Chakurana and Ivo Nikic #artscience #dtrh #dtrhpavilion #stagerabbitpavilion