Doing All the Wrong Things the Wrong Way

Aishwarya Kumar and Suruchi Pawar
with Guy Ben-Ary and Nathan Thompson

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 #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.

The podcast is by Down The Rabbit Hole in partnership with Instituion(ing)s and Antecâmara.