Down The Rabbit Hole

“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

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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.

Inhabited by 10+ worlds for a period of 5 months, the stage rabbit pavilion discusses how artistic intelligence, language, and presence are conditioned under digital conditions. Gestures become data, encounters turn networked, and bodies navigate porous boundaries between the human and the more-than-human. The pavilion breathes with the rehearsals and architectues of the different worlds where the relationship between knowledge and (in)communication is felt through the confrontation of the digital and the corporeal.