Aishwarya Kumar with Diane Giraud
Doing All the Wrong Things the Wrong Way

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.