Instruments For Becoming
Atharva Gupta is an artist, researcher, and educator who builds objects, systems, and situations grounded in personal relationships with technology. His practice moves through sound art, kinetic sculpture, audiovisual performance, and experimental media, treating technology as something emotional, erratic, and entangled with both body and politics.
Instruments for Becoming is a body of kinetic and sonic sculptures built from exposed mechanisms, salvaged materials, and electronics. Each system runs its own continuous process, generating sound and motion from the physical behaviour of its materials: the resistance of a component, the torque of a motor, the particular way a mechanism settles into or strains against its own rhythm. Nothing is hidden. You can see where the sound comes from and what it costs the object to make it.
The instruments create situations for the listener, occupying the field of attention as far as the sound goes. Staying in that field long enough is how the listening changes. The interaction between listener and instrument is what starts the process of becoming, and each cycle of transformation is different depending on who stays and for how long.
This way of working is rooted in the idea of jugaad (hindi for making do), deep listening and a making culture that follows material logic and visibility.
The practice extends into generative visuals, audiovisual performance, creative coding, through the YouTube channel @audiodevout and a music project @asymmetrica.
