Serpentine Podcast (Serpentine)

What is queer ecology? How do queer theory and artistic practice inform environmental activism and climate justice? How can we think decolonisation and queerness together?

Victoria Sin welcomes guest host Serpentine Assistant Curator, Kostas Stasinopoulos to dive into transformation, queerness, the natural and unnatural, wild, decolonial and submerged perspectives. Together with guests Ama Josephine Budge, Macarena Gómez-Barris and Jack Halberstam they ask: “where does wildness live?” and they collectively explore questions of desire, pleasure, queer resistance and affinity within apocalyptic world making.

Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners’ Grant.

This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.

In Jay Bernard's Crystals of this Social Substance, we hear eight young people from South London discuss money in a conversation that circulates around class, economics and inequality. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine’s long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency.

For this podcast series we’ve invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, artist and environmentalist Maya Lin invites us to give half our yard back to nature and explores how implementing nature-based solutions in agriculture and forestry has a substantial effect in the climate emergency.

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

On Practice: Listening asks: How can listening form a space of political encounter? What is the difference between listening and hearing? How do other people hear? 

This episode features artist Ain Bailey’s collaboration with Micro Rainbow alongside recordings from Pauline Oliveros’ tuning meditations, a sound piece from artist collective Ultra-red and a contribution from academic and sound practitioner Ximena Alarcón.

In this episode of On Practice we highlight the work of one of our long-term partners, Micro Rainbow, who support LGBTQI+ asylum seekers and refugees experiencing isolation in the UK. 

You can read more about Micro Rainbow’s work here, and Become An Ally or support the furnishing of their safe houses by sending an item from their Amazon Wish List.

On Practice is produced by Reduced Listening.

Image credit: Joy Yamusangie.

Show Notes

Over the last year through the pandemic, we’ve seen more than ever how our individual actions impact others, how we’re all interdependent. This three-part podcast series explores the practices that can sustain us individually and collectively – Cooking, Listening and Walking - and how they can be used to bring people together to work towards change.

Hosts Amal Khalaf and Alex Thorp welcome artists, collaborators and friends to explore ideas and projects developed as part of Serpentine’s Education and Civic programme, which connect communities, artists and activists to generate responses to pressing social issues. These are projects that have been developed in collaboration with people, centred on the body, the city, and exploring the injustices we experience in our everyday life. Hear from Jasleen Kaur, Elia Nurvista, Fozia Ismail, Ain Bailey, Micro Rainbow, Portman Early Childhood Centre, Ultra-red, Ximena Alarcón, Sam Curtis, Tim Ingold, Voice of Domestic Workers and Katouche Goll.

Each of the three episodes are accompanied by an exercise, kindly shared by the artists, an invitation to join their practice.

ABOUT AIN BAILEY

Ain Bailey is a sound artist and DJ. She facilitates workshops considering the role of sound in the formation of identity and recently held a residency at the ICA, London. Exhibitions in 2019 included ‘The Range’ at Eastside Projects, Birmingham; ‘RE:Respite’ at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, and ‘And We’ll Always Be A Disco In The Glow Of Love’, a solo show at Cubitt Gallery, London. Bailey was also commissioned by Supernormal and Jupiter festivals to create and perform a new work, ‘Super JR’. Last year, Bailey was commissioned by Radiophrenia Glasgow, a temporary art radio station, to create a new composition entitled ‘Ode To The N.H.S.'. Currently, following a commission by Serpentine Projects, she is conducting sound workshops with LGBTI+ refugees and asylum seekers, as well as working on a commission for Savvy Contemporary’s new radio station, SAVVYZAAR.

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/ain-bailey/

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/sonic-stories/ 

Instagram: @ain.bailey

ABOUT MICRO RAINBOW

Micro Rainbow supports LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. Our work focuses on supporting isolated LGBT+ refugees and asylum seekers who flee countries like Uganda, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and many other countries where LGBTI people face persecution. Our projects tackle isolation through workshops, peer support groups and our choir. We also support refugees into employment and skills training, and support those starting or wanting to start small businesses. Micro Rainbow opened the first safe house in the United Kingdom dedicated solely to LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees. Our brand new safe housing project is the first of its kind in the UK and provides accommodation for LGBT+ refugees and asylum seekers who face homelessness or dispersal. Our social inclusion tackles isolation experienced by LGBTI asylum seekers who flee their country and, coming to a new country, usually experience feelings of withdrawal. 

https://microrainbow.org/
Instagram/Twitter: @Microrainbow 

ABOUT SONIC STORIES

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/ain-bailey/

ABOUT ULTRA-RED 

In the worlds of sound art and modern electronic music, Ultra-red pursue an exchange between art and political organizing. Founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists, Ultra-red have over the years expanded to include artists, researchers and organisers from different social movements including the struggles of migration, anti-racism, participatory community development, and the politics of HIV/AIDS.

Collectively, the group have produced radio broadcasts, performances, recordings, installations, texts and public space actions (ps/o). Exploring acoustic space as enunciative of social relations, Ultra-red take up the acoustic mapping of contested spaces and histories utilising sound-based research (termed Militant Sound Investigations) that directly engage the organizing and analyses of political struggles. Ultra-red were in residence with the Serpentine Galleries’ Centre for Possible Studies from 2009 - 2013 resulting in the exhibition RE-ASSEMBLY. 

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/the-school-and-the-neighbourhood-a-subverted-curriculum-2/ 

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/ultra-reds-reassembly/

https://halfletterpress.com/ultra-red-workbook-07-re-assembly-pdf-5/

https://centreforpossiblestudies.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/the-school-and-the-neighbourhood-a-subverted-curriculum-launched/

ABOUT Ximena Alarcón

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Ximena Alarcón (PhD) is a sound artist and academic researcher interested in listening to in-between sonic spaces and how they are manifested in dreams, underground public transport and the migratory context. Her research focuses on creating telematic improvisations using Deep Listening®, and interfaces for relational listening. Her most recognized works are the interactive sound space Sounding Underground (IOCT-DMU, The Leverhulme Trust Fellowship 2007-2009), the series of telematic sound performances Networked Migrations (CRiSAP - UAL, 2011-2017), and INTIMAL: Interfaces for Listening Relational (RITMO-UiO, 2017-2019, Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship). Ximena is a certified Deep Listening tutor and has taught the practice in Colombia, India, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Brazil and the UK. She is currently a tutor in the online Deep Listening certification program offered by the Center for Deep Listening (RPI), and works independently in the second phase of the INTIMAL project that involves: an "embodied" physical-virtual system for relational listening in telematic sonic performance; a virtual territory of Latin American migrant women in Europe; and a telematic creation laboratory for the women who inhabit the INTIMAL territory.

https://www.ximenaalarcon.net/
Twitter: @ximesonic

Pedagogies of the ear

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/pedagogies-ear/ 

The soundcloud of this event - 

https://soundcloud.com/serpentine-uk/sets/pedagogies-of-the-ear

This episode opens up to consider intimacy with the world around us. Today, many of us feel – and are – disconnected from place, and not everyone feels equally at home in the spaces we move through. Ranging from urban and built environments to social and digital worlds, this episode asks what we need to be able to feel comfortable and intimate with our surroundings.

How are artists challenging and working with different forms of space and place? And what happens when we can reconnect with the elements, environments, people, and other beings around us?

Featuring an interview with 2023 Serpentine Pavilion architect Lina Gotmeh, an original sound work by Black Power Naps, an audio excerpt from a project by Jakob Kudsk Steensen from the Serpentine archive, and Serpentine curator Kay Watson in conversation with Gaylene Gould.

Subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now to be the first to hear new Intimacies episodes.

You can connect with the series on socials @serpentineuk, and you can find more information and full descriptive transcripts at www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/serpentine-podcast-intimacies/.

CREDITS

Hosted by Gaylene Gould

Produced by Katie Callin (Reduced Listening)

Production support by Nada Smiljanic (Reduced Listening)

Executive production by Anishka Sharma (Reduced Listening)

Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen

Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson (Reduced Listening)

Theme music by Hinako Omori

Visual identity by the unloved

ABOUT INTIMACIES

Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies explores the complexities of closeness, and asks how we can expand and evolve our intimacy with others, ourselves, and the world around us. Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and more on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.

Confronting the slippery topics of fear, vulnerability, sex, love and loneliness in art and life, the Intimacies series delves into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves. Each episode combines interviews, original audio works, conversations, and pieces from the Serpentine archive. This series itself is personal, emotional, reflective, and an exploration of vulnerability in many ways. 

Indigenous rights, care of biodiversity, and ecological, multispecies worldviews are inextricably connected. Today’s episode features perspectives from self-organised Indigenous organisations at the front line of extraction and climate change, as well as artists researching our more-than-human entanglements. Released on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, Standing with the Forest supports and platforms campaigns at the intersection of Indigenous activism and ecology. 

Produced in collaboration with Flourishing Diversity. The episode features members from APIB, the Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation: Tiago Amarral, Carolina Schneider Comandulli and Kerexu Yxapyry.; AMAAIAC members Poã Katukina, Yaká Shawãdawa, Pya ko and Busã Huni Kuin (Association of Indigenous Agroforestry Agents from the State of Acre); Chief Raoni Metukitre; Flourishing Diversity co-Founders Jerome Lewis and Jessica Sweidan, artists Maria Thereza Alves and Elaine Gan plus podcast hosts Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti. 

Support the work of APIB: http://apib.info/apoie/?lang=en

Image Credit: To See The Forest Standing, still, 2017, Maria Thereza Alves.

Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners’ Grant.

This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.

How can looking back alter what we wish for the future? In this episode, artists and researchers discuss how they question accepted histories, and how reapproaching the past creatively can open up possibilities in the present.

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This episode features Samson Kambalu, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Zing Tsjeng, Yesomi Umolu (Director of Curatorial Affairs & Public Practice, Serpentine), Etel Adnan & Gavin Bryars performing Five Senses for One Death at Serpentine’s Memory Marathon in 2012, and sound from KMRU’s Temporary Stored. 

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You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Credits

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

What are artists’ roles in knowing or making tomorrow? What are alternative ways of knowing our planet? Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti return to their roots of General Ecology, with conversations recorded at a summit organised by creative sustainability charity Julie's Bicycle. Featuring Alison Tickell, Zadie Xa, Climate Symphony and Cosmo Sheldrake, with new sound pieces from Zadie Xa and Cosmo Sheldrake. Image credit: Zadie Xa, Moon Poetics 4: Courageous Earth Critters and Dangerous Day Dreamers (2020). 

This episode is supported by Outset Partners’ Grant and was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.

“Camas, Cores, and Spores”
On the occasion of the General Ecology festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Podcast hosts the three-part series, "On Fire" from Future Ecologies: A story of burning, first released in 2018. Sign up to The Understory of the Understory at https://bit.ly/FishyGround.

The past years have been the worst fire years on record across the west coast of North America, with whole communities being engulfed in flames and smoke enveloping major cities for weeks. But as the airways fill once again with stories of valiant fire-fighters and people who’ve lost their homes, we answer some burning questions that seem to always fly under the radar. For example: How long have fires been burning on this planet? Have our ecologies always been adapted to fire? What role did indigenous peoples play in lighting fires in the past? And how can we return prescribed burns to sensitive ecosystems? To answer these questions, Adam Huggins and Mendel Skulski talk to regional experts, including internationally renowned ethnobotanist Dr. Nancy Turner, in this first part of the series, On Fire.

Find out more about Future Ecologies and subscribe at https://www.futureecologies.net/. Transcript at https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe1-5-on-fire-pt-1#transcript. Image by Matt Howard.  

#FutureEcologies #GeneralEcology #SerpentinePodcast @Futureecologies @SerpentineUK

Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine’s long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency.

For this podcast series we’ve invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, artist and musician Nahum invites us to experience intimacy with our planet and our galaxy. Exploring earthbound existence, through visible and invisible connections, Nahum encourages listeners to open their mouths when it’s raining, swallow a piece of cloud and travel to outer space.

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

How do we co-create our world with other species, and how are artists working with these beings in response to ecological instability? This episode of REWORLDING reflects on the need for reconnection, healing and regeneration, and showcases art that celebrates our connection to a wider web of life and plays an active role in nurturing other lifeforms.

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This episode features: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, and Sarah Hamed; audio from Hans Ulrich Obrist & guest fauna; music by Sulafa Elyas; 12 Dreams as Coral Hair, a sound work by Yussef Agbo-Ola; Es Devlin and Apichatpong Weerasethakul reading their contributions to 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, and contributions from Yube Huni Kuin and Mashã Huni Kuin, agroforestry agents with AMAAIAC (from Maria Thereza Alves’s Back to Earth project, To See the Forest Standing).

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You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Subscribe now to never miss an episode of Serpentine Podcast. Rate and review to share your responses to REWORLDING with us.

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Credits

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

On Practice: Walking asks how does walking shape our experience of the city? How can it be used as a tool for resistance and change? Featuring artist Sam Curtis’s Changing Play project with children from the Portman Early Childhood centre, Which Way Now? alongside interviews with anthropologist Tim Ingold, campaign group Voice of Domestic Workers and writer Katouche Goll.

In this episode of On Practice we highlight the work of two of our long-term partners, The Voice of Domestic Workers and The Alliance for Inclusive Education, ALLFIE. 

The Voice of Domestic Workers, is a grassroots organisation made up of multi-national migrant Domestic Workers in the UK. 

They work to empower migrant domestic workers to stand up and voice their opposition to discrimination, inequality, slavery and all forms of abuse. You can read more about their support network, campaigns here, donate here, or support by purchasing their new Our Journey book

ALLFIE is a Disabled people-led organisation in the UK.

They campaign for the right of all Disabled pupils and students to be fully included in mainstream education, training and apprenticeships with all necessary supports. You can find out more about them here. You can stand up for inclusive education by signing their manifesto or help ALLFIE build a better, more inclusive world by becoming a member of the Alliance.

On Practice is produced by Reduced Listening.

Image credit: Joy Yamusangie

Show Notes

Sam Curtis is an artist and curator based in London. Working with other people is central to his practice. Through dialogue, walking and making with others; his work explores ideas around agency, autonomy, exchange and labour.  

He has exhibited and worked with Seymour Art Collective, Whitechapel Gallery, Edgware Road Project: Serpentine Galleries, Turner Contemporary, CREATE London, The Showroom, Eastside Projects, Arts Admin, Ateliers de Rennes Biennale, Beursschouwburg, News of the World and Pi: Artworks Istanbul. He has an MFA from Goldsmiths College and his work is represented by Division of Labour. He is currently curator at Bethlem Gallery.

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/which-way-now/

Portman Centre

The Portman Early Childhood Centre provides education, care and family support services for young children and their families living in the Church Street area of Westminster, North London. These include a nursery school, adult education classes, family support, employment services, parenting groups and workshops.

http://www.westminster-ne-centres.co.uk/en/about/ 

Tim Ingold

Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has written about environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018) and Correspondences (2020).

Voice of Domestic Workers

The Voice of Domestic Workers is an education and campaigning group calling for justice and rights for Britain’s 16,000 migrant domestic workers. They provide educational and community activities for domestic workers – including English language lessons, drama and art classes and employment advice, and mount rescues for domestic workers stuck with abusive employers. Their work seeks to end discrimination and protect migrant domestic workers living in the UK by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare and legal advice.

https://www.thevoiceofdomesticworkers.com/ 
Instagram: @thevoiceofdomesticworkers
Twitter: @thevoiceofdws

Disabled People Against Cuts

Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is an organisation for disabled people and allies to campaign against the impact of government spending cuts on the lives of disabled people. Formed on 3 October 2010 DPAC promotes full human rights and equality for all disabled people, and operates from the Social Model of Disability. DPAC was formed by a group of disabled people after the 3rd October 2010 mass protests against cuts in Birmingham, England. The 3rd October saw the first mass protest against the austerity cuts and their impact on disabled people - It was led by disabled people under the name of The Disabled Peoples’ Protest.

https://dpac.uk.net/

ALLFIE

ALLFIE is a Disabled people-led organisation, which seeks to build alliances with individuals and organisations who share their vision. They successfully work with Disabled learners and parents and carers across a very wide range of educational needs, backgrounds and experiences and gain strength from that diversity.

Their relationships and influence stretch over a wide range of networks and alliances interested in education, inclusion, Disabled children’s services, Disabled people’s rights and equality, and human rights more generally. They have an impressive track record in successfully influencing change and a positive reputation nationally and internationally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWDUmYv2iY
Instagram: @disabledpeopleagainstcuts

Katouche Goll  

Katouche Goll is a disability activist and writer. She is passionate about fostering a productive dialogue about the intersection of Black and disabled identities. A recent first-class grad in BA History, Katouche enjoys sharing the knowledge of her degree through her advocacy for Black disabled young people. Featured on platforms such as Buzzfeed (2016), Kandaka (2017), BBC Radio 1Xtra (2018), TABOU Magazine and BlackBallad (2020). Katouche is also a makeup enthusiast who creates online content to promote diversity in beauty and highlight issues of inclusion.

Instagram: @itskatouche

Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine’s long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency.

For this podcast series we’ve invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, Tomás Saraceno invites us to listen to the spider playing its web at night inside our homes. We are encouraged to move away from a fear of spiders (arachnophobia) and towards a love of spiders (arachnophilia), both here and in Webs of Life, presented by Serpentine and AcuteArt. With vibrations from the Arachnophilia community: Nephila senegalensis, Pardosa lugubris, Cyrtophora citricola, Habronattus dossenus from the Arachnophilia Archives recorded at Studio Tomás Saraceno.

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

How are artists developing campaigns for the Earth? How can an artwork reconnect us with the environment? Can we "feel" the speed of climate change, or hear the sounds of a seed? Episode 2, hosts Victoria Sin & Lucia Pietroiusti welcome Ayesha Tan Jones, James Bridle & Cecilia Vicuña, three artists participating in Back to Earth, to begin to sow the seeds of their multifaceted campaigns.

Image: Semiya/Seed Songs, Cecilia Vicuña, 2015. 

Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners’ Grant.

This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.

Reflecting on Brixton's sites of community care and resistance, Ain Bailey's Atlantic Railton brings together a series of intimate conversations and sonic resonances. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

"In the Wobble"
On the occasion of the General Ecology festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Podcast hosts the three-part series, "On Fire" from Future Ecologies: a story of burning, first released in 2018. Sign up to The Understory of the Understory at https://bit.ly/FishyGround.

Another year, another fire season. We’ve already had a lot to say about wildfire, forest science, traditional ecological knowledge, and prescribed burning, but we’re not done yet! In this episode, we tour the Province of BC (and dip down into Washington State) to meet vigilante fire fighters, researchers, and First Nations Chiefs: all working in their communities towards a future of true wildfire resilience. With Adam Huggins and Mendel Skulski (Future Ecologies), Clint Lambert, Chief Maureen Chapman, Dr. Lori Daniels, Dr. Sonja Leverkus, Dr. Paul Hessburg, Chief Francis Johnson.

Find out more about Future Ecologies and subscribe at https://www.futureecologies.net/. Transcript at https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-2-2-on-fire-pt-3#transcript. Image by Mendel Skulski.  

#FutureEcologies #GeneralEcology #SerpentinePodcast @Futureecologies @SerpentineUK

How can gaming and virtual world-building help us design better cultural architecture and infrastructures? What does the metaverse show us about community building and the co-creation of experience? And what do ‘antecedent’ technologies have to show us about creating ethical frameworks? Taking an intergenerational view, we join Native American artist and technologist Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Andie Nordgren, of popular MMORPG Eve Online and Director of Live Platforms for Unity to find ways through the hidden architectures and decentralised ethics of the metaverse and its precedents.

Playtesting is presented by Tamar Clarke-Brown, Serpentine Arts Technologies and produced in collaboration with Sasha Edye-Lindner from Reduced Listening.

Additional sound design by Alx Suutoo Dabo.

Moss Matters is a sound work devised by students of the Royal College of Art’s School of Architecture studio ADS3, on the occasion of Serpentine's Back to Earth project. Moss Matters, explores the urban ecology of London’s moss species, revealing what these resilient organisms can teach us about the life of the city. Listen from anywhere, or download the map and follow the audio walk along the Regent's Canal, London, at mossmatters.org.

For more information on moss and how to get involved, please visit the British Bryological Society.

For more information on Moss Matters and the ongoing collaboration with ADS3, visit the Serpentine website.

Moss Matters was conceived and produced by ADS3 2020-2021: Andrea Chan, Leen Ajlan, Michelle Sin, Andrew Reynolds, Nien-Hsun Huang, Wilza Silva Mendes, Nadia Lesniarek-Hamid, Cristina de Loya, Henna Patel, Daniel Innes, Sooyeon Jeong and Henry Valori. ADS3: Refuse Trespassing Our Bodies was led in 2020-21 by Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe.

We start our journey into intimacy by considering our interactions with strangers. The unexpected crossing of paths between people who have no knowledge of each other can be emotionally impactful, whether these moments leave us unsettled, or uplifted by a sense of hope and connection.

What forms of proximity arise between strangers in public spaces? How and why do artists make work which invites new encounters between themselves and audience members? What possibilities and risks emerge when they do? 

Featuring a conversation with Adrian Piper, an interview with Scottee, a performance by Cecilia Vicuña from the Serpentine archive, and Serpentine curator Tamsin Hong in conversation with Gaylene Gould.

Subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now to be the first to hear new Intimacies episodes.

You can connect with the series on socials @serpentineuk, and find more information and full descriptive transcripts at www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/serpentine-podcast-intimacies/.

CREDITS

Hosted by Gaylene Gould

Produced by Katie Callin (Reduced Listening)

Production support by Nada Smiljanic (Reduced Listening)

Executive production by Anishka Sharma (Reduced Listening)

Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen

Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson (Reduced Listening)

Theme music by Hinako Omori

Visual identity by the unloved

Voice acting on Adrian Piper's contribution by Jeannette Robinson

ABOUT INTIMACIES

Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies explores the complexities of closeness, and asks how we can expand and evolve our intimacy with others, ourselves, and the world around us. Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and more on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.

Confronting the slippery topics of fear, vulnerability, sex, love, and loneliness in art and life, the Intimacies series delves into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves. Each episode combines interviews, original audio works, conversations, and pieces from the Serpentine archive. This series itself is personal, emotional, reflective, and an exploration of vulnerability in many ways. 

What changes can we carry forward from our REWORLDING journey – and how has it changed us? In this bonus episode, our host Gaylene Gould shares personal reflections on REWORLDING, connecting the moments that moved her with projects, ideas and understandings that have emerged following the series. This moment to pause and look back is also a chance to look forward, as we reveal exciting news about our next series.

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You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Subscribe now to never miss an episode of Serpentine Podcast. Rate and review to share your responses to REWORLDING with us.

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Credits

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

How can the way we play change the way we live? How are creativity, collaboration, and change adaptation related, and why do these activities help people to thrive? In the third episode of the REWORLDING series, host Gaylene Gould speaks to artists and architects who are creating new possibilities through play spaces, games, and playable digital realities, and asking what these can teach us about how we will navigate the world to come.

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This episode features Gabriel Massan, Alvaro Barrington, Assemble, Penny Wilson & Assemble Play attendees, Tamar Clarke-Brown (Curator (Commissions), Arts Technologies, Serpentine), music and reflections from members of Material Institute, and sound created by LYZZA for Gabriel Massan’s upcoming game,  Third World: The Bottom Dimension.

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You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Subscribe now to never miss an episode of Serpentine Podcast. Rate and review to share your responses to REWORLDING with us.

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Credits

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

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Thanks to Rainy Miller (mastering engineer) for his support on LYZZA’s sound from Gabriel Massan’s Third World: The Bottom Dimension, which was commissioned by Serpentine Arts Technologies and features Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Novíssimo Edgar and LYZZA.

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Musicians from Material Institute heard jamming in the studio are: Jaida Stallworth (Adiaj), Nathan Watts (Sly Watts), Matthew Lee (HU$H), Andy Gross (sound engineer)

Reflections from members of Material Institute are by: François Boudreaux (Fashion Instructor), Riley Teahan (Fashion & Textiles), Eric Guerrero (Fashion), JDot Smith

How can art respond to the climate emergency? How can society collectively self-transform? How can an arts institution contribute to discourse around the climate crisis in a meaningful way? Hosts Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti welcome the new series with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Suzanne Dhaliwal, Cooking Sections, students from the RCA and sound works by Brian Eno, to take things Back to Earth.

Image: The Mermaids, Karrabing Film Collective 2018.

Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners’ Grant.

This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.

This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.

Can fiction remake reality? In the first episode of REWORLDING, we hear from artists, musicians and writers who use dreaming and imagination to remake worlds.

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This episode features Tai Shani, Irenosen Okojie reading 'Black Planetarium', Heavens by Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen, the Holorama soundscape by Perez & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster from Alienarium 5, Kostas Stasinopoulos (Associate Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine), and The Whole Earth Chanting by Libby Heaney & Nabihah Iqbal.

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You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Subscribe now to never miss an episode of Serpentine Podcast. Rate and review to share your responses to REWORLDING with us.

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Credits

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

Sometimes the things we fear live as intimately within us as the things we love. These fears are rarely distant from us: we are sometimes closely implicated in them, and fear is a visceral, personal experience. Fear and anxiety can be irrational, or rooted in realities that threaten us unevenly.

When can we transform our phobia into an embrace? How do we find ways to live alongside the threats of the world? And how are artists working closely – and in nuanced ways – with the instinctive feeling of fear?

Featuring an interview with Webs of Life artist Tomás Saraceno, an original sound work by Lamin Fofana, a reading by P. Staff from the Serpentine archive, and Serpentine curator Claude Adjil in conversation with Gaylene Gould. 

Subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now to be the first to hear new Intimacies episodes.

You can connect with the series on socials @serpentineuk, and you can find more information and full descriptive transcripts at www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/serpentine-podcast-intimacies/.

CREDITS

Hosted by Gaylene Gould

Produced by Katie Callin (Reduced Listening)

Production support by Nada Smiljanic (Reduced Listening)

Executive production by Anishka Sharma (Reduced Listening)

Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen

Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson (Reduced Listening)

Theme music by Hinako Omori

Visual identity by the unloved

ABOUT INTIMACIES

Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies explores the complexities of closeness, and asks how we can expand and evolve our intimacy with others, ourselves, and the world around us. Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and more on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.

Confronting the slippery topics of fear, vulnerability, sex, love and loneliness in art and life, the Intimacies series delves into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves. Each episode combines interviews, original audio works, conversations, and pieces from the Serpentine archive. This series itself is personal, emotional, reflective, and an exploration of vulnerability in many ways. 

A new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine’s long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency.

Back to Earth invites practitioners to respond to the environmental crisis and in this publication, 140 artists, scientists, architects and more continue this work & come together to create a ‘do-it-yourself’ guide on how to shape a more ecological, equitable future. The result is a compendium of recipes, sketches, photographs, essays, spells, and instructions that ask us to engage with the climate emergency in new and imaginative ways in our own lives.

For this podcast series we’ve invited 5 artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. Bhanu Kapil shares instructions for mixed groups of artists, poets, activists and all those working for climate justice, Tomás Saraceno invites us to listen to the spider playing its web at night inside our homes, Cauleen Smith shares advice for urban farmers and a cocktail recipe for colonisers, Maya Lin explores what happens when we surrender our yards back to nature and Nahum invites us to swallow a piece of cloud and travel to outer space.

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams

In Episode 3, hosts Victoria Sin & Lucia Pietroiusti dive into one of the core ecological principles of Back to Earth: we are all interconnected, smaller pieces of a larger whole. Featuring conversations with Brian Eno and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Elizabeth Povinelli of Karrabing Film Collective, as well as sound works by Tabita Rezaire and clips from Karrabing’s 2018 film, The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland.
Image: Tabita Rezaire, Lubricate Coil Engine, 2017. 

Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners’ Grant.

This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.

In this work by Torkwase Dyson, an impactful collage of sound embodies breathing in relation to the environment, the politics of space, and the rights of Black bodies. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

Back to Earth: Can I Get Back To You? The concluding episode of this podcast season examines the past, present and future of the Back to Earth project, which invites artists to respond to climate emergency. How do you see Back to Earth contributing to environmental work? Is Back to Earth trying to change minds or hearts? When you are lost, or need inspiration, who or what do you turn to? How does the future affect your thinking around environmental damage and remediation? Where are we now and where could we be going?

Featuring work by Himali Singh Soin and Dario Villanueva, and a poem by Bhanu Kapil, written for Back to Earth, Instruction for mixed groups of artists, poets, activists and all those working for climate justice in the coming time, read by Kapil. 

Presented by Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti, and featuring Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rebecca Lewin and Kostas Stasinopoulos. Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening and Holly Shuttleworth, Serpentine Galleries. 

Back to Earth is supported by Fiorucci Art Trust, Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo De Li Galli and Outset Contemporary Art Fund.

‘Justice is an ongoing methodology’ - Ruha Benjamin.  

What can digital assets and datasets do for Black liberation and social justice? From broken mechanics to Black Trans gospel, magic circles to terms and conditions of engagement, we join Berlin-based artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (Blacktransarchive.com) and New York based artist LaJune McMillian (The Black Movement Library) to find out how these artists are building counter-archives towards liberation through alternative practices of digital archiving and creation. 

Playtesting is presented by Tamar Clarke-Brown, Serpentine Arts Technologies and produced in collaboration with Sasha Edye-Lindner from Reduced Listening.

Additional sound design by Alx Suutoo Dabo.

As our journey through intimacy draws to a close, it’s time to look inward and reflect on how we can get closer to ourselves. We’re considering ideas of self-knowledge and self-love, alongside what it means to draw on your own life and experiences in a creative practice.

What do artists who bring personal and intimate narratives into their work encounter? How can we open up to our vulnerability and decide when to safely share that with others? And could these acts bring us closer together – perhaps helping us build a deeper and more compassionate connection with both self and others?

Featuring an interview with Olivia Laing, an original sound work by Axel Kacoutié, audio excerpts from Agnès Varda and Luchita Hurtado from the Serpentine archive, and Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Gaylene Gould.

Subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now to be the first to hear new Intimacies episodes.

You can connect with the series on socials @serpentineuk, and you can find more information and full descriptive transcripts at www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/serpentine-podcast-intimacies/.

CREDITS

Hosted by Gaylene Gould

Produced by Katie Callin (Reduced Listening)

Production support by Nada Smiljanic (Reduced Listening)

Executive production by Anishka Sharma (Reduced Listening)

Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen

Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson (Reduced Listening)

Theme music by Hinako Omori

Visual identity by the unloved

ABOUT INTIMACIES

Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies explores the complexities of closeness, and asks how we can expand and evolve our intimacy with others, ourselves, and the world around us. Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and more on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.

Confronting the slippery topics of fear, vulnerability, sex, love and loneliness in art and life, the Intimacies series delves into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves. Each episode combines interviews, original audio works, conversations, and pieces from the Serpentine archive. This series itself is personal, emotional, reflective, and an exploration of vulnerability in many ways. 

Rooted in thinking about the landscape around Serpentine, Brian Eno's IN A GARDEN creates a generative space through layered sound. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

How are artists using technologies to imagine alternate realities, new alien languages and manipulate time? How can artists make the invisible visible? Systems and Sprouts is a new episode with host Victoria Sin and guest host Victoria Ivanova, who works with the Arts Technologies team at the Serpentine on creative research and development. Together they explore the ways technology is being used as a connector to things we don’t usually perceive, from extinct species and ancient landscapes to space bacteria and the manipulation of time itself. Interviews include Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Yasaman Sheri and sound works by Jenna Sutela. 

Systems and Sprouts focuses on artists’ relationship to technology and future thinking as part of a larger ecosystem that is building technologies of the future. You can gain more insight into the world of a new generation of artists and organisations working directly with art and advanced technologies by reading Future Art Ecosystems: Art x Advanced Technologies. https://futureartecosystems.org/

Image credit: Jenna Sutela, I Magma App, 2019. Co-commissioned by Moderna Museet and Serpentine Galleries, 2019. 

Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners’ Grant.

This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.

Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine’s long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency.

For this podcast series we’ve invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, filmmaker Cauleen Smith talks us through a summer cocktail recipe for colonizers, asks us to consider our direct relationship with our surroundings and encourages us to think about our own culpability, violence and extraction.

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

What is a world, and how do we begin to reshape it? Introducing REWORLDING – a new Serpentine Podcast series, hosted by Gaylene Gould. The podcast features international artists, thinkers, writers, designers, and other practitioners who are dreaming of a shift in our reality. Contributors include Tai Shani, Etel Adnan, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Es Devlin, Gabriel Massan, Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and many more. Launching Wednesday 18 January 2023 on all podcast platforms, with a new episode released weekly for 5 weeks.

Subscribe now to never miss an episode of Serpentine Podcast. Rate and review to share your responses to REWORLDING with us.

Credits: 

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING. 

Transcript: 

Gaylene Gould: Right now, it feels like the old world is crumbling [echoes]. We're kind of teetering on the edge of a new one, but if we're gonna sidestep the problems that have played us so far, we are gonna need new tools, new ways to be together, to live new, and to connect [echoes].

Tai Shani: Any of the things that do have that idea in them of like what the world could be [are like] casting a stone into darkness, but that stone gets met at some point? Or, that's the hope, isn't it?

Zing Tsjeng: What if we just thought a little bit bigger here, and we came up with an alternative view of the future and what it could be like.

Gaylene Gould: What is a world and how do we begin to reshape it? What role can artists play in this? These are the questions we'll be exploring in REWORLDING, a new Serpentine Podcast series hosted by me, Gaylene Gould.

Irenosen Okojie: You can create worlds that people don't recognise. You can create worlds that feel familiar, but suddenly you take somebody somewhere completely new and recalibrate a universe. [echoes]

Gaylene Gould: The Serpentine program is all about exploring art and ideas for a changing world, and I've been working with the team to hunt for tools that will help us fashion a more expansive, compassionate and resilient world.

Samson Kambalu: For me, remembering is almost like a creative exercise, you know, to try to get back to the present moment by the way of the past,

Declan Rowe John: Art is like a way to portray your message to the world and kind of bring people together and show that they aren't alone.

Gaylene Gould: Throughout this series, I'll be speaking to leading artists, designers, writers, and thinkers. We'll be hearing new sound art as well as diving back into Serpentine's vast archive to try and answer some of these questions.

Performer from Tai Shani's work: I pray you can survive this and live forever

Gaylene Gould: In REWORLDING, we'll be dreaming, listening, playing, remembering, and connecting in radical new ways. We'll be traveling together through gardens and game worlds, inner states and outer space, and I cannot wait to share the journey with you. Our first episode drops in January, 2023, so subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now and start your year by reworlding with us.

“Instead, let’s consider the dandelion achene.

The flower kingdom’s lil grey-haired punk.” 

(Sophia Al-Maria)

Released on the Winter Equinox, 21 December 2020, tarax'sup? is a short meditative exercise inspired by the common dandelion (taraxacum officinale) written and performed by Sophia Al-Maria, with a musical score by Kelsey Lu and cover artwork by Tosh Basco (boychild).

tarax’sup? is a gift from them to you, and especially for queer kin everywhere. 

It can be practiced as often as needed and kept as a companion to listen to or read whenever you are in need of grounding. 

Recorded by Thibault Verdron in Arles, France with special thanks to LUMA Foundation.

Mastered by Heba Kadry. 

tarax’sup? is dedicated to the memory of Rainbow, canine companion of artist Precious Okoyomon.

Curated and produced by Tamar Clarke-Brown, Eva Jäger, Melissa Blanchflower and Kay Watson. 

tarax’sup? is a collaboration between Sophia Al-Maria, Tosh Basco, Kelsey Lu and many more to come. It is a moment of first seeding, a prelude to Sophia Al-Maria’s ongoing project with Serpentine, Taraxos, which ruminates on the dandelion to explore the seeding of new ideas, kinship, breathwork and abolitionist thinking. 

How can relationships transform us, and our world? The final episode of the series explores how artists are actively collaborating with communities to change their daily realities, and how they are engaging collective dreaming and challenging their own ways of connecting to others.

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Featuring Rory Pilgrim, Richard Sennett, Sumayya Vally, Amal Khalaf (Civic Curator, Serpentine), and music, performances and contributions from collaborators on Rory Pilgrim’s concert work, RAFTS Live. These collaborators include Hugh Prior, Carina Murray, Liam O’Connell, Mark Jones, Emily Butterfly Khoury, Catherina Rowland, Rome Martin-Whilby, Declan Rowe John, and Kayden Fearon.

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You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Subscribe now to never miss an episode of Serpentine Podcast. Rate and review to share your responses to REWORLDING with us.

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Credits

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

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RAFTS Live Credits

RAFTS: Live at Cadogan Hall is a project by Rory Pilgrim, created in partnership with Green Shoes Arts, Barking and Dagenham Youth Dance, Project Well Being (Interfaith Sanctuary, Boise, Idaho) and the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Civic Curators: Amal Khalaf, Elizabeth Graham and Layla Gatens

Executive Producer: Holly Shuttleworth

Production Manager: Andy Downie 

RAFTS Collaborators heard on the podcast: Hugh Prior, Carina Murray, Liam O’Connell, Mark Jones, Emily Butterfly Khoury, Catherina Rowland, Rome Martin-Whilby, Declan Rowe John, Kayden Fearon.

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Music

Tomorrow’s Gentle Rain

Sung by Declan Rowe John 

Song by Rory Pilgrim and Declan Rowe John

Arranged by Rory Pilgrim 

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Rafts of My Mind

Sung by Robyn Haddon

Song by Catherina Rowland

Arranged by Rory Pilgrim 

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Flowers

Sung by Kayden Fearon

Song by Rory Pilgrim and Kayden Fearon

Arranged by Rory Pilgrim 

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Rodeo Music 

Sung by Declan Rowe John 

Song by Rory Pilgrim 

Arranged by Rory Pilgrim 

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The Towel

Sung by: Declan Rowe John

Song by Rory Pilgrim, Declan Rowe John, Robyn Haddon

Arranged by Rory Pilgrim 

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An Amazing Purse

Sung by Robyn Haddon

Song by Rory Pilgrim and Robyn Haddon

Arranged by Rory Pilgrim 

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Concert Musicians

Harp and Piano: Rory Pilgrim 

Conductor: Jack Sheen 

London Contemporary Orchestra Players: 

Flute: Clare Bennett

Clarinet: Alastair Penman

Horn: Anna Drysdale 

Violin 1: Sophie Mather

Violin 2: Blaize Henry 

Viola: Freya Hicks

Cello: Sergio Serra 

Drums and percussion: Kai Akinde-Hummel

Choir: Marged Siôn, Ben Francis, Rick Leigh, Todd Harris, Dan Lewis, Karoline Gable, Kate Marlais, Levi Heaton, Sophie Galpin, Seraphina D’Arby

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RAFTS Partners:

Green Shoes Arts

Barking Dagenham Youth Dance

London Contemporary Orchestra 

Interfaith Homeless Shelter, Project Well Being 

RAFTS was commissioned by Serpentine Civic for Radio Ballads, in partnership with New Town Culture, a Cultural Impact Award-winning project, part of London Borough of Culture, a Mayor of London initiative.

Following strangers, we turn to the people our lives are first entangled with: our families. Family is a contested and challenging space for some, while being a place where others find sanctuary, safety, and profound relationships. This episode considers different expectations and realities of love, care and identity within biological and chosen families, and asks how we intentionally nurture, negotiate and shift our family relationships.

How and why do artists involve their family members and homes in their work – and what do they need to take into consideration when bringing this to an audience?

Featuring an original sound work by Angelo Madsen Minax, an interview with Hetain Patel, audio excerpts from projects led by Helen Cammock and Rehana Zaman from the Serpentine archive, and Serpentine curator Lizzie Graham in conversation with Gaylene Gould.

Subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now to be the first to hear new Intimacies episodes.

You can connect with the series on socials @serpentineuk, and you can find more information and full descriptive transcripts at www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/serpentine-podcast-intimacies/.

CREDITS

Hosted by Gaylene Gould

Produced by Katie Callin (Reduced Listening)

Production support by Nada Smiljanic (Reduced Listening)

Executive production by Anishka Sharma (Reduced Listening)

Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen

Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson (Reduced Listening)

Theme music by Hinako Omori

Visual identity by the unloved

Reading from the introduction to adrienne maree brown’s Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (2021, AK Press).

ABOUT INTIMACIES

Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies explores the complexities of closeness, and asks how we can expand and evolve our intimacy with others, ourselves, and the world around us. Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and more on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.

Confronting the slippery topics of fear, vulnerability, sex, love and loneliness in art and life, the Intimacies series delves into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves. Each episode combines interviews, original audio works, conversations, and pieces from the Serpentine archive. This series itself is personal, emotional, reflective, and an exploration of vulnerability in many ways. 

On Practice: Cooking asks how cooking can bring people together and provide nourishment and care? What are the ways that cooking together can open up difficult conversations - about racism, colonialism and migration? 

This episode highlights artist Jasleen Kaur’s collaboration with women from the Portman Early Childhood Centre through the Changing Play project Everyday Resistance, and includes Yogyakarta based artist and researcher Elia Nurvista’s reflections on food and power, and researcher and cook Fozia Ismail speaking about food as resistance.

On Practice is produced by Reduced Listening.

Image Credit: Joy Yamusangie. 

Show Notes

Over the last year through the pandemic, we’ve seen more than ever how our individual actions impact others, how we’re all interdependent. This three-part podcast series explores the practices that can sustain us individually and collectively – Cooking, Listening and Walking - and how they can be used to bring people together to work towards change. Hosts Amal Khalaf and Alex Thorp welcome artists, collaborators and friends to explore ideas and projects developed as part of Serpentine’s Education and Civic programme, which connect communities, artists and activists to generate responses to pressing social issues. These are projects that have been developed in collaboration with people, centred on the body, the city, and exploring the injustices we experience in our everyday life. Hear from Jasleen Kaur, Elia Nurvista, Fozia Ismail, Ain Bailey, Micro Rainbow, Portman Early Childhood Centre, Ultra-red, Ximena Alarcón, Sam Curtis, Tim Ingold, Voice of Domestic Workers and Katouche Goll.

Each of the three episodes are accompanied by an exercise, kindly shared by the artists, an invitation to join their practice.

Jasleen Kaur was born in Glasgow and is now based in London. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within the material and immaterial things that surround us. Her practice examines diasporic identity and hierarchies of history, both colonial and personal. She works with sculpture, video and writing.

Recent and forthcoming presentations include exhibitions and projects at the Wellcome Collection, UP Projects, Glasgow Women’s Library, Market Gallery, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Eastside Projects and Hollybush Gardens. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Government Art Collection, Touchstones Rochdale and the Crafts Council.

https://youtu.be/1j5XreNGtYk?t=1644 

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/everyday-resistance/ 

Instagram: @_jasleen.kaur_

Fozia Ismail, scholar, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats, a platform for exploring politics, identity and colonialism through East African food. Ismail is a researcher writing about race and British identity and has spoken at the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, designed workshops with Keep It Complex, Jerwood Project Space and the Museum of London using food as a method to think through issues around race and empire in Britain today. Fozia is also part of Dhaquan Collective, a feminist art collective of Somali women, centering the voices of womxn and elders in the community, and privileging co-creation and collaboration. She was a City Fellow for the Arnolfini, Bristol in 2019.  Her work has been published and featured in a range of media including Observer Food Magazine, Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery and BBC Radio 4 Food Programme.  

https://www.dhaqan.org/ 

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/radical-kitchen-2018-fozia-ismail-chilli/
https://www.araweloeats.com/ 

https://oxfordculturalcollective.com/fozia-ismail-food-as-resistance/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BfCuBZdhlc&list=PLbP2rruaw4OvyHmG5tYtqgtJ67xIJ5rOf&index=1 

Instagram: @arawelo_eats

Elia Nurvista is an artist who lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms — from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes — are Nurvista’s entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. She runs Bakudapan, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects, and her social research forms the background of her individual projects, presented through mixed media installations, food workshops and group discussion. Her previous installations use a range of materials from crystalline sugar sculptures to sacks of rice, often incorporating video or mural painting and an element of audience interaction.

www.elianurvista.com

www.bakudapan.com

Instagram: @elianurvista

What are earth, land, soil, ground and dirt? Join us in that place which is simultaneously ground, land, soil and Earth, that is to say, where diverse species come together, collaborate, communicate and constitute one another but also where complex systems of redistribution of toxicity, logics of extraction and geopolitics meet.

This episode is a collaboration between Future Ecologies and Serpentine Podcast, developed in response to Serpentine’s General Ecology event, The Understory of the Understory, which brought together practitioners from many disciplines to consider the ground beneath our feet across ecologies, politics and spiritualities. 

Invited to respond to the interventions presented over two days in December 2020, Future Ecologies have “composted” The Understory into a choral, poetic essay. 

Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLrFzV6gBibe24y5EIg2vSQVRg9Ia2Hdr 

Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLrFzV6gBibejZdlR6fIdLP1rdB0xiZWK 

General Ecology is the Serpentine’s long-term, cross-organisational, multi-disciplinary and cross-media project dedicated to embedding ecological principles and commitments throughout the Galleries’ programmes, networks and infrastructure. 

Future Ecologies is a podcast about relationships: between, within, amongst, and all around us. Made for audiophiles and nature lovers alike, every episode is an invitation to see the world in a new light – set to original music & immersive soundscapes, and weaving together interviews with expert knowledge holders.

Hosts: Mendel Skulski and Adam Huggins

Produced by: Future Ecologies

Sound credits: Thanks to all participants of the event for their contributions and to Cat Can Do, Scott Gailey, Hotspring, Yu Su, Barren House, Kanahuaxtli, You’re Me, Hidden Sky, Greenplant, YaYa Bones, and Sunfish Moon Light for sounds throughout the episode. 

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is curated by Lucia Pietroiusti (Curator, General Ecology, Serpentine Galleries) Filipa Ramos, writer, animal whisperer with Kostas Stasinopoulos (Assistant Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine Galleries). Produced by Holly Shuttleworth (Producer, Serpentine Galleries) and Visual Identity by Giles Round.

“Combustible Communities”
On the occasion of the General Ecology festival, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Podcast hosts the three-part series, "On Fire" from Future Ecologies: A story of burning, first released in 2018. Sign up to The Understory of the Understory at https://bit.ly/FishyGround.

In this second part of this multi-episode series, On Fire, Adam Huggins and Mendel Skulski look at ways to move our civilisation forward – without continuing to deny the role of fire in our landscapes. They discuss how prescribed burns are currently conducted, radical new (and old) perspectives on land management policy, and practical techniques for everyone in fire country to protect their homes, their communities, and their forests. With guests Bill Tripp and Erik Ohlsen.

Find out more about Future Ecologies and subscribe at https://www.futureecologies.net/. Transcript at https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe1-6-on-fire-pt-2#transcript. Image by Ken Meinhart.  

#FutureEcologies #GeneralEcology #SerpentinePodcast @Futureecologies @SerpentineUK

Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine’s long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency.

For this podcast series we’ve invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, poet Bhanu Kapil shares a creative gesture to link cosmic energy to the earthly domain and an instruction for all those fighting for climate justice focusing on the question: What do you never want to experience in this space?

Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos.

Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book.

This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

We now move from a space of fear into desire – asking how art can be a space to express, explore and experience the supposedly private sphere of sexuality.

In our desires, what is the interplay between distance and closeness? How do attraction and obsession intersect with other aspects of our lives? What happens when intimate pleasures and partnerships inform art-making – and when that work is brought before a public?

Featuring an original sound work by Pixy Liao, an interview with Tiona Nekkia McClodden, an unpublished sex column reading by Brontez Purnell, and Serpentine curator Hanna Girma in conversation with Gaylene Gould.

Subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now to be the first to hear new Intimacies episodes.

You can connect with the series on socials @serpentineuk, and you can find more information and full descriptive transcripts at www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/serpentine-podcast-intimacies/.

CREDITS

Hosted by Gaylene Gould

Produced by Katie Callin (Reduced Listening)

Production support by Nada Smiljanic (Reduced Listening)

Executive production by Anishka Sharma (Reduced Listening)

Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen

Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson (Reduced Listening)

Theme music by Hinako Omori

Visual identity by the unloved

ABOUT INTIMACIES

Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies explores the complexities of closeness, and asks how we can expand and evolve our intimacy with others, ourselves, and the world around us. Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and more on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.

Confronting the slippery topics of fear, vulnerability, sex, love and loneliness in art and life, the Intimacies series delves into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves. Each episode combines interviews, original audio works, conversations, and pieces from the Serpentine archive. This series itself is personal, emotional, reflective, and an exploration of vulnerability in many ways. 

How can botanical knowledge support practices of ecological and personal healing? In episode 4: By Leaves We Listen, hosts Victoria Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti are joined by Emma Nicolson, Head of Creative Programmes at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Emma moderates a roundtable with artists Keg de Souza, Nabihah Iqbal and botanist Greg Kenicer. Featuring sound works by Rachel Pimm and Keg de Souza.

Image: 2019, Rachel Pimm, (The Great Exhibition of) The Works of Cash Crops.

The episode is a programming collaboration between Serpentine and Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners’ Grant.

This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.

This new series of Serpentine Podcast explores the complexities of closeness. Released weekly from 22 August 2023, Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies asks how we can expand and evolve our intimacy with others, ourselves and the world around us. 

Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and more on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselves up to new possibilities for connection. 

Confronting the slippery topics of fear, vulnerability, sex, love, and loneliness in art and life, the Intimacies series delves into the feelings and experiences which we don’t always voice – from our relationships with family or strangers, to the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to our surroundings and our innermost selves. Each episode combines interviews, original audio works, conversations, and pieces from the Serpentine archive. This series itself is personal, emotional, reflective, and an exploration of vulnerability in many ways. 

Subscribe now to be the first to hear new episodes.

You can find out more at www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/serpentine-podcast/ and on socials @serpentineuk

TRANSCRIPT

[curious, warm, ambient tones]

Ident: Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies (echoes).

Gaylene Gould: What does intimacy mean to you?

[slow, thoughtful ambient music continues under voices]

Tiona Nekkia McClodden: I think of intimacy generally as the things that I know about myself that other people don't know.

Adrian Piper [voice actor with effects]: A meeting of minds.

Tomás Saraceno: Sometimes it's so precious that you're afraid to share it and you want to keep it as your last resource because you're afraid to be too vulnerable. It's important to share that, let's not be afraid.

Gaylene Gould: How can we expand and evolve our intimacy with ourselves, others, and the world around us?

[birdsong alongside music]

Olivia Laing: Intimacy requires risking something of your own ugliness, your own sort of less flattering angles. You can't get intimate when you are trying to present an armour.

Gaylene Gould: I’m Gaylene Gould, an artist, and explorer of ideas. I host Serpentine Podcast, and in our new series we are exploring the complexities of closeness. Last series, we were reimagining the world, and it's now time to look within ourselves, and our relationships with those around us. Getting up close, personal and raw. 

Scottee: If I spot something in somebody that I feel is close to me, I feel like I understand you, or we might understand each other. I think you start to find parallels between people that maybe are slightly abstract from your own, but you can see a gauze through the world in a similar way.

Gaylene Gould: I feel my sense of intimacy has been disrupted in recent times. So, I want to challenge myself to connect with more courage and ask braver questions. That’s what this series represents. We’ll be interrogating intimacy in unexpected ways. From our relationships with family or strangers, the things we fear most and our deepest desires, to the way our surroundings influence our intimacy, and of course, intimacy with our innermost selves.

Hetain Patel: It was kind of a mind-blowing experience, you know? It was very emotional, probably for all of us, for me and my family. I don't think it's an understatement to say it changed our relationship and things changed from there.

[sounds of a surrounding park]

Lina Ghotmeh: There's this moment of peacefulness, actually, where you're really in a timeless kind of bubble or environment. And there's a lot of wonder and, and intimacy, actually, because you feel how belonging we are to nature, to Earth, in a way…

[running water]

Pixy Liao: We are creating a world just for the two of us. A place we can always go back to that is safe and warm. A cult with only two members…

[music returns to curious, ambient tones]

Gaylene Gould: Each episode we’ll be untangling webs of intimacies through interviews with artists, writers and thinkers. We’ll be featuring new sound work, as well as diving into Serpentine’s huge archive of past programmes. 

You can find Serpentine Podcast, Intimacies, on any podcast platform weekly, starting on Tuesday 22nd of August.

Subscribe to Serpentine Podcast now to be the first to hear new episodes.

CREDITS

Hosted by Gaylene Gould

Produced by Katie Callin (Reduced Listening)

Production support by Nada Smiljanic (Reduced Listening)

Executive production by Anishka Sharma (Reduced Listening)

Curated by Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen

Mix engineering by Jesse Lawson (Reduced Listening)

Theme music by Hinako Omori

Visual identity by the unloved

Do you work for pleasure, or work to survive? We teamed up with Furtherfield, another gallery in London to discuss Playbour and gamification. Hosts Lucia and Victoria also listen to Treebour: an audio art piece by Marija Bozinovska Jones, originally created for Furtherfield’s Playbour exhibition.

What part of your work are you least valued for? What aspects of your work life are invisible? Do we seek to make them visible or not...what are the implications for interspecies and posthuman landscapes? We teamed up with the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.

Did we welcome work into the home? Has our existence transformed through this new environment? We teamed up with the Design Museum to think about how the merging of work and home life: the new work-home environment has transformed domestic life, challenging traditional notions of privacy, efficiency and ideas around domestic labour.

You get it, it’s all about labour, we make today’s episode in one day, scripted, recorded and edited - straight from the Royal Geographic Society + 70 guests… we work for work! Wth Stella Creasy, Wilson Oryema, Nick Srnicek, Nanu Al-Hamad, Beatriz Colomina, and more. 

Ever considered the function of art as an anthropological question? How do you find your identity as an artist? What does it mean to make work as an artist? We talk with Daniel Ross, Jon Gray, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Sir David Adjaye. 

It’s not just Marcel Proust and Truman Capote who do their best work in bed anymore, now we all do! Beatriz Colomina engages in horizontal thinking and welcomes guests into her bed: Katharine Vega, Nina Power, and Matthew Fuller. Plus new temporal realities with Dr Helga Schmid, and a performance from Precious Okoyomon. Podcast produced in collaboration with Reduced Listening.

Karl Marc rapping plus how will political participation look when technology brings about the collapse of capitalism? It's a big one + some big guests. Can there ever be a universal basic income? Intelligence Squared panel bring us up to speed on all things UBI. Podcast produced in collaboration with Reduced Listening.

How are algorithms shaping the world of work? We team up with IMPAKT Festival to explore how data and public space are interlinked + how sound is shaped by data. The Demystification Committee share sounds from the 2010 Flash Crash and we listen in on a discussion on data and public space between Judith Bihr, Charlie Clemoes and Albert Meijer, chaired by Marina Otero. (369) Podcast produced in collaboration with Reduced Listening

In our own bodies, we are outnumbered 9-to-1 by non-human cells. If we as humans need these organisms to function, what exactly do we mean when we think of ourselves as 'an individual'? What new ecological insights can be gained from thinking of the planet as an organism in itself? Tune in, and get in and out of your body.

What new ecological insights can be gained from thinking of the planet as an organism in itself? As humans, we have a need to simplify our surroundings to understand them. How can we communicate the complexity of the world in a way we understand, without losing its meaning?

Curators for Serpentine Projects and Serpentine Education - Amal Khalaf and Alex Thorp bring us sounds from their one-day forum at Conway Hall in London, Rights to the City?. We hear artists, activists and educators from across the world considering how artists, institutions and people can transform society. Hosts: Amal Khalaf & Alex Thorp Production: Paul Smith for Reduced Listening Mixing: Steve Wyatt

Ancient Greeks used orchids and lettuce to enhance and suppress sexual appetite. Thinking beyond plants as a backdrop or decoration, what do they teach us about sex and desire? Reflecting on the long and deep relationship between botany, eroticism, agriculture and myth, this episode will make you see, hear and feel plants like never before.

Roots move towards water. Leaves grow towards the sun. Plants don’t have neurons… Does it matter? How else can they remember, and learn from their experiences? We consider plant intelligence, and what we mean when we talk about intelligence in the first place. Join us in thinking with plants.