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 Under...
Feb 26, 2021•53 min•Season 2Ep. 6
“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 ...
Dec 21, 2020•11 min
"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...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 5 min
“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 – witho...
Nov 27, 2020•56 min
“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...
Nov 20, 2020•52 min
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 wh...
Nov 13, 2020•25 min•Season 3Ep. 9
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 c...
Aug 21, 2020•47 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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 e...
Aug 07, 2020•50 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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 sp...
Jul 09, 2020•43 min•Season 3Ep. 6
What does design look like when it begins from a position of ecological responsibility? What does designing with and for the non-human mean? Host Victoria Sin is joined by Rebecca Lewin, Curator of Exhibitions and Design, together they dive into everything from eco-design led exhibition making, to asking questions about the future of design education and ecological practices. Lewin is joined by Formafantasma, Dunne & Raby and sound works from Black Quantum Futurism. Formafantasma talk about ...
Jun 25, 2020•43 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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. https://www.blac...
Jun 19, 2020•40 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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 Dr...
May 22, 2020•38 min•Season 2Ep. 5
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 ...
Apr 27, 2020•43 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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....
Apr 17, 2020•37 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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’ Gra...
Apr 03, 2020•35 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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.
May 31, 2019•29 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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.
May 16, 2019•26 min•Season 2Ep. 3
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
May 03, 2019•29 min
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?
Jan 31, 2019•44 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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.
Jan 11, 2019•39 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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
Nov 22, 2018•52 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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.
Nov 08, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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.
Oct 25, 2018•58 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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.
Oct 11, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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.
Sep 27, 2018•25 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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.
Sep 13, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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.
Aug 30, 2018•41 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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.
Aug 16, 2018•47 min•Season 1Ep. 1
