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‘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 McMillan (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 Eyde-Lindner from Reduced Listening. Additional sound design by Alx Suutoo Dabo.

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,

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 Clau

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 Clau

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 Ser

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.

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,

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 ri

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 s

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 Th

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

“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 prelud

"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/. Trans

“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 Meinha

“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 Skul

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 Fiorucc

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.

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

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://futurearte

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 their exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, Cambio, and the ways in which the project will be intertwined with the Masters course they are initiating at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2020.    Dunne & Raby explore about their relationship to speculative design, the importance of teaching in their practice as designers and the role of museums to communicate radical design thinking.    Black Quantum Futurism's sound work Temporal Technologies is part of a series seeking strategies for survival for marginalised