Back to Earth: Vivienne Westwood

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“We’ve got 5 years to fix it.”

Vivienne Westwood is calling on you to #SWITCH to green energy for Back to Earth.

Explore the activist’s campaign here.

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Explore Serpentine's programmes online through events, interviews, video and podcasts.

Vivienne Westwood: SWITCH
Artist Campaign Project

Vivienne Westwood: SWITCH

Online Offsite International Late 2021

A call to action by Vivienne Westwood to SWITCH to green energy

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Glitch Feminism: Legacy Russell & Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation
Online Event

Glitch Feminism: Legacy Russell & Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation

Online 17 Mar 2021

Legacy Russell and Hans Urich Obrist as they on becoming your avatar, glitch as resistance and the radical, emancipatory potential of the internet.

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General Ecology: The Story of the Understory of the Understory
Audio

General Ecology: The Story of the Understory of the Understory

Future Ecologies respond to 'The Understory of the Understory' festival.

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Artist Worlds: Primal Tourism
Online Event Digital

Artist Worlds: Primal Tourism

Online 16 Mar 2021 BSL Interpreted Closed Captions

Join artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen and friends in this experimental live multiplayer virtual event focused on the interrelationship between ecology, sustainabilit...

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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Artist Campaign Project

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Online Offsite Late 2021

An artwork for pollinators.

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Tai Shani: Untitled Hieroglyphs
Artist Campaign Project

Tai Shani: Untitled Hieroglyphs

Online Late 2021

A feminist history and mythology of the Ergot fungus.

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In Conversation: Tai Shani, Untitled Hieroglyphs
Article

In Conversation: Tai Shani, Untitled Hieroglyphs

Back to Earth artists consider how art, design and philosophy can effect long-term change in the face of ecological crisis.

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General Ecology

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Explore the Serpentine’s long-term project researching more-than-humanism, climate justice and environmental balance.

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish
Project Project

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish

Ongoing

A multi-year, interdisciplinary festival and research project, part of the General Ecology project.

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Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Trapped 2
Live Live

The Long Time Sessions

Online Ongoing

A fortnightly online talk series on cultivating care for the world beyond our lifetimes.

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PLANTSEX
Live Live

PLANTSEX

Offsite 12 Apr 2019

An evening of talks, screenings and performances reflecting on the long and deep relationship between botany and eroticism.

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General Ecology

General Ecology

Our ongoing project researching complexity, posthumanism, the environment and climate change.

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Serpentine Podcast Ecology
Audio

General Ecology: We Make Tomorrow

What are artists’ roles in knowing or making tomorrow? What are alternative ways of knowing our planet?

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Cecilia Vicuña Park Nights 2019

Art & Ideas

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Back to Earth: Can I Get Back To You?
Audio

Back to Earth: Can I Get Back To You?

Artists, poets and curators consider where the environmental and the artistic truly meet?

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Jennifer Packer's Political Still Lifes & Intimate Portraits Centre Black lives
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Jennifer Packer's Political Still Lifes & Intimate Portraits Centre Black lives

Get acquainted with the work of New York-based painter Jennifer Packer and some of the works in her exhibition, The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing.

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Reading List: The Understory of the Understory
Article

Reading List: The Understory of the Understory

A reading list from the team behind The Understory of the Understory, an art & ecology festival on soil, earth, land and ground.

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Aesthetics of New AI
Article

Aesthetics of New AI

How do we find the balance between researching AI as a technical object, without distancing it as “other” to the human?

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Designer Yasaman Sheri on Building more Pathways for Art-Science Creativity (and Eavesdropping on Bacteria)
Article

Designer Yasaman Sheri on Building more Pathways for Art-Science Creativity (and Eavesdropping on Bacteria)

Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategist at the Serpentine, speaks to Yasaman Sheri about her multifaceted practice, the challenges of art and science collaboration...

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Bloomberg Connects

Discover more from the Serpentine with our free Bloomberg Connects digital guide. Hear from artists, curators and special guests talking in-depth about Serpentine exhibitions.

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