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Projects that connect communities and artists to generate responses to pressing social issues.

Arts Technologies

Working with artists to explore and experiment with the most advanced technologies of our day.

General Ecology

Our ongoing project researching complexity, posthumanism, the environment and climate change.
Home Video: A Conversation on the Role of Video in Current Housing Struggles
In Conversation

Home Video: A Conversation on the Role of Video in Current Housing Struggles

Ed Webb-Ingall, Hannan Majid, Dhelia Snoussi, Caterina Sartori, 13 May 2022

In the context of the UK's housing crisis, Ed Webb-Ingall speaks to three activists about how video-making is used in struggles for safe and affordable homes.

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Reading List: Helen Cammock for Radio Ballads

Fiona Glen and Lizzie Graham, 13 May 2022

How can we speak, write, and think, of care? This reading list invites you to consider how we relate to one another and create frameworks for caring action.

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Sound Gallery: Breathtaking: On Black Beauty and Other Necessary Indeterminacies by Torkwase Dyson
Serpentine Podcast

Sound Gallery: Breathtaking: On Black Beauty and Other Necessary Indeterminacies by Torkwase Dyson

6 May 2022

Torkwase Dyson's commission for Sound Gallery embodies breath in relation to the politics of space, the environment, and the rights of Black bodies to breathe.

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Sound Gallery: IN A GARDEN by Brian Eno
Serpentine Podcast

Sound Gallery: IN A GARDEN by Brian Eno

6 May 2022

Rooted in thinking about the landscape around Serpentine, Brian Eno's audio commission, IN A GARDEN, invites us into a generative space made of layered sound.

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Where Soul and City Connect: A Personal Reflection on Serpentine Pavilion 2021
In Focus

Where Soul and City Connect: A Personal Reflection on Serpentine Pavilion 2021

Nadia Joseph, 13 Apr 2022

Nadia Joseph, a team member of New Beacon Books, reflects on her experience of the Pavilion and how it resonated with many aspects of her life.

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Jennifer Packer: The Heavy Lightness of Black Breath

Jennifer Packer: The Heavy Lightness of Black Breath

Tina M. Campt, 23 Feb 2022

Renowned Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, Tina M. Campt, recounts her time suspended in the paintings of Jennifer Packer.

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In Conversation

Invitation to Listen: Sophia Al-Maria and Melissa Blanchflower with Nick Hackworth

22 Feb 2022

Sophia Al-Maria discusses her commission, taraxos, with Serpentine's Melissa Blanchflower and Nick Hackworth, Director of Modern Forms.

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Interspecies Communication Research Initiative (ISCRI): A Cephalopod ↔ Machine Encounter
Interview

Interspecies Communication Research Initiative (ISCRI): A Cephalopod ↔ Machine Encounter

25 Jan 2022

Alasdair Milne, a researcher with Serpentine’s Creative AI Lab, dives into possibilities for creative collaboration between artists, AI and octopi. 

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Serpentine Podcast: On Practice

On Practice: Cooking
Serpentine Podcast

On Practice: Cooking

5 Mar 2021

How can cooking bring people together and provide nourishment and care?

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On Practice: Listening
Serpentine Podcast

On Practice: Listening

5 Mar 2021

How can listening form a space of political encounter?

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On Practice: Walking
Serpentine Podcast

On Practice: Walking

5 Mar 2021

How can walking be used as a tool for resistance and change?

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Reading List: On Practice

Reading List: On Practice

5 Mar 2021

A reading list compiled by Serpentine Education & Civic Curators on the occasion of a new podcast series: On Practice.

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Art + Technology

Artists World Illustration
In Focus

Ecological World-Building: From Science Fiction to Virtual Reality

2 Mar 2021

Alice Bucknell draws a line from the otherworldly, ecological imaginings of writers like Octavia Butler to the "digital gardening" practices of artists like Jak...

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An Introduction to Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s New Realities
In Focus

An Introduction to Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s New Realities

23 Feb 2021

To encounter the immersive virtual landscapes and meditative soundscapes of Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen is to be transported to a new world.

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Jenna Sutela, I Magma App, 2019. Co-commissioned by Moderna Museet and Serpentine Galleries, 2019. Image courtesy of the artist.
Serpentine Podcast

Back to Earth: Systems and Sprouts

9 Jul 2020

How are artists using technologies to imagine alternate realities, new alien languages and manipulate time?

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Filmmaker Kim Heecheon is Using Technology to Test the Limits of Reality
Interview

Filmmaker Kim Heecheon is Using Technology to Test the Limits of Reality

29 Sep 2020

Kim Heecheon and Hans Ulrich Obrist discuss discuss world-building, virtual reality and Pokémon GO.

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The umbra of an imago: Writing under control of machine learning
In Focus

The umbra of an imago: Writing under control of machine learning

14 Aug 2020

Allison Parrish draws parallels between automatic writing and writing under the control of automation.

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Rebecca Allen on Kraftwerk, Video Games and Artificial Life
Interview

Rebecca Allen on Kraftwerk, Video Games and Artificial Life

17 Sep 2020

"Artists are inventors too; coming up with new ideas and new forms of expression, so to be in a research lab and to be an artist inventing new things made a lot...

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Aesthetics of New AI
In Focus

Aesthetics of New AI

10 Nov 2020

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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Back to Earth

Into The Archives: Vivienne Westwood's Climate Activism
In Focus

Into The Archives: Vivienne Westwood's Climate Activism

10 Mar 2021

We take a look back at the pioneer’s ongoing relationship with Serpentine.

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In Conversation: Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen with Lucia Pietroiusti
In Conversation

In Conversation: Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen with Lucia Pietroiusti

28 Jan 2021

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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Back to Earth: Standing with the Forest
Serpentine Podcast

Back to Earth: Standing with the Forest

7 Aug 2020

We listen to Indigenous organisations fighting extraction and climate change and the artists working with them.

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Back to Earth: Queer Currents
Serpentine Podcast

Back to Earth: Queer Currents

21 Aug 2020

Artists and thinkers join the dots between queer theory and environmental activism and climate justice.

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Serpentine Podcast

Bringing together the artists, writers and thinkers of our time to explore timely questions around technology, ecology and equality.

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Archive

Discover 50 years of the Serpentine

From the architecture pavilion and digital commissions to the ideas marathon and the General Ecology programme, explore 50 years of artists, projects and exhibitions.

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