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Pratyusha, 14 Sep 2022

A newly commissioned poem by Pratyusha, engaging with the voices and worlds of the Back to Earth exhibition.

A photograph of a woman wearing a colourful sixties suit and holding a red umbrella, posing in a children's playpark

Photo Poetry: Three Responses to James Barnor's Archive

1 Jun 2022

Samatar Elmi, Louisa Adjoa Parker and Amina Jama write poetry in response to the vivid photographs of British-Ghanaian photographer, James Barnor.

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In Conversation: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Rebecca Lewin

18 Feb 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

7 Aug 2020

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

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Spring is dangerous, like love. And love survives the lovers.

29 Mar 2021

Himali Singh Soin, together with curator Kostas Stasinopoulos, asked friends to share messages, traces and transmissions of love.

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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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140 Ideas

19 Jun 2021

A new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth.

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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: Queer Currents

21 Aug 2020

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

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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

6 May 2022

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

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Sound Gallery: Atlantic Railton by Ain Bailey

22 Jul 2022

In Ain Bailey's sound work, we hear intimate conversations and sonic resonances that reflect Brixton's sites of care and resistance.

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Sound Gallery: Crystals of this Social Substance by Jay Bernard

22 Jul 2022

Jay Bernard's audio work for the Sound Gallery series brings eight young people into conversation on class, economics and inequality.

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

21 Oct 2020

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

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The Interfaces of AI Art Practices

30 Mar 2021

If machine learning is a new paradigm in computing, then why is there no new interface?

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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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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 Jakob Kudsk Steensen and Jen...

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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 of sense to me." Rebecc...

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