Serpentine Podcast

As our journey through intimacy draws to a close, it's time to look inward and reflect on how we can get closer to ourselves. We're considering ideas of self-knowledge and self-love, alongside what it means to draw on your own life and experiences in a creative practice. What do artists who bring personal and intimate narratives into their work encounter? How can we open up to our vulnerability an...

This episode opens up to consider intimacy with the world around us. Today, many of us feel – and are – disconnected from place, and not everyone feels equally at home in the spaces we move through. Ranging from urban and built environments to social and digital worlds, this episode asks what we need to be able to feel comfortable and intimate with our surroundings. How are artists challenging and...

We now move from a space of fear into desire – asking how art can be a space to express, explore and experience the supposedly private sphere of sexuality. In our desires, what is the interplay between distance and closeness? How do attraction and obsession intersect with other aspects of our lives? What happens when intimate pleasures and partnerships inform art-making – and when that work is bro...

Sometimes the things we fear live as intimately within us as the things we love. These fears are rarely distant from us: we are sometimes closely implicated in them, and fear is a visceral, personal experience. Fear and anxiety can be irrational, or rooted in realities that threaten us unevenly. When can we transform our phobia into an embrace? How do we find ways to live alongside the threats of...

Following strangers, we turn to the people our lives are first entangled with: our families. Family is a contested and challenging space for some, while being a place where others find sanctuary, safety, and profound relationships. This episode considers different expectations and realities of love, care and identity within biological and chosen families, and asks how we intentionally nurture, neg...

We start our journey into intimacy by considering our interactions with strangers. The unexpected crossing of paths between people who have no knowledge of each other can be emotionally impactful, whether these moments leave us unsettled, or uplifted by a sense of hope and connection. What forms of proximity arise between strangers in public spaces? How and why do artists make work which invites n...

This new series of Serpentine Podcast explores the complexities of closeness. Released weekly from 22 August 2023, Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies asks how we can expand and evolve our intimacy with others, ourselves and the world around us.  Join our host, Gaylene Gould, as she gathers perspectives from artists, designers, writers, thinkers, and more on how we can rekindle trust, and open ourselve...

What changes can we carry forward from our REWORLDING journey – and how has it changed us? In this bonus episode, our host Gaylene Gould shares personal reflections on REWORLDING , connecting the moments that moved her with projects, ideas and understandings that have emerged following the series. This moment to pause and look back is also a chance to look forward, as we reveal exciting news about...

How can relationships transform us, and our world? The final episode of the series explores how artists are actively collaborating with communities to change their daily realities, and how they are engaging collective dreaming and challenging their own ways of connecting to others. ___ Featuring Rory Pilgrim, Richard Sennett, Sumayya Vally, Amal Khalaf (Civic Curator, Serpentine), and music, perfo...

How do we co-create our world with other species, and how are artists working with these beings in response to ecological instability? This episode of REWORLDING reflects on the need for reconnection, healing and regeneration, and showcases art that celebrates our connection to a wider web of life and plays an active role in nurturing other lifeforms. __ This episode features: Alexandra Daisy Gins...

How can the way we play change the way we live? How are creativity, collaboration, and change adaptation related, and why do these activities help people to thrive?   In the third episode of the REWORLDING series, host Gaylene Gould speaks to artists and architects who are creating new possibilities through play spaces, games, and playable digital realities, and asking what these can teach us abou...

How can looking back alter what we wish for the future? In this episode, artists and researchers discuss how they question accepted histories, and how reapproaching the past creatively can open up possibilities in the present. __ This episode features Samson Kambalu, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Zing Tsjeng, Yesomi Umolu (Director of Curatorial Affairs & Public Practice, Serpentine), Etel Adnan & Gavin B...

Can fiction remake reality? In the first episode of REWORLDING , we hear from artists, musicians and writers who use dreaming and imagination to remake worlds. __ This episode features Tai Shani, Irenosen Okojie reading ' Black Planetarium ', Heavens by Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen, the Holorama soundscape by Perez & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster from Alienarium 5 , Kostas Stasinopoulos (Associate...

What is a world, and how do we begin to reshape it? Introducing REWORLDING – a new Serpentine Podcast series, hosted by Gaylene Gould. The podcast features international artists, thinkers, writers, designers, and other practitioners who are dreaming of a shift in our reality. Contributors include Tai Shani, Etel Adnan, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Es Devlin, Gabriel Massan, Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, H...

In Jay Bernard's Crystals of this Social Substance , we hear eight young people from South London discuss money in a conversation that circulates around class, economics and inequality. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

Reflecting on Brixton's sites of community care and resistance, Ain Bailey's Atlantic Railton brings together a series of intimate conversations and sonic resonances. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

In this work by Torkwase Dyson, an impactful collage of sound embodies breathing in relation to the environment, the politics of space, and the rights of Black bodies. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

Rooted in thinking about the landscape around Serpentine, Brian Eno's IN A GARDEN creates a generative space through layered sound. This audio commission is part of Sound Gallery, a series that invites us to listen actively. 

Moss Matters is a sound work devised by students of the Royal College of Art's School of Architecture studio ADS3, on the occasion of Serpentine's Back to Earth  project. Moss Matters , explores the urban ecology of London's moss species, revealing what these resilient organisms can teach us about the life of the city. Listen from anywhere, or download the map and follow the audio walk along the R...

How can gaming and virtual world-building help us design better cultural architecture and infrastructures? What does the metaverse show us about community building and the co-creation of experience? And what do 'antecedent' technologies have to show us about creating ethical frameworks? Taking an intergenerational view, we join Native American artist and technologist Amelia Winger-Bearskin and And...

'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 McMillian (The Black Movement Library) to find out ho...

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 t...

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 t...

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 t...

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 t...