Lucia Pietroiusti: Art & Ecology projects

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Something beautiful sometimes appears, when you’re not looking for it

Text for Catalina León, Galeria Mayoral, September 2024

Part of the Infinite Ecologies Marathon, Serpentine, 13 July 2024.
With Kalpana Arias, Marcus Coates, Annalee Davis, Belinda Holden, Caroline A. Jones, Sandra Knecht, Remi Kuforiji, Eva Papamargariti, Yinka Shonibare, Graeme Smith and Carla Subrizi.

The Sacred, the System and the Place of Shelter

Presentation at FRAME Contemporary Art Finland’s Sustainable Visual Arts Day, 24 June 2024

In conversation with Love Ssega at 5x15: Art & Nature

Kew Gardens, 8 May 2024

Snakes

Text for Catalunya @ Venice, 2024. Carlos Casas, curated by Filipa Ramos.

The Art Of… Kapwani Kiwanga

Video contribution on the occasion of Kapwani Kiwanga’s Canadian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2024. Produced by Goodman Gallery.

Songs for the Changing Seasons

With Filipa Ramos. Vienna Klima Biennale, 5 April - 14 July 2024

Sun & Sea

Curator

An opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė and Lina Lapelytė. Golden Lion for Best National Participation

Lithuanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2019 & international tour, 2020-2023

Infinite Ecologies Marathon: The Prelude

14 October 2023, Serpentine, London

Hospicing Modernity: A conversation with Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti

Published on e-flux Journal #139, October 2023.

General Ecology

General Ecology is the Serpentine’s long-term and ongoing project researching complexity, more-than-humanism, climate justice and environmental balance.

Senses of Purpose

Contribution to “The Handbook of Cultural Work”, Bloomsbury / Onassis Stegi, 2024.

The Worldbuilders: The Influence of Fantasy Literature on Production Design

With Deb Riley, Will Htay and Adam Brockbank. Moderated by Lucia Pietroiusti, curated by Jo Paton Htay and Will Htay. British Library, 24 February 2024

We shall by morning inherit the Earth

On Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp’s The Creeping Garden. For e-flux Film’s programme, Uncomputables: On Cybernetics and Alien Intelligences programmed by Agnieszka Kurant, February 2024.

An Act of Wonder and Gratitude

A forest cinema programme curated by Lucia Pietroiusti, with Patricia Dominguez, Kyriaki Goni, Ailton Krenak, Agnieszka Polska, Laure Prouvost, Tabita Rezaire and Emilija Skarnulyte.
Woods: More-than-Human Curiosity symposium, Orlické Mountains, Czech Republic, 28-30 July 2023
Ecologies @ Serpentine, London, 12 February 2024

The Hope Forum 2024

Video contribution for The Hope Forum, La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.

If you are a myth, whose reality are you?

Text on Emilija Skarnulyte for Ars Fennica Prize, 2023.

Crit Club

Podcast by Cem A and Roberto Winter. With Nora Sternfeld. Het Hem, November 2023.

Personen Persons: Biennale Gherdeïna 8

Curator, with Filipa Ramos

20 May - 25 September 2022, Ortisei, Italy

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish

A multi-year, interdisciplinary festival and research project, part of the General Ecology project. Co-curated with Filipa Ramos

Back to Earth

Back to Earth is Serpentine’s long-term, interdisciplinary, artistic programme responding to the urgent climate crisis. Back to Earth is about change and it is a catalyst to change our approach to the climate emergency. This multi-year project invites over sixty leading artists, architects, poets, filmmakers, scientists, thinkers, and designers to shape their responses to environmental change with the support of Serpentine’s partner organisations and networks.

Serpentine, London. 2019-2022

POWER NIGHTS: Being Mothers

Guest Curator

With Sun & Sea by Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte; Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen; Cooking Sections; Karrabing Film Collective; Isabel Lewis; Tabita Rezaire; Himali Singh Soin and Sissel Tolaas.

E-Werk Luckenwalde, July 2021-May 2022.

Genders of the Forest

Conversation with Filipa Ramos, Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW. 24-25 May 2023.

Emotional Weathers

Essay for Everybody Talks about the Weather exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Prada, Venice

April 2023

Conversation with Tai Shani

Tate Modern Lates, London
28 April 2023

The Last of Us

A conversation about worldbuilding and ends of worlds, with John Paino (Production Designer/The Last of Us) and Liam Young at The World Around Summit, Guggenheim Museum, New York
22 April 2023

Thoughts on Ecological Practice (A Letter from America)

Essay for The Work of Art in the Age of Planetary Destruction publication by Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH), University College London (forthcoming)

Ecology as Anticipation

Conversation with Shumon Basar, Global Art Forum 16: Predicting the Present, Dubai, UAE

3 March 2023

but tell it slant: Zadie Xa’s more-than-human time

but tell it slant: Zadie Xa’s more-than-human time:
Essay for Zadie Xa’s exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery, 2023.

Avant l’orage

Interview contribution fo the exhibition catalogue, Collection Pinault/Bourse de Commerce, 2023.

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Senses of Purpose

Lecture at the Fondazione Ratti’s symposium, Livability, curated by Martina Angelotti and Annie Ratti.

Como, 22-23 October 2022.

Create for Tomorrow: The London Culture and Climate Conference

1 July 2022. Barbican, London

To enflesh and ensoul that complex, messy, fleeting thing that is living on this planet: More-than-Human paradigms and senses of purpose

30 June 2022. CreaTures, Seville.

Musicals to motherhood

Interview with Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper, 17 June 2022

Roadside Picnics: Encounters with the Uncanny

Foreword. Published by dpr-barcelona, 2022

Panel: Art for Hope at The Hope Forum

Art2030 for the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development & UNESCO ResilientArt

22 April 2022, Venice

In conversation with Amitav Ghosh, The World Around Summit

In conversation with Amitav Ghosh at The World Around Summit, 5th February 2022, Guggenheim New York.

Deep Time, Deepdream, DeepMind

Talk at Casino Luxembourg, 27 January 2022

Heavens – Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen

Part of Serpentine’s Back to Earth project. Curated by Rebecca Lewin, Lucia Pietroiusti and Kostas Stasinopoulos. Composition by Pan Daijing.

The Swiss Church, London, 12-17 October 2021.

Microhabitable

A publication, study and radio programme, in collaboration with Fernando García-Dory, INLAND/Campo Adentro and Matadero, Madrid. 2018-ongoing.

Sensing the Planet

A 3-day gathering on climate justice, 29-31 October 2021, Dartington Trust, Devon. With Ashish Ghadiali and Amal Khalaf. Additional support from advisor Paul Gilroy.

A partnership between Serpentine, Dartington Trust, UCL’s Sarah Parker Remond Centre, Lawrence & Wishart Books, Verso, LUMA Arles, Café OTO and the Stuart Hall Foundation.

On having a sense of Purpose

Talk and workshop at CoMuseum Conference, 1-2 December 2022

TEDxDanubia Countdown: Drops Make an Ocean

20 September 2021

How am I not myself?

Essay for The Animal Touch, published by The Institute of Anxiety, December 2021

Gallery Climate Coalition conference: Decarbonising the Art World

Barbican, London, 24 November 2021.

The Only Lasting Truth Is Change: talk at BEK, Bergen

19 November 2021

The Art Newspaper podcast

In conversation with Ben Luke, 5 November 2021

Ahali Conversations (podcast episode)

A podcast by Can Altay

26 October 2021

The New York Times review: Sun & Sea at BAM, New York

Critic’s Picks by Jason Farago, 16th September 2021.

The New Yorker: Sun & Sea on “Goings On About Town”

September 13th print issue: “Goings On About Town”

In conversation: Lina Lapelyte and Rugile Barzdziukaite

Teatro Argentina, Rome, 25 June 2021

10 Ways for Museums to Survive and Thrive in a Post-Covid World

Jason Farago, The New York Times, 21 May 2021.

More-than-Human: a reader

Edited by Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier and Lucia Pietroiusti. Associate Editor: Lisa Mazza

Serpentine Podcast

A hybrid publishing and commissioning platform for audio, initiated on the occasion of the Transformation Marathon in 2015, it has become a permanent fixture of the Serpentine’s programme and now brings together over 10 years of audio experiments and commissions from the Galleries archives.

Back to Earth x WePresent: Groundwork

A collaboration between Serpentine and WePresent, featuring five features on artists working on Back to Earth projects. With Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Vivienne Westwood, Himali Singh Soin, Karrabing Film Collective and Tabita Rezaire.

January-June 2021

Shanghai Biennale: Bodies of Water

16th April-18th July 2021. Chief Curator: Andrés Jaque. Curators: Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, Filipa Ramos, YOU Mi.

Talk: Intelligent Earth

Part of Speculative Futures London. With Olivier Cotsaftis.

28 May 2021

Talk: Art as a Catalyst for Change

Expo Chicago / Malmö Konstmuseum. 19 May 2021.

theVOV Unites: On Art and Botany

22 April 2021

Talk / Panel: Assembly for Permacircular Museums, ZKM Critical Zones

21 April 2021. Part of Assembly for Permacircular Museums, ZKM Karlsruhe, 21-23 April 2021.

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Trees in Forests, Webs, Onions: Talk at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

20 April 2021. Part of the conference, Making and Unmaking Exhibitions — Sustainability in Times of Planetary Crisis.

‘Art with an eco heart’, Financial Times

8 April 2021, Financial Times on Back to Earth x WePresent: Himali Singh Soin, Static Range.

Eight ways to help protect the planet (and more) on 22 April. Features Groundwork (Back to Earth x WePresent collaboration).

MAXForum: The Interspecies Quest

14 March 2021. With Ashley Jane Lewis, Annie Lewandowski, Kyle McDonald and Lucia Pietroiusti.

Conversation: The Ongoing Biennial

Duke University Social Practice Lab. With Pedro Lasch and Anne Barlow.

24 February 2021

DLD All Stars: Interspecies Design, with Paola Antonelli

On Interspecies Design: Paola Antonelli and Lucia Pietroiusti

In conversation with Tai Shani, United Hieroglyphs

In conversation with Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Heavens

Published January 2021. Artists Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen discuss their ongoing project, Heavens in the context of ecologies, invisible global infrastructure and exhibition-making.

On Fluidity, Collaboration and Remains: A Conversation

PASS Journal, January 2021

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory

The fourth instalment in an ongoing series of festivals on consciousness and intelligence across species. Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos.

TANK Magazine Q&A: The Understory of the Understory

Conversation on The Understory of the Understory, with Filipa Ramos. December 2020

A tree is never going to be a curator. Or is it?

Amongst the squirrels, artists Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press speaks with Lucia Pietroiusti, curator of General Ecology at Serpentine Galleries.

ArtReview Power100

Winter 2020

In Conversation: Cultural Bulletin

Issue C, 2020.

“Fish, Sex, Sandwiches, Garbage” for Sun & Sea (Marina), vinyl/catalogue

To begin with, there’s you.

Close your eyes, if you can, and picture a beach. Maybe the beach of your childhood (if you’ve had that kind of childhood). Something incredibly familiar, almost impossibly benign.

Spike Q&A: Is the body the last thing left alive?

Spike Magazine #62, Winter 2020.

Reimagining Museums for Climate Action

Jury member, October 2020. An international design and ideas competition to reimagine museums as a radical form of climate action.

It’s Freezing in LA! Conversation, on Back to Earth

August 2020. On Back to Earth.

Metabolic Selves

A project with Royal College of Art, School of Architecture’s studio ADS3, with Cooking Sections. Launched October 2020.

Art, Tech and the Environment: 3-part video series

Presenter, Art + Technology season 3, episode 5, parts 1-3
September 2020

Growing Gaia

Talk, Therme Wellbeing Culture Forum, Berlin. September 2020.

In conversation with Isabel Lewis: Sensory Studies for Social Innovation

Sensory Studies for Social Innovation, part of The Artist as Consultant series hosted by E-Werk Luckenwalde.
August 2020.

Talk: Interspecies I/O

A brief talk at the Interspecies Conversations Public Event 2020 in collaboration with the Coller Foundation, Google and MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms.

Flash Art: Smells Like Burning

By Isabel Parkes. Flash Art, 20 May 2020

Talk: Declaring Emergency: Museums and the Climate Crisis

This discussion, hosted by the MA Curating the Art Museum course at the Courtauld Institute of Art, focuses on the courses of action available to institutions and artists concerned with the climate crisis, and what influence these stakeholders can actually have on a local and global level.

We Make Tomorrow

Curator, artist interventions at Julie’s Bicycle summit, We Make Tomorrow
26 February 2020

Talk: HangarBicocca

‘In the Understory of the Understory’, talk at HangarBicocca, Milan conference, Foreste Plurali, 22 November 2019

Talk: Architectural Association

‘How to Think with Others?’ Part of Territorial Agency’s series, Plan the Planet, 7 October 2019.

Alex Cecchetti, Walking Backwards

Listening session: The Flourishing Diversity Series

8 September 2019. In collaboration with Flourishing Diversity and University College London

Panel: The Carbon Footprint of Contemporary Art

12 June 2019, ArtBasel. With Catherine Bottrill and Andrew Stramentov. Moderator: Chris Hampton

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The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants

PLANTSEX

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

MAL Journal: PLANTSEX

Edited by Maria Dimitrova, Lucia Pietroiusti, Filipa Ramos and Kostas Stasinopoulos. April 2019.

Serpentine Cinema: On Earth… series

A cinema series on the expression of environmental issues in film and video. Winter 2018/19.

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: we have never been one

The second instalment of this year-long symposium and research project, presented as part of the General Ecology project, features anthropologists, artists, robotics experts, historians and scientists, to address interior multitude, swarming organisms, symbiosis and entanglement.

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish, Part 1: LANGUAGE

28 May 2018, ZSL London Zoo. With Filipa Ramos.
Artists, dancers, writers and scientists gathered at the London Zoo to consider animal, human and artificial consciousness, language, and interspecies communication.