It’s Freezing in LA! Conversation, on Back to Earth
August 2020
The Serpentine Galleries' Back to Earth is a new multi-year project that invites artists, architects, poets, filmmakers, scientists, thinkers and designers, to devise 'artist-led campaigns, protocols and initiatives responding to the environmental crisis.' Having migrated online under COVID, Kitty Grady asks curator of General Ecology Lucia Pietroiusti more about this ambitious exhibition, and the new shapes it is taking in recent months.
‘“I didn’t know these muscles existed” we say when we recognize the disappearance of California Mussels,’ says a woman’s voice, in soft, commercial American tones. ‘You are standing on Mussel beach, a place where before human muscles, there were mussels. Inhale… exhale… pose.’