Serpentine Podcast

Co-founder, co-curator and co-presenter of the series “On Work”, “Back to Earth” and “On General Ecology” (with Wai Kin Sin)
Since 2015

Listen to all episodes →
View on the Serpentine website →

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.

Selected episodes, ‘On General Ecology’, ‘Back to Earth’ and ‘On Work’ series

What are earth, land, soil, ground and dirt? Join us in that place where diverse species come together, collaborate, communicate and constitute one another, but also, where complex systems of distribution of toxicity, logics of extraction and geopolitics meet. Produced in collaboration with Future Ecologies on the occasion of The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory.

The concluding episode in the Back to Earth podcast season examines the past, present and future of the Back to Earth project, which invites artists to respond to the climate emergency. Presented by Wai Kin Sin an Lucia Pietroiusti.

Indigenous rights, care of biodiversity and ecological, multispecies worldviews are inextricably connected. Presented by Wai Kin in and Lucia Pietroiusti.

How can botanical practice support practices of ecological and personal healing? Presented by Wa Kin Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti with special guest Emma Nicolson.

What are artists’ roles in knowing or making tomorrow? Presented by Wai Kin Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti on the occasion of Julie’s Bicycle’s sympoium, We Make Tomorrow (February 2020).

We are all interconnected, smaller pieces of a larger whole. Presented by Wai Kin Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti, with Brian Eno and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

How are artists developing campaigns for the Earth? How can an artwork reconnect us with the environment? Presented by Wai Kin Sin and Lucia Pietroiusti.

How can art respond to the climate emergency? The first episode in the Back to Earth series.

Roots move towards water. Leaves grow towards the sun. Plants don’t have neurones… does it matter? How else can they remember, and learn from their experience? Recorded on the occasion of The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants.

Ancient Greeks used orchids and lettuce to enhance and suppress sexual appetite. What do plants teach us about sex and desire? Recorded on the occasion of PLANTSEX.

What new ecological insights can be gleaned from thinking of the planet as an organism? Recorded on the occasion of The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: we have never been one.