The Shape of a Circle in the Dream of a Fish
The fifth instalment in an ongoing series of festivals on consciousness and intelligence across species. Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos.
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.
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.
In conversation with Tai Shani, United Hieroglyphs
A collaboration between Serpentine’s Back to Earth and Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters
February 2021
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.
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.
Metabolic Selves
A project with Royal College of Art, School of Architecture’s studio ADS3, with Cooking Sections. Launched October 2020.
We Make Tomorrow
Curator, artist interventions at Julie’s Bicycle summit, We Make Tomorrow
26 February 2020
Alex Cecchetti, Walking Backwards
Listening session: The Flourishing Diversity Series
8 September 2019. In collaboration with Flourishing Diversity and University College London
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.
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.