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 and decide when to safely share that with others? And could these acts bring us closer together –...

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 working with different forms of space and place? And what happens when we can reconnect with...

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 brought before a public? Featuring an original sound work by Pixy Liao, an interview with Tiona...

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 the world? And how are artists working closely – and in nuanced ways – with the instinctive...

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, negotiate and shift our family relationships. How and why do artists involve their family members...

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 new encounters between themselves and audience members? What possibilities and risks emerge when...

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 ourselves up to new possibilities for connection.  Confronting the slippery topics of fear,...

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 our next series. ___ You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this...

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, performances and contributions from collaborators on Rory Pilgrim’s concert work, RAFTS Live. These...

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 Ginsberg, Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, and Sarah Hamed; audio from Hans Ulrich Obrist & guest fauna; music...

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 about how we will navigate the world to come. This episode features Gabriel Massan, Alvaro Barrington,...

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 Bryars performing Five Senses for One Death at Serpentine’s Memory Marathon in 2012, and...

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 Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine), and The Whole Earth Chanting by Libby Heaney &...

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, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and many more. Launching Wednesday 18 January 2023 on all podcast platforms,...

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. 

Sound Gallery is a series of artist's audio commissions that invite 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.

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 Regent's Canal, London, at mossmatters.org.

What does the metaverse show us about community building, ethical frameworks and the co-creation of experience? Taking an intergenerational view, we join Native American artist and technologist Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Andie Nordgren, of MMORPG Eve Online and Director of Live Platforms for Unity. Presented by Tamar Clarke-Brown, Serpentine Arts Technologies and produced in collaboration with Sasha Eyde-Lindner from Reduced Listening. Additional sound design by Alx Suutoo Dabo.

We join Berlin-based artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (Blacktransarchive.com) and New York based artist LaJune McMillan (The Black Movement Library) to find out how these artists are building counter-archives towards liberation through alternative practices of digital archiving and creation. Presented by Tamar Clarke-Brown, Serpentine Arts Technologies and produced in collaboration with Sasha Eyde-Lindner from Reduced Listening. Additional sound design by Alx Suutoo Dabo.

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. In this episode, artist and environmentalist Maya Lin invites us to give half our yard back to nature.

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. In this episode, poet Bhanu Kapil shares a creative gesture to link cosmic energy to the earthly domain and an instruction for all those fighting for...

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. In this episode, Cauleen Smith talks us through a summer cocktail recipe for colonizers.